The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06
THE ssIARTEsT DOG.
Resides in Chicago and Can Perform
Wonderful Feafs.
From tina Chicago Times-Herald.

WoIlu. llefe are prODa Dly a dozen SIudIt-
est dogs in the world" in Chicago. for
every man who owns a smart dog is liable
70 be proud Of him, and it is easy to use
the superlative. But Bozzy is all that Is
claimed for her. She performs in way
that makes all the other sniartest dogs
look silly.
Bozzy is not a trick dog. She is an edu-
Gated dog. The difference is vast. The
trick dog walks on his hind legs at his
masters word, or ''speaks" when told to
do so, or rides a horse perhaps, or turns
somersaults, and does other clever things
that amuse the children and are very
pretty to see. Bozzy does all these things
or most of them, but in addition she counts,
adds, subtracts, multlphes and divides
makes change with money that is given
to her, distinguishes and tells different
colors, and in a general way exercises
reason that seems little if any inferior to
the human. And all this is not the re-
suit of tricks. Bozzy thinks, for If She
didn't she couldn't do what she does
| That Is good deal TO say for a dog, hut
anyone who has seen Bozzy go through
with performance wiz not deny that
she has intellectual power as great as the
average child of or years.
Bozzy comes by her 'intellects'' very
naturally. She Is the daughter of the cele-
brated old Boz, the dog that Travelled all
over this country and Europe and save
performances for the Car and the Prince
of Wales. Indeed, the Prince was so
| greatly taken with Boz that he provided
bed for him one night in Windsor Castle
| and made him sleep there, so he could
| give another performance early in the
| morning. But old Boz is dead. He be-
| longed to w. II. Harris of Mendon, Mich
He never did anything. however, which
has gifted daughter cannot equal, and
| though the latter has not had the adVan-
Etage of European travel end has not hob
nobbed with ears and princes, her edu-
cation is said TO be greater than his. She
has simply wonderful intelligence, and
teaching her is like teaching a child, She
can do almost Everything but talk" She
is owned and has been taught by George
b. Clason, a retired railroad man. u no
lives at 50 Bryant avenue
Bozzy Is shown quite frequently at small
entertainments on the south side, and las
never yet failed to excite the wonder and
the admiration of the people who have
her perform. For the benefit of
few of his friends Mr. Clason put her
through a special exhibition of her powers
the other day and no one of the party
who saw her viii now hesitate for mo-
ment to affirm that she is 1.-THE enfartest
dog in the world" and bet his money
that he can prove it.
There were FIVE men in the room when
the performance began, and Bozzy was
told to circle about and take a good look
at all of them.
How many people are there in tbs,
room, Bozzy?' asked her master, when
she came back and sat down before him.
Bozzy barked five times.
How many have their hats on?"
Bozzy barked twice Two people had
their hats on
How many people are there here with
out any hats?" was the next question.
Bozzy was right again.
Now there are probably many skeptical
individuals who will say that the master
made some sign to the dog, and that she
barked until he told her by that sign to
stop. One of the members of the party
before whom the special show was given
suggested the same thing, but was speed
lily convinced that he was wrong. and that
the dog knew what she was talking about
Pointing out the doubling one. the master
said, "Bozzy, do what that gentleman tells
you" and then went and stood in a re-
mote corner of the room, with his face to
the wall, where the dog. could not see him.
Then the doubter took up the examine
ton, and first asked:
'Bozzy, how many are two times four?"
The dog started at once and barked eight
times about as fast rs a child of or 9
would count the same number
Take five from that" was the next or
der.
The dog barked three times.
add nine to that" and the dog barlzed
twelve times
"What is half of that?" The dog bark
ed six times.
"Half of that2" Three harlxS
There was no trickery about it. The dog
performed all those mathematical calcula-
tons in her own brain. The answers were
quickly given in every case except in the
division of twelve. Bozzy hesitated a mo-
ment in thinking that out.
When John L. Sullivan first went on the
stage there was q line in his part which
made him say: Let me think" In an
account of John l.. s debut a New York
reporter with witty turn to his pen des-
cribed the~'Let me think passage in this
way:
And when John put his fist to his fore
head and shouted eloquently. Let me
tink, his expression was almost human"
So it was with Bozzy. AS she was try
ing to divide twelve by two her expression
was almost human, and there was not a
person in the room who did not think so.
Another of the tricks in mathematics
ity to read figures. Each of four people in
the room wrote a number on q card and
placed it on the floor. At the word from
her master BoZzy went around and picked
up the numbers, one at time, telling him
in barks the number written on each slip
of paper. The numbers were /, 6, A and /.
How many are there altogether?" asked
her master. Bozzy barked twelve times.
But Bozzy knows more than addition.
subtraction and such like things, as the
rest of her exhibition clearly showed
How many days are there in a week."
asked her master. She barked seven times.
How many working days?" Six banks.
How many Sundays?" One bark.
How many weeks in month"; -Four
banks.
How many Sundays in month?' -Four
barks.
Barking tires a dog, and to give Rozzy
a rest after she had done good deal of it
her master put her through one of the
tricks that would simply stump the ordin-
airy "smartest dog in the world"
I'VE had an election little more than
year ago, Bozzy," said her master. you
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