Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — Flesh-Fating Horses and Sheep. [ARTICLE]

Flesh-Fating Horses and Sheep.

In all the colder regions of Europe, says a French writer, cows and horses near the sea-coast occasionally vary their diet by eating fish. Some horses which about a century ago were taken from Iceland to Dunkerque were fed during the voyage as well as during their stay at Dunkerque, on nothing but salt fish. Xt Saint Waast-ia-Hougue fish is given to domestic animals, which eat it with great relish. According to M. Valenciennes, a certain kind of fish which is found in great abundance on some parts of the Indian coast serves, both fresh and salted, as food for the horses. Kamtchafha dogs, of course, are notorious fish eaters, but not even the authority of Philostrates can induce us to believe in his fish-eating sheep, although Ellen backs him up in guaranteeing that their flesh acqtiired the fishy taste of marine birds. In Lydia aad Macedonia sheep were said to be fattened with fish, greatly to the detriment of their mutton, bid: it must be admitted that the whole story has a Tery ancient and fish-like sinell. One of the most striking features of modem French life is the rapid increase of insanity, the number of cases of which, and especially those induced by alcoholism, is becoming larger each year. During 1882 there were 13,434 admissions into the asylunSs, of which 10,184 were new cases, the total number sunder treatment in being 58,760, in which about 27,000 were men and 31,000 women, showing that females are the most liable to the disease. *" The American women are acknowledged the world over to have small; well-shaped feet. The Russians have enormous feet. The rmglish have flat feet, while the Parisian women ate noted for tinyones, with slim ankles and arched insteps. i ■ . .... ; ' * »