The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-14
BEASTLY DRUNK.
WHICH SNOW THAT
beasts LOVE THE ROSY.
A Game Cock ON the HOOze-A DemOral-
lied Famlly-HOw vertebrates
Can Become Insbriates.
New York World.l


Three or four years ago an English scienti-
fic man made series of experiments with
the view OF settling the long mooted question
as to whether or not the beasts that perish
will take kindly to alcoholic drinks and sink
at last into the drunkard's grave In melan-
choly and dishonor. He selected for his sub
jects the quiet household of cock which had
never done him any harm and in which
there was no hereditary tendency to-
wards the bottle. TO the master of the
household the tempter came at first with
ale aud light wines, aud gradually led him on
step by step, till at last nothing would sat.
isfy his aroused appetite but the best old
Hennessey, varied with guzzlings OF Scotch
whisky The hens too, took kindly to their
complications, though not so eagerly as the
cock did, and ere long that once happy home
was like the residence of the late Mr.. james
Latimer whose career has been SO wildly
drawn by the great master, Mr.. L. s. Arthur
The comb and wattles Of the father swelled
and grew purple like tipplers nose; his eyes
became blear and bloodshot; his whole being
was changed; he quarreled with his wives and
beat them over the head with his spurs, and in
their turn the wives grew reckless, cross and
dumpish, and neglected their broods: The
old gentleman would go to roost at all odd
from his perch. He would crow In the most
absurd and unreasonable way; get his legs
tangled together. flap one wing when he
meant to flap both, refuse his meals, and at
last he fell u victim to the demon OF rum by
dying In the detjrium hemens, in which he
seemed to SEQ great fox, with eyes of fire
and teeth of carving knives, ravening at his
nest side and ready to pounce upon and devour
him. Twas sad ending. but it satisfied the
demon of science that men are not alone in
their love for the intoxicating bowl
This taste Is not confined to the vertebrates.
Sir John Lubbock has shown that insects
have it--indeed. are not flies perpetual in
mates OF bar-rooms ? Sir John brought ruin
and death to ants in q drunken brawl He
placed alcohol within reach Of some indus
trious workers. and soon they found that
they needed it to stimulate them for the &C
complishment of their heavy tasks Life
took on a new color as they quaffed; trouble
fled away, and presently they did not care for
anything. When they were nearly helpless
and stupid, Sir John meanly placed
them In the nest where they be-
longed, and soon there was such time as the
parrot had with the m nkey. Signs of the
greatest excitement In the hill were seen, and
anon the battle ragged upon the plain. The
drunkards fought as well as they could, but
they were no match for the total abstaners
they could not stand straight or bite to any
purpose; the demon had mounted to their
ganglia and stolen away their ability. Their
heads and legs were bitten off, and a large
number of them were dragged to puddle
near by and ignomniously drowned as an ex-
ample to the young, and q warning OF what
they would have to expect it they should ever
yield to the temptation of wine, whisky and
crambambul