The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-06-13

uosS were propOrtionate1y high
priced. Now it is diff1cult to get $50
for st. Bernard puppy, and 500 is
q rare price to get for any of the
breed.
It is from this class that all the
biggest dogs come. The largest ca
nine of which there is any record was
ST. Bernard named Giant Rector,
who measured six and a half feet
from the tip of his nose to the tip of
his tail and measured thirty-four and
a half inches to the top of his shout
der. He was displayed all over the
country as the biggest dog in the
world. When he is compared with
the smallest of all toy dogs, Mexi-
can poodle, which measures seven
inches from tip to tip and weighs
only a few ounces, it is indeed cause
for wonder If they came from the
same parent stock. The Great Dane
is a prime favorite with Americans,
and there are more of them in this
country than of any other one breed.
When the Prince of Wales left this
continent after his memorable visit
he was presented with an enormous
Great Dane, the biggest that had
ever been seen at that time
The highly cultivated dogs in this
country represent a considerable in
vestment of American capital, and
some of the kennels shelter canine
kings which are almost priceless. I'm
til 1890, $1,000 was the highest price
that had ever been paid for an i'm
ported dog, John e. Thayer giving
that for fox terrier, but later Rich
ard Croker bought white English
bull which cost him $4,000. ]. Pier
pont Morgan has the finest collection
of collies in the world. The collie is
undeniably the peer of dogs in Amer
lea. and has for years enjoyed I'M
challenged supremacy. Mr.. Morgan's
kennels contain some of the most
perfect specimens of the fanciers art
and patience. His exhibits, with
those of Samuel Untermyer, of Yon-
kers, N. Y, are sufficient to crowd
the halls of any show.
the footing here which they maintain
in other countries, particularly in
France, though some of the very
small poodles are constant visitors
to the shows. Japanese poodles are
perhaps most favored. They were
brought here fifty years ago by Com
modore Perry when he returned
from his expedition to Japan. Dogs
are among the things which are in
dispensable as imperial presents, and
among the gifts brought by Commo-
dore Perry from the Mikado to the
American President were four little
Japanese poodles. They and their
children were used as sleeve dogs"
and weighed scarcely two pounds.
The cause for dogs being popular
gifts among royal persons dates back,
it is said, to the time of the Egyptian
kings, who used the animals as trib-
ute.
When the fashionable American
woman wants to take up dog fad
she adopts some particular breed,
preferably bull terrier, or collie.
A prominent New York woman who
makes a speciality of bulldogs, and
who travels a great deal, had the
head of her favorite bulldog painted
on all her trunks as a sort of mono
gram. In New York there is a young
woman who paints only portraits of
fashionable dogs. She has beauti-
fully appointed studio, enga gements
for sittings are booked weeks ahead,
and she finds making portraits of
these canine aristocrats not only en-
joyable. but exceedingly lucrative.
i While many new breeds have been
produced during the past fifty years,
fanciers claim that perfect dog has
never been seen anywhere. 1t is diff
fieult to understand what the stan
dard is, if perfect one, has never
been produced, but the training of
them will give the dog fanciers some
thing to do, and in the meantime
every honest man with a clear con-
science will go on loving his own lit
tie dog, regardless of blemishes or
dog show points.-New Orleans Pic
ayuno.