The age-herald., 1899-10-22

are enormously valuable.
 The opposite extreme is the English ter Tier, one of which, full blooded and stunted, weighs only nine ounces; 1t Is a pet of Miss Morgan.
 The raising of high bred dogs in this country is fast becoming a business. The Gould kennels have yielded a very nice in- come for their owner and the Morgan dogs, from being merely pets of the owner have gone all over the world. Few are sold, but many are given away, the kennels of the czar have received three, and many have gone to the Prince of Wales kennels
 Nine men out of every ten are fond of dogs. Only one man in a thousand knows anything about them. Mastiffs, Newfound- lands, poodles pugs, King Charles and Blenheim spaniels, collies, fox terriers and St. Bernards, have all in turn enjoyed an era of public adoration, and only a few years since everybody who could afford 1t was sending to Russia for Russian wolf hounds, while more recently, the Mikado's kingdom was being secured for Japanese spaniels.
 The three varieties of setters-English, Irish and Gordon are dear to the hearts of sportmen.
 Mastiffs, bloodhounds. bulldogs, collies, terriers and greyIounds have been man S companions for ,any, many years, but un- til thirty years ago there was no fixed standard, and as a result, there was no fixed type. Mastiffs were used for protec- tion In the fifteenth century, but 1t is prob able that in thos days every big dog was a mastiff. Massive of skull, powerful of frame, with enormous girth of chest, and eyes with general bearing that denoted a generous disposition. combined with un- flinching courage-such is the mastiff.
 St. Bernards have now completely eclips- ed the mastiff fin popular favor. To Switz- erland, of course, belongs the distinction of first having reared the breed, but to Eng 
 what 1t Is. Strange to say, of all the spec linens claiming Switzerland as the land of their birth, only one of the rough-coated variety has been worthy of consideration compared with those bred in England. Switzerland, however, has given to the world the most beautiful, smooth-coated specimens. Originally the breed was a cross from the mastiff and probably the Pyreneean sheep dog, with dash of hound thrown in. Its present size and beauty of markings and shadings and grandeur of expression have all been obtained by se- lection. Not satisfied, however, with let ting nature take its course, breeders have oyertaxed matters in their desire for size and bone by feeding the puppies, among other things with phosphates, cod liver oil, tonics and all sorts of drugs. As a consequence, the latter generation of St. Bernards have as much constitution as an exotic and not as much vitality.
 The original breed of Newfoundlands was entirely black with shade of bronze run ming through 1t. A genuine Newfoundland is hardly ever seen. A craze at one time burst forth for black and white Newfound- lands These were merely cross with a St. Bernard, snd, although the variety has becofffe An established one, 1t can never De entitled to rank with the black.
 Bloodhounds, from whom all hounds have sprung are now confined to a very few kennels. As rule they are highly nervous and sensitive, and are so excitable that