Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-09

e19s zA Oohhey GetS Piece of
 +TIpsy Cake.
 In the course of a county court ac-
 ton tried early tkis year it transpired
 that an ailing cat consumed TWO bot
 ties of whisky, says Ansaers. Now.
 tDat horses enjoy strong drink is
 ~eil-known fact, but that the domestic
 cat Is capable of fmbibing will come
 as surprise to many, who imagined
 that the conection between the cat and
 the deeanter was but Q stock summer
 loke for the humorist when seaside
 lodgings are at a premium. It was
 pfeea6ly to great extent due to the large quantity of stout that Rory
 , More 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
 drlnking, British owners would have reason to look forward to the forth. coming season with apprehension, for lew months ago there was discovered ln Paris a horse belonging to a dealer lH wines that is a positive inebriate.
 4he animal, after many bottles of wine had disappeared, was found one day hopelessly intoxicated in it's owners eeiiars, 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 certain extent by hav- Ing it's oats mixed with wine when it Nas rather oyerworked, with the result that II acquired a habit which grew upon 1t with disastrous results. Some lew years ago an action was brought at 0ban by poultry keeper against I local dfstillery company for injuries done to his hens by the said company having allowed intoxicating material 10 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 ElWays 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 IL had to be elected. Alas! on making an and1gnified exit, half B glass of whisky was presented to 1t by a by stander and gratefully accepted by the somewhat ruffied 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, q specimen of which the writer has seen hopelessly intoxicated and talking the most absolute nonsense. A piece of s'tipsy" cake was presented to q Hampshire donkey some time &go. The animal on being left to it's own deVlces lost all sense of sham3 and proceeded to the Ia9der of it's owner and consumed a plum pudding of con- siderable size, two loaves of bread. and among other triAes a dish of timed apricots--an action quite foreign to ths usually well-regulated race. The effect of very little spirit made fifty ants, upon which Sir John Lubbock expert- mented couple of years ago. very drunk and almost incapable, so much so that twenty-five sober ants. whose attention was drawn to the dep-avity of their comrades, had the greatest difficulty in carrying the sinners home, though they eventually succeeded in dolnk so. The locust. however. appears to have capacity for spirit unparal~ leled in the animal kingdom Some months since an entomologist on a steamer off Gibraltar, wishing to se~ cure specimen that had alighted on the deck and not having a killing bot tie with him, poured raw brandy upoi. the insect, but with no result. lis | 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 dis until several days elapsed. Bees and wasps are easily made tipsy by a mix lure of beer and sugar. The expres- sion Ito drink like fish" is nothing short of libel perpetrated upon the ihny tribe for it has been found that 1 per cent of alcohol will kill gold fish in one hour and thirty minutes. while 20 per cent will act on it's syS- tenn like prusslc acid.