Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-07

. yor1tes, and one that lived on the Rich mond during the war developed such sa- gacity that he would pace the quarter deck with the precision and regularity of an of fcer for half the night at time. He grew SO fat that this feat at last became very difficult, and his subsequent history is involved in mournful mystery. This hog was so clean that he bathed every morning. Dogs have proved popular, and one at the Norfolk yard came in time to know everybody aboard ship so well that he would permit no stranger to pass the gangway.
 In former years the Benicia owned an ape that would both chew and smoke. Once or twice it got drunk, and being well sized, made things very lively. Then it suddenly quit and could never again be persuaded to touch anything strong. It was very affectionate and would awake sailors in the morning by hugging them. In this respect Old Grimes, for so he was named, differed from a baboon on the Brooklyn This animal was so savage that he had to be kept in a craze, for whenever he got loose he would clear the decks and chase the sailors to the rigging.
 Probably the most famous cat that the navy has known lives on Commander Me Calla's old ship, the Enterprise. His name is Dan, and he comes of peculiar family of felines, who are renowned for their pugnacious powers. Dan is coal black in color, and unusually long in body. His face has 8 curiously savage look, which is enhanced by the partial loss of one ear in a battle. He is the hero of many yarn of both foreeastle and quar- ter deck. One leg has a curious appear ance, given, so the story goes, by its being broken in Europe by bulldog which the cat is said to have conquered. A barge was loading stores alongside the Enter prise recently, and aboard it was noticea- ble cat of enormous proportions. Dan manifested so pronounced desire to make the strangers acquaintance that the cap tain of the barge warned an Enterprise of ticer to keep Dan away, as the animal, he said, was an irreverent terror. The officer remarked that Dan also was something of that kind, and an agreement for a cat fight was entered into at once. The animals came together like cyclones, and for a while there was nothing visible but hairs, blood and two little, twisting bod ies, which emitted most internal screams. For half an hour the fight seemed any body's, with even money up. Then the outlines of the barge cat became more dis tinct, as the animal tried to slowly crawl away It was covered with gore, and wicked Dan had added another victory to his vicious record.
 Dams father is one of the first sights of the cob dock at the navy yard to attract a visitors attention. He sits laZily on the wharf in the sun, and for piece of meat will beg and perform other tricks, if re- quested to by Sergeant George Yont. Let a stranger so much as touch him, however, and his mouth opens with a savage cry, his back is arched, and with bristling tail he is ready for war unless let alone. Both forelegs of this cat have been broken, and this, with his unusual thickness of neck and squareness of chest give him build like bulldog. When a Sun reporter saw him the other day big chunk had been torn from his cheek in a sanguinary battle with a wharf rat. Jumbo is his name, and he will sleep only under the dock.
 Tom, another of Jumbo's children, will walk tight rope, but a street cat, Dennis, far out-ranks him as fighter. It is said that Dennis was the first thing of flesh to vanquish the redoubtable 9an. Paymastr John Furey of the navy yard has a big dog that was brought from Scotland by Commander McCalla. It once fell out with Dennis, and thereafter the cat would post itself at the gangway on the wharf and resist successfully each attempt that the dog might make to land.
 The cats at the navy yard attack with
 
 their race who ventures within their pre- cinct. A big dog that belongs to the Yan- tic started to visit the Vermont recently. He spied a cat as he got alongside, and ran for the animal with open jaws. The cat was ready, and when the dog got within striking distance, squatted on her hind legs and landed both her left and right fore paws on the dogs nose with the accu- racy of a boxer. Then she lodged and gave it to him again. He was persistent, however, and had nearly caught her in his mouth when she emitted a peculiar screech, never making a movement to abandon the field. Her cry seemed sig nal, for, as if in answer, another cat clambered over the dock, and, with sin gle bound, was on the dogs back. Then cat No. redoubled her attentions to the canines face, and so well did both cats fight that after few minutes of this dou- ble attack the badly bewildered dog turned tail and ran off as if scared to death. He has not visited that locality since.