San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-25
DICK, THE SNOW DOG.
An Interesting Little Animal From
Brazil Who Has a Monkey
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For a Friend.
He is very small and white and
fluffy. His nose is sharply pointed
and his ears are almost as long as
those of the Brooklyn anti-Longfellow
crusaders. His eyes are bright and
soft, and his teeth would make first.
class dentifrice advertisements. He
is one year and 16 days old, and his
name Is Dick.
Dick is little "snow dog" from
Brazil. He is great curiosity, even
in that great national museum OF
wonders where he first saw the light.
The species is very rare, and closely
resembles the Eskimo dog, although
many times smaller.
Dick is little larger than q good
sized rat. His ears are very long and
CULVER nervously at the slightest
sound. His eyes are hazel and quite
large for the size of his head. They
are exceedingly expressive, and give
to their owner an appearance otinteli-
gence beyond his years. His hair is
long and frizzy, and as white as
lambs wool.
He came from Brazil three days ago
and is now ensconced in the cigar
store of Messes Wagner Broth
ers, at Third Avenue and Fifty
ninth Street.. says the New York
Evening Sun. These gentlemen are
great hands for pets, and always have
some curious animal in their store.
Dick is the successor of long line of
Angora cats, South American owls
and strange quadrumana. His pres
emit companion is Jocko, diminutive
ring-tailed monkey from Brazil. Dick
cottoned to Jocko at once, and the
two play together among the cigar
boxes like brothers.
Their chief amusement is wrestling,
at which Dick invariably gets the
worst of it. The length of Dicks
ears Is q great snap for Jocko, who
clutches those tender tassels and
brings the dog to his knees. If Dick
still continues to be pugnacious, JOcko
gives him several cuffs about the
head, which quickly reduces him to
submission.
Jocko is q veteran. He Is years
old, and has spent half his long life
In this city. He Is about the size of a
small kitten, and can hide comforta-
bly, in the pocket of an ordinary coat,
still leaving room for one more. His
fur is colored in various shades be-
tween brown and olive, and his eyes
seem several sizes too large for his
head. His hands are we'll shaped
and slender, and the nails are nearly
as perfect of those of human being.
His tail was formerly very much
longer than it is now, but as he dis |
played certain suicidally cannibalistic |
denotes, 1t was necessary to reduce IL
to its present length. 1t is even now |
much longer than his body, and has
lost none of Its prehensile strength.
In the center of the store Is coun- |
ter, upon which stand several racks |
of walking sticks. These sticks serve
Jocko as a play house, gymnasium
and mountain fastness rolled into
one. He will jump from one rack to
another with surprising rapidity, and
then hang like bat from project
ing stick, while he claws at the hats
of unwary customers If any apparent
ly hostile being enters the store
Jocko makes a break for the
labyrinth of canes, whence it
is very hard to drag him.
Once there, he chatters jeeringly at
his supposed enemy, and waits pa
tiently until the latter has left the
store.
Like most of his kind, Jocko is very
initiative. When he first came to the
store he watched the actions of the
customers closely and was especially
interested in the use to which they
put the swinging cigar lighters. Be-
fore many days were passed he was
seen to steal paper cigarette from
box on the showcase, climb up to the
cigar lighter and light the cigarette.
After few puffs the smoke got in
his eyes and he threw the coffin nail
on the floor in disgust. The next
day, however, he tried 1t again, and
Is now a confirmed victim of the
habit. 1t was feared that this pro-
pensity would lead him into drinking
and pool playing circles, but he has
never been guilty of further trans
gressions upon the bounds of good
breeding.
Jocke often gets upon Dicks back,
and using the dogs ear for bride,
rides around the showcases in great
state. 1t is not supposed that Dick
derives much enjoyment from this
proceeding, but either from good
nature or cowardice, he submits with
out q word of protest. The strange
pair attract great deal of attention
from customers, and have proved a
great drawing card for the firm. The
| salaries of Jocko and Dick should
certainly be as high as those Of any
other employe in the establishment.
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PRESTON,S HE'D AXE.
Judge j. Fl. tMcLeary, ex-Att'y Gen'l of