The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-12-26
SEVEN REmARKAsLe DOGS.
Stories Of Their Wisdom, heroisn,
Lazlness and other Good Qualities.

A dog at Greenwood Lake is 81 years old >
and has killed In his life over 60 rattlesnakes
He has been bitten by them four times and
still lives.
A very lazy dog lives in Oakland, Cal. He
likes to lie all day In the shade of small
tree in his masters yard Ae has sack
which he always carries to the spot to rest
upon. As the shade shifts its position he
picks up the sack and carries 1t without the
reach of the suns rays.
1t was wise and humane dog that saved
two mems lives in Illinois recently. He
aroused his master and after persistent
efforts got him to follow the railroad track
where he found two men lying across the
main track under their cart and horse, which
had been overturned. Their lives were
finally saved by stopping the train.
A very smart dog lives in Bowling Green,
KY. The other morning a horse was left
standing hitched to buggy, and while Its
owner was In the distillery, the animal took
fright and ran away. he was going at break
neck speed, when the dog saw him, jumped
the fence, headed the horse, grabbed the line
in his mouth, and held him tight and fast
until the owner of the mare came up and
relieved him.
A Philadelphia dog wears costly collar as
reminder OF his presence OF mind. Mrs.
Green put her little son to bed early one
night. Two hours later she heard the sub
dued growing of her dog coming from the
hallway. Rushing to the scene she saw what
held her spell-Dound. About the center Of
the long flight of stairs leading from the
sleeping apartment was the boy crying as II
over the steps in a perilous position. with
his head downward, and the dog prevented
him from falling further by clutching his
little dress between its teeth. The dog was
growing at rapid rate as II to attract atten-
tion, and seemed to fully realize the danger
Gus situation. The child had jumped out of
bed and was going downstairs headlong
when the dog rushed to his rescue and saved
him by catching hold of the dress. As soon
as the rescue was made the dog kissed his
face and showed unb0unded joy.
A gang of men were at work near Johns
town. about the 1st Of August, removing
debris. Soon they came upon pile Of logs
In the shape of cone at least dozen feet
high. The logs were in such q symmetrical
shape that 1t looked as though they were put
together by human hands. The cone was
hollow, and as the men proceeded with their
work they detected a smell which suggested
that there was dead animal close at hand.
Log after log was removed. when, to their
amazement they beheld mastiff dog. The
animal wagged his tail and whined when he
saw the men, and seemed gladdened at the
prospect of being liberated from his prison.
In another portion of the cone-shaped cell
was the carcass Of q cow. BY some freak OF
the rushing waters the dog and cow were
caught in this pen June 9, the cow being
crushed in the jam of logs. The canine was
sleek and rat when liberated, and luoked
none the worse for his two-months'
imprisonment.
Bob, red setter owned by Charles w.
Cooley Of Paradise township, Pa, keeps
guard over the Darnyard fowls, follows the
clucking mother hens and their brOods from
one place to another. and lies low for hen
hawks. Last summer Bob did nothing of
the kind. but late in May he saw an enOr-
nous henhawk swoop down and carry off a
squaking chicken, and since then be has
taken upon himself the task of watching
over all the feathered stock on the premises.
Mr.. Cooley wasn't aware OF Bob's self-im-
posed duties until an afternoon in June,
when he heard the rooster and hens cack-
ling and squawking back Of the barn.
the, fence like flash, and before he
fowls were, Bob came bounding round the
corner of the barn with a big henhawk by
the neck. The hawk was Tapping its wings
like sixty. but Bob soon choked 1t to death,
not appearing to mind the beating he receiv-
ed from the birds large wings. Mr. Cooley
found wounded chicken in the yard, and
the indications were that Bob had pounced
upon the hawk just at the instant that the
big bird grabbed the chicken. After that
Mr.. Cooley took more notice Of the dogs &C.
tiOns, and he soon found that Bob had his
eye out for hawks at all hours of the day. He
never barks when he goes for a hawk, and
he has shaken the life out Of three since
June l.