East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-10-21
WHY THE CAT DON'T SWEAT.
"Pa, does the cat ever sweat?"
"No, my SON"
"Why IN Sn

Il, uOcS tilt cat cNcT sWculE
"No, my SON"
"Why, par"
True enough, thought T, -.-h,. Ti.o
carniverous animals have no perspila-
tory pores, as is said; but this only
helps over the first why, AMI we are
stopped again by the next one. If it
had been necessary for them to sweat,
God would have given them an appa-
ratus, as He has given 10 horses and
cows in their skins.
81 think" said l, sit is because they
eat so much lean meat"
This reply seemed to satisfy the lit
tie fellow, and led me TO some reilec-
tons.
Strange as il my seem all animals
that pcrspire, get into sweat TO keep
cool. When an ounce of water is con-
verted into vapor, whether it has been
sprinkled on the floor on n summers
day, or put on the fire in green fore
stick, or spread on the surface of the
earth III a dew, or exists in the form of
perspira;ion on our bodies, or exhales
invislbly from our skin, or comes out of
our lungs in breath, that ounce of water
appropriates TO itself, and destroys for
all other purposes certain amount OF
heat If animals sweat to get rid OF
excess of warmth-is there, then, any
connection between this process andthe
character of their food?
If we designate the surplus carbon
aeeous matters III the food, heat, ant
the mtrogenized matters, motion, we
shall have i'll
Beet, - l ID. motion to 3 lbs heat.
Oats, lb. lG
Hay, - / lb. II
Now, observation shows that ami
mails cannot use of the one of these ele-
ments without disposing, i'll some way,
of correspondingamountof the other.
Stage horses, hard driven, though the
weather be cold, grow poor--in COM
mon terms they sweat oit their fat
1t is equally true, too, that animals in
low flesh are weak.
As the food of herbivorous animals
contains five or six times the amount
of heat producing materials (starch,
gum and sugar) that exists III animal
flesh, SO this class are more sluggish
in their habits than carnlvorous AM
mails Lions and tigers, although they
have been consigned To warm latitude,
and covered with turs by kind Prov
idence, must roam to keep warm. 1t
is for these natural reasons that they
cannot brook the condition OF captivity.
Poetry has nothing to do with their
restless habitswhen in cages-they are
chilly from tile inaction Of the dolncs-
tic conditions.
Dogs and cats are very sensitive to
cold. How Carlo shivcrs when he
comes out of his house on Il cold morn
ing, and whines ut the door; aud puss,
notwithstanding her iur dress, never
lies down to take nap in q cold place
Neither of them can keep still i'll the
cold. If they were to be stabbed like
cattle, and could be kept as still, 1T
would kill them in few days.
Although the horse, when ted On hay,
has but one pound OF motion to dis
pose of for every eighteen pounds of
heat, he must work that oil in order
to enjoy warmth. After drinking on
a winter morning, when he finds him.
self shivering, he prances and kicks for
the fun OF the thing, and by disposing
of little motion, Is enabled TO use ESQ
to speak, eighteen times its weight of
heat. How he snorts the blast out of
his furnaces
When we notice the slight difference
that is ehown in this table between the
analysis of hay and oats, and when we
reflect on the difference in the perfor-
nance of hay fed horse and one fed
on grain, and when we compare these
two items with the composition of flesh
we are led to conclude that horsescould
never be brought to feed ON b,ef--and
that we must put the flesh-eating horses
of mythology in the same stall from
centa,;rs.
But, on the other hand, il horse is
fed high, and is confined in cold wealth
er, aud the carbon of his food is used
to keep him warm, the nitrogen will
accumulate some where. Ne will get
tho gout from high living. Let him
have exc else every day, if il is only by
running in the yard.
The horse sweats because there is so
much starch, gum, and sugar in his
food; while the cat does not, because
there is so little in hers. The starch,
gum, and sugar in the grass go to make
fat with grass eating animals the cat
gcts but little fat in her food, and SO
God gavc her fars, aud lets her wear
thcm all summer 70 keep her warp,.