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Show animaItopers. " Numerous Instances of Unmistakable Appetite for Alcoholic Al-coholic Drinks Among the Four-Footed Tribes. A favorite means nf persuasion with (lie old temperance lecturers, Invented, lorslbl) bs the famous (lough, wis the elevation of the brtt.e animal ns the superior su-perior of the hunnn animal who used uloohol ln any nf Its foims Who ever heard of a dog swilling beer7' they would nsk Cold water Is good enough for him. Will a cot lap whisky? If a spring were flowing with wine coull a horre be persuaded to quench his thirst at It?' W hether It Is thit in the development of the times, the brute tins deteriorated and has dlrcoveieU a tendenes to self Inlulgence which his ancestors re-1 re-1 r. pp1 and cinttolli 1 oi that the temperance tem-perance otators weio not so well Informs! In-forms! us to tho tastes nnd hiblts of the animals they chose for superior Illustration bh they supposed, the fact lemalns thit alcohol his a very decided de-cided nttinttlon for many animals There Is u noble looking St llernard In this city who Is uttirle ah lmeless and reckless In his oxren lituns for beer I. very tent ho his or cun get I ocs for beer A nickel being given to htm he Immedlatels trots oft to his favorite fa-vorite joint i Inces his foro paws tiutte humanls on the bar deposits his live-tent live-tent piece on the top klves n loud balk which li Imme lintel) Interpreted as a demand for beer Is forthwith served wlih It In n diminutive woolen tub and he tape It up to the list drop nnd goes bntk to the stable wheie nickel contributors aie more frequent thin elsew here Nor does this canine degenerate let the satisfaction of his thirst wait on the accident of lontrtbution When he thinks the time between drinks has been s long ns It should be he begins nn Insistent begging for the nickel nor will he le denied Hs lou 1 linking deep growls leaping upon the person ho hns silected to solicit nccompinlel by an nctaslnnal hutting with bis nuis. slvo head that neurls carries one off his feet he makes his wants known Less than n nickel will not sitlsfy He has learnel t distinguish Ictwicn a tent piece and n nickel to know thit u cent villi not buy n schooner He has not learned that a ten-cent piece v 111 bus two s honers, nor thnt n larger sum will bus a rnpld drunk A cent a ton-cent i h e i quuitir or a half he will lis ut tho feet of the tlvet nnd renew hie Insistence for a nlcki 1 which being given him he nt once desists nnd trota off to his boozing ken " It would bsprctts nsl'epsa'ass to recc rd th it this canine i nnhandlei tnkes cents nnd hoards them until Iho requisite number la soi tiled Hut the record tannit be male Uovei knows nothing of uctu-niulntlon uctu-niulntlon He lna hla clients from whom ho can obtain tho exact pli c he lequlres and they ore not a few for ho begs onlrlbutlons from neirls nil the customers of tho stable his mister owns In a commuter a town In the suburbs of Ivtw oik a contractor has a stable wherein he k'tps n number of horses Adjoining Is a chinking place a roj 1 way sep anting the two bullllngs On this roilwus looks out n window tint Is Immedlatels In tho rear of Ihe bai A hnrse thnt had been temporarily lamed und therefore for the time out of n Job wns nllowel lo rrum nhnul tho stable.yard at his own will One dns wandering Into the londwas and the bur window I ting open Impelled by cu rloslty doubtless, Dobbin thrust his hoad through an I surveyed the Interior The batkeeicr had In his hands nt the moment a vessel containing the drip Pings from the keg which ho was about to throw away Plisfully ho tin nut It under Dobbin b nose The hoise snutllng It a moment, eagerly drained the vessel Trom that moment tho habit weiB foiined Three times a day the noise i scnls himself at tho window win-dow and re 'Ives his portion his master settling the hill onco i week Dobbin differs from Hover The dog cited will drink when und as often as he can while tho horse Is a tegular drinker Indulging only it stated times -a mo Urate drinker, limiting his indulgence in-dulgence A fumlls otherwise respectable, maintains us a pet In tho louse a gris nnd while rabt.lt Tho malum of the house hiving fallen Into weakness waa advise 1 by her fqinlls Ihssklin to drink n bottle of beer before retiring Tho rabbit one nirht leiped on the lap of the matron while she was tnking her tonic, and discovering a cuilnslt) as to the contents of the glass on the table ta-ble before her, wns fed with a drop or two of the beer, nnd showed an unquestioned unques-tioned liking foi it Mure wis given and In n brief time lluuns was skipping skip-ping about the lioor in a most eccentric nnd ludicrous manner, cleirly and hl-lnilnusls hl-lnilnusls intoxicated Lver nfter of n night liunns was given her portion be-cause be-cause she Insisted on having her shmiclcss little drunk Now the moral oiihht to bo that Hunny wnslcd and died '.he dldn t she throvi nnd fattened fat-tened raised Innumerable descend ints, nnd onls (.ave over tho habit of dissipation dissi-pation when tie matron hiving recovered recov-ered her normal tone suspcncicl the nlghtls practice nnd then onls as was clenrls uppnrent most nluctnntls A family of Bohemian proclivities nlwass closing the dns hs worship at the shrine of Gnmhrlnus ns regulodly ns the night came poured a portion Into a snucer which wns Inpped up by a pet dog in 1 i oat together And thes nlwasH looked for It as legulirly as the humans |