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JACK. 



II, Ib not, often that a clog- is honored with a 

 turned rule for his obituary ; but tho editors 

 of tha Louisville, Ky., Sunday Argus saw 

 fit, not only to devote a whole column to 

 their dumb friend, but to give him also the 

 dark' lines which are the newspaper symbols 

 of Diourllitig. As a study of dog character, 

 this appreciative sketch bus been rarely sur- 

 passed : 



He was only a dog. "Where he came from 

 originally no ono ever knew. His birth and 

 parentage were clouded in mystery, and it is 

 hardly probable, that they were noble, lie 

 ■was himself extremely reticent upon the sub- 

 ject, and there is no evidence that he ever al- 

 luded to it, even to his most intimate friend, 

 a genial and accomplished dog who resided in 

 a neighboring alley. His entree into journal- 

 ism was stormy, to say the least. Ho had 

 been for a brief time the property of a butcher 

 on Market street, who kept him chained in a 

 back yard. Constant confinement played sad 

 havoc with a temper not naturally amiable, 

 and his views of the world and its people 

 grew harsh aud cynical, He became a very 

 Timon among dogs. He would snap and bark 

 and bite at every human being who came 

 near him, until the neighborhood became 

 aroused. Indignant citizens woidd stand off 

 at a safe distance from his chain and cool their 

 wrath by shying bricks and sticks at the four- 

 footed bundle of snarling vitality which 

 tugged and strained at its end. Still he was 

 game, but his nature grew more and more 

 morose under thistre.itment. One day, object- 

 ing to the quality of meat which was thrown 

 to him, he sunk his teeth into the daring gen- 

 tleman who furnished it, and this circumstance 

 brought about a change in his career. He was 

 promptly unchained and assaulted with clubs 

 and stones, until, finding the situation much 

 more exciting than interesting, he beat a 

 noisy retreat, closely followed by the enemy. 

 He fell back up Market street aud out Fifth 

 until be reached the Argus office, and then, 

 seeing a door open aud construing it as an in- 

 vitation, he darted in and camped under the 

 table, indicating to tne astonished occupants 

 by a series of defiant remarks, in a deep bass 

 voice, that he proposed to stay. A due sense 

 of discretion moved them to a policy of non- 

 interference, but the next day he evidenced 

 an ungrateful desire to sample the composi- 

 tors in the printing office, and it was deemed 

 necessary to place him in honorable captiv- 

 ity. Somehow, alter this Jack improved. 

 Possibly he recognized the fact that he was 

 among friends and, possibly, the fierce ren- 

 contre of the day before had left an indelible 

 impression upon his niiii d. At any rate he 

 became more thoughtful and considerate. 

 He discovered that true courage did not con- 

 sist solely in a constant show of teeth, or in 

 persistent and noisy self-assertion. While he 

 still kept up, to a certain extent, his bragga- 

 docio manner (for the habits of life are not to 

 be shaken off in an instant), his temper grew 

 belter aud he would let people neat him. And 

 one day it was determined, after a long con- 

 sultation, to Unfasten Jack at a venture, aud 

 allow him to roam at will. It proved a most 

 happy Buccess. Conscious that he was on his 

 good behavior, he did not disgrace himself. 

 An earnest thinker, a deep observer and a 

 born philosopher, he made long pedestrian 

 tours through the city, studied man and his 

 kind, and learned that his estimate of the 

 world and its inhabitants had been an entirely 

 erroneous one. He discovered that men had 

 not been created tor the sole purpose of abu- 

 sing him; that boots were not an ingenious 

 contrivance of the enemy invented merely to 

 make a kick at him more effective ; that every 

 person who carried a slick did not do to with 

 a view of laying it vigorously over his head 

 Whenever the opportunity offered. As all 

 these things grew upon him gradually, he 

 softened more and more, until, at the time of 

 his death, oue who had known Jack only in 

 former days would hardly have recognized 

 him as the same dog. Still, he retained a bit 

 of the old Adam in his nature. An intense 

 Bourbon Democrat politically, he persistently 

 declined to concede that the Fifteenth Amend- 

 ment was an accomplished fact, and would 

 Ku-Klux any colored citizen who came near 

 him; a Know-Nothing in a slight degree, he 

 made uncompromising war on ail Italian pea- 

 nut peddlers and organ-grinders. Somehow 

 he seemed to think that they were an entirely 

 unnecessary part of the world's economy, and 

 that he had a special mission to explain the 

 case to every oue he met. 



On last Sunday he was poisoned. How it 

 ■was done no one knows, but it is extremely 

 probable that some idle varlet, relying upon 

 the fact that Jack was always hungry, dressed 

 a stray bit of meat with strichnine and thus 

 enticed him to his death. Late in the after- 

 noon he crawled around to the office, with 

 dragging limbs aud glazed eyes, and lay down 

 in the old accustomed spot to die. Medical 

 aid was called and everything which love 

 could suggest was done to alleviate his suffer- 

 ings, but, all in vain. lie seemed to know 

 thai the end was near, and at every effort to 

 help himhewouldlookup with an "l'm-just- 

 as-much-obUged,-but-it's-of-no-use,-boys" ex- 



pression in his failing eyes which was very 

 touching. And SO it proved. Late in the 

 evening he raised his head, took one long, re- 

 gretful look around, wagged bis tail in feeble 

 farewell and then fell "back a stiffened UDd 

 pathetic unit of inanition, even though he 

 hid been only a dog. 



Jack was neither handsome nor accom- 

 plished, but his betid was clear, bis face was 

 intelligent and he possessed a strong, sturdy 

 nature which commanded the admiration of 

 all those who knew him w T ell. In no sen3e a 

 courtier, or a tlatlerer— indeed, his character 

 was just the opposite — he was still frank aud 

 polite. His manners lacked polish, but they 

 were hearty. He loved his friends and he 

 hated his enemies. He never attacked a wo- 

 man, or girl, and a child could take all sorts 

 of liberties with him. He was dignified with- 

 out being pompous, brave without, being a 

 bully, grateful without being sycophantic, 

 sociable without, being distressingly familiar. 

 Taken all in all, he was a much better dog 

 than many a man is. Peace to his ashes ! 



Tim's Kit. — It surprised the shiners and 

 uewsboys around the postoffice the other day 

 to see " Limpy Tim " come among them in a 

 quiet way, and to hear him say : 



"Boys, I want to sell my kit. Here's two 

 brushes, a hull box of blacking, a good stout 

 box, and the outfit goes for two siullin's! " 



"(Join' away, Tim! " queried one. 



" Not ' zactly, boys, but I want a quarter 

 the awfulcst kind, just now. " 



"Goin' on a 'scursion ? " asked another. 



" Not to-day, but I must have a quarter," 

 he answered. 



Oue of the lads passed over the change and 

 took the kit, and Tim walked straight to tho 

 counting-room of a daily paper, put down 

 the money, aud said : 



"I guess I kin write it, if you give me a 

 pencilT" 



With slow-moving fingers he wrote a death 

 notice. It went into the paper almost as he 

 wrote it, but you might not have seen it. 

 He wrote: 



Dtsn.— Lii.ul Tad— of scarlet fever— atjred three 

 years. Funeral to-morror, gone up to Hevin-left 

 won uruttier. 



"Was it your brother? " asked the cashier. 



Tim tried to brace up, but he couldn't. 

 The big tears came up, his chin quivered, 

 and he pointed to the notice on the counter 

 and gasped : 



"I— I had to sell my kit to do it, b— but 

 he had his arms aroun' my neck when he d — 

 died ! " 



He hurried away home, but the news went 

 to the boys, and they gathered in a group 

 and talked. Tim had not been home an 

 hour before a barefooted boy left the kit on 

 the door-step, and in the box was a bouquet of 

 flowers, which had been purchased in the 

 market by pennies contributed by the crowd 

 of ragged, but big-hearted urchins. Did 

 God ever make a heart which would not re- 

 spond if the right chord was touched?— 1)6, 

 troit Free Fress. 



Akts: Thbie Cows, Slaveb.Soldwks and 

 Gentlemen. — To an audience Sir John Lub- 

 bock delivered one of his amusing lectures on 

 the habits of ants. Here we may add that, 

 in relation to the other insects associated 

 with ants,— of which, according to M. 

 Andre, there arc no less than 583 distinct 

 species, — Sir John Lubbock had himseli 

 studied the treatment by the auts of the 

 aphides or domestic cattle they keep, as we 

 keep cows for lire sake of the milk they yield 

 us. The ants keep these crealureBin corn, 

 he says, all the winter, though they are then 

 of no use to the ants, and they tend the 

 aphides during that barren time with great 

 care. Then in the spring they milk them, 

 much as we milk our cows, and derive no 

 small part of their sustenance from them. 

 Again, Sir John entirely confirms Huber's 

 observations on the extreme forms which 

 domestic slavery takes in relation to one 

 species, the individuals of which will starve 

 in the midst of plenty rather than feed them- 

 selves, so completely dependent are they on 

 the services of these slaves. Sir John had 

 kept some of this species alive for months by 

 allowing them a slave for one hour a day to 

 feed and clean them. But without that at- 

 tendance they die. And yet these arc, we 

 believe, a military caste of ants, which fight 

 savagely, though they will not feed or clean 

 themselves, a task which they regard, we 

 suppose, as menial. Sir John does not be- 

 lieve that au ant can give a message, though 

 it can, of course, take its comrades to the 

 place where they gain the information which 

 it cannot give.' Ants were to be found in 

 three stages of civilisation, — the hunting, 

 the pastoral, and the agricultural stage. 

 But of their resources for meeting new emer- 

 gencies, Sir John Lubbock, on the whole, 

 does not speak well. They have not exactly 

 anything equivalent to red-tape. But they 

 are strict Conservatives, not of Lord 

 Beaconsfield's school, but of the old hum- 

 drum type, which regards a new method as 

 not so much a blunder as an impossibility. — 

 Tlie Spectator. 



SrorrED and Potted. — A leopardess in a 

 circus at Davenport, la., gave birth last week 

 to a cub that was pretty enough to eat, aud 

 ate it ere itjhad arrived at the early age of 

 five minutes. 



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