Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-09-26
ANIMAL DRUNKARCS.
HORSES. FOWLS. CATS AND
 BEES AS EXAMPLES.
Even the Cat Likes Its "swIg"-one filling Feline That Consumed Two Bottles-A Donkey Gets Piece of "Tipsy Cake.

Iipsy 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.
 that 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 stock summer
 Joke for the humorist when seaside
 lodgings are at a premium. It was
 probably to a great extent due to the
 large quantity of stout that Rory
 oMore drank, when recovering from
 the effects of an accident received at hempton, that he survived to carry off
 numerous prizes If prize-winning formed 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 Ill Farls horse belonging to a dealer m wines that Is a positive inebriate.
 The animal, after many bottles of wine
 hao disappeared, was found one day
 hopelessly intoxicated in it's owners cellars, 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 corrupted to a certain extent by hav- Ing US oats mixed with wine when it was rather oyerworked. with the result that It acquired a habit which grew upon 1t with disastrous results. Some lew years ago an action was brought at Oban by poultry keeper against q local distillery company for injuries done to his hens by the said company haVlng allowed intoxicating material 10 How into the burn at which his poultry drank, with the result that the said fowls failed to do their duty in iaylng eggs, and, being more or less aiWays under the influence of drink, re1used to eat and grow fat. During the case one of the fowls was produced Tn court, but it's conduct was such that IL had to be elected. Alas! on making an und1gnifed exit, half glass of whisky was presented to it by a by- stander and gratefully accepted by the somewhat ruff1ed bird, whereupon the condition of the creature became con- siderably worse. The chicken is not the only bird that indulges. Parrots are notorious for their drinking pro- pensities, particularly the gray African parrot, specimen of which the writer has seen hopelessly intoxicated and talking the most absolute nonsense, A piece of "tipsy'' cake was presented to Hampshire donkey some time ago. The animal on being left to its own devices lost all sense of shame and proceeded to the laTder of its owner and consumed plum pudding of con- siderable size, two loaves of bread, and among other trifies a dish of timed apricots-an action quite foreign to the usually well-regulated race. The effect of 8 very little spirit made fifty ants, upon which Sir John Lubbock experi- mented couple of years ago, very drunk and almost incapable, so much so that twenty-five sober ants, whose attention was drawn to the depravity of their comrades, had the greatest in carrying the sinners home. though they eventually succeeded in doink so. The locust, however, appears to have a capacity for spirit unparal- leled in the animal kingdom. Some months since an entomologist on a steamer. off Gibraltar, wishing to se- cure a specimen that had alighted 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 it in more 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 die until several days elapsed. Bees and wasps are easily made tipsy by a mix ture of beer and sugar. The expres- sion "to drink like a fish" is nothing short of libel perpetrated upon the tinny tribe, for it has been found that per cent of alcohol will kill a gold fish in one hour and thirty minutes. while 20 per cent will act on its sys- tenn like prussic acid.