The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-17

Creatures That Have Bsea Loved By Men and
women Of Note.
From tie San Francisco Coll.

WOmeu VI ENOScs
From the San Francisco Coll.
A volume might DO written of famous peo-
pie and their pets. and II would be interesting
reading. Many books Of biography have
scattered along their pages tender reminis-
cences Of an attachment to some dumb AMI
NAL. from Boswell's johnson" and Cowper's
Letters" down to one Of the latest works OF
the kind, The Life and Correspondence OF
Charles Kingsley" Johnson's cat Hodge,
for which he used to go out to buy oysters
lest the servants. having that trouble. should
take a dislike to the poor creature" and Cow
per's hares, which used to amuse him In his
dull. weary hours at Olney. are as well known
az the two men themselves.
Charles Kingsley seems to have loved every
living creature around him. and he taught
his children to respect even the most loath-
some insects. Mrs. Kingsley tells how a family
Of runaway toads made their nome in a hole OF
the green bank at E~versley. and the scythe was
never allowed to approach their retreat. He
had two little friends in a pair Of sand wasps
which lived in a crack Of the window IN his
drowning in a basin Of water, and every spring
he would look out eagerly for them or their
young. which came out OF. or returned 70.
the same crack. He petted the white stable
cat and the black house cat. and sat up with
a sick dog during the last two nights OF its
suffering life. Wherever he went he was ioI-
lowed about the parish by h. faithful inda 'it, as
always to be seen at the lectures ana schoOI
lessons. and was known to every cottaeer
IN the hep place being ,Hs almost kInssi. as G %HSh este whoss
attached friend he was for ten years,
Dogs. perhaps. have been pets with a greater
number q famous persons than an any w GLier
SCOTS canine pets. OF which he had more than
a score: The most priced. was the old scotch
hound Mazda. his companion for many years,
With the monument ! and Inscription that he
designed for her, Then there were the two
pet sreyhSG hour Douglas o ! S T%sv P SaS a w wiWin
legged place In his library, one of the windows
being left open in all weathers so that they
might pass in and out when they pleased;
whose picture is still to be seen at Newstead
Abbey; and Hoods dos, Dash. will be remem;
bered ~ the one that Barry CornwaIl said
| nearly worrying the life out Of the gentle essay:
ist, who could hardly manage to keen IN sight nd
was in constant terror lest he should lose him.
Walter Savage Lander was another lover
Of dogs. He had a number Of ~them-PariH
| which followed him in all his tramps; Gallo,
given to hin by the sculptor Story, whose
| place was to lie at his feet; and. most cele-
brated Of all ,Pomero, the little white Pom
pranlan 0OR tnat was SfHt W MN lIofu Tle-
sole to Bath. where he was then living, For
twelve years Lander and his dog were always
together, noticeable figures wherever they
went, and Pomero was written about and
talked about nearly as much as his master:
Mary Russell Milford was surrounded by
| dogs from her childhood, To relate her his
tory would be TO tell 1.-The theirs , Likewise for thsy
| and general doines have an important place
in her letters. and they have tender mention
that mieht lead one TO suppose them TO be
pets are well " is her usual message IN closing,
| and many of them come, In for special mention
Ike "Marmi9n, and Mod ip and t, Moss ; 1T IIroIIper
| puppies" Miranda from Stratford-on-Avon;'
sMayfower, and Mid. and Lufa. from Tie
North countrie," and Dash. who sends his
so well beloved by his mistress that when she
was in London homesick she wrote to her parents.
Il am DYING for my Dash and my flowers.
| rambies was a dog for whose death he sin
cerely mourned and to whose memory he paid
an exquisite tribute in verse.
dogs. Sir Edwin Landseer was especially
fond Of them, and many Of his pets he has ade
70 live again on the immortal canvas,
slken-haired. hazel-eyed spaniel that, Miss
| Milford gave to her. Flushie lives in lit
~erature "a the subject Of one of his mistress
Goethe hated dogs; his pet was a live snake.
which he kept in a chimney corner..,a repul,
siye companion one would think. The pet of
Tiberius, the Roman Emperor, was also a snake,
yet the two men were wholly unlike in every
particular.
Jean Paul Richter's pets were a mouse, q
squirrel and a white spider. Hogarth. the
painter, was fond Of cats, and at his home at
Chiswick he had a garden where he buried
his favorites, placing little tablets TO mark
the spot and distinguish their individual sep
ulchers.
The cat has been a ~favorite with a number
Of well-known people. Pope made companions
OF several. and he showed the best side OF his
character to them. Dryden had also a stately
favorite cat, with a temper as bitter as his own
pen.
Gray. author Of the beautiful "Elegy In a
Country ,ChuIchyard," wrote an ode on the
Death OF q Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub
Of Gold Fishes" In this little poem he be-
walls the fate OF the demure and almost his
toric Selma. Dante made a pet OF a large
black cat. Theophile Gautier had a white
cat OF great beauty named Don Pierrot De
fond. This animal died Of consumption. He
had a, regular physician and was fed on asses
milk. but he finally succumbed and the poet
daaCrihQs hia doath in mayipu farms