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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
An Intelligent Horse—Took His Drunken Master 
TO THE Police Station. —Friday evening, about 5 o’clock, a 
horse attached to a buggy, in the front of which was wedged a 
helplessly intoxicated man, cramped between the seat and the 
dash-board, fast asleep, his head fallen forward, one hand dropped 
outside the buggy and held listlessly in a half extended posi¬ 
tion and the other twisted behind him, walked sedately up Sec¬ 
ond Street from some point on Walnut, and, arriving in front of 
the police station, gave vocal expression to a desire to have some 
one come out and confer with him with possible reference to the 
nnconscions occupant of the vehicle the quite intelligent ani¬ 
mal was pulling. Sergeant Sunberg and Jailor Collins, who 
happened to be in the front room, had their attention attracted 
to the whinneying, and, looking out of the window, saw the in¬ 
ebriate leaning over the dash-board, marks on which suggested 
a recent attempt of the stomach to secede from the locality of 
the boot heels. The two officers gazed in fixed astonishment 
for an instant, when the horse, getting a glimpse^ of thern 
throno-h the open window, renewed his demonstrations, and 
winkSi knowingly, as much as to say: “ Here, you_ fellows. 
Come out here and unload this drunk and relieve me 
of the responsibility of caring for him and myself on 
the crowded streets.” They responded to the mute appeal, and, 
backino* the buggy to the jail door, lifted the unconscious man 
out and put him in jail. The moment the horse was relieved 
of its helpless burden, he murmnred a low chuckle of delight, 
and walking into the public pound in the rear of police head¬ 
quarters, ambled up to a feed trough and “ hollered ” for a square 
meal. It was afterward discovered that the horse had threaded 
his devious way through the maze of vehicles for six blocks on 
Walnut, and afterward turned north on Second, and, with rare 
intuition amounting to almost human intelligence, conveyed his 
drunken driver to the place of all others where, in his oblivious 
condition, he belonged. The mayor, when informed of the ex¬ 
traordinary incident, demanded to see the horse, and later seri¬ 
ously entertained an expressed intention of placing the equine 
on the force as a special during the fair.— (Iowa State Register. 
Sept. II.) __ 
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