Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1876 — A Dog’s Parasol. [ARTICLE]

A Dog’s Parasol.

Queer things are occasionally to be seen in Paris, but a queerer sight than that which I witnessed this morning on the Rue de la Paix it has rarely, if ever, been my lot to behold. In taking my morning walk, I met a large white poodle, shaved and clipped lion-fashion, who wore a round, black' velvet cap, coquettishly placed on the side of his curly head. In his mouth he carried a basket, to the handle of which a small ecru silk parasol had been adroitly attached in such a manner that in carrying the basket the dog held the parasol over his head, and so shaded himself from the rays of the sun. It is impossible to describe the gravity and aplomb of his dogahip, nor the immense amusement of the street boys and the passers-by at this novel spectacle. —Pane Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph. The Canadian Minister of the Interior reports that there are #1,910 Indians in the Dominion, of which number about 10,000, belonging to entreating tribes, are settled between Peace River and the United States boundary. In the five older provinces, they have personal property worth $489,234; real estate worth $7,683,708, and in invested capital the sum of $2,844,972. r A firm of Philadelphia druggists have obtained a judgment against the United States Government for $20,870.80 for overpaid duty oh Mtinvoice of opium.

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