The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-23
PETS OF THE FAMOUS.
Creatures That Have Been Loved by
Men and Women of Note.
From the San Francisco Cali.

Creatures That Have Been Loved by
Men and Women of Note.
From the San Francisco Call.
volume might be written of famous
people and their pets. and 1t would be it,
terestins reading. Many books OF biogra-
ply nave scattered along their pages ten
der "reminiscences OF an attachment TO
some Dumb animal from Boswels "John-
SON 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 10 buy oysters
les the servants, having that trouble,
should take a dislike to the poor creature
and Cowper's hares, which used to anuse
him in his dull, weary hours at Olney. are
as well known as the two men themselves.
| Charles Kingsley seems TO have loved
every living creature around him, and re
taught lis children to respect even the
most loathsome insects. Mrs Kingsley
tells how a family of runaway toads made
their home in a hole of the green bank at
EVersley, and the scythe was never allow
ed to approach their retreat. He had Two
| little friends in a pair of sand wasls
which lived IN a crack OF the window In
his drawing room, one of which he had
saved from drowning in basin OF water,
anu tfSAS SPINS NOuI lOuk out eager
~ for them or their young, which came
out of. or returned 10. the same crack. He
petted the white stable cat and the black
house cat. and sat up with a sick dog dur
ing the last two nights of its suffering lie.
Wherever he went he was followed about
the parish b. his faithful litle Dandy Din
mont, whose intelligent face was always
J TO be seen at the lectures and school les
sons, ard was known to every cottagcr
| in the place, being almost much
| teemed by them as by the Kingsley chill.
drcn, whose attached friend he was for
Ten years.
Dogs, perhaps have been pets with a
greater number of famous persons than
any other animal. Every one will remem-
Der Sir Walter SCOTS canine pets of
which he had more than score. The
most priced was the old Scotch hound
MAZDA, his companion for many years,
whose grave is near the gate at Abbots-
| ford, with the monument and inscription
that ne designed for her. Then there
were the two pet greyhounds, Douglas
| and Percy, which attended him every
where. They had a privileged 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
Lord Byron had a famous dog, Boats
vain, whose picture is still to be seen at
Newstead Abbey; and Hoods dog, Dash,
! will be remembered as the one that Barry
Cornwall said should have been named
/ Rover. He accompanied Charles Lamb In
many of his walks. nearly worrying the
life out Of the gentle essayst who you'd
hardly manage to keep in sight of his
restless four-footed companion and was
in constant terror lest he should lose him.
Walter Savage Lander was another
lover of dogs. He had a number of them
| -Parig, which followed him in all his
tramps: Gallo, given to him by the sculD-
! nlaCa lie his
feet; and most celebrated of all, Pomero.
j the little white Pomeranian dog that was
sent 10 him from Fiesole 10 Bath where
he was then living. For twelve years
Lander and his dogs were always toge H.
er. noticeable figures wherever they went,
and Pomero was written about and ia X
ed about nearly as much as his master.
Mary Russell Milford was surrounded by
dogs from her childhood. To relate her
history would be to tell theirs likewise
for they were inseparable, Their quail
ties. troubles and general dongs have an
important place in her letters, and they
have tender mention that might lead one
| to suppose them to be human members or
| the house hold. "All our pets are we'll is
her usual message in closing. and many
! of them come in for special mention, like
| '.Narmion. and Modoc, and Moss Troop
er the hounds" ''Maris. with her black
and glossy puppies Miranda, from
| ford-on-Avon;" "Mayfower. and
Mid. and Lufla, from the northcouniry;'
and Dash who sends his respect 20 Mrs.
Rrowning's doves" and was 50 well be-
loved nv his mistress that when she was
in London homesick she wrote to her par
ents, II am dying for my Dash and my
flowers"
Wordsworth's companion on his morning
ramhles was a dog for whose death he
sincerely mourned, and to whose memory
he paid an exquisite tribute in verse
tkAr fap
d gs. Sir Edwin Landseer was especially
fond of them, and many Of his pets he has
made TO live again on the immortal can
Vass.
a silken haired, hazel eye spaniel that
Miss Milford gave to her. Flushie hVes ~
literature as the subject OF one OF DIS
mistresses's tenderest poets
Goethe hated dogs. His pet was live
snake which he kept in a chimney corner
"a repulsive companion one would think
The net of Tiberius. the Roman Emperor,
was also a snake Yet the two men were
wholly unlike in every particular.
lean Paul Richter's pets were mouse,
n squirrel and white spider. Hogar'h,
the painter. was fond OF cats and at his
home al chi wick, he had a garden whore
Re bu led his flvorites. placing little tab
lets TO mark the spot and distinguish their
Individual sepulchres.
The cat has be n a favorlte with a num-
Der OF well known re. pie. Pope made com
panions of several, and he showed the
hest side OF his character to them, Dry
den had also a stately favorte cat, with
a ffmptr as bitter as his own pen.
Gray author Of thu b>antful "Elegy
in a Country Churchyard." wrote an ode
on the Death Of a Favorite Cat, Drowned
in a Tub Of Gold Fishes" In this little
poenn he bewails the fate OF the demure
and almost his eric Selma. Dante made a
net of a large black cat. Theophile eau
tier had a white cat Of or a. beauty
named Don Pie rot &c Navarro. OF which
he was extravagantly fond. This ANNA
died of consumption. He had regular
rhysician, and was fed on asges milk