Middletown transcript., 1884-03-07

for the nine this afternoon !''-BWdto
Commercial Advertiser.
INSOMNIA IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
If there be one thing above another
that 1 revel in, it is science. 1 have de-
voted much of my life to scientific re-
search, and though it hasn't made
much stir in the scientific world SO far,
am positive that when am gone the
scientists of our day will miss me, and
the red-nosed theorist will come and
shed the scalding tear over my humble
tomb.
My attention was first attracted to
insomnia as the foe Of the domestic
animal, by the strange appearance of a
favorite dog named Lucretia Borgia.
| did not name this animal Lucretia
Borgia. He was named when l pur-
chased him. In his eccentric and abb
normal thirst for blood he favored
Lucretia, but in sex he did not. 1 got
him partly because he loved children.
The owner said Lucretia Borgia was an
ardent lover Of children, and | found
that he was. He seemed to love them
best in the spring of the year when
they were tender. He would have
eaten up favorite child Of mine if the
youngster hadn't left rubber ball in
his pocket which clogged the glottis of
Lucretia till 1 could get there and dis
engage what was left of the child.
Lucretia soon after this began to be
restless. He would come to my case
ment and lift up his voice and howl
into the bosom of the silent night. AT
first I thought that he had found
some one in distress or wanted to get
me out of doors and save my life. !
went out several nights in weird cos
tune that / had made up of garments
belonging to different members of my
family. dressed carefully in the dark
and stole out to kill the assassin refer.
red to by Lucretia, but he was moi
there. Then the faithful animal would
run up to me with almost human
pleading eyes, bark and run away
toward a distant alley. | Immediately
decided that some one was suffering
there. 1 had read in books about dog:
that led their masters away to the suf
fering and saved peoples lives, SO wher
Lucretia came to me with his great
honest eyes and took little mementoe'
out Of the calf Of my leg and then gal
loped off seven or eight blocks, fol
lowed him in the chill air of night ant
my Mosaic clothes. / wandered away
to where the dog stopped behind liv
cry stable, and there, lying in shud
dering heap on the frosty ground, lay
the still, white features of soup bont
that had outlived its usefulness.
On the way back 1 met physician
who had been up town to swear in al
American citizen who would vote
twenty-one years later if he lived. Tht
physician stopped me and was going t.
take me to the Home Of the Friendles'
when he discovered who I was.
You wrap tall man, with a VIM H
Seward nose, in a flannel robe, cut
plain, and then put plug hat and
sealskin sacque and arctic overshoes OF
him, and put him out on the street
under the gaslight, with his trim, pur
pie ankles just revealing themselves a
he madly gallops after hydrophobii
infested dog, and it is not after all
surprising that peoples curiosity shoul
be little excited.
After 1 had introduced myself t
the physician, and asked him for
cigar, explaining that l could not fin
any in the clothes that 1 had on,
asked him about Lueretia Borgia.
told the doctor how Lucretia SCENE
restless nights and nervous and irrita
BE days, and how he seemed to be a
most mental wreck, and asked hir
what the trouble was.
He said it was undoubtedly inson
MIA y He said that it was bad cas-
Of it. too. / told him thought so m
self. I said I didn't mind the inson
mia that Lucretia had so much as I di
my own. was getting more insomnt
On my hands than could use.
He gave me something to administ'
to Lucfetia. He said must put it in
link Of sausage and leave the sausat
where it would appear that didn
want the dog to get it, and then Il
cretia would eat it greedily.
I did so. 1t worked well SO far
the administration of the remedy wi
concerned, but it was fatal to my littl
hioh-strUng, J6ffffttil J65ffffttilf deg deg. sEsaa1i
have contained something of delet
rious character, for the next morning
coarse man took Lucretia by the ia
and laid him where the violets bloN
Malignant insomnia is fast becomiI
the great foe to the modern America
dog.-BiU Nye IN Detroit Free Pres
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