Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1913 — MINISTER’S DOG RIDES IN CAB [ARTICLE]

MINISTER’S DOG RIDES IN CAB

Ex-Premier Clemenceau Has to Pay Fares for His Mastiff In French “Capital. Paris. —M. Clemenceau, the French statesman, owns a large and fierch mastiff, whose habit it is from time to time to make long excursions into outlying parts of Paris.

When he Is tired, the dog will pump Into a horse cab and sit there growl* Ing and showing his teeth ’if the cabman attempts to remove him. Seeing the name and address of M. Clemenceau engraved on the dog’s brass collar, the cabman finally drives the dqg home. In this way M. Clemenceau has had several long fares to pay.