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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
eighty servants and an experienced veterinary surgeon. In this 
place at present there are 979 animal paupers—129 bulls, 307 
cows, 171 calves, 72 horses, 13 water buffaloes, 69 sheep, 15 
goats, 141 pigeons, 44 cocks and hens, 4 cats, 3 monkeys and 5 
dogs. The asylum is described as being systematically and 
mercifully managed. The cows have especially a good time of 
it, inasmuch as, on festal occasions, natives go from far and 
near to decorate and worship them. The mysterious lower 
world of animal life is regarded in India with more reverence 
and kindliness than among Christian people. The one great 
fact of abstinence from flesh food produces an extraordinary 
effect among Hindu communities. A newly arrived European 
walking in Poona or Baroda or Nassick, or an)’such Brahmanic 
capital, would mark with wonder how the lower creatures have 
understood and acted upon this tacit compact of peace. . In the 
densest portions of the towns the monkeys sit and chatter on 
the roof ridges, the striped squirrels race up and down the shop 
poles, the green parrots fly screaming about the streets, the 
doves perch and coo and nest everywhere, the flying foxes hang 
over the most frequented wells and tanks, the mongoose scurries 
in and out of the garden gates, the kites and crows frequent the 
market places, jungle doves and birds of all sorts forage boldly 
for food, and at night even the jackals steal impudently down 
into the suburbs. 
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