Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1915 — THE LOBSTER'S HAPPY FATE. [ARTICLE]

THE LOBSTER'S HAPPY FATE.

Boiling Him to Death Is the Acme of Pleasure* • Bolling over a slow fire Is the happiest death a lobster can meet, so it. has been determined at the Jerseymarine biological station. The experiments were carried out by Joseph Sinel, a well-known biologist, for the Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, whose members associated the prevalent method of killing lobsters with medieval torture. „ Lobsters, says Mr. Sinel, are extremely difficult to kill. Piercing the; brain does not seem to cause the, lobster more than temporary annoy* ancer since hls brain Is a mere nerve ganglion the size of ,a hemp seed. He has to be killed all over. To throw him Into boiling water falls to do the work either mercifully or quickly, since he struggles violently to escape for about two minutes.

The pleasantest way to end a lobster’s troubles, Mr. Sinel finds, Is the old-fashioned way of placing him In cold water and bringing him to a boll. As the water warms, he becomes merely lazy and rolls over as for a sleep. By the time the water reaches the comparatively mild temperature of 70 degrees, Fahrenheit, be becomes comatose. At 80 degrees, he Is dead. To use a human Illustration, the biologist says it is like a person succumbing to a < heat wave, with loss of consciousness and a painless end.