The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-11-15
POUR-POOYED DRINK LOVERS.
ANIMALS THAT ARE FOND or THE
TASTE or LIQUOR.

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aTippls-An Elephant On : sprss-TIis
Littis Cireus csst $500.
Animals are fond Of the cup that cheers
and also inebriates. This has been
proved in thousands Of instances, and
scarcely town in the whole country i
without its four footed inebriate who i
the butt Of the idle inhabitants.
Stories Of tippling cats. Of beer-drink-
Ing dogs. and Of horses who swallow
whiskey by the pailful are Of constant
recurrence Even 30 respectable pub.
location as Blackwood's Magazine tells
recently Of cat who would amuse q
company by taking her share az old port,
becoming first excited and then very
stupid, unsteady and sleepy. The poor
animal died of liver disease. as do many
human topers.
Veterinary surgeons and experienced
keepers in charge Of both wild and tame
animals declare that in certain cases, es-
pecially where the trouble Is of pull.
monary nature, an alcoholic stimulant
Is an absolute necessity.
A large percentage Of the animals in
the ZOOS and menageries are natives of
tropical countries, and are naturally ex-
tremely susceptible to climatic changes,
said an animal trader yesterday, !" and
the greatest care must be taken 10 guard
them against draughts and exposure"
The animals are always catching
cold, it seems to me. said Keeper
Thomas McGuinness. Of the Central
Park Zoo. " and the best medicine we
have ever found lisa little whiskey. given
as soon as possible after the very first
sneeze
The liquor Is usually mixed with the
feed or drink. the keeper says, and the
four.footed patient gets his dose without
knowing it.
They soon get to like the taste OF the
liquor, though. and turn up their noses
At their meals If the grateful odoE Of the
whiskey is missing, said Mr.. McGuin-
ness.
Some very funny scenes occur, some
times. he says, when one of his charges
gets little too much !" under the in
duence, as was the case with Caliph.
the $500 pound hippopotamus, short
time ago,
Big as he is. Caliph il as delicate as
q child, the keeper said, land catches
cold If anybody happens to whistle in
his neighborhood. We have to guard
him and his portly wife, Miss Murphy.
with the greatest care :
Monkeys take naturally to liquor. and
viii drink it out Of glass or bottle
with all the nonchalance of an old topper
nThey are extremely delicate animals.
and mostSof them, sooner or later. die Of
consumption.
Herman Reich, the largest importer Of
wild animals in this country, tells an in
teresting story of how Fanchon, HE trick
baby elephant, broke up housekeeping
for his trainer, while under the influence
one day.
We had been teaching the elephant
a lot of new tricks up at my stable in
East Fifty seventh street. in the second
door Of which my colored trainer, his
wife and three little pickaninnies had
their home, said Mr.. Reich & The
trainer kept q private bottle Of whiskey
IN little closet at the back Of the stable
near Fanchon' g stall, and one morning
when we were both away the cute ami
NAL drank all tho whiskey. When we
got back to the stable we found Fanchon
In the trainer parlor in the second door,
and his frightened family intrenched
behind all the spare furniture IN the
kitchen ut the back.
+" The dining room and pantry were
perfect wreck. and the door Of the hall
way WAs strewn with broken crockery
and dented tin-ware. The beast weighed
over two tons. and how abe ever man
aged to haul herself mp, that long fight
Of narrow stairs ] have mover yet been
able to imagine.
When We came TO take her down 10
the ground on wide gangway that ran
from the psrlor window there were
thousands Of people in the street. When
she was. about half way down she sud
denly changed her mind and started to
go back. knocking me of the gangway
and nearly breaking my neck in the fall,
and laying me mp for couple Of weeks
with a. dislocated shoulder
I've got her down finally, however,
and when came to figure up what that
little spree had cost me, found that I
was out an even $500
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