Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — Intoxication Among Animals. [ARTICLE]

Intoxication Among Animals.

“The philosophers,” says Houzeau “that assert that monkeys that have once used intoxicating liquors to excess will not touch them again are more desirous of giving us a lesson in morals than holding to tho exact truth. The majority of tame monkeys are fond of wine and spirits. They help themselves when they can. They enjoy getting drunk, and some of them become such sots that they refuse to reform in spite of the most severe punishment. Besides, tlioir intoxication resembles precisely that of man ; their legs are badly controlled, their tongue is thick and its movements uncertain.” Moreover, this identity of the effects of intoxication descends much lower in the animal kingdom. Donkeys have been seen dead drunk. Horses get drunk; and if, as a general thing, dogs refuse wine, some of them are addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages when well sweetened and sufficiently diluted. —The Cosmopolitan. It has been discovered in France that the fatty matter of wool may be transformed into a subs'ance, which has been named “ceroid,” having the consistency and several properties of wax.