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To COKRKSPONBKNT3.— Those desiring us to prescribe for their dogs 

 wi:l please take note of and describe the following i>oints in each ani- 

 mal: 



1. Ago. 2. Food and medicine given. 3, Appearance of the eye; 



of the coat ; of the tongue ami lips. i. Any clumges in the appearance 



jbjt the body, ag bloating, irawing in of tue Hanks, etc. 5. BreattUngi 



the number oi respirations per ininni.o, unit whether labored or not. 



ti. Conditlpn of the bowels and seoretlous of the kidneys, color, etc. 7. 



ii ■; regular, variable, etc. 8, Temperature of the body as uifll- 



., the bulb of the thermometer wnen placed between the body 



ami the foreleg. 9. Give position of keuuel and surrounding, outlook, 



contiguity to other buildings, and the uses of the latter. Also give any 



peculiarities of temperament, movements, etc., that may be noticed ; 



J suffering, etc. 



Dogs ^ Fihends. — An English writer, in musing upon the 

 compamouship of animals, writes, that Laving moved to the 

 country the occasion seemed propitious for cultivating canine 

 friends : 



I began modestly by entering into society with a young 

 sheepdog, who received the professional name of Blister; for 

 ■which the familiar term is Bliss. Bliss was a b&ppy young 

 dog of full growth, with eyes Eke jewels, teeth like a shark's, 

 ana all a puppy's fJcstacy in using thetu on anything that 

 could be bitten through. Every miming, when I first ap- 

 peared before him, ae flew at me with barks of affection, 

 fixed his leeth fir.uly in a skirt of my dressing-gown, to puif 

 at it and shake it as'a fiercely cordial man might shake you by 

 the hand. How many days 1 bad enjoyed my Bliss might 

 have been ascertained at, any period by numbering the rents 

 in the tail of my dressing-gown, as clearly as men ascertain 

 the age of trees by counting the*ringsiii the wood. Having 

 breakfasted with me, my friend sat On bis tail at the door of 

 my lodging fill he saw me mounted. Then no ingenuity 

 could slay him from joining all my rounds, and making it. his 

 business to preach to the sheep of the whole country-side, 

 gathered by him together on the hills in crowded and excited 

 con^reyatii'iis. One morning, however, when there was a 

 found of almost forty miles for us, he was not indulged with 

 any slackenings of pace for his particular convenience. He 

 came home very tired, and alter that, day satisfied himself with 

 the courtesy of walking out to see me off, but steadily de- 

 clined tO !: 



This active creature went astray and was a lost dog. Then 

 it became necessary to supply his pace, and as it appeared 

 probable that a less boisterous comrade was to be desired as 

 his successor, I bought with gold the friendship of a mild old 

 lady, a thin spaniel with glossy black hair. She had answered 

 for years to the hereditary name of Pan, w T hich is among dogs 

 what Smith is among men. 



Now, therefore, I was blessed with a four-footed being who 

 would never go out with the horse, but, was cuntenf only to 

 follow me on foot, and visit the sick in our little town of 

 gomerton. She had a good appetite, enlarged in flesh, panted 

 a good deal when our way was up-hill, ran to and fro within 

 bounds of a very strict discretion, and gave me nothing but 

 the simple flattery of her canine affection. She was a Steady 

 every day person, who had even a sense of Sunday in her 

 nature. When I went out on Sunday morning without offer- 

 ing to follow me as usual, she jumped into the windowsill, 

 and from that post of observation watched for my return 

 from church. But a time came whenf having bought a promis- 

 ing lot of patients, I left the far west, and traveled to the 

 centre of the earth (within Great Britain). Fan went with 

 me, and being unused to the punctualities of traveling, was 

 lost upon the- way at Bristol. 



Dark visions of an unprotected female in distress haunted 

 me all the way to this old house at Urtemly, iu which I have 

 grown gray. "I knew only one man in Bristol, a long, lank, 

 rambling hawker, who had readied sometimes even the dis- 

 tant S omerton. lie might be at home or abroad; at any rate, 

 to him 1 wrote, as to the one possible helper. • By him the 

 forlorn damsel was found under the protection of a hackney 

 Coachman, and in a few days she reached me in a hamper, 

 labeled "A Live Dog, with Care." 



The house I took was haunted. For a black terrier who 

 had once lived there.it was a Yarrow constantly to be revisited, 

 aud to lie explored daily iu every corner. The terrier lust, no 

 time in declaring his aftVc ion for the mature beauty from the 

 west, hislove was returned, and blessed with a litter of four 

 puppies. Puppies are not born to be drowned. These were, 

 moreover, very handsome. So they were allowed house-room 

 Until they were of age to be sent out into the world. When 

 they were all of age to run with ease, the sedate Madam 

 Spaniel, with her four little ones behind her, and the terrier 

 ghost usually at her side, waited lor me outside the do. as of 

 all the pa. rents I had in the village, and dogged my heels in all 

 pedestrian excursions. But the tentLr puppies required some, 

 time.s to be carried. Three of these puppies established them- 

 selves in other homes. The mother suddenly died iu the 

 midst of her dinner. There remained to me, therefore, only 

 one dog — my last dog, Master Squeak— in doors; while out 

 of doors there was a friend on all tours in the stable— my hist 

 horse. 



The dog Squeak was my last friend on all fours. Upon his 

 being shot, [married. lie grew lo be the handsom. st and 

 Bt and merriest dog in the world. The quickness of his 

 sympathy met every shade upon the face he waiched. In 

 doors, Ins mind was his master's; out of doors he was his 

 own master, and it was for him always to appoint, and for 

 nobody lo dictate whether he should be put, of dooisorin. 

 As a puppy, he was a devourer of literature, aud ate most of 

 the corners from my books aud journals. So he became wise. 

 As to his oih-r me us, he wa- not to dine with me, forsoo h '. 

 A tyrannical housekeeper, if he were heard to be near me at 

 dinner time, dragged him away by the neck V«ry well lie 

 had only to take dare that he was not heard. He announced 

 his arrival by a sly scratch at the door, audible byno'.ears 

 beyond mine, ami ate his meat as siillas a stuffed dug — which 

 he always ' A ns when he had finished. He was not to sleep of 

 nights at the foot of my bed, forsooth! A tyrannical house- 

 keeper resolved to lock him out. Very well." lie had only to 

 scramble up lo the kitchen roof, whehce.it was an easy leap 

 into my bedroom through a window pane. He was a 

 bold dog who aid not regard that window as any 

 obstacle to his advancement. Before I understood him 

 Well, 1 shut him up once or twice in a room, when 

 I did not wish him to go on 1 with me; but as he always came 

 alter me with a flying leap through a clatter of glass, ami 

 broke the window-frame Its. ' , ire had his way left 



open for him. He was a right fellow to make his way in the 

 world. The bedroom window I allowed to be mended seven 



limes. Money was spent on glaziers' and walking-stick on 

 admonition. Soon tired of healing my dog, I allowed him to 

 beat me. He was still remorselessly to be locked out ; I had 

 therefore the prudence lo leave him' the seventh smash in my 

 window as an entrance hole. The only difference made by 

 the housekeeper's discipline was that the dog hadaruu in the 

 mud every night to give him a new relish for his corner of the 

 counterpane. As for tying him up, nobody thought of that. 

 He was such an incarnation of determined freedom that 

 nobody short of a King of Naples could have thought of 

 pulling him in chains. 



Once-, indeed, he was in bondage; caught in a poacher's 

 wire during his independent rambles through adjoining game 

 pr-serves, where trespassers were rigorously lo be prosecuted 

 and all dogs were to lie shot. We lost our comrade for two 

 days, and thru he came home, dirty, starved aud haggard, 

 with the wire about his neck; he had broken it after "some 

 thirty hours of struggling. But there was a twinkle of 

 roguery in his eye. even then, and he was off to the preserves 

 again, certainly none the later for his lesson. 



We had a farinyard near us. from which my friend upon all 

 fours, when he stayed at home, would hunt me up a fowl or 

 the old cock himself sometimes, fetching iu the indignant 

 bird unhurt between his teeth, and depositing him in triumph 

 at my feet upon the study floor. What man could qnaiTel 

 I: bis generous and fearless nature? He never feared and 

 never hurt, any one in his life, except some other dog who 

 challenged him to tight. He simply disregarded pain. If a 

 dog, not smaller and weaker than himself, insulted him, he 

 ft night and would fight, Beat him who might, he meant, to 

 have his fight out, and lie always finished it to his own satis- 

 faction. For the weak he had heroic tenderness. A little 

 kitten used to nestle on his clean warm coat; when he lay 

 sleeping, and regarded him as a feather bed. If he awoke 

 and found the kit t en asleep on his back, he would lie still 

 Hire a kind-hearled gentleman. The sight of a bone itself 

 would not induce him to leap suddenly up and throw her off. 



Yet. he liked bones. He has disgraced me by following me 

 out of a patient's house with a large piece of bacon in his 

 mouth. He was bold enough, when tempted by the savor of 

 a knuckle of veal boiling in the pot, to put his fore-feet on 

 the side of a patient's kitchen fire, and jerk the meat out of 

 (he pot upon the kitchen floor. And 'he made friends with 

 those whom he thus persecuted. To some he boldly gave 

 his confidence, visiting at their houses on his own account, 

 not as a mean haunter of back doors, but as a friend of the 

 family. If he liked people, he visited them fairly, walked in- 

 to their drawing-rooms, and sat down with them for half an 

 hour or so, by their fireside. He was the cleanest of true 

 gentlemen, for he swam twice a day across a broad and rapid 

 river ; he was not the dog to let himself be conveyed with me 

 isnominiously in the ferry-boat over Hue water that ran 

 through the middle of my rouads. Of course there could be 

 only one eud to the life of such a dog. He was shot by a 

 gamekeeper. 



Hartford Dog Show.— The bench show at the Charter 

 Oak City last week proved even a greater success than was 

 anticipated. Owing to the fact that the close season had but 

 just expired, sporting dogs were comparatively few in number, 

 though by no means inferior in quality. Mr. Burrall of Spring- 

 field, had a fine collection of red Irish, and liver and white 

 setters, one of the latter with a litter. There were also sever- 

 al handsome pointers. Mr. J. Quin exhibited some fine cock- 

 ers and collies, while iu the St. Bernard class was seen Mr. 

 Arthur Nichol's Jack, who saved his master's life while in 

 Switzerland ; but the most attractive animal was a diminutive 

 black and tan owned by A. E. Lines of Bridgeport, which 

 though two and a half years of age, weighed but two pounds. 

 The following are the awards : 



Na'ive English Setters— First prize, dog, to Jack. S. .7. Pierce,. 

 Spiin^field.Mass., bite - CoMey,Etban Allen, Ponifret Centre, Conn. 



Irish Setters — 1st Bast dog. Tyler G S Merrit of Hartford ; 

 bitch. Stella, W E Hudson, N Manchester. 2d D.«, BInff, C S 

 Davidson, Hartford; bitch Gipsy. S J Pierce. Springfield. 



Native Sotters -1st Artful Dodger, (.'has Denison, Hartford. 

 2d Pat, John Johnson, Manchester. Best puppy, Red, O S Kel- 

 sey. Hartford : bitch Lula, Clarence Lester. 



Gordon Setters— 1st Nell, D P Atwood, Sonthington ; Dog Max, 

 W E Hudson. 2d Maggie, W E Hudson ; Pup, Duke II, E S 

 Brewer. 



Poiuters over 50 pounds— 1st Best Dog, John "Warburton, New 

 Britain ; 2d Rap . John M Burke. 



Pointers under 50 pounds— 1st Mort, H T Jones, Hartford, Bitch 

 Nell, J L Woodbridge ; Queen, ^y R Tefft ; Duke, S G Phelps. 



Pointer puppies— 1st Omugaehgook, J L Wooduridge ; 2d E S 

 Brewer. 



Cocker Spaniels— 1st Ned, R H Ashmoad ; 2d Charles I Mills, Jr. 



Pox Hounds — 1st Loring Loomis, Hartford. 



St. Bernards' — 1st Jack, Arthur Howard Nichols, Boston ; 2d 

 Lao. Charles Herold, Hartford. 



Newfoundland— 1st Major, Frank E Hastings, Hartford ; 2d 

 Major, A K Broeklesby 



(loach Dogs — 1st Pan, James Ferris; Spot, Dr H Bullock. 



Black and Tan— 1st Gyp, A E Lines, Bridgeport ; 2d Daisy, Mrs 

 Kirk. Bloom tngton, 111. 



Kkve Terriers -1st Tatters, A W Rood, Hartford ; 3d Posev, 

 Warren Burr. 



Mi-uslaueous — 1st St Bernard pup, Bruno, Frank IJ- Hastings, 

 narlford 



Bull Terriers— 1st Beauty, G D Phelps, New York ; 2d Crib, H 

 LFrary,New Brtaiu. 



The Tennessee Field TstAi«,==In response to the applica- 

 tions of numerous correspondents we give below a copy of the 

 rules to govern the Field Trials to take place next month at 

 Nashville, Tenn. As now' amended and corrected they admit 

 of little criticism : 



Rule 1. Managers of field trials must, advertise the names of 



the. judges at le.ist thirty days before the trials take place, 



and iu the event., from any cause, that any judge or judges 



are prevented from acting, then the executive committee 



■ 'i: a judge or judges to till all vacancies. 



little 2. Two dogs shall be run at a lime, to be drawn by lot 

 iu the usual manner, except that no two dugs which are own- 

 ed or trained by one person shall be run t>t once. When two 

 such d »js are drawn together, one shall be run only, and he 

 with another dog which shall be immediately drawn, and the 

 dug which was drawn and left over shall be drawn for again 

 if, tit the latier end of a trial, ii, be-found impossible to avoid 

 running two dogs together which are owned or trained by the 

 same person, it may be permitted. 



Rule 8. Iu this class if dogs do not drop to shot but remain 

 quiet in a manner not liable to^ do any harm, it shall not be 

 considered a demerit. 



Rule 4. If in the opinion of the judges the day is such that 

 a dog running from 12 to 2 p. M.'runs under disadvantages 

 owing to the weather, the judges may, if the owner demand 

 it, give such dogs another trial. 



Rule 5. Each dog shall have the opportunity of making five 

 points on game. Having made five points they shall be taken 

 up and their positive totals for merit, shall be reckoned accord- 

 ing to the scale of points in rule 6. The privilege is granted 

 the judges of ordering any dog up when the score of such a 

 dog is such that he cannot win. 



Rule 6. Positive points for merit : For each point, 5; back 

 ing, to 5; staunchness, to 7; retrieving, to 5- 

 quartering and ranging, to 7. Quartering and rang- 

 ing is understood to cmhrace ranging far or npar as tb- 

 necessity of the case may require." Style, to 5; pace. 1 

 to 12.- Negative points for demerit: Each false point, 3; 

 each chase, 3; breaking shot, Si flushing counts a lost oppor- 

 tunity to point; failing to back counts a lost opportunity to 

 buck. Dogs to have, one opportunity to back; the score to 

 count for or against the dog, as the case may be. Two chases 

 on birds to put a dog out of the stakes. 



Rule 7. In case of running off ties, each dog shall have the 

 opportunity of making three points on game. 'Ties can be di- 

 vided by the consent, of all the owners of dogs making the 

 ties. Should it be impossible to run off the ties the same day, 

 they shall lie run off the day following. 



Rule 8. No spectators are allowed nearer the handler of 

 dogs than seventy-live yards to the rear. No spectators or 

 others shall make any remarks about the dogs or judges in 

 hearing of the judges ; such persons so offending shall be ex- 

 pelled from the grounds by the judges, who shall order the. 

 special police to eject such persons of£ending< Should any 

 handler of dogs annoy the judges in any way, the judges 

 Shall order such handler of dogs to desist ; should lie still an- 

 noy the judges, the judges shall order such dogs as he is hand 

 ling up and out of the race. The privilege is granted the 

 handler of dogs to ask the judges for information or explana- 

 tion that has a direct bearing on any point: at, issue j pending 

 such question the handler of dogs shall order his dogs in, 

 and cease to hunt until the judges have rendered their de- 

 cision. 



Rule 9. Pointing hares, slink birds or turtles shall not be 

 considered a false point ; but, poin'ing any bird but those gen- 

 erally considered game birds shall I e deemed a, false point. Any 

 dog making a false point and discovering it to be such him- 

 self, without encouragement to go on, shall not he penalized 

 for making a, false point. . 



Rule 10. Under the head of retrieving, the judges will only 

 allow those dogs the maximum number of points who do their 

 work without the handlers going with them to show them the 

 bird, and without mouthing or mutilation. 



PUPPY STAKES' 



Rule 1. Dogs over eighteen months old shall not he eligible 

 for the puppy stakes. Rules otherwise same as above. 



BRACE STAKES. 



The rules shall be the same as those for all aged pointers 

 and setters, except that two dogs owned or trained by the 

 same person may be run together ; and that in rase one dog 

 of the brace retrieves, and the other does not, only one half of 

 the number of points for retrieving shall be allowed. 



Next week we hope to announce the judges. Exceptions 

 have been taken to their appointment so long before the trial, 

 but we cannot think it will in the least influence the decisions 

 as with the above rule the best dog only can win. The trials 

 open November 2d. 



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Salmon Fatal to Dogs— Tue Portland Bee says salmon, 

 when eaten by dogs, invariably proves fatal, and many valua- 

 ble dogs are lost in this way. the owner being ignorant of the 

 cause of death. Hunters avoid accidents of this" kind by feed- 

 ing salmon to the nursing puppies, and it does them no hann 

 to eat the Ash afterward. This is an important item when 

 valuable dogs are kept near streams frequented by salmon. 



This is by no means the first time the above statement has 

 appeared in print, and it seems needless to say that the yarn 

 has no foundation on fact. The story evidently originated 

 from the death of dogs after eating canned salmon, their de • 

 cease not being due to salmon, but, to the canning, by which a 

 large quantity of lead is incorporated with the fish. Whole 

 families have been thus poisoned, but the difficulty is easily 

 obviated by placing the can in hot water and heating through 

 thoroughly, raisiug the temperature to the boiling point. 



The dogs of Siberia and Alaska live almost entirely upon 

 salmon, and a hardier race of mongrels rarely exist ; fish 

 also constitute almost the entire food of the Labrador dogs. Thi 

 bones that may lodge in the Prima via only are to be feared. 

 With nursing puppies the chances would then be far greater 

 for the death of the dogs, as their alimentary apparatus at this 

 time is entirely unfit for the digestion of fish.— Ed. 



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An Intelligent Dog .—We bear much of the intelligence 

 of dogs, and the many wonderful and well vouched instances 

 that are recorded can scarcely cause surprise at any new proo 

 of sagacity. The following from Belgium has be>m comment! 

 ed upon severely, but there seems no reason for doubting that 

 dogs are capable of all the reasoning faculties here implied: 



A certain Monsieur N , going on foot from Leuze to 



Lessmes, in lMgium, took with him his dog, which he was 

 anxious to get. rid of ; but as he was unwilling either to drown 

 him or to shoot him, he resolveTT to lose him on the way. 

 The dog, who, instead of kind words and caresses, received 

 nothing but threats, seemed to understand his master's pro- 

 ject; he kept, quite close to his heels, and would not leave 



him for a moment N , obliged to sleep out for that 



night in order to finish his business, went to the inn, and said 

 to his four-footed companion, instead of goodnight. : "To 

 moiow, you rascal, 1 shall take the train, and you wlil have 

 to walk about here." lie then went up to his room and went 

 to bed. 



The next morning, great was N 's surprise to perceive 



when he got up that one of his socks and his waistcoat were 

 missimr. The landlord when questioned maintained that no 

 one could have iak'-n these articles as no other stranger had 

 been lodged in the inn. They were all searching and wonder- 

 ing, when they found in a corner of the house the dog, who 

 had been so threatened the evening before, lying upon the 

 Stocking and waistcoat, of his master. The poor animal 

 seemed to have wished in this way to prevent his master from 



starting without him. N , admiring the sagacity of his 



dog, no longer tried to get rid of him 



