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Show AS, TO DOGS. u . A debate waa sprung in congress the other day. on dop. All kinds of dt.sra wer discussed, those being dog days, until Senator Hughes of New Jersey Jer-sey arose and said : "I do not wish it to go before the country that we are legislating here 'sirftply ; on Pomeranian dogs-". . ': Does Mr. Hughe know how ancient of lineage i the Pomeranian dog? Ve have learned article before us saying that he-waa a distinct dog eight hundred yeare before Christ hie pictures are in hieroglyph'0' in Egypt wjiere be flourished, in those early days. . He aeenia to b about the only dog ;f ancient pedigree that we bave traces of. MIe was not much of a dog then, hut he has managed to get along now for 2700 years; he has held his own and has once more come in fashion. He is all right for -urinaitv hut. ha ia not as valuable id a oompara- tivejy new country like ours -as the old fashioned oeon dog, and we wondet how many members of the bouse of representative know what the direct points of a genuine coon dog arat We fear there il notoe; The world ia changing. W expect to see the dog paWf after t little, and the only evideh'ees' of hira will be a pair of iron dogs in front of every gentleman's door. |