St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-25
SU VI NIER LIES.
WheeIer,s Dog StOry--A Remarka-
Recovery Of n LOcket.

Peter Mark. the dru ggist, has a dog that
climbs on to the street car and rides home
every night. He always picks out the right
car, and never gets on the wrong line.
Even when the color of the car was
changed they couldn't fool him.
Il think that's the most intelligent dog
ever heard off, observed Lac Stafford to
group of friends in front of the Omaha ticket
Office the other night.
There was pause of several minutes
duration. and then w. B. Wheeler asked III
Il weary tone of voice:
Say, do you call that intelligence? Say,
do you really? Well, say, I'll tell you of a dog
that used to have at Big Prairie Round,
down in Mizoora, that amounted to some
thing. He was not very handsome but, say,
he knew more than some people who loan
money nowadays. Say, you are talking about
intelligence in dogs. What dye suppose this
dog of mine used to do? I'll tell you. Say
he used 10 come into the house every after
noon and look up at the clock to see what
time it was. Say, if it was a few minutes to
he'd wait around kind of uneasy like until
the hands pointed to the ''v'' on the dial and
then he put for the pasture and drove the
dows il for milking. Say,you wouldn't suppose
that dog could tell time, would you? Well,
say, didn't either, so one afternoon longabout
| 3 O'Clock tut ned the hands Of the clock so
| that they pointed to o'clock. Towser, that
was the dog name, happened to come into
the room and look at the clock. Say, at first
| he looked as if he thought something was
wrong, and could see establishment clearly
depicted in his face as 1 see it in yours now
Say, he looked at the clock and then seemed
TO listen TO see if it was ticking. Then he
went out on the porch and looked
at the sun. Then he came
back and looked at the clock again to
make sure he wasn't mistaken. Finally he
| trotted of to the pasture slowly, in sort of
a daZed way. Say, he got the cows together
and, say, he finally drove them up to the
barn. But, say. in the meantime I'd
changed the hands back to o'clock
| Say, one came out to
milk the COWS, and Towser came to the house
and barked as he always did. Say, no one
| came out. Finally he came inside and looked
at the clock. and when he saw it was o clock
he was just paralyzed. Say, he didn't know
what was up. Say, 1 never saw a dog take
anything to heart so. Say. he just gave one
bark and rushed out to the barn and drove
! those COWS back to pasture at q rate that as
tonished them, tell you. Say, it spoiled the
dog. He never went after the COWS after
that. He wouldn't even look at the clock
again, and say, he just kind of pinned away
and died Poor Towser, used to think a
great deal OF him..
Here Nj. WhesIers voice grew husky
with emotion and tears started to his ewes.
The careless throng about him hushed their
ribald testing and one by one strolled away
rather than to intrude upon the sacredness
OF such grief.
A REMARKABLE RECOVERY.
The Chicago Rambler relates the follow
ing tale, the particulars of which are known
TO at least two st. Paul families of high
social standing. The finding of the locket.
as related is vouched for by Col. F. Z.
NimOcks, whose reputation for veracity is
above suspicion.
"a st. Paul gentleman of unquestioned in
tegrity narrates story of a most remarka
BILE recovery of lost article. 1t seems thai
five years ago, just as he was starting on {
journey East, his dancee presented him with
a small locket as keepsake. While in New
York he dropped the locket and il wa:
snapped up by passing dog. Being unable
to satisfactorily account for its loss en- his re
turn. the engagement was broken, The day
before yesterday, he tells us, while taking ,
little free lunch in a German beer hall, h,
discovered the locket in sausage. He i'm
mediately returned it to its fair owner. ant
they are to be married next week. The mos
remarkable thing about it all is that. OIL
opening the locket the entire population O
Minneapolis was found within playing soil
taire. AT least the st. Paul man says SOL