The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-23

the Olympic Games, We're buried be-
side his own tomb We all remember
how the young mans dog" accompa-
MED the son of Toblt and the Angel
Raphael on their remarkable journey.
But the ancients had singular pets
as well, Pythagoras tanned an eagle
50 far that, by pronouncing certain
words, he could instantly check 1t in
its flight and make it return to the
ground, Alcibiades had a dog of I'M
common size and beauty, which cost a
large sum of money and yet he had
the animals handsome tail cut Off in
order, as he said to give the Atheni-
ans something to talk about. Be
sides his dog, Alcibiades was fond of
his fighting quails, and rewarded the
restorer of lost bird by giving him
command of the fleet. Sertorius, when
in Lusitania, received a present of a
milk-white hind, which became so at
tached to him as to come when call
ed and follow him about, and learned
to bear the noise and hustle of the
camp and the battlefield. Cardinal
Wolsey, it will be recollected, was fa-
mliar with venerable carp. Cow
per's only relief from melancholy was
to play with his pet hares. Give
owned a pet tortoise. Did not Mr.
Parnell on one occasion interrupt an
important conference of the Irish par
liamentary party while he saw to the
feeding of favorite retriever?
Lesser-known people have made pets
of snakes toads, hedgehogs, and other
a nj q lie 10
nestle. 1t is largely a question of en-
vironment. The dweler in cities is
usually compelled by the eXigencies of
space to restrict himself to cats and
dogs, and even the humble occupant
of a single room will be found the pos
SCISSOR of a linnet or canary. Birds,
indeed, from the small space they re-
quire are first favorites as city pets.
Bears are great favorites on board
ship, where they get quite tame, and
sailors have even been known to pet an
alligator in default of more agreea-
bic animal A robin flew on board the
Victory in the heat of the battle of the
Nile, and took up it's quarters in the
admiraps state room, and accompanied
the ship to Naples, the pet Of all on
board Who does not remember the
little dry as dust entomologist whom
the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
called the Scarabee, and who had
nothing in the world to love but
large gray spider? People who are
compelled to reside for any length of
time abroad usually make pets of the
animals indigenous to the locality in
which they live. How strange was
that abode at Damascus where the late
Lady Burton and her distinguished
husband resided In addition to the
ordinary live stock, consisting of fowls
and goats. together with the horses
and camels, thererwas q Persian cat, a
lamb, and a leopard. The last-named
was trapped as a cub in the desert and
presented by Holo Pasha to Sir Rich
ard Burton to show his appreciation of
the latter's conduct in averting what
might have been a dangerous outbreak
of fanaticism in Damascus. Lady
Burton was quite enthusiastic about
this, the most remarkable of her pets.
He never did the household any harm,
but frightened the other animals, es-
pecially the cat; though he was in turn
with them in their antipathy to a GER
tain baker. He used to play hide and
seek with his mistress and as she
naively remarks, when he bit too
hard, | used to box his ears, when he
was instantly good" He used to
sleep in his mistress room, and when
he fell a victim to poison administer
ed by the neighboring peasants, who
We're afraid of him, we are not sur
prised to hear that his death was the
cause of much grief.
Another pet in this strange house
hold was a Kurdish dog. as big as a
st. Bernard, and which looked like a
bear; his name, "Kasrawan," was cor
rupted into tCuss." He was an in
veterate fighter, but splendid watch
dog. Indeed the Burton menage was,
as Sir Richard himself described it, Il
sort of House that Jack Built, for the
pigeons ate the seeds and destroyed
the flowers, the cat preyed upon the
pigeons, and was in turn worried by
the dogs, while the leopard harried
the goats to such an extent that one of
them, in sheer disgust, went and com
mitted suicide by drowning, while the
favorites yell almost scared the life
out of the donkey and camel But
Lady Burton, intrepid woman as she
was, owns to having felt frightened on
the occasion of her visit to the wife of
a German savant, whose residence at
the time was a mud hut in the desert,
and whose only companions were a hy-
ena and lynx, which slept on the la
dy's bed like two lap dogs. The hyena
| received the visitor at the gate. shifted
at her hands, and then put it's fore
paws on her shoulders and smelt her
face. Lady Burton stood her ground,
and the animal became friendly, and
led the way into the house, where the
lynx was discovered on the divan, but
was the reverse of amiable until the
arrival of its mistress. The most
amusing part of it all was that on go
ing to whit was called the husband
reception room she found Sir Richard
and the Russian and French consuls
all sitting on the divan, with their legs
well tucked under them, clubbing their
sticks and uncomfortably regarding
the hyena, which had made its way
into the room. Surely, the representa-
tives of three great powers We're never
| in such a ridiculous position before.
Lady Burton was by no means alone
in her collection. of extraordinary pets,
for Lady Horribly, while at the embas-
ba