Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Victoria Has Fifty-five Pet Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Victoria Has Fifty-five Pet Dogs.

The greatest private collection of pet dogs in the world is said to be that of her Majesty Queen Victoria of Great Britain. The Queen has fifty-live canine pets, and they live in the grandest canine style that ever was known. Their dining-room is handsomely carpeted, and ornamented with the portraits of their celebrated ancestors in oil and water colors. Soihe of the pictures are adorned with tufts of the hair which belonged to the departed pets of her Majesty. The dogs are proud of their portrait gallery, and they despise all the low-bred oftrs of creation. One of the Queen’s pleasures is to make sketches and point portraits of her dogs, and many of the pictures in her canine pantheon are from her hand. Others have been made by prince Albert, the. Prince of Wales, and Princess Louise of Lorne. Mamma—“Harry, I want you to oome in nowand amuse the baby.” Harry (aged 5) —“You’ll have to excusa me, giother; I’m not in the tedy