A Novel Experiment

A Fronch doctor has been trying tho expurimont of keeping a number of fowls on a continual Bproe, stimulating them oonstantly with intoxieating liquors. The fowld took to dram drinking with evident delight, and inany an oíd cock in tlo chioktin-houso provod himself quita oapable of oonsuming h6 bottle a day. It was found necossary at laBt to limit the allowanoe of wino and spirits to eaoh bird to six cubio centinietres of alcohol, or from 12 to 15 of wino daily. The ro8ultwa8 thttt thoy loit flesh rapidly, more Mpeoifllly thosc who drank absinthe. Two montbs of absinthe drinking waa found tiuffici(.nt to kill the strongust cook or hen The fowls who indulgeiliu brandy alono, howovor, lasted four months and a half, whilo tho wine-bibbors survived for ten months. It was uot only tluir hoalth whioh was affectcd by alcohol ; tluiir p rnonal appourmioo undcrwont nn oxtr:ordinary oh&nge. An lm menso dovolopraent of oooks orests took placo. The crests, it is stated, incroased to four timos their oririrml size, and assaii'.''! a huo of annatnral brigbtaeu - probably on the principie th.it tha noses of coniirinod drui:laids becomo proternaturally fvrgo and rod.