Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-11
ANIMAL DRUNKARDS.
HORSES. FOWLS. CATS AND
 BEES AS EXAMPLES.
Even the Cat Likes Its "swigy One filling Feline That Consumed Two Botties-A Donkey Gets a Piece cf ''Tipsy Cake"

Botties-A Donkey Gets a Piece cf
 ''Tipsy Cake"
 In the course of q county court ac-
 ton tried early this year 1t transpired
 that an ailing eat consumed two bot
 ties of whisky. says Answers. Now.
 that horses enjoy strong drink is a
 well-known fact. but that the domestic
 eat $ capable of imbibing will come
 as surprise to many who imagined
 that the connection between the cat and
 the deeanter Was but q stock sumner
 Joke for the hamorist when seaside
 lodgings are at premium. It was
 probably to a great extent due to the
 large quantity Of stout that Rory
 0.Mofe drank. when recovering from the effects of an accident received at hempton. that he survived to carry off numerous prizes. If prtze-winning formed 2 natural corollary to equine drinking. British owners would have reason to look forward to the forth. coming season with apprehension, for few months ago there was discovered n Paris q horse belonging to q dealer n wines that i5 a positive inebriate. Ihe animal. after many bottles Of wine had disappeared. was found one day hopelessly intoxicated in it's owners cellars into which it was in the habit seemingly Of making its way at night and helping itself The horse was not altogether to blame. for it had been corrupted to certain extent by hay ing it's oats mixed with wine when it was rather oYerWorked, with the result that il acquired habit which grew upon it with disastrous results. Some few years ago an action was brought at Oban by poultry keeper against 2 local djstillery company for injuries done to his hens by the said company having allowed intoxicating material to flow into the burn at which his poultry drank, with the result that the said fowls failed to do their duty in laying eggs. and, being more or less always under the influence of drink, refused to eat and grow fat. During the case one Of the fowls was produced tn court but it's conduct was such that 1t had to be ejected. Alas! on making an undignlhed exit. half glass of whisky was presented to 1t by by stander and gratefully accepted by the somewhat ruffied bird. whereupon the condition Of the creature became con siderably worse. The chicken is not ths only bird that indulges. Parrots ara notorious for their driakiag pro- pensltles. particularly the gray African parrot. a specimen of which the writer has seen hepelessly intoxicated and talking the most absolute nonsense. A piece of tipsy' cake vas presented to Hampshire donkey some time ago. The animal on being left to It's own devices lost all sense of shame and proceeded to the lander of it's owner and consumed a plum pudding Of con siderable size. two oaYes of bread and among other trides a dish of timed aprlcots-an action quite foreign to ths usually Wel-regnlated race The effect or very little spirit made fifty ants, upon which Sir John Lubbock expert mented couple Of years ago. very drunk and almost incapable. 30 much so that twenty-five sober ants. whose attention was drawn to the depraylty of their comrades. had the greatest in carrying the sinners home though they eventually succeeded In dotnk so. The locust. however. appears to have a capacity for spirit unparal- leied in the animal kingdom. Some months since an entomologist on steamer off Gibraltar, wishing to se- cure a specimen that had allehted on the deck and not ha ying a killing bot tie with him. poured raw brandy uDon the insect, but with no result Hs then partially immersed it in mora spirit in saucer and waited for the end, which did not come. The locust taking long, refreshing drink. ab- sorbed all the spirit and did not dis until several days elapsed Bees and wasps are easily made tipsy by mix ture of beer and sugar The expres- sion Ito drink like a fish" Is nothing short of libel perpetrated upon the 1nny tribe, for il has been found that per cent of alcohol will kill a gold dsh in one hour and thirty minutes. while 20 per cent will act on it's sys- .sm like prussic acid.
 High Price for StraiShtness