The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-28
insomnia IN Donl.s..e Animals.

Insomnia III Domestic Ahihaats'
If there be one thing above another
that | reYel in it is science: | have de-
voted much of my life 70 scientific re-
search, and though il hasn 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.
NV attention was first attracted to in
somnia as the foe of the domestic ami
NAL, by the strange appearance OF Ia
vorite dog named Lucretia Borgia. !
did not name this animal Lucretia Bor-
Ola. He was named when purchased
him. In his eccentric and abnormal
thirst for blood he favored Lucretia,
but in sex he did not. ! got him part
lv because he loved children. The
owner said Lucretia Borgia was an ar
dent 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 young
ster hadn't left a rubber ball in his
pocket which clogged the CLOTHS Of Lu-
cretia till / could get there and olsen
gage what was left of the child.
Lucretia soon after this began to be
restless. He would come to NV case
ment and lift up his voice and nowl in
to the bosom of the silent night. At
first | thought 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 costume that
l had made up of garments belonging
TO different members of my family. l
dressed carefully in the dark and stole
out to kill the assassin referred TO by
Lucretia, but he was not there. Then
the faithful animal would run up 10 me
and with almost human, pleading eyes,
bark and run away toward distant
allev. / Immediately decided that
some one was suffering there. had
read in books about the dogs thst led
their masters away to the suffering and
saved peoples lives, so when Lucretia
came to me with his great, homes eyes
and took little mementoes out of the
calf of my leg and then galloped off
seven or eight blocks, followed him
in the chill air of night and my Mosaic
clothes. | wandered away to where
the dog stopped behind livery stable,
and there, lying in shuddering heap
on the frosty ground, lay the still,
white features OF soup bone that had
outliYed its usefulness.
On the way back / met a physician
who had been up town to swear In an
American citizen who would vote TWEEN
ty-one years later if he lived. The
physician stopped me and was going to
take me to the Home of the Friendless
when he discovered who / was.
You wrap tall man. with a William
III. Seward nose, IN flannel robe, cut
plain, and then put plug hat and a
sealskin sacque and Arctic overshoes
on him and put him OUT in the street,
under the easlight, with his trim, pur-
pie ankles just revealing themselves as
he madly gallops after hydrophobia
infested dog. and it is not after all, sur
prising that peoples curiosity should
be little bit excited.
After / had introduced myself to the
physician and asked him for a cigar,
explaining that | could not find any in
the clothes | had on, asked him about
Lucretia Borgia. / told the doctor
how I.ucretia seemed restless nights
and nervous and irritable days, and
how he seemed TO be almost a mental
wreck, and asked him what the troub-
lie was
He said il was undoubte lily ''insom-
MIA. :" He said that it was a bad case
of it, too. | told h!m thought so my
self. said / didn't m nd the insomnia
that Lncretia had 50 much rs | did my
own. WAS getting more insomnia on
my bands than J could use.
He gave me som Hhing 0 administer
to Luere in. lie said must pat in a
link OF sausage and leave the sausage
where il would appear that | didn't
want III dog to get it, and then Lucre-
Tia won 4 est it ereedi Y.
did 50. Il worke well SO far as
the administration OF tne remedy was
concerned, but it was fatal to my little,
high-sirupg, yearnful dog. 1t must
have contained something of delete
rious character. for the next morning a
coarse man took Lueretia Borgia by tie
tail and laid him where the violets
blow. Malignant insomnia is fast be-
coming the great foe 10 the modern
American dog. b u Me-.