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PARIS, JULY, 1852.

 .Noracegian Dsuarf Horses. This day se'nnight, Count Maurice of Saxony re- ceived from Norway, fourteen horses, which are five years old, and but twenty six inch es. (2 feet 2 inches) high. On Tuesday he made two of them chamber up to the Co., medians at the French Play house, to shew them some sport, these beasts citnsbing like cats The Count caYTies hen, in his arms, and strokes them like dogs. They are black, aud have beautiful heads and long tails. They are not shod, neither does the Count design that they shall be, they hav- ing travelled three hundred miles without battering their hoofs, or bruising their feet, and their hoots being hard enough for the hardest stones Tn our streets. As soon as they have perfectly recovered from their fa- tigue, and are in complete order, the Count designs eight of them as present to the Dauphin, to make for little phaton, to whirl him about the park of Versailles, as they arc very fleet.

 Tue speaking Dog.--Near Litz, iii Mis- ilia, have seen, says Lebnitz, country mans dog, of the common figure and mid ding size, in which child discovered some disposition to speak He had heard it ut- fer some sounds, which he thought resem- t!ed German words, and on this ground took it into his head to learn him to speak. The tutor who had nothing better 10 do, devoted to ths object all his tune, and at the end of a few years, the dog could pro- nounce about 30 words; of this number were the French words the, cafe, chocolat, and assembled !: !. $ .o 5o ie,.,arked that the dog was more than three years old when his scholarship began. He talked on y by echo; after his master had pronounce cd word, he seemed to repeat it only thro' necessity, and in spite of himself. though 50 force was used.