The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-08-31
ANIMAL
Horses, Fowls, Cats and Bees as Shock.
ing Examples"


Horses, Fowls, Cats and Bees as Shock.
ing Examples"
In the course of a county court &C.
ton tried early this year it tr~anspired
tnat an ailing cat consumed two bot
Ties or whisky, says Answers. Now,
tnat horses enjoy strong drink is a
Well-known fact, but that the domestic
cat is capable of imbibing will come
as a surprise to many, who imagined
that the connection between the cat and
the decanter was but a stock summer
Joke Ior the humoris& when seaside
Ioog1ngs are at a premium. 1t was
PROBABLY to a great extent due to the
large Quantity of stout that Rory
oMore drank, when recovering from
the efrects Of al accident received at
hempton, that he survived to carry off
prizes. If prize-winning
formed a natural corollary to equine
drinking, British owners would have
reason to look forward to the forth
coming season with apprehension, for
a rev months ago there was discovered
IN Paris a horse belonging to a dealer
IN wines that is a positive inebriate.
Inc animal, after many bottles of wine
hau disappeared, was found one day
hopelessly intoxicated in it's owners
celiars, into which it was in the habit
seemingly of making it's way at night
and helping itself. The horse was not
altogether to blame, for it had been
to a certain extent by hav-
ing us oats mixed with wine when it
was rather overworked. with the result
NAT II acquired a habit which grew
upon 1t with disastrous results. Some
lew years ago an action was brought
at ooan by a poultry keeper against 4
local d1stillery company for injuries
uone 20 his hens by the said company
having allowed intoxicating material
u now 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
n case one of the fowls was produced
IN court, but its conduct was such that
IL mad to be elected. Alas! on making
an und1gnified exit, half a glass of
whisky was presented to it by a by-
mi and gratefully accepted by the
somewhat rufled bird, whereupon the
condltlon OF the creature became con-
slderably worse. The chicken is not
the only bird that INDUCES. Parrots
aTe notorious for their drinking pro-
penslt1es, particularly the gray African
parrot, a specimen Of which the writer
mas seen hopelessly intoxicated and
taking the most absolute nonsense. A
piece OF "tipsy" cake was presented to
d hampshire donkey some time ago.
the animal on being left to it's own
devices lost all sense of shame and
proceeded to the larder of it's owner
n consumed a plum pudding of con-
SIDERABLE size, two loaves of bread, and
among other tri1es a dish of timed
apr1cots-an action quite foreign to the
usually well-regulated race. The effect
OF a very little spirit made fifty ants.
upon which Sir John Lubbock experi-
mented a couple of years ago.. yery
drunk and almost incapable, so much
SO that twenty-five sober ants. whose
aotentlon was drawn to the depravity
OF their comrades, had the greatest
dlfhculty in carrying the sinners home,
they eventually succeeded in
do1nk SO. The locust, however, appea
to have a capacity for spirit unparal-
leled in the animal kingdom. Some
months since an entomologist on a
steamer off Gibraltar, wishing to Sc
cure a specimen that had alighted on
the deck and not having a killing bot-1
tie With him, poured raw brandy upon
the insect, but with no result. He
then partially immersed it in more
spirit in a saucer and waited for the
end. which did not come. The locust,
taking a long, refreshing drink, abb
sorbed all the spirit and did lot die
until several days elapsed. Bees and
Wasps are easily made tipsy by a mix
ture of beer and sugar. The express
sion TO drink like a fish" is nothing
nor of a libel perpetrated upon the
tribe, for it has been found that
l per cent of alcohol will kill a gold
hsh in n hour and thirty minutes,
while 20 per cent will act on its sys-
tenn like prussic acid.