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Show SENTIMENTAL FLAPDOODLE. An American Family, Including a Doj, Make a Sensation In Paris. An American family in Paris, according accord-ing to Le Temps, has excited some notice no-tice in that sensation loving capital by its conduct over the death of a dog. The animal was a great pet in the family, and on his falling ill all the experts in dog maladies were at once summoned. As he persistently grew worse, he waa taken to an establishment for the care of dogs, a sort of private hospital, and orders given that every attention and effort should be made to save him. Members of the family called two and three times a day to inquire for Kwik, as the dog was called; but, despite all care, Kwik died, and there was nothing left for the sorrowing family to do but bury him. An undertaker was summon ed and poor Kwik made ready for the grave. An oak casket, fitted into a second sec-ond one of leai was prepared and a grave made in tha private plot of a friend of Kwik's master at Vaucresson. All official red tape was duly complied with, and on the day of the interment the funeral cortege comprised three carriages. car-riages. The ceremony ended, the undertaker's bill of $90 was duly presented. This Kwik's mourners found bo very moderate moder-ate that the sum of $40 was added to be divided among the graver'iggers.-r New York Times. |