Morning Appeal

Friends of the Jackass.

For several years past the APPEAL has been championing the cause of the jackass, and since Minister Daggett removed himself to the Sandwich Islands this journal has been obliged to conduct the defense alone. It gives us more than ordinary pleasure to know that a power has risen up in London who is also friendly to the animal:

The much abused jackass, which is popularly supposed to be too lazy to work, and too tough to eat, is appearing in a better light. "I sympathize," says Mr. Labouchere, in London Truth, "with the Birmingham butcher who has been condemned to one month's imprisonment for selling donkey as human food, because donkey is infinitely better eating than either beef or mutton; indeed, I do not know any meat which is better. This was soon perceived by the French during the siege of Paris that donkey meat was about five times the price of horse meat. At Voisin's there was almost every day a joint of cold donkey for breakfast, and it was greatly preferred to anything else. Let anyone who doubts the excellence of cold donkey slay one of those weak-minded animals, cook and eat him."