Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — Spitz, the Policeman. [ARTICLE]

Spitz, the Policeman.

A family living in Brookline .possesses a dog of the Spitz variety which is blessed with a remarkable degree of intelligence. Every night when the master of the house is about to have the doors locked, he dispatches the dog to the yard to look up and bring in the cat. This the clever Spitz never fails to do, hunting in all possible nooks and hiding places, and eventually returning in dignified triumph with the cat limply dependent from his mouth. The strangest part of the story is that the cat herself does not appear in the least to mind this rather summary cutting short of her “evening out,” but regards the performance as quite legitimate, and settles herself meekly enough for a night by the furnace fire.— Boston Courier.

Inquisitive people are tfyp funnels of con ver ation; they do not take in anyth ng for their own u-e, but merely to pass it to another.— Sir Richard Steele.