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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 976, 27 December 1882, Page 4

The Pall Mall Gazette of Octal or 4th says :—“The maiming of anima’s is a practice by no means confined to Ireland, as the police reports of the last few days have abundantly shown. It would be hard to match the wanton cruelty of the man at Birmingham, who, after striking his horse savagely bn the nose with his fist, proceede to wrench "its tongue out by the root and to give it a parting dose of kicks and cuffs. The man had no better defence to make than that the horse’s tongue feT out of itself. A youth at Bromley amused himself by cutting a horse’s eye out with a stoneBefore thi animal’s eye was cut a number of hoys had been pelting it with stones, which sounded on its sides like a drum. The only pity is that none of these young gentlemen are to share any portion of the the three months’ imprisonment to' which the ringleader was sentenced.” If peace hath her victories not less renowned than war,she also hasher victims, I ast year (says an English paper) our rai'way companies killed and wounded more jail way servants in the ordinary course of their traffic than all the British casualties in the war in Egypt. The figures are—killed, 562 ; wounded, 6180. Notwithstanding the operation of the Employer’s Liabi ity Act, the number of non-fatal injuries shows an apparent increase of 1558 on the figuies of 1880. The weekly butcher’s bill of our railways, exclusive of the slaughter committed on the gcneial public, is thus 10 dead and 119 wounded, , A curious experiment is reported from Grenellc by the Figaro. Two doctors have conducted, at the expense f a rich Swedish philanthropist a series of experiments upon pigs, for the purpose of ascertaining the effect of alcohol on the internal organs of drunkards., Fifteen pigs were treated daily upon various descriptions of alcohol, and then killed, after the process of alcoholisation had gone on for some time. Each pig had a different description of liquor. Onehacl whisky, another brandy, a third absinthe, and so on,. -■ When killed, their vital organs were found to be marked with small white spots resembling ulcers. Their flesh was sound, but when sent to market it was seized as unfit foxfood. A dispute is now going on between the experimenters and the police as .to whether the inspector of the market was n ,t mistaken.