Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — Leo, the Shepherd-Dog. [ARTICLE]

Leo, the Shepherd-Dog.

Our Leo was a splendid dog — a large black-and-brown shepherd-dog, with great, full eyes that seemed almost like a person’s. He woujd walk quietly by your side if you wished him to, or run about, talking in his way; that is, barking. He would bring stones for you to throw, and bring them back for you to throw again. He would drive the cows from the barn to the pasture just as well as a man could. .To be sure, he could not put up the bars; but I think he wanted to do that, too Then at night, when it was time for the cows to come home, he would trot down to the place where they came out, and, as soon as the bars were taken down, he would bark and run behind the cows, one after the other, and drive them home to the barn again. He did a great many smart things that I have not time tb tell you; but I must mention, one that I think was the smartest of all. When any one gave him a piece of tnoney, he was in the habit of running to tne market with it and getting a piece of meat from the butcher One day several persons gave him money. Instead of taking it all to the market, he buried some of it in the ground, keeping only one piece, with which he trotted off to the butcher for his meat. The - next day we watched him to see what he would do if none of us gave him money.- Only think! ho went to his bank,‘or to the place where he had deposited his spare change, took out one of the pieces and went to the market with that. He did the same thing every day until all of his money Was gone, and then waited until some onegave him more. Was he not a knowing dog? Nursery. . v .j "

—An enormous eagle in Georgia swept down upon two little girls aged three and five years, throwing them to the ground. It buried its talons in the face and arm of the elder and attempted to carry off the child, but was prevented by her struggles. A little brother seven years of age came to her assistance with a carving-knife, slashing the eagle’s legs, when it turned upon the boy, who was soon released by the appearance of Joe Betzler, a neighbor, upon the scene, who -shot and killed the bird. It measured seven feet from tip to tip of wing. —An Eastern Oregon paper relates an incident in Baker City which was of an exasperating nature to at least one of the parties involved. A divorce suit is pending between a couple in that place, and the husband, on the- lookout for another helpmate, sought to ingratiate himself with the fair sex by offering a handsome prize to the lady who should be voted the most worthy by the largest number of respectable citizens. To his consternation the ballots showed that his wife—separated from him, but not divorced—was the favorite, by a large majority. —The hardest thing in the world to do so constantly that you can do it well is to mind your owu business.