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little known here yet, and that not many years ago there 

 were not enough in this country to have a class for them in 

 the shows. In New York, they were iirst exhibited in 1886, 

 when there were eleven of them; in 1887, only six were 

 exhibited; in 1888, seven; in 1889, seventeen, and this year 

 (1890), twenty-five. In Chicago, there were fifty- three 

 exhibited at the Mascoutah Kennel Club Show this year. 

 The Great Dane or German Mastiff Club of that city, organ- 

 ized last year for the purpose of popularizing this breed, 

 has now a large membership, and has already done and 

 will doubtless do a great deal to call the attention of dog- 

 fanciers to the German Dogge. The efforts of the members 

 of that club will certainly be appreciated by those who 

 may acquire a specimen of this breed, and thus become 

 acquainted with the beauty and admirable disposition of 

 the Dogge. 



It is, however, difficult to get the best specimens, and 

 they command high prices. For importations we must 

 rely principally on Germany, the home of the breed. In a 

 review of the remarkable events in the dogdom of Germany 

 during the year 1889, a German sporting paper prints the 

 following: 



Foreign countries carried off several Dogges. Two went to Mr. Riego, in 

 England, Mr. Onderwater, in Holland, got Diana-Essig, and Professor Maen- 

 ner, in Baltimore, bought Bravo Pluto and Minca Mia. To the kennel of Mr. 

 Goute, in France, went Fidelio, Libussa, Roland, and Rheinperle. 



Thus we see that few specimens worthy of being men- 

 tioned left Germany last year, but a greater number will 

 surely leave during this year and thereafter. 



As illustrating the noble disposition of the German 



Wis. ; Prof. J. H. H. Maenner, 404 South Paca street, Baltimore, Md. ; G. 

 Leihbacher, Myrtle avenue and Grove street, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; M. Martin, 

 601 East Fourteenth street, New York City; F. M. Wilder, 2515 Wabash 

 avenue, Chicago, 111.; Andrew Schultz, 697 Noble street, Chicago, 111.; F. C. 

 Smith, Bloomington, 111. ; H. A. Williams, 1101 Washington boulevard, Chi- 

 cago, 111.; E. R. Bacon, 73 Board of Trade, Chicago, 111.; Hawthorn Kennels, 

 Elmhurst, 111.; William Pfeifer, 2 Elston avenue, Chicago, 111.; August Trin- 

 kle, Cincinnati, Ohio; Joseph Zilligen, Jr., 552 Thirty-first street, Chicago, 

 111. ; J. W. Eliel, 3440 Indiana avenue, Chicago, 111. ED. 



