Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-15
FOUR DAYS OF GRACE
Granted to Pittsburg Dogs That
Haven't Taken Out a License.
THE RUSH BECAME TOO GREAT,
And a Short Extension of Time Was Ordered
by Chief Brown.
FACTS ABOUT DOGS AND THEIR DAYS

Owing to che grand rush of anxious dog
overs at the police stations Chief Brown
has decided to extend the time for licensing
CANNES until Saturday. Of course, licenses
will begranted after that day and can be
secured at any time during the year, but
after Saturday the owner of an unlicensed
canine is liable to prosecution and subjects
his pet to great risk The pound master will
begin operations early Monday morning.
III dogs could read, the warrant ours OF high
and low degree, Tray, Blanche and Sweet
heart would all tremble with apprehension,
for from Monday forth dogs found without a
collar and metal tag from the Department
of Public Safety are liable to be caught and
impounded. and If their owners haven't
love enough for them to get license and
collar they are not likely to pay the higher
price demanded by the pound keeper, and
out of the pound there is no redemption, ex-
cept by the owner. The provisions of the
ordinance follow:
Where Licenses Are to Be Had.
A license must be Gotten from the Depart
ment of Public Safety; males are taxed 81
and females 81 per annum, and license
must be taken out for each and every dog
kept, which license must be renewed the
first day of May next; each dog must wear
about its neck a collar with metal tag or
plate, having thereon the number of the
license: every unlicensed cur submits his
owner or her owner to fine of $5, and the
finding of the dog without the tag makes
prima facie case against the owner; un-
licensed dogs will be arrested and i'm
pounded, and If not claimed within 4S hours
die the death of a dog, and to get the animal
out costs 50 cents for each day imprisoned,
or fraction thereof Any person not the
owner of the dog, who shall remove the
metal plate or tag from dogs neck, may
be fined $40 to $50, or be imprisoned 30 days;
lShment additional that
for larceny.
The police stations were crowded yester-
day with applicants for license to save the
lives of their beloved "purps'' and the
scenes were pathetic or otherwise, according
to the angle Of observation. The officials
were no respecters of dogs and the lordly
mastif or Great Dane Jared no better than
the mongrel cur. They are all dogs and
must wear collars. One very pretty girl
seemed afraid to trust her dog ut home while
she came for his license, so carried him in
her arms
Dog Days Dogging the Dogs.
1t seems that the dog, the one sentient
being that never went back on his master
from and long before the time of Ulysses to
the present, has by his devotion failed to
earn recognition beyond that Of the rattle
snake and the Gila monster, and the early
sacerdotal and Oriental prejudice against
devotion and affection. The dies canfcular-
les are still penitential seasons with him, the
idea arising out of q superstition of the
ancients, and yet 1t is probable that the an
dogs who are unfortunate enough to come
into this vale of tears without accredited
owners. Though one would suppose it
would be a survival of the fittest, vet
us, and we do not accord to them the service
of scavengers allowed by the Orientals, with
whom they are still regarded as unclean.
At the last meeting of the State Medical
Society inquiry was made of the physicians
in attendance if anyone had ever in his
practice had case of hydrophobia, and all
that he never had and this one only went so
far as to say that he had once seen man
foaming at the mouth and was afraid of
water, and his case was supposed to be
the truthfulness of the diagnosis.
Hydrophobia Cases Very Rare.
Men and the lower animals are subject to
fits, during which they foam at the mouth,
and though everyone has heard or read of
hydrophobia, 1t seems that attested cases
are very rare. Yet the dog suffers because
the Gncients believed in the lati-
tude of the Mediterranean Sea that
the heat of summer the weather was
ana it was attributed to a
malign influence exercised by this star. The
August 10, when the great heat of summer is
over, and dog days are now fixed by some
almanac makers between the Oath of July
and oath of August and by others between
July ana August IL Even in ancient times
the seasons were somewhat mixed, some
the evil influence to Cannis Major
and others to Cannis Minor, so it isn't safe
to trust either big or little dogs-the lordly
st. Bernard or the diminutive lap
dog. As the heliacal rising OF the dog
star has become somewhat indefinite
owing to the procession of the
equino1es it does not occur until August TO-
Still, the superstition prevails, and dogs are
still under the ban, and charged in modern
times with the evils that grow out OF a
malarial atmosphere.
Unfortunate for the Dogs.
The dog is thus almost as unfortunate as
he was in the days of st. Paul, who, in the |
third chapter of the epistle to the Phillip |
plans, charges them to beware of dogs, of |
evil workers and of the concision.
Some prudent mothers do not allow their |
children to go swimming in dog days and |
some gardeners will not allow cabbage to be |
hoed in this season lest they become lousy. |
No matter what weight you attach to /
if you have a dog you prize |
you had better get him registered and
licensed and stand not on the order, as |
though every dog has his day, it is certain
that this day has come in Pittsburg.
Ninety-nIne dog licenses were issued yes
terday from the Seventeenth ward police
station. Since the issue commenced over
500 licenses have been given from that sta
tlon.
A Pretty Play Well Put On.
The well-known Irish drama, colleen
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