Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1878 — Humanity to Animals. [ARTICLE]

Humanity to Animals.

Having seen Bergh’s various conrtivances for the prevention of cruelty to animals in New York, 1 could not refrain from calling at the pavilion containing similar exhibits here. The various improvements by which the animals are allowed to shake off the mortal coil are numerous. By means of winkers and a hole in the center a child can fix a marlinspike and drive it with a blow into the brain of an ox; and this is equivalent to painless extinction. A Dutchman exhibits a cart for conducting cattle to the slaughter-house; it is far more luxuriously fitted up than that in which Marie Antoinette was conveyed to the scaffold. The guillotine has also been reformed by the abolition of the steps. There is exhibited a special traveling bag for cats. There are files to blunt the teeth of dogs, and to prevent the virus of hydrophobia entering the flesh. From London there is quite an Oriental process for getting rid of unclaimed, wandering dogs; here they are simply strung up. The new process is to allow the dogs to walk in ; allow them to play and smell around, and, when they are dreaming of mutton bones, turn on an extra stream of laughing gas, and in a twinkling they are enjoying the sleep that knows no waking. —Paris letter.