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Zurich Herald, 1954-07-15, Page 7SI Among the most i:emarkable 1 g stories is one Sir Walter Scott told a friend about a. bull terrier .-- the wisest clog he ever had., "Camp once bit the baker, who was bringing bread to the family," he said. "I beat him and explain- ed the enormity of his offence; after. which, to the last moment of his life, he never heard the least allusion to the story, in whatever voice or tone it was mentioned, without getting up and retiring into the darkest cor- ner of the room, . with great ap- pearance of distress. "When you said, 'the baker was well paid,' or, 'the baker was not hurt after all,' Camp came forth from his hiding - place, capered, and barked, and rejoic- ed. He certainly had a singular knowledge of spoken .language." An old book of dog anecdotes )mentions an Edinburgh grocer's dog to whom a piernan once gave a pie. The . next time the dog.. heard the pieman's bell he ran to him, seized him by the coat, and wouldn't let him pass. The pieman showed him a pen - say, then pointed to his master who stood watching at a street door. The dog at once went to him, begged furiously, and on re- ceiving a penny, carried it in his mouth to the pieman and got his )pie. This became a regular prac- tice. A. remarkable example of can- - ine know-how occurred during a severe snowstorm when the ., :fowls on a Scottish farm did not return at the hour they usually retired to roost. Presently the house -dog entered the kitchen carrying in his mouth. a bedrag- gled hen, laid it on the warm hearth, ran off again, returned with another, and so continued until all were rescued. Numbed by the extreme cold, they had crowded together in the stack - yard, and the dog, seeing them, :had carried them. in to berevived. by the fire. It's not only Scottish air that makes a dog canny. A dog with extraordinary sense belonged to horse brought to the house by a horse brought to the rouse by a servant. As the man was on his way to the door the horse sudden- ly bolted. The •dog sprang after bgot hold of the bridle, and rought the galloping horse to standstill. . In Melbourne, Derbyshire, where cocks and hens used to run about the ;, streets, a game- ecek fought • furiously with a mall bantam, which got the, _ 'oirsf est it §;alias p.eople. stood by, looking on. Then a cog dtuddenly darted out, snatched up to bantam in his mouth, and Married it into his master's house. Several onlookers 1o1loweel ex- pecting It to be killed and eaten, 'Nat after guarding the kennel • El drg,•;'l EW JET — A Meteor N. F. 1, Britain's new jet night -fighter, peels off from. formation in this just-reelesed photo. The new plane is described by the Brit- ish Air Ministry as the most ef- fective night -fighter .that exists. The Meteor features a clear - vision cockpit canopy and an altered tail fin. . . entrance for some time, the dog trotted down the yard into the street, looked both right and left, saw the coast was clear, went back, returned with the bird in his mouth, safely deposited it in the street, then walked quiet - l7' away. Thep, writes Trevor Allen in "Tit Bits", there was the canine wonder belonging to a famous Italian family, which always at- tended its master's table, took his plates and brought others, carried wine to him in a glass on a salver held in its mouth, with- out spilling .it, and held the stir- rup in its teeth while he mount- ed his horse. A certain lady's collie, ordered to ring the bell, did so; but if told to ring the bell when the servant was in the room, refus- ed, looked at the servant, and barked. If his mistress again said, "Ring the bell, dog," he laid hold , of the servant's coat as if saying: "Don't you hear that I am, to ring the bell for you? Come to my lady!" When a New York newspaper seller was ill, his son took his place and, not knowing the sub- scribers, took as guide a dog which had usually accompanied his father. Trotting on ahead of the boy, the dog stopped at every door where the paper was regu- larly left, not missing one or making a mistake. A London gentleman owned a clever spaniel. One day in 1792, he entered the pit of Drury Lane Theatre at about E,30 p.m. having left his King- Charles's spaniel locked in the dining -room. At eight o'clock the dog immediately ran to the playhouse and located his master though he , was near the middle of a crowded pit. A fashionable young eighteenth century lady was taking a walk in Tunbridge Wells when a New- foundland snatched her ''parasol from her hand and ran off with it. Keeping ahead, the dog con- stantly looked back to see that she was following, and at length stoped at a confectioner's and went inside. Failing to get the dog to give the sunshade back she asked the shopman to help.' "It's an old trick of the dog's to get a bun," he said. "Give him one, and he'll return your property." S h e bought him one and he at once surrendered the parasol. A French newspaper is the source of a story about a retired businessman and music -lover who got his whole household choral singing and playing instruments, and resolved to bring his dog into it, too, At every false mote from voice or instrument down came his • cane on the back of his small spaniel, who promptly howled. In time she became so sensitive to false notes that she instantly howled without waiting for the cane, A shoeblack on the Pont Neuf in Paris had a poodle who was trained to roll himself in the Seine mud and dirty the well -polished shoes of anyone crossing the bridge, so that his master would get the job of cleaning them! Another clever poodle, owned by a Cheshire gentleman, always attended church, staying quietly in the pew .whether his master was there or not. One Sunday the dam of a neighbouring lake gave way flooding the road, so only a few worshippers from nearby cottages attended, But the dog was in his pew, dripping wet, having swum aver a quarter of a mile to get there. . Bill, a fireman's terrier, always attended his master on duty, climbing the escape ladder, leap- ing into the burning house and dashing about to find its occu- pans, barking loudly for help if he located any. A collar was presented to him as a reward for his bravery. The German mathematician, Zacharias Dase, once multiplied two 100 -digit numbers together — in his head, ¢' , �# s.•,ipr'c.��t iki,prffl; Pa. ' r�' $.i°..aewssete ., .nor ,r r:,w,..:n;, WHAT'S IN THE BOXES?—Packaged destruction, ready for quick on -the -spot assembly and "delivery" to a potential enemy. The deadly, high-speed "Matador" pilotless bomber is manufac- tured in seven units, and packaged in weatherproof cases at the Glenn L Martin plant for delivery to the Armed Forces. The unique packaging arrangement of the units eliminates final assembly at the plant, makes for easier shipment and storage in the field. Fr m spit.I. Diirect To It was about'sthree o'clock one morning when Joe Gould's phone rang. Tex Rickard was on the phone and he wanted Joe at his office at once. Gould got -into his clothes and ran for a cab. As soon as Rickard saw Gould he shouted to him across the 'room; "Hey, Joe, I'm in a spot. I need someone to fight Angel Firpo in Havana. You've got a boy named Italian Jack Herman. Do you want to go down to Ha- vana with him to meet Firpo?". "Sure, Tex," replied Joe with- out a moment's hesitation, "We'll leave in the morning." ' The contract was hastily drawn up. Herman and Gould's end of the purse was to be $5,900. And Joe rushed out of Rickard's of- fice to find his fighter. He had forgotten that he had not seen his boy for several months and didn't even know whether the boxer was alive. Gould began to search frail- tically since he was working against time. Finally, after sev- eral hours, he traced Herman to a rooming, house in Hoboken. At five in the morning, Joe was banging on the door. At last, a sleepy landlady poked out her head and demanded to know what Joe wanted at this ungodly hour. "Where's Jack Herman?" screamed Joe. "I've got to see him right away!" "Go away," replied the angry landlady. "He's in the hospital. He's been there for weeks!" Shocked by the information, but not at all dismayed, Joe Gould dashed for the local hos- pital and bribed his way to Jack Herman's room, The fighter was sound asleep.- Joe shook him vigorously. "Jack!" he shouted. "Jack, wake up!" Herman woke with a start, to see wild-eyed Joe Gould leaning over him. "What are you doing here?" gasped Herman. "Am I dying or something?" "Don't be silly!" snapped Joe. "This is no time to die. Come on, get up, we got to go to Havana to fight Angel e•Firpa on Sunday. Hurry up, you sap, we got to catch a train!" Jack Herman shook his head mournfully. "I can't • go," he whispered. "I can't fight, Joe. I got a pain in the belly. The doc says I got appendicitis, maybe." "Appendicitis, he says!" yelled Gould. "Are - you out of your ,;in eaten. .e.,...,: ev"v'v:;••.ii.....- a:3.h'NS•Os>:a� %ks' >: •; x;•Q; `;1't:,t.,`';$:C.''• Ti:":3 �)i%: i=:: iYio;•. t3{:.`' tr eo:wi, :'Fi �•';h ft,, y`:fik:c;� .. ?;Sw ;tries ', ar .f,. . :se6ar+sseeeem a•�•. „�Il�jks•', „i :`:Y�st:.•a W "' daar: 410.i'i.£�.:`t',"P�' .'�a..':iMA�R iRa'�S:bFS��dlSi°' .ewnw-0i�°w`^ , Don't• ove—Obedience is the first mark of a good police dog, yo this detachnyent'of West ger.. tin,• Move—Obedience Germany, canine cops gets a day of training in staying put. Their masters move back and forth issuing orders to fest them. By constant repetition of the exercise, the dogs learn to obey every command They are given. mind? For $5,000, how can you afford to have appendicitis?" The reluctant Jack Herman dutifully climbed out of bed and got dressed. Joe Gould got him to the train in time and tender- ly tucked him into bed. Hearing that ice was good for appendici- tis, he instructed Jack to keep a good-sized pack on his tummy, and keep buying as much as he needed for the trip. Italian Jack Herman made it to Havana and finally got into the ring for his match against Angel Firpo. For all his heretic measures, Joe took a bad beat- ing. Firpo knocked his boy out in the second round but the $5,000 purse did a little to soothe the wily manager. Then came the totting up of expenses. One item hit Joe Gould right between the eyes. It read: "Ice — $260." Joe yelled `for Jack Herman and asked how come. "You told me," said the inno- cent Herman. "I bought all tilat ice to put on my belly for the endicitis." y, you bum!" screamed be Gould. "For 260 clams you can buy a whole iceberg! What are wou trying to hand me?" "I don't care what you think," answered Jack. "I needed ice 'for my appendicitis and $260 it is. That stuff melts, you knowl" Joe Gould had to give in and pay for the ice out of his own share of the purse. And it was only months later that Tex Rick- ard found out that smart little Joe Gould had pawned off on him a sick fighter kidnapped from a hospital, It was much too late to do anything about it then. Gr ;r unds For ivorce The clerk of the Yuma, Ari- zona, Superior Court received a request from a Los Angeles man for a certified copy of a mar- riage license issued in 1939 to himself and "a lady whose name I have forgotten." Judges of the Paris Divorce 'Court got a new one to figure out when a woman sued her husband for damages because she had had six children. In Knoxville, Tennessee, Mrs. Elmore Fryer, suing for divorce, asked for her husband's motor- cycle as alimony. "While he never actually struck me," explained Sarah Sanders, suing Edward Sanders for divorce, "he would go around slamming his fist • against doors and saying, 'I wish it was you." William Wilson divorced his wife because she took his false teeth and held thern for $2 ran- som. Testifying that. her husband had knocked her out by hitting her on the head with a live chicken and then, finding that the: 'impact had killed the chick- en, revived her and ordered her to co* it, Mrs, Viola Beck sued for divorce. Ada Leonard, strip - tease dancer, filed suit for divorce because her husband, her at- torney explained, "doesn't re- sent the fact that she is doing this kind of work. Is that clear?" Samuel Hoffenstein, scenarist and poet of Hollywood, was divorced by his wife, who ob- jected to the ' -jingles he dedicat- ed to her. 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