The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-17
LAWSUITS AGAINST ANIMALS.
Some Curious Casos Which Have Been Tried
i'm the Courts.
Youths Companion.

! in the Courts.
Youths Companion.
The law is held in great esteem nova
DAYS than it ever was before, no doubt
and yet it is improbable that any one
will ever again, III civilized country,
imagine that it is something SO grand
and awful that insects and animals will
obey its dtcress. And yet this seemed
once to be quite a general! imp pression.
There are many instances in history of
formal prosecutions against annals. The
most common of these cases are the law.
suits directed against the grasshoppers.
One of the most celebrated of these
was case tried in Savoy in 1916, when
suit was brought, in the name OF the peo-
pie, against the grasshoppers which were
ravaging the country. A lawyer was
found to undertake the defense of the in
sec,s, and he exhausted his ingenuity in
pleading their cause.
No doubt he made out very plausible
case for their eight to exist, for it was
finally proposed, on the part OF the gov
ernment, officially to give and formally
make over to tho grasshoppers large
tract of country on condition that they
should leave the rest of the country.
The lawyer took the proposition under
consideration, and finally came into court
and declared that "his clients could not ac-
| cept the proposal, because the land offer
ed them was an abandoned and sterile
| tract, producing little or nothing suited
| to their uses and sustenapces."
The court, however, decided the case
| against the grasshoppers, and ordered
them TO remove forthwith to The district
SET apart for them. They refused, how
ever, to remove, but remained in the
country until they had eaten up every
green thing In it.
Ii the courts were powerless to enforce
their DEGREES against the grasshoppers,
they made it up in the severity with
which they punished creatures which
could be received and appl ehended. In
Meulan, France, in the last century, a pig
which had attacked and killed q child was
prosecuted for murder.
Every step taken in this singular case
was precisely IA if the accused had been
human being, except that the pigs law.
yer spoke for it in every case instead of
the pig replying for itself.
The lawyer was permitted to urge every
possible argument in his clients favor.
But the pig was, nevertheless, convicted
and sentenced TO be strangled in the
marke1-place. Pending the execution
of this sentence it was sent to prison and
confined there.
A few years before the French revolu-
tion a cos was tried and convicted in the
same way at Poitou. All the records in
these Cases are still preserved. They
prove either more than childish want
of common sense or else an absurd de-
votion to form.
Delicate Mechanism Disordered and Righted.
The most delicate and intricate piece OF mech.
aniSm In the human structure is the nerves. As
the telegraphic wires transmit the electric force,
so do these sensation, the focal point being the
brain, where sensation centres. Mental anxiety
weakens this mechanism sudden shocks paralyze
It, but dyspepsia is lis most obdurnte foe This
foe is utterly defeated by the irresistible tonic,
HoStftter's stomach Bitters, and the cessation OF
disorder In the stomach Is refta:e! In brain and
nerves by restored tranquility, and tranquil of
the nerves implies, in tins Instance renewed
vlgOr. distinguished medical authority SAYS
The victim OF nervous disquietude who finds
choral AT night and bromdes by day neces siu .es.
should know that n cure must be sought among
agencies which strengthen the nerves." and as
buredly Hostetter's stomach Bitters has proved
TO be the best of these. Malarial complaints
constipation, biiluSurSs, inactivity OF the kid
neys and rheumatism often involve nervous
troubles by sympathy, and al are eradicated by
the Bltters.