Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1876 — A Dog Academy. [ARTICLE]

A Dog Academy.

A gentleman on Fifth, avenue has opened what promises to be a successful and eminently beneficial institution in the form of a dog academy, where he teaches the noblest companion of man to detect book agents, lightning-rod architects, venders of patent stove-lifters, hulled corn, and the like, and indicate to them in an unmistakable manner that the people are not at home, and, if they were, wouldn’t want anything because they had got everything. Every day each of the canine scholars is soundly flogged three times by a man with a carpet-bag in his hand, so that there is inspired in his breast the most deadly hatred of men’ so equipped. Then a cigar-sign with a book or chromo under its arm is Introduced into the room, and the dog is “sicked” upon it, and is not fed until he has worried it in a satisfactory manner. This method has proved eminently successful, as was demonstrated on Saturday in an exhibition given before several gentlemen connected with the press. A small bullterrier, weighing nineteen pounds, with signs of the utmost fury, seized a wooden figure weighing three hundred and eighty pounds by the trousers, and hauled it here Trnd-fhcre-over-the- floor, iind-sbook it as iiit had been a rag, and an Inter. Ocean reporter, who unsuspectingly put his notebook under his arm and walked across the door, was set upon by a small puppy but five, months old, and so shamefully treated that he did not attempt to go home until it was dark, and then had to lean, in an apparently .unconcerned manner, against the wall whenever he met any one.— ChiM'j'j I'ribuM. ,