Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-10-12

Even the Cat Likes A'S
 Anine Feline That Consumed Two
 Bottles-A Donkey Gets Piece of
 .sTipsy Cake"
 Tn 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 tbat 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 anu the deeanter was but stock summer joke for the humorist when seaslae lodgings are at a premium. U was probably to a great extent due to the large quantity of stout that Rory O'More drank. when recovering from the effects of an accident received at Kempton. that he survived to carry oT numerous prizes. If prize=Winnlng formed q natural corollary to equine drinking. British owners would have reason to look forward to the forth- coming season with apprehension. fer a few months ago there was discovered in Paris a horse belonging to a 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 owner g 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 it's oats mixed with wine when it was rather oYerWorked, with the result that it acquired a habit which grew upon it with disastrous results. Some few years ago an action was brought at Oban by poultry keeper against ? local distilIery 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 eatZand grow fat During the case one Of the fowls was produced in court. bat it's conduct was such that 1t had to he eieeted. Alas on making an undignifed exit. half a glass of whisky was presented to it by by stander and gratefully accepted by the somewhat ruf1ed bird. whereupon the condition of the creature became con siderabiy worse. The chicken is not the only bird that indulges. Parrots are notorious for their drinking pro- pensities, particularly the gray African parrot. a specimen of which the writer has seen hopelessly intoxicated and talking the most absolute nonsense. A piece of "tipsy" cake was presented to a Hampshire donkey some time ago. The animal on being left to it's own devices lost all sense of shame and proceeded to the laIder of it's owner and consumed a plum pudding of con- siderable size, two loaves of bread. and among other trifes a dish of timed aprlcots-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 experl- mented couple of years ago. very drunk and almost incapable. SO much so that twenty-five sober ants. whose attention was drawn to the depravlfy of their comrades, had the greatest difficulty in carrying the sinners home though they eventually succeeded in doink so. The locust. however. appears to have a capacity for spirit unnaraI- leled in the animal kingdom. Some months since an entomologist on 9 steamer off Gibraltar, wishing to se. cure 9 specimen that had alighted on the deck and not having a killing hot tle with him, poured raw brandy mon the insect, but with no result ua then partially immersed it in mora spirit In a saucer and waited for the end, which did not come. The loeust Eaklng long, refreshing drink ab- sorbed all the spirit and did not dis until several days elapsed. Bees and Wasps are easily made tipsy bv mix lure of beer and sugar. The expres- sion to drink like fish" is nothing snort of a libel perpetrated upon inc uhny tribe, for it has been found that per cent of alcohol will kill a gold flsh in one hour and thirty minutes. "nlie z0 per cent will act on its sys-