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Show Treat That Rover Missed. Talcs of tho olego of Paris duifjg tho Franco-Prussian war havo been many. Ono of these yarns was as follows: fol-lows: A much-loved collie dog had been preserved by Its ownors from tho death that befell all pctB during that time of starvation. Thero came at Inst a day, however, when It, too, had to go, and the sorrowing but famished fam-ished family mot their pet for tho last time In the soup tureen, They nto In sll'cnco until nothing remained but a heapof bones. Then the master of the house, an absent-minded person, looked round In search of something, and said with a sigh: "How poor old .Rover would have enjoyed those bones 1" |