The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-01

Stories Of Canine Wisdom, Heroism
and Laziness.

A dog at Greenwood Lake is twenty
one years old, and has killed in his
life over sixty rattlesnakes. He has
been bitten by them four times, and
still lives.
A very lazy dog lives at Oakland,
Cal. He likes to lie all day in the
shade of a small tree in his masters
yard. He has a sack which he always
carries to the spot to rest upon. AS
the shade shifts its position he picks
up the sack and carries it without the
reach of the suns rays.
1t was a wise and humane dog that
saved two mems lives in Illinois re-
Gently. He aroused his master, and
after persistent efforts got him to fol-
low to 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 a
buggy, and while it's owner was in
the distillery the animal took fright
and run away. He was going at
breakneck 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 caIne up and re-
lieved him.
A Philadelphia dog wears a costly
collar as a reminder of his presence of
mind. Mrs. Green put her little sol
to bed early one night. Two hours
later she heard the subdued growing
of her dog coming from the hallway.
Rushing to the scene she saw what
held her spellbound. About the CEN
tire of the long flight of stairs leading
from the sleeping apartment was the
boy, crying as if his heart was break
ing. He was hanging over the steps
in a perilous position, with his
head downward, and the dog pre-
vented him falling further by clutch
ing his little dress between its teeth.
The dog was growing at a rapid rate
as if to attract attention, and seemed
to fully realize the dangerous situa-
ton. The child had jumped out Of
bed and was going down stairs head
long, 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 unbounded joy.
A gang of men were at work nea
Johnstown about August l removing
debris. Soon they came upon a pile
of logs in the shape OF q cone at least
a dozen feet high. The logs We're in
such a symmetrical shape chat it
locked as Though they were put to-
gether by human hands. The cone
was hollow, and as the men proceeded
with their work they detected a smell
which suggested that there was a dead
animal close at hand. Log after log
was removed, when, to their amaze
ment, they beheld q 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 a cow. By some freak
of the rushing waters the dog and
COW were caught in this pen June 2,
the COW being crushed in the jam of
logs. The canine was sleek and fat
when liberated, and looked none the
worse for his two months imprison-
ment.
Bob, a red setter owned by Charles
w. Cooley, of Paradise Township,
Pa, keeps guard over the barnyard
fowls, follows the clucking mother
hens and their broods from one place
to another, and lies low for henhawks.
Last year Bob did nothing of the
kind, but late in May he saw an
enormous henhawk swoop down and
| carry off a squawking chicken, and
since then he has taken upon himself
the task of watching ove all the
feathered stock OIL the premises. Mr..
Cooley wasn't aware OF Bob1s self-im-
posed duties until an afternoon in
June, when he heard the rooster and
the hens cracking and squalling back
of the barn. Hesaw a red streak sailing
| over the fence like a flash, and before
he could get to where the frightened
fowls were Bob came bounding round
the corner of the barn with a big hen
hawk by the neck. The hawk was
Tapping its wings like sixty, but Bob
soon choked it to death, not appear
ing to mind the beating he received
from the birds large wings. Mr..
Cooley found a wounded chicken in
the yard, and the indications were
that Bob had bounced upon the hawk
just at the instant that the big bird
grabbed the chicken. After that Mr..
Cooley took more notice of the dogs
| actions, and he soon found that Bob
had his eye out for hawks at all hours
| of the day. He neve barsk when he
| goes for a hawk, and he has shaken
the life out of three since June L.
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