Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — Don’t Douse a Hot Fat Hog. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Douse a Hot Fat Hog.

A fine fat pig belonging to Jasper county, out at the county asylum met an untimely end Thursday, and the manner of its taking off may serve as a warning to other owners of corpulent swine during this hot weather. The pig was prostrated with too much hotness and, in the absence of Superintendent Clark, one of the men gave it an allopathic dose of too much coldness. In other words he doused it with a bucket-full of cold water. The shock was too much for a delicately nurtured pig, and in a few hours it was dead. The moral is, don’t douse a heatprostrated fat individua l , either human or swine, all over with right oold water. Pour the water on the ground under the pig, or sprinkle it on slowly, and the water should not be too cold either.