Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-01-21
TWO MUSICAL DOGS.
One Criticised an Orchestra and the
Other Detected Thief.

OtneT DeCecLeO a InleIs
A wonderful story of a French mu-
steal critic is related by persons who
profess to have been acquainted with
him, and who have seen him in attend
ance on musical performances. He
was a dog, and his name in public was
Parade; whether he had different
name at home was never known. At
the beginning of the French revolu-
ton he went every day to the military
parade in front of the Tuilleries palace.
He marched with the musicians, halt
ed with them, listened knowingly to
their performances, and after the pa
rade disappeared, to return promptly
at the parade time the next day. Grad
ually the musicians became attached to
this devoted listener. They named
him Parade, and one or another of them
alwars invited him to dinner. He ac-
cepted the invitation, and was pleas
ant guest. 1t was discovered that after
dinner he always attended the theater,
where he seated himself calmly ID the
corner of the orchestra and listened
critically to the music. If new piece
was played he noticed it instantly and
paid the strictest attention. If the
piece had fine melodious passages he
showed his joy to the best of his dog
gish ability; but if the piece was Or
binary and uninteresting he yawned,
stared about the theater and unmis-
takably expressed his disapproval.
Another very curious story of canine
musical ear is told of London organ
rindc1's dog. The organ grinder was
lind and aged and the dog used to
8bont- One night, after a
,.1rd day. work, the old man and his
faithful companion lay down to sleep,
with the organ beside them. They
slept soundly, and when they awoke
tue organ was gone. They were in de-
s54ir. Their means of earning a liv-
rrg was gone. But the dog led the
Old man thrcugh the streets where
be had been accustomed to play, and
persons who had given him aims be-
fore continued to befriend him, so
THAI tDe loss Of the organ proved not
so bad after all. Weeks went by. One
day the old man heard a hand organ
played few feet from him. 1t re-
minded him of his lost instrument, but
he paid no special attention to it.
for this assertion, but hope you will
allow me to point out that, as far as l
know, the word is of purely German
origin. It is generally assumed to be
derived from the initiative intersection
hurr, describing a rapid movement,
from which word the middle high Ger
man hurren, to move rapidly or
rather to hurry, has been formed.
Hurra is therefore nothing else but an
enlarged form of hurr, and, as l said,
of purely Teutonic origin. In Grimm s
'Worterbuch' we find the intersection
quoted from minnesinger. 1t also
occurs in Danish ard Swedish, and it
would be interesting to know when it
was first introduced in this country in
the Anglicized form of hurry In Ger
many it was frequently used during
the Napoleonic wars by the Prussian
soldiers, and it also occurs in some
political and martial songs of those
days. Since then it seems to have been
adopted also by other nations, even by
the French in the form of hourra.
That the intersection did not become
SO popular in Germany as a cheer at a
convivial gathering as in this country
is probably owing to the circumstance
that preference was given here to the
brief exclamation 'Eochr forming re-
spectively the end and the beginning
of the phrases 'Er labe hoch' and 'Hoch
soil err leben.' Of late the word hurra
seems to have become rather popular
in Germany. It is just possible that
the English reimported it there, or that
it was revived through the magnificent
poem of 'Hurra, Germanial' written by
the poet laureate of German people,
Ferdinand Frelisgrath.
Hand organs were common in London
and he heard them often. Not SO the
dog. He showed signs Of great excite
ment, barled violently and led his
master in the direction of the organ.
He sprang at the robbers unroat
dragged him away from the stolen Or
gan and led his master eagerly up to
it with expressions of recognition and
delight.