Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-12


 "Fipsy Cake"
 In the course of a county court ac- ton tried early this year it transpired that an ailing cat consumed two bot ties of whisky, says Answers. Now, thai horses enjoy strong drink is a weH-known fact. bat that the domestic eat is capable Of imbIbing will come as q surprise to many who imagined that the ccnectIon between The cat and the decauter Was but I stock sumner joke for the humorist when seaside lodgings are a1 premium. It was probably to q great extent due to the large quantity of stout that Rory 0 More drank. when recovering from the effects of an accident received at kempton. thai b. survived to carry off numerous prizes. If prize-#inning formed natural corollary to equine drinking British owners would have reason =to look forward to the forth. coming season with apprehension. for q few months ago there was discovered h Paris a horse belonging to q dealer in wines that is a positive inebriate. The animal, after many bottles of wine had disappeared. was found one day hopelessly intoxicated in it's owners cellars into which il vas 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 a certain extent by hay- Ing it's oats mixed with wine when it was rather oYerWorked. with the result that it acquired q habit which grew upon It with disastrous results. Some few years ago an action vas brought at Oban by poultry keeper against 2 local distillery company for injuries done to his hens by the said company having allowed intoxicating material to How 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 est and grow fat During the case one Of The fowls was produced in court, but its conduct was such that Il had to be ejeeted Alas. on making an andignided exit. halt a glass of whisky was presented t0 1t by q by stander and gratefully accepted by the somewhat fHffied bird. Whereupon the condition of 1he creature became con sideFabiy worse The chicken is not the only bird that indulges. Parrots are notorious for their driaking pro- penslties. particularly the gray African parrot. s specimen of which the writer has seen hopelessly intoxicated and talking the most absolute nonsense. 4 piece Of .tfpsys cake was presented to a Hampshire donkey some time 3 Eo The animal on being left To it's own devices lost all sense Of shame and proceeded to the larder of it's owner and consumed a plum pudding of con siderable size. two loayes of bread and among other triies a dish Of timed aprieotS-an action quite foreign to the usually well-regulated race.. The effect ot very little spirit made fifty ants. upon which Sir John Lubbock exBeri- mented couple of years ago. very drunk and almost incapable, SO much so that twenty-five sober ants. whose attention was drawn to the depraYity of their comrades, had the greatest difficulty ill carrying the sinners home though they eventually succeeded in doinil so. The locust, however. appears to have capacity for spirit unparal- leied in the animal kingdom. Some months since an entomoIogist on steamer off Gibraltar. wishing to se- cure q specimen thaE had aHghted on the deck and not having killing bot tie with him. poured raw brandy upon the insect but with no result He then partially immersed 1t in more spirit in saucer and waited for the end. which did not come. The locust, taking a long, refreshing drink, ab- sorbed all the spirit and did not dis until several days elapsed Bees and wasps are easily made tipsy by a mix tnre of beer and sugar The expres- sion Ito drink like a fish" Is nothing short Of libel perpetrated upon the inny tribe. for it has been found that l per cent of alcohol will kill a gold fish in one hour and thirty minutes, while % per cent will act on its sya- tenn like prussic acid.