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Itire study Of mankind. Your noisy, brawi. 1 ing, vociferous dog, who howls all the long might, like wounded wolf, at the moon, is an emblem of the noisy politician. Both oi them howl and cry for the sake of hearing

 their own sweet voices, and the one is about as much of a patriot as the other, Your

 anapping and snarling cur reminds us ever

 of aa office holder, fighting lastily for the

 bone he is picking. Your stout, hearty, brave dog. who walks the street without turn ] ing his head either to the right hand or the 1 left, is like a Justice ofthe Peace, Mayor, or

 the Governor ofthe Territory. Dogs are like Legislators they make great deal of noise, and the community is benefited but little by 1t, Thank heaven, there is one means of in- turing a community which they cannot make use of,-They cannot pass laws for it. They are like partisans- If ore of the clan raises

 his voice against q luckless wight, the whole join the chorus. If one of them worries an unlucky pig, or COW, the whole join ill the attack,

 On the other side, thore is much to be said i'll their favor. They are an i'll treated race of quadrupeds. They are faithful, generous, bold--and yet if 9 man becomes scoundrel,

 t is immediately said that 'she acts the dog.p Now the truth Is that this should be compli- ment. If men had half the faithfplness and honesty of dogs, this would be glorious world. ''He is a perfect dog!" And pray what would be perfect dogl It would be the perfection of honesty, bravery and grati- tude.

 This however must be taken with an ex- ception. There are some dogs that we hate as heartily as we do an English traveller through our own country--a literary old wo- manor man who loves the people too well. For example, there is your fat, pursy, wheez- ing, ladies' lap-dog, If we had a wife who owned enc of these detestable animals, we would hang the dog and give her separate maintenance. Then there is your long leg ged, sneaklng, Indian cur. lie always re- minds us ofa hypocrite in a black coat--or an editor changing sides for what bones he can get to pick. He should be gagged with a bone, and left to starve. There is your little snapping- turtle puppy, that runs out and bites the heels of your horse. He is like the edi- tors of the Globe, barking at the Senate. F. should be taken by the neck and pipch6d to death.

 After all, however, we must allow, that in- asmuch as dogs neither male long speeches with no head or tail to them, nor pass inter- minable and nonsansical laws, nor lend mo- ney at five per cent. month, nor sell their votes for whiskey, nor sit Gil the fence with their fore paws in the ar, looking first to one candidate and theae eo the other-they are ve- " decent ap4 respectable animals.