Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1889 — Jealousy an Inspiration to Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Jealousy an Inspiration to Dogs.

“One of the best ways to train an animal,” said a dealer in trick dogs, last week, to a reporter, “is by exciting its jealousy. I have almost abandoned the use of the whip, and whenever I want to punish a dog now I simply resort to a little plan that invariably works. For example, the other day I was trying to teach a dog to jump over a chair. He did it several times, and knew very’ well what I wanted, but, somehow, hethought he would be a little stubborn, and I could not do a thing with him. Finally I took another dog that knew the trick, and had him do it sever »1 times in the other dog’s presence. After he had done it ns I desired, 1 caressed and rewarded him with an unusually large piece of meat. I refused to notice the first dog, but presently he began to try to attract my attention. Without a word from me he began to caper around the room and go through some of his tricks, and finally, with a little bark, as :f to make,certain I knew what he was about to do, leaped over the chair.” —lndianapolis Journal. Judge Mark Blandfobd, of the Georgia Supreme Bench, is a firm believer in the zodiac signs. He lost an arm at the battle of McDowell, Va., in May, 1852, and he declares that he and every other soldier who got wounded in the arm in that combat recovered, while all the leg wounds proved mortal. He says he had occasion to take particular notice of that fact. At a mass meeting of the London unions of the boot tr de a resolution was passed providing that “in no manufactory shall there be employed more than one boy to five men, and they shall be equally distributed over each branch of the irade.” The increased binding power of cement due to the addition oi sugar is said to be due more to mechanical than to chemical causes. Sugar retards. rather than accelerates the setting of the cement.