The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-12
DOG MEAT NOW
COMMON FOOD
FORUSEOF MAN
GERMAN cATTLEMEN ARE NOW
PREPARING TO ERECT SLAUGH-
TER HOUSE FOR DOGS IN BER-
LIN.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.


Berlin, Jan. 1.-THE use Of the flesh
OF dogs as food for man is becoming
common even in the capital
From necessity the German working
man has long made horse meat sub
stantial portion of his daily fare, but
while Saxony consumes thousands Of
dogs annually the practice Of eating
this meat has not until recently in
vaded Prussia.
Now the overseers of the Berlin cat
tie yards have given their approval Of
proposal to erect a municipal
slaughter-house for dogs at the yards,
and it is expected that the police presi-
dent will soon issue the required per-
NIT.
Opium In United States.
The use Of opium in the United
States has reached immense proper
tons as a result chiefly Of 'the unwise
form of the prohibition movement in
some states according to Professor
Hueppe, one OF Germany's leading au-
thorities and writer's ON alcoholism and
other diseases resulting from the abuse
of stimulants.
Professor Hueppe, who was reported
some time ago as saying, in an address
on Sport and Stimulants" before a
scientific association of Berlin, that the
use of stimulants in America had taken
chiefly the form Of indulgence in
opium, now explains that his state
ment was not so broad as that.
The professor repeats, however, that
the use of opium has spread over a
large part Of the United States. The
reason for this, he thinks, is to be
found In prohibition laws. The use of
all stimulants, he says, arises from
local conditions. II one suppresses
their sale or use without regard to
local needs and to the historical devel-
opment of a people, other stimulants
must take the place Of those inter-
oicted. Often these new stimulants
are more dangerous than those sup
pressed.
Other writers have questioned the
professors conclusions on the ground
that prohibition of the sale of alcoholic
stimulants is the exception rather than
the rule in the United States.
No Yachts Building.
There is a likelihood that next sum-
mer's International regatta will furnish
no sonderclass opponents for the Amer
leans.
At present not one sondercIass acht
is being built by any of Germany's
greatest yacht constructors, and none
will be unless conditions alter. The
German yachtsmen have long pro-
tested that the existing price limit for
sonderclass racers 81 300 was too
low to enable them to compete with
the higher priced American yachts,
and the builders also demanded that
the limit be raised. A few weeks ago
he TN~io INIT inRrao with q
consent of the emperor to 400, but
tie builders are still dissatisfied with
this figure. They demand a limit of
$1,625.
Whether the emperor, to whose in
itiative and encouragement sonderclass
racing in Germany owes its develop
ment, will consent to the new price
limit is doubtful. If he does not, there
will probably be no German competi-
tors with the American yachts.
Using Waste Products.
Germany's practically applied science
is about to rescue another waste prod |
uct and make it useful.
Professor Reinke, of the Brunswick
Technical High School, has discovered
a method of converting into cellulose
the waste of the asparagus plant. A
good quality of paper is made from
cellulose, and it has many other valu-
able industrial uses.
Tired of Railroad Fares.
Many members of the reichstag are
tired of paying railroad fares. To be
sure, they have passes good between
their homes and Berlin, while the
reichstag is in session, but the ma
tional liberals at least are not satisfied
with that. They will propose, when
parliament reconvenes after the holi-
days, that passes good on all railroads
and at all times be issued to the legis-
lators.
There was a time when this was the
rule. Such passes were issued to mem
bers of the first reichstag, who then
received no pay for attending sessions.
In 1874 the railroad officials did a
little quiet investigating and learned
that one legislator had travelled more
than 1000 miles in eight months, an
other more than 5000, and a third
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