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EXTRAORDINARY ABSTINENCE FOOD.-Ihe
more that ANIMALS enjoy the qualities YOUTH strength
and ACTIVITY, the greater the increase and develop
ment of their parts, and the greater the necessity for
an abundant supply Of food. Of many individuals ex-
posed TO absolute abstinence Of many DAYS, the
young are always the first perish OF this the his
tory of and sbipwrcck oilers in al ages too many
frightful examples. There several instances on
record of almost total abstinence from food for an
extraordinary length of time Captain Blight, of the
Bounty, sailed nearly 400 miles In an open boat
with occasionally single small bird not many
In weight, for the daily sustenance of IL people
and 1t Is even alleged that IL men and women of the
Juno, having suffered >hpwreck the coast of ARA
can, lived 23 days without any food Two people first
died of want of the fifth day In the opinion of Rhed
animals support want much longer than is generally
believed. A cvct cat lived III DAYS without food. an
antelope 30 and very large Wild also 20 an
eagle survived - days badger one manth and sey-
eral dogs 50 days In the memoirs of the Acad my
of Sciences, there IL account of bitch, which,
having been accidentally shut up alone in country
house. existed for 10 days without any other
ment than the stuii on the wool of matlraSs which
she had torn to pieces. A crocodile Will live two
months without food, a scorpion three. a bear SIN
chameleon eight, and viper ten. valiant had a >p-
der that lived nearly year without food and wa, 50
far from being weakened BY ab-tnencc that il immc-
dlatey killed another large spider equally vigorous
but not hungry, which put in along with it.
John Hunter mclo>ed toad between two stone fow-
er-pois, and found lively after II months
Land torto Sc have lived without food tDr l. months
and Baker Is known to have kept beetle in state of


total abstinence for three years 1t afterwards made
lis escape Dr. Shaw gives account of two serpcnts
which lived IN bottle without any food for five years
-ERcy. Brit cdi.