The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-17
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Of CdSlal Mention

OF CdslaI Mention
Jim Manley Is one of the homeliest and
most disrerutable looking terriers mag
Unable. But with all his physical hidcous-
ness he has a great and mighty brain.
Jim Manley Is Select Councilman Durr's
dog and was named after Councilman
Manley, not because they look alike, but
because of their remarkable mental re-
semblance. The dog is a Scotch terrier.
Wonderful stories are told of his intelli-
gence. He has been talked about so much
in the city hail. where his master fire.
quently goes on matters OF business. that
Durr really believes the animal could be
taught to read and write. The council
man related one of his dogs intellectual
feats yesterday in the city clerks or
iite. and when he concluded his story his
several listeners promptly assisted him
over a table and Il chair or two and out
into the hallway. Translated from the
German, Durr's story was as follows:
Jim was with ME this morning while
stood talking with friend in front of
the Mears building. lie tired of waiting
and went over on the court house lawn
and killed time by playing with a couple
of low-down ours. l finished my con-
versation, and, noticing that Jim was
not disposed to follow NE, left him at play
and went inside the building. The cie-
vator lifted me 20 the sixth floor, ana
I went to room Gol. In about ten min
u;es Jim came in, gave me a nod of rec
ognition and took seat In the most COM
Portable chair available. How do | know
somebody didn't bring him? Why, the
elevator boy told me about il, Jim walked
I., al u.itl ,.,,t,. ~
messengers, He made no attempt 10 land
at any of the floors until the sixth was
reached At that noint the boy said
he made a mistake i'm sIIpposing some one
wanted to alight ana onencd the door a
trihe That was enough for Jim; he bolt
ed through the aperture and scented
along the floor until he found me-"
but how the mischief did he know you
were on the sixth tloor?" asked Council
man Oliver
"Why, he heard me telling the gentle
man outside the -" The last words of
the sentence were drowned in a crash of
flying office furniture ana scunling Durr
was hustled into the hallway but wasn't
discouraged. He and Jim went to tell
the story TO the mayor
Jill
There is surely one woman in ScrantOns
select circle of society women who likes
keen excitement, something out of the
ordinary. We will call her Mrs. N.
| saw it all on jefferson avenue one morn
ing recently. Mrs. " had evidently
been down town ana after making the
market rounds was being driven home
in two-seatcd carriage behind q spir-
tied pair Of high-headed bays. The day
was damp and uninviting and the side cur
tains were in place on the back part of the
vehicle, whose only occupants were Mrs.
", who leaned comfortably back in
IA corner of the seat, and her coachman,
who seemed pretty we'll occupied in ham
ding the foam-speckCd bays.
| was on the sidewalk near Olive street
when the N team was crossing Vine
street. At that point the carriage was
Ovcrtaken by i pair Of black horses owned
by prominent Scrantonian and evidently
being exercised by his coachman. the
only occupant of the rcd-gearcd runabout
TO which the team was attached The
blacks responded to the cluck of their
driver. passed Mrs. X and her bays
and started at a fast clip up the avenue.
Mrs. N leaned forward and said some
thing to the man in front of her who
swished his whip over the backs of the
horses and they swung into a smart gait,
catching III with the blacks in front of
the Second PRESBYTERIAN church II was
n prr,ty neck-and-neck burst of speed to
where | was standing. Mrs Y was no
lcnper at ,asc among the cushions She
sat leaning forward with one hand rest
ing IN tho back of the seat before her
,yj,b ov.s flashing and face set in the ex
element of the dash. Her bays drew
obo,d Of tho othor uair ard she srnl,ingIy
so,,Iod hack In her seat with the air Of
ono r.ualIv overburlcned with ennui but
,,.ho b,1 fnuud and ,nioved the momcn-
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Mrs n is nu, of scranton's unao-
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