Year: 1874

Wout w olts


So much for the Generals coach
Even if Congress had voted him q car
riage and horses at the public expense.
I very much doubt if he would have
accepted them. When Philadelphia be-
came the seat of Government, the Legis-
lature of Pennsylvania assigned him q
very handsome house for his residence,
bat he declined to accept it. He hired
q house for himself of Robert Morris
and paid the rent, which was three
thousand dollars year.


No Animal Laughs Except Man.


May not the dog laugh with his tail
as he expresses his Joy. his gratitude,
his delight upon seeing his master !?
But is the dog left to rely solely upon
his tail to express his emotions or his
affections? We think not. Our firm
belief is that dogs laugh as much as
men.


We own at present little sinner-a
Spitz dog-a pup, and full of mischief.
Out of doors it is almost impossible to
control him. Bid him obey you, and
he leaps eight or ten feet away, and
every muscle of his face in motion-a
laugh, in fact, as perfect, perhaps, as
any dog can express. Poor old "Ro-
yer" and little "Joe" never meet us
without a smile upon their faces.


But the most marked instance of
dog laugh we recall as an incident of
our early boyhood-say when we were
from eight to eleven years of age. A
near relative owned little black dog,
common cur, we are inclined to think,
but "smaIt as a steel trap" and "bright
as a dollar" Whenever we visited the
old farm house that dog received us,
as he received every old acquaintance,
with q series of sneezes and a play of
featuree impossible to describe. We
were too young to be philosopher, but
We always told our good grandfather
that Jack" both sneezed and laughed
at us.


Let one more illustration suffice, and
this is the most marked one that we
now recall. When living at the South,
where mecking birds are common,
friend of ours owned q beautiful bird,
but as full of fun and mischief as any
animal that We ever knew; he would
initiate perfectly the cackling of hens,
the Growing of q rooster, the sounds of
the saving of wood, &C., but worse
til an all he had learned to express the
joys of let-out school held in his
neighborhood; at such times "Bill'
made an intolerable racket, disturbing
entire households. But his favorite
and greatest feat was to cheat "Jack,
the terrier, which regularly came home
with his master to meals. The csge
was hung in the backyard; in a few
moments after the dog had got himself
comfortably settled in berth, away
would go a whistle calling the dog, as
perfect an imitation of the whistle of
the master as it could be then the dog
would run "like mad" through rooms
and halls to the backyard, to be utterly
in not discovering his mas
ter, the bird sitting upon his perch an
innocent and apparently unconcerned
spectator. This whistling process would
be repeated two. three, ana perhaps
four times before the dog would detect
the cheat, and then he wonld retire
with look of disgust at the bird, and
no amount of whistling would start him
again. Just as soon as "Bill' saw that
the game was up. he would hop from
his perch to the floor at the side of the
cage, his feathers all ruffied, and his
whole expression that of intense de-
light, as much as to say, ''Now my boy,
haven't 1 caught you ?" We Away
thought, and think so still, that the
bird laughed. That parrots laug h we
think there can be no doubt; and then,
how about the Laughing hyena ?"