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Show AOTMAL KINGDOM. Animals of various kinds hsva been having Ihelr Cay In court, says Case ana Comment. That no flan wars on tbs ark and that therefore ths creature lasuot an animal, was the poaltlon taken by a Bt. Lule Hty attorney In a case against a peddler accused of cruelty to anl mala The case waa dismissed ever the em-phatlc em-phatlc protest of Judge Pollard, who argued- that the dictionary defined a fleh aa an animal. Ths peddler waa charged with audvertlslng his fish by displaying a live animal from a string on his cart, that Its flopping might at. tract ths eyas of prospective pur-chaeera. pur-chaeera. There can ba no doubt, however, that a monkey Is an nnlmal of high degree. A five-pound simian slumbered peaoa fully In hla cage at the Kentucky atate fair grounds a few months ago. while four attorneys fought a wordy battle In the magistrate court as to whether stats fslr visitors should ba permitted to amuae themaslvas by throwing balls at ths monkey. To champion his causa and see that Justice wsa done to little Jocko, half a dosen Loulsvllls dub women wars pres. ent. After an hour and a half of teatl mony and legal oratory, about Darwin, "monksy prostration. "nsrvous fatigue" fa-tigue" and other things that ths ordinary ordi-nary layman would not believe a mon-kev mon-kev ass heir to. the maaiatrata decided that th owntt nhoul! pay a flna of 136 for leHttng th visltora at the fair maaa hla monhy a tai-vt for nibbr balls. That It la acalnat tha Ohio law to hold bald ag-ea in captivity waa tha ruilnv rcetvxj from Attoraay OanaraJ Horan by Elmar Fawcatt. a Loaraa iounty farrosr. jfawcatt ha4 ona of tha bird a, and tha at torn ay fenaral or-drad or-drad lU raleaaa. Tha waa taken aftar a f1rra flffht aaveral weaka ao. Fawoett dlacovared It wltb Ita taiona faftaned to tba woolly bark of a lamb, swlawd a pltrhfork and captured tha bird after a lively atriiaaTle. Tba attorney ceneral hoida that a natlva aasla cannot can-not ba held captlva In Ohio. The much disputed question. "Is a hen a bird?" which the treasury official! offi-cial! pasaad up aa too complex for them has been presented ta tha new court of customs appeais. Tha present form of the problem la thla: "If birds' ago are free under tha tariff and hens' egxs are taxed t oenta a dosen, why isn't a hen a bird V An Importer who paid tha duty wants to know. Also there la a room case bow pending. pend-ing. In a certain barnyard aa scent of a Korth Carolina 8 P. C. A. dlacor ered a goose whoee webbed feat war nailed to a board as ona eta la tha process to make Ita liver become) pate de fole ffraa. A meeting of fhe eorletv was held to con lid ar tha case, and tha preeldetit. who had been In consul taiioa with an-eye an-eye loped lata, doctors, lawyers, bunas n I tar Lane and ethers, insisted that la) addition ad-dition to the bodily injury there was also the auestto of aianta. ana-ulali oa the part of tha a-nnaa. Aboard incly the society voted ta Kaia tha aa nan's wmi-ta wmi-ta court. |