About Dogs

Ft luis ofKm been remarked (lint dogg In tlie country, thougli they aboiuul in nearlj' every farm-yard, do not get mul and kill people by their bite, as is sometimos the case in cities. The only reason we can imagine for sucli ft ditleience is thal country dogs are petted, while city dogs, vhen illowcd to go loose, are otten pelted, The natural depraylty of man shows itsi-lt 'm many boys in tonnen tí ng and torturing dogs and cats. If kindness to animáis were Inculcated oftner in churches and schools the average of tlie people WOUld bc greatly improved, as it is already the case in many places wheJN Hands of Mercy have been formed. But it mny bc said,' if cruelty to dogs cause byilmpliobia, uliy sliould not cruelty to cáts tío tlie sume? and the answer is Unit t does. The bite of a mad cat, is piobably as dangerous as that of a mad dog, and thesame may be said of the hites of othcr animáis when iu a -late of furioiis excitement. It was the bite of i Ohalned fox, excited by punishment, that killed one of Canada's lirst governors, tne Duke of Richmond. If aoge cannol be protected frotn persecutioo lu eities, they shuuld either be banIshed or courined, and a fewer of them the better. Pasteur's success in curing hydrophobla by inocculation, if fully establUbed, will'be au important point gained by patiënt inveetigation; but whether or no, so long as bitten persons believed themselves to be cured, there will be much fewer deaths. It is the constant appreliension of tlreadful death whieh aggravates, if it does not in many instances cause, tlie disease called hydrophobia, or something that cannot be