Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-23

President Pesehan Announces Radt-
 cal Views on Hydrophobla and Eoc- tors.
 From the Baltimore Sum-
 MT. c. J. Peschall, president of the New Jersey Kennel, club, and one of the most ex- pert dog fanciers in the country, is on
 short social visit to friends in Baltimore
 The organization of which he is executive is
 the richest one of the kind in the world.
 The dogs owned by it's members could not be duplicated for two hundred thousand dol
 lars. Mr. Pierre Lorillard spent sixty-two
 thousand dollars last year in importing and
 breeding setters. E. R. Hearne has a col
 lection of St. Bernard dogs valued by him at
 one hundred thousand dollars. He has bath
 rooms, dressing and sleeping rooms in 8 handsome building specially put up on his
 place for dogs. Charles Heath, of Newark,
 another member, imported eighteen pointers this year at large cost. He owns Graphic, the best pointer of England, for whom he paid twenty seven hundred dollars. Messrs John c. Anthony of Wetherwood, N. J., Max Wezel of Hoboken, James Lindsay of Jersey City and Frederick Hospic have un- equaled pointers, settlers and collies. The Essex County hunt, auxiliary of the Kennel club, has imported English fox hounds. Mir. Peschau is the owner of Nick and Naso, bred by German prince, and Jimmel prob
 ably the best known pointer in the United States, neither of which he would sell. He is an intelligent enthusiast on dogs and be- lieves that all the talk and excitement raised
 o Ter hydrophobia is unnecessary.
 MT. Peschail says that in all his ife-and
 he has been a fancier of dogs since child hood-he never saw a case of hydrophobia. He has been bitten repeatedly and never felt any i'll effects. People get scared sick 1T 8 dog happens to put his teeth in them. This talk about 8 dog being mad when he froths and foams at the mouth is sheer nonsense.
 Every case of this kind is the result of dis temper, which leaves in it's track one of | three symptoms-either paralysis of the | body, during which dog has no use of his | legs; paralysis of the brain, which causes a choking sensation and makes the dog froth or produces diarrhea. One the other is l sure to follow distemper. Paralysis of the | brain is what frightens pedestrians and DO lcemen, when in reality there Is no cause for alarm. A dog runs aimlessIy and harmlessly 1 because he is smothering and wants his | 6reath. He could not bite if he wanted Ii l he had hydrophobia, doctors put it, he would not foam; on the contrary he would | have burning thirst, which he would glad | ly alleviate with water instead of going in l spasms at the sight of it, medical men say. | It is certainly strange hydrophobia should be credited in civilized countries, where dogs l are well fed and housed, while the alleged malady is unknown in eastern countries, where dogs are allowed to run wild and die
 in old age from starvation when they are un- | able to fight with the younger ones for a l ernst on the street. In Constantinople a man cannot walk ten paces without starti 7g up yelling pack of CUTS. Still no one there gets hydrophobia. MT. Peschall told how a short while ago he had surgeon of Jersey City, who is in the employ of the Pennsylva-
 mia railroad, arrested for breaking the spine of twenty-five dogs. A man in the employ of the aailroad company sued the corpora tian for injuries to his spine received in their employ two years before. The surgeon went experimenting to show that dogs he dropped
 8 distance of twenty-five on the backs by
 means of weights recovered from fractures
 of the spine in from six to eight weeks.