Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-01-15
NUMBER 21.
LONDON'S DOG CEMETERY
Queer Inscriptions on Beautiful Stones
No Race Prejudices.


ways full OF contrasts. On one side
here we witness the pleasures and the
joys of life. and on the other we find
the vanity Of all existing things. That.
at least, was the opinion of the old
keeper who brought me through the
burying ground confded to his care.
The dogs gravedigger is an honest fell
! low With a face marked with wrinkles.
| The place is about thirty meters in
| length and twenty in breadth, and
granite and marble monuments with
! the names and characteristics Of the
| departed are very numerous. This re-
| spect for animals presents an uneN
| pected aspect in which the touching IS
| strangely mixed With the grotesque.
| There are about two hundred tombs i'll
! the inclosure. The plots are given
gratultously. The stones and the in
scriptions are put up at the expense
of the bereaved families. Some of the
inscriptions are worthy Of notice.
The first stone that meets the eye of
the visitor is erected to the memory of
Beloved Rohy, died Goth of August.
1886, aged thirteen months and a half
Then comes "F'lick, Il faithful friend
and Maudie, an Old friend"
On another tombstone are the words:
Dear old Priny'
But real grief is silent. or nearly SO,
and the word Jacob" upon another
marble slab doubtless covers q heap Of
regrets.
Further on there is another superb
tomb, upon which the name of the dog
is inscribed in very small letters. 1t
is as follows: "Pompey, the favorite
dog of Miss Florence St john And
under this the following quotation
from Byron:
In life the tirmest friend,
First to welcome,
Foremost to defend
But here is d still stranger inscrip-
ton. 1t is to the memory Of Dearest
Topsy the tirmest ana most devoted of
friends and companion of ier mother"
Another is to the memory of Our
dear treasure Jock, a Scotch collie.
died 31st of August, 1895, aged Is
y
devoted, gentle, tender and Affection
ate dog that ever lived, with the best
Of tenpers. He was adored by his de-
voted and afflicted friend, Sir H. Seton
Gordon. Bart"
Here are others:
Dear and affectionate Duke. and
Tippy, his beloved grandmother
..YN. l;+tI
ly"
On the tomb of she dog is the fol-
lowing:
She brought q ray of sunlight into our
existence,
But, alas! she carried it away with her.
"Adored Spot" "Our Friend. Darling
Chin Chin and "Sweet Carlo lie close
to each other.
Dear Minnie, brave. Intelligent,
singularly beautiful, loving and
loved" has a splendid monument.
But as If to prove that race pre-
death. in this cemetery of dogs there
is q stone erected ITO the memory of
our dear little cat, Chinchilla, poisoned
July 81"
During my visit a live dog somehow
got into the cemetery. and was chased
away by the keeper for irreverently at
tempting to bury bone OH one Of the
graves of his fellow creatures.-Eigaro
Zone System OF Fares.
Following the comparatively recent
examples of Hungary and Russia, Den
mark has now adopted the zone sys-
tenn on all the state railways. The
new system was quietly Introduced
during the present summer, and to-day
Denmark is probably the cheapest
country for railway travelling in the
world. The innovation has not been
made rashly. On the contrary, it seems
to be regarded as the natural outcome
Of railway development and enterprise
in Denmark during recent years. The
prices OF tickets for distances over one
hundred kilometers are adjusted on
zone system consisting Of eighteen
zones. the first of which extends from
the one liundredth to the one hundred
and tenth llilomcter The last extends
from the SIX hundred and SiXty-Seyenth
kilonleter onward to the limits Of the
state system. The extent OF the zones
increases progressively, although the
cost Of traversing each is uniform.
Thus. while the first zone is only ten
1ilonleters In breadth, the seventh is
over fo1'ty-six kilometers.
The cost of the ticket. however, now
rises very slightly i'll proportion to the
distance travelled. Thus, while q third
class ticket for a distance of sixty
eight miles costs IS sd. one for dis
lance of 419 miles costs only is i'd. The
price for any possible distance beyond
40 miIes-,he inner limit OF the eigh-
teenth zone--is only Is Al. The aver
age cost OF the shorter journey would
in this country be :,s Sd, or more than
double the Danish price. The cost Of Il
single journey between London and
Ednburgh--only 3o5 mles-is 32s Sd,
or four and half times as much. An
other novelty Is the issue Of fortnightly
tickets available all over the state
lines These cost only ',ss Cd. :.'6s ana
OBS I'd for the three classes. y yearly
ticket giving the same facilities costs
ONLY E27, ZIG ~ Cd or 80 Is Sd. accord
ing to class-London Daily News.
His Earthly Possessions.
We'll, Uncle Jim, said the lawyer,
"the doctor says there is no hope for
YOU
Yes, sub: dey tells me I'm gwine to
cross over
Have you made your wi1l:'
Yes, sub; / done will ter GO
Il mean," said the lawyer, in an ex
planatory way, "have you got anything
to leave?'
.0h vaS suhn' exclaimed the old