The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-18

called Maennerl. They were generally
well behaved, but they were nor above
making ineursions on the gardens of
Bladmore Road and the surrounding
neighobrhood, and even the arts tocratlc
Waldmann had been seen with his head
in an odoriferous dustbin. The owner
of these two dogs has himself given a
pleasant account of theiridiosyncrasies.
Be it remembered that Mdennerl was
one brother to Geist, Matthew Arnold's
| dog, on whom the poet wrote so splen-
did an epitaph. Muller says:
| II might even be able to prove that
my dachshunds could distinguish col
ors-one Of the most abstract of con-
cepts. l had one basket for my black
and tan dachshund, Waldmanli, and
another for my red dachshnrd, Maen-
ner The black dog looked Test, l
thought, on a red pillow, ami the red
dog on blue one. In these two bas
kets they slept for years. When l said
blue bed Maennerl would go into his;
when 1 said red bed Waldmann would
jump into his. They never nistook one
for the other One day my VIE was
sitting in the drawing room. when
Waldmann came in evidently much dis
turbed. She asked him Ii he wanted to
go out to have dinner to haya water.
No. it was none of these: Sllt lie kept
running to the door, then waiting and
looking back. At last my wife sot up
and followed him, and he led her to the
dining room. There in he red bed, ,ay
new dachshund we had just brought
from Germany, and Maennerl was in
his own blue bed. Waldy stood be-
tween, looking first at ole, then at the
other, evidently saying. like Lord Ross
vile, And where ask, am IT, TIE
new dor was driven out, ard then
Waldmann got in, quite content
When Professor Max Mueller'ss son
obtained a high positiol in the diplo-
matte service he was 1T first accredited
to the Ottoman Court Professo' ana
Mrs. Max Mueller went to CONSTANT
nople, being received with all sorts OF
unusual honors, the lady being invited
to dine with the Sultan and hei nus
band being presented with beautiful
snuffbox, one of the most cherished Of
the professors treasures. King Oscar
of Sweden was another Of those who de-
lighted 70 do Max Mueller Noner. lie
bestowed on him the Order Of the
Northern Star, First Glass, in 1889. Four
years subsequently the Sultan gave him
LOrdre pour lie Merite and the Star
of the Medojidieh. In September, 1899,
the University of Leipsic gave him an
honorary diploma, while on his seven
tieth birthday, which happened in De-
cember Of the same year, he received |
addresses from foreign acad- |
emies and learned socities. DIR. Jowett,
Master of Balliol was one of those with |
whom Professor Max Mueller was most |
intimate, and many were the occasions |
on which Jowett showed his friendship |
for the professor. On one occasion |
Jowett and Max Mueller met Sir Henry |
Irving at dinner. Faust" had recent |
ly been produced at the Lyceum, and !
the manner in which the professor
the production and Irving de- t
Tended 1t was highly characteristic OF |
both parties to the controversy. 1t was |
On the same occasion that Sir Henry |
irving with sly humor propounded a
suggestion that the Passion Play at
oberammergau should be brought to
England and performed at the Crystal
Palace. The effect on his academic hear
,rs may be imagined.--The London
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