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Show Horse and Donkey Meat In Mexlo. The following from the Mexico correspondent cor-respondent of the Journal, of tha American Medical Association Is suggestive sug-gestive of at least one way to lower the cost of living: "Because of the scarcity and tha poor quality of the beef now on sale or through eagerness to make money, some people have been devoting themselves them-selves surreptitiously to the slaughter of donkeys, mules and horses. As some of these people have been caught and punished, they Intend to ask the board of public health, that they be allowed to open a slaughterhouse exclusively ex-clusively for horses. The flesh "of these animals Is not. bad,,, and during hard times we have eaten It here with full knowledge of Its origin, and It Is known that there Is in Havana a society so-ciety of .horsenieot eaters, I do not know anything about the quality of donkey mpat." |