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Dogs of war had long been used before, and 
vere so long after the time of the first bald 
'aesar. . . 
Watch dogs were not only kept within the 
-itadel of Rome, but in all the fortresses of the 
Greeks. The citadel of Corinth was guarded 
externally by an advanced post of fifty dogs 
ilaced “en vidette” on the sea shore. One night 
he garrison slept, overcome with wine; the 
enemy disembarked, but were received by the 
fifty dogs, who fought with indomitable courage 
ill forty-nine fell. The survivor, named Soter— 
listory has preserved his name—retreated from 
the field of battle to the citadel, and gave 
he alarm; the soldiers were roused, and the 
uiemy was repelled. The Senate ordained that 
Soter should wear a silver collar, with this in¬ 
scription, “Soter, defender and preserver of 
Corinth.”—Journal of Agriculture. 
OWL IN CITY HALL PARK. 
They caught an owl in City Hall Park recently. 
Billy Lawrence, foreman of the grounds, says 
that he is going to set a spring trap over near 
the clump of bushes on the east corner and catch 
a wildcat next. 
Jack Manning, the one armed newsboy who 
sells papers at one of the eastern approaches to 
the park, claims the honor of having discovered 
and captured the bird. Jack wasn’t sure that it 
was an owl until Billy Lawrence took a look at 
it and classified it. 
“It was me for beating it into the brush when 
I hears a lot of sparrers cheepin’ around in 
there,” said Jack when asked to relate his ex¬ 
perience in catching a real owl. “And say, I 
pipes it for a cat soon as I gets me lamps on 
de boid; it kinder looks like a cat anyway, and 
I ain’t ever seen no owls. 
“I beats it in under all the brush and grabs 
de boid by his feet. An’ he hauls off and raps 
me knucks wid his beak something savage. 
‘Hell,’ says I to myself, ‘dis ain’t no cat; dis is 
de real pazazas in fightin’ chicks—a reg’lar stem 
winder wot sits on a swingin’ perch and they 
feeds raw meat.’ ‘It’s me for de boid fancier,’ 
says I to myself as I snakes out from under all 
' the brush. 
“Then Billy Lawrence here he tells me de 
boid’s an owl, so I gives him over to Billy and 
he’s goin’ to ship him up to de boid house in 
Central Park. I ain’t got no place for owls.”— 
New York Sun. 
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