Connecticut western news., 1890-02-19
Two Dog Stories.

Eugene JepsOn, the actor, hAs pig, shaggy dog of Newfoundland and collie ancestry, which has recent ly exhibited unsuspected traits that have led his master to surmise that there may be something in the theory of metempsychosis after all. The ami nal is named Gretch, after. the detec- tive in "Fedora," which role Mir. Jep- son one assumed. Gretch is a very do- mestic and emotional creature.
 He is usually allowed to sit in the dining room of Mir. Jepson's home at Fort Lee while the family eat. He was unintentionally excluded not long ago by the blowing to of door. Af- ter little while his absence was noted by his master, who went cut to look for him. MT Jepson found the dog in the yard sobbing like child, with big tears trickling offhis black muzzle. He resused to be comforted, and would not be persuaded to enter the dining room that evening. He brooded over the fancied slight for several days.
 One Sunday morning he was sent after the paper. After an absence of fifteen minutes, Gretch, with 8 pecu
 liar cunning expression in his eyes re- turned without the treasured paper. He wagged his tail, shook his head, and tried to indicate in various other ways that the newsman from whom he usually received the paper had not shown up. It could not be found along the path leading to the gate where the .newsman and Gretch ex- changed Sunday salu ations. MT. Jep- son had to go to church without his breakfast. f
 On the following Sunday Gretch was again sent after the paper, and came back without it. This time, however, he was watched. He was seen to take the paper from the news man and then sneak few rods away from the path, dig hole and bury the paper in it. When, he returned he started in to lie about his mission in expressive pantomime. MT. Jepson interrupted him with 8 warning fore finger and the remark that he, Gretch, ought to be ashamed of himself for his duplicity. Gretch seemed to have guessed what had happened, and ran off and got the paper, which he depos- ited at his masters feet with contrition.
 Grocer Johnson is the leading Ocean County bird, dog and fossil fancier. When anybody has a dog that he doesn't want, the gsoceryman is always ready to take him on trial. Chas. F. Neathing, the Fulton street. caterer, who has winter cottage here, had . bulldog of which he grew weary. Grocer Johnson had seen Sporty a number of times. He greatly admired the dogs pit fighting mouth, which opens well back to his ears, and agreed to relieve Mir. Neathing of his burden. Sporty took to his new home kindly, and as he only took few of the neigh bor's chickens, one at a time, for which the grocer willingly and handsomely paid, he became general favorite.
 Sporty, ill an deavor not long ago to capture bullet, severely injured one of his jaws by sudden contract with shovel in the hands of the owner of the fowl. Sporty beat a nasty retreat. He had two lady friends on Second Street, and to them he re- paired for treatment and consolation. They gave both so generously that he daily visited his friends, when his wound was dre; sed and he was fed. Sporty soon recovered, and for time conducted himself with becoming pro- priety. But his. appetite for chicken got the better of his department q lew days ago, and he again fell from