Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-02
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 It is net general EaoHn ths5 thcde- [ partnen6 of agzieaI tara Easa aenae ia connection with t. het such is the case. IT. mena8aaie E s9ta very large one, n0r does it cou6lin any rare or strange animals Alast of them gre of the domestic variety.
 1t IS q pat ef the division oI animal industry, and tbe animals are used to develop interesting cases of disease and to illustrate the effects Of an epidemic of particular kind which the division may wish to experiment on with view of stamping it out and to test various kinds of foods of which trial is thought to be efhcaeious.
 Comprised in this collection of ani- mals are rats and mice, guinea pigs. rabbits, different sorts of fowls, soma cattle and sheep and 8 few others. The larger of the animals are kept at the breeding place of the department, on the Benning road, while others are dom iciled in the basement of the division of animal industry laboratory, near the bureau of engraving and printing.
 Down in the basement. under the lab oratory, which was visited recently by a reporter, were seen Q number of GOODS and cages, in which were grouped guin- ca pigs, rabbits and chickens. The animals seemed to be perfectly at home and formed g seemingly happy family, as some guinea pigs were in the cage with rabbits. One of the little white and black creatures was nibbling at the whiskers of Q sleepy looking rabbit, which blinSed eontentedly, as if it en- joyed the operation or was too lazy to resist any trespass on the part of the guinea pig.
 < dilapidated looking chicken, which had much the same appearance as has tramp Wh9 has been forced to saw wood for a neal at friendly inn, ? rested on top cf a cage. The guinea pigs seen1- ed to be the hfe.of the place and ran ia si3l est Nith apparently little CT no e' -''i ELeseer 'al1Col kept CT not. ;
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 ! letters. was the wcvd rabies. oi j tnc cards also were the warnings to fae atseudaats and others not to put their hands in the cages. This meant that the animals had been inoculated with hydrophobia virus, and it was therefore dangerous to handle the ani- mals A further precaution taken ill such cases, it is said, is not to inoculato animals earnivorous by nature, as they become terribly ferocious, or any ami mals whose chief means of defense is by biting
 cat or dog, for instance, will strive to bite when afflicted with the disease. while rabbit, which is purely a vege- farian, will simply nope and die with Sut making any resistance.
 It was stated that one steer, which had the blackleg, remained at one of the experiment stations for abou, eighty years, and tLe persons there really became attached to Washington,
 The new Spanish minister, Sen, Luis poloy Bernabe, is not so handsolue as De home, but he probably has moro sense.
 This One Especially.
 From a Paris paper we take the fol. lowing conversation in police court:
 The President-It appears from your Hcord that you have been 37 times pre- viously convicted.
 The Prisoner (sententiously)-Man i, not perfect. London Globe.