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Show A Way to Subdno Dogs. A gentleman who has had a good deal of experience in the management of dogs says that the most vicious brute can be speedily conquered by any powerful odor, especially a pungent odor like ammonia. He tells how ho once won a wager on Inndling a dog that few persons could approach. It was in a little town in Canada. The conversation being on the subject of dogs, the proprietor of the inn where he was stopping laid a wager thaf his visitor could not put his hands upon a dog chained up in the back yard. "All right," said the visitor, "but as a matter of precaution for the protection of ray hands I will- go upstairs and put on a pair of gloves. "I put on a pair of old buckskin gloves," Bays the gentleman, in telling the story, "and saturated the right hand with ammonia. am-monia. We then went out to the dog, and at my approach he rushed from his kennel with open month. As soon as he got within reach I thrust out my right hand. Instead of biting it he turned tail and ran back into his kennel. Then I went to tho kennel, fmd putting my hand inside made him come out again. The secret of the matter is that a dog tau't bite without drawing in his breath, and as he does so he inhales the ammonia, ammo-nia, which partially suffocates him and siMues for the time being his biting P'ipensity. Soma dogs may be subdued with cologne." New York Times. |