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...Great Companions," that he chose to discourse on literature and progeny rather than on food and drink; but no doubt he will sooner or later favor the world with a volume entitled "How to Raise Seven Children on Beefsteak and Corn Liquor, or Short Walks "Twixt Distillery and Abattoir...
...last summer had made New York's Bronx Zoo unique throughout the world in the possession of a live vampire bat, a tiny, loathsome, jut-jawed creature which lives on blood sucked from beasts and men (TIME, Oct. 2). Thriving on defibrinated blood obtained fresh daily from an abattoir, the captive has now presented its owners with the first vampire bat ever born...
...cattle-raiser of Chatham Four Corners, Columbia County, N. Y., spent a comfortable night with his father at the Hotel Brunswick in Boston's fashionable Back Bay district. When Cattle-raiser Curtis went again to Boston last week, to sell 43 head of stock to the Brighton abattoir, he was reminded by his 97-year-old parent that "it's a durn good hotel." Accordingly he signed his name once more on the Brunswick's blotter and remarked casually to Desk Clerk Henry Nelson: "I guess you better take care of Bess out there...
...been "shellacking" some suspected Italian kidnappers: "An inch of blood covered the floors, walls and desks in the different rooms. Broken blackjacks, rubber hose and the parts of four broken chairs were scattered in the mess. The men ruined their clothes and looked more like workmen employed in an abattoir than detectives." Third-degree methods, says Lavine, are sometimes applied to women. "He [the detective] merely shows what a big, strong guy he is by starting to lift her from the ground by her hair. That usually makes her feel more like talking. Or, especially...
...Petersburg, Russia, Founder Bergh was appalled by the beatings which droshky-moujiks administered to their horses. In London, he visited the Royal S. P. C. A. and on his return to the U. S. began moves for a similar organization. At first he made butchers driving to the abattoir untie the legs of calves, scolded horse beaters, haled cock fight fanciers into court. In 1866 he obtained a charter for the A. S. P. C. A. Later in life he suffered from dyspepsia, wrote childish plays, attended first nights at the theatre. P. T. Barnum attended his funeral...