Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — Lives of Animals. [ARTICLE]

Lives of Animals.

Animals vary greatly in the length of their lives. Elephants, eagles and parrots may celebrate their hundredth birthday, but' onr domesticated beasts are thought to be aged when they have reached a quarter of a hundred. A horse is old at twenty, a dohkey at twenty-five and a cat or dog At fifteen. The span of existence allotted to insects Is shorter still, the fly and the butterfly commonly enjoying but one summer of vigorous life and then being taken off by the cold if they are not previously snapped up by a bird.