Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — What a Dog Did. [ARTICLE]

What a Dog Did.

An English paper has the following: “ A striking exem dification of the sagacity of a shepherd’s dog has just come under notice on the farm of Higam, near Newburgh, in Fife-hire. The dog belonged to Mr. John Ballingall. The shepherd on the farm happened to 1 se a pound note, and after many hours’ fruitless search for the bank-note it was given up as lost. A collie pup, only four months old, made its appearance in the field where it was supposed the note had been lost, and made himself noticeable. The shepherd could not be bothered with its caressings, so grieved was he at his loss. After being ordered off some halfdozen times, the dog eventually stood up on its hind legs, opened its mouth, and there was the note, folded just as it was when it went-a-missing! With much wagging of its tail the animal laid the note at the shepherd’s feet. The animal was once a despised one, but now it is a household pet.”

Dan Davis, of Virginia'City, paid a visit to Promontory, on the Central Pacific Railroad, and was charmed with the manners dnd customs almost patriarchal in their frank simplicity of the people. He stopped at the principal hotel of the town. It was a nice place, and the landlord was a very agreeable and friendly sort of a man. Says Dan: “ When dinner was ready the landlord came out into the street in front of his hotel with a double-barreled shot-gun. Raising the gun above bis head he fired off one barrel. I said to him, ‘What did you do that for?' Said he, *To call my boarders to dinner.’, I said, * Why don’t you fire off both barrels?’ * Oh,’ said he I keep the other to collect with.’ ”