Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — Canine Intelligence. [ARTICLE]

Canine Intelligence.

“It is truly amusing,” says the London Truth, “to see the assembled wiseacres of the British Institution making discoveries in the canine intelligence, which must have been common knowledge to dog-fanciers in the days of Nimrod. Sir John Lubbock's learned poodle is a fool beside a little performing mongrel which I have lately seen at one of the south-coast wateringplaces. Any spectator was invited to show this little animal his watch, when the dog, after studying the face for a moment, would proceed to tell the time by selecting the proper figures from a toav of Arabic (not Boman) numerals placed before him. Again, Prof. Flower’s eminently Scotch tyke, who refused to go for a walk on the ‘Sawbath,’ is very little ahead of the dog Avhom most of ns have seen or heard of who loses all desire to go out Sunday morning upon being shown a prayer-book. In the same way I have heard of a university dog —probably not a unique specimen—who, though always frantic to start out the moment his master took up his hat, never offered to move Avhen the head-covering was a college-cap.”