HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-2-2, Page 7STATISTICS.
The Jannary interest on government
bonds amounts to 0,414,000,
The statemee of Dominion revenue for
fi
the current ecal,hale year shows a total of
$17,340,422, leeviog a, eurplue ever the ex-
penditure a $.2442,331,
The traffic receipts of the Grand Trunk
railway for the week eliding December 31et
were Sen13,500, 4 de0r04,40 a $19,598 com-
pared With th0 correspouding week in 1880.
Five haudred echool eleitaren la Akron,
Ohio, aro tick with waste; whioh have be-
come epWeio azxa liminess there is almost
entiray naspendeci oz account of that, dia-
mond,
It is now reported Diet eevenlivse were
lost in Wedneseey's collieion en the Cana-
dian Pacific railway nem Stewart station,
The damage is eStimated at frene W00,000
to ;180,000.
Tile sta.tement of the public debt of the
Dominion, en, December 31st shows total
liebilitlee a $274310,702, with aseets of
47 290.702 leaving a total net debt of
n227,410,010.
During December, 18S7, the publie debt
wan redaced $15,2Z0.000. The U. S. gov-
erneneetts receipts faint all durcee were
$29,325h285, and ite axpenditeres $10,400n
QS% leaving a net gam of nearly S1000,-
0.30.
During the last seaeon on the lakes it is
animated more than 200 lives were teat and
$2,0,000 worth" of property deetroyed.
Seventy-eix ettainere, ferty-three Behoonere,
a.lit tow bareee and vier tuglieets were loat
O r deniaged.
The Raillny Apc ?eye that 12,724e:41es
r ew mein line railway were built in the
Idnited Statee in 1887, The lorgeet num-
ber a milea ever hail before in me year
wee 11.568, in 1882. The ta$ mileage is
now 41,000,
It is ageertained Viet there are at loot
100,00 pereene idle in New York city at
p reenut, of selo in 20,000 Are woue Tbe
police stations every night ere filled with
peraeas unable to pay for lodging's
eharity orgenizetiens are besieged by huu.
gry mete and women.
The total value of imperta of merchandise
into the United State for the year endin
Neventher 30. 1h87. watt $712,980,918* 40
the exports 847e7,400,( 33. The Imports for
the eame period laet year aggregated ,d,G9,-
az d the exporte $702,2004413.
The Intimated expense* of the Chicago
pollee department for the present year are
T1140,00, which is more than the tow in -
genie of the Stete a Georgie. The menet
speut by Chicago an her Public stinted•
*peeler enunally is over five Omen as =eh
as the entire school feed of Georgie.
Col. (Jerroll D. Wright, heed a the Be.
rean of Labor litatistice, at a dinner in
Washington meationed the curious and
little-known fact that the Pilgrim fathers
stetted out upon Henry George's pima of
land in common, and after a three years'
trial gave it up, because the shiftless and
thriftioe preyed upon the hottest and in -
The Charleston News awl Courier's re-
view of progress in South Caroline allows
that the total value of the agricultural,
rnanufecturing and mineral products of the
State is over $101,000.600, 404111St$72,C00f"
000, in 1880, and that the whole revenue of
the State from agriculture. manufactures,
mines and quarries in 1860, with alave
labor, was only S54,000,000.
A. NeW TITO 01* Hone.
The (Chicago) lfrestern Pura& flays :
"Senator Palmer, of Michigan, it is aid, is
about to try the experiment of breeding
pure Arabian horns with Peroherons hop-
ing thereby to raise in this country athreed
of horses superior to anything we tow have.
E. W. Cottrell, the superintendent of Sena-
tor Palmer's fine farm near Detroit, sailed
from New York on Wednesday last on the
Allen Ile will land at Southampton and
from their go to LePerelie, in France, the
home of the celebrated Pert:heron horse.
Mr. Cottrell will purchase at La Pantie
thirty or forty Percheron stallions and mares
for Senator Palmer's farm. These horses
will not be imported until spring, but Mr.
Palmer's agent goets thus early to secure the
pick of the market. Mr. Cottrell will also
conault M. Charles Du Hays, tho head os the
Bureau of Hippgnes in the Department of
Agriculture of France, as to the best method
of transporting Arabian horses from Damas-
cus to Marseilles, whence they can be taken
to Havre for shipment to America with the
Percherors. If Mr. Cottrell receives en-
couraging information'from M. Da Hays re-
garding the easy transportation of horses
from Arabia he will go to Jerusalem, and,
with one United States Conant there, Mr.
Henry Gilman, go over to Damascus. There
he will purchase five full-blooded Arabian
horses and return with them to France and
the United States.
"Senator Palmer has an idea that by long
and intelligent in -breeding a new type of
horse may be created, or the best quality of
the old type rmenforced by the crossing of
the Arab horse upon the Percheron mare,
and vice versa. If his experiments warrant
it he will continue in -breeding. If Senator
Palmer's agent finds that the transhipment
of horses from the Datna,sous seaboard to
Marseilles is impracticable he will go to
Tangiers and see what can be done toward
securing the barb or .Arab horses there. He
expects to have no trouble in purchasing the
fine animals he desires. All the thorough-
bred horses in Arabia are owned by the war
chiefs and the 'wealthy and distinguished
citizens. This is the reason thatthe coarser,
inferior breeds are never reared. The cele-
brated Arab horses had their origin in the
district of Nejd, the very place where they
are to be found to -day. Capture in war,
gift or legacy are the only recognized modes
of transfer of the horses. Hence the com-
mercial export of Nejd horses has never
been established. All works that have bean
written about Arabia and the celebrated
horses say that he is a deceiver who over
boasted of having purobased a horse there.
A few' the Arabians admit, have o been
carriedacross the frontier by war victors
and a few given as presents to distinguished
people. The prohibition of the exportation
of Nejd horses is nothing more than a sys-
tem of monopoly. by a protective system,
and no one seems to gam by it. Senator
Palmer has given a great amount of study
to the subject of breeding thoroughbreds.
• His agent has deailedinstructions, and
they hope to bring to this country for breed-
ing purposes some of the fin est Arabian
horses existing."
Bismarck at lIonee.
As we aro all interested to know Borne -
thing of the private life and habits of the
great men who rule nations, we give our
readers the beuefit of some pen-pieturee
which appeared in Harper'o lfriqazine some
time ego, but will be road anew With pleas-
ure, since, at this OTIS, our thoughts are
turned SO frequently toward Germany and
its singularly powerful chancellor.
The writer of the article referred to
states, that while a desire to know some-
tlaing.of the inner life ef our great content-
porartee may look like euriosity, rtle an
amiable curiosity, for'as a rule, it ie coo.
nectecl with a desire tee one who has been
successful in great things, fortuaate in, mall
things en well, and happy In his home fife,
Bismerek in his honi 18 net the man of
bleed and iron which, many people suppon
him to be, By his wise obome of a wife be
established for himself a happy home
which his domestic nature has received 4
manifold and fruitful development, Die
wife is nine years younger than leer hus-
band, and was the daughter of a quiet, god-
ly Pomeranian home, She was strictly and
pionely brought nee but is of a cheerful and
lively disposidon, endowed with 4 cm -
Blamable amount of motherevia, and pea-
sessecl of, excellent Mete. She 18 4 fine
reaniet, and 4 eareful and thrifty housewife.
During all these yeara she has shared Wel-
ligently her huebeael's hopes and, cares, ewe
tt e political oneat
Diemarek never negiecta his wife WhOn
away frata the elty on official duties. In
his letters he addresses ber as darling'
(mein Rem), "MY hest beloved. mete
her jeemine from Peterhof ;he promieee her
edelweiss from Gaetein. From the royal
matte at Olen he hide her "geeehnight form
far away,' end recalls the time when the
brought surmising into his baelreler life, toed
lenge for her and their children. The Pewee
hes three ohildren—a daughter. the Coon.
teas Mary, who was born la 1848, and. mar.
Tied eight years aluce Count Betutzan, and
two sons,Counts Herbert and William—the
eldest iathe diplometie service, The Prince
has several grandchildren, sturdy little fel-
lows, who eceeeioeally pay a omit to their
gretelfather's paleee.
Pringe Bismarelt is /34 deeply religious men.
When he began to take AU 40tIVO part in
politics, he did SO with the conviction that
C'bristianity WS aAria hula ark egainat the
revolutionary epirit of the age, and the feel -
g that, midden the dome and troubles
by whigh he NM surromided, 18 God imbed
re support and a never -fading source al
tit And caueolidien. Re has a motto
mantelpiece, under the eagle of
AU Empire, t'lly etrength 18 18 the
ed."
There are tracee of superstition in Ble.
marek. He does not like to have any ene
euggeott what that be done atter a certain
Inquest. Re once mid undereuch einem-
team, "We alrould not *peak of the bear.
kin until we have that our hear. I admit
thet I am auperatitions in them mattere,"
Re never liked to eit at table with thirteen,
to 'undertake a uew thiug on Friday,
nor even to go hunting on teat day. Be
hesitated, a long time to accept the title
Count, became lie knew that a eunther of
Pomeranian families who had acquired that
title had become extinct in a. short time, aud
appreciating how much Germaity needed
bra eervices, he Kid, "The country cannot
Vora it."
The Prince le extremely fond of nature, of
beautiful landscapes, of country sports, the
life of the woods and fields, Ho tele himself
that he loves the ace like a aweetheart. He
wrote once to his roister while in the midat
of many cane, "1 am regularly homesick,
and. long for the country ani the woods,
and nothing to do with the am
ppropriate a
compuniments of, a lovieg wife, and Mee,
well-conducted children,,And again, in
1804, to his wife: I wish ammo intrigue
or other would bring another ministry into
power, an that I could honorably turn my
back on this never, ceasing ink -stream and
live quietly in the country. Tho restless-
ness of existence is embeArable. It la no life
for an honed country gentleman."
The account of his life, when for a time
he leaves the cares of state and revels in the
delights of his old home in Pomerania, or
his seat in the heart of the Sachsenwald,
are delightful. His love of animals is well
known, and his pleasures in the chase, and
in horse exercise. Bi a Danish hound be -
CAIRO quite a prominent character, and
among his pets he has had four half -tamed
foxes, and several young bears. He was a,
fine marksman, and acquired in his early
days a reputation as a sportsman in nearly
every country of Europe. His collected
trophies in the shape of antlers and skim;
for his walls and rooms are many aud yarn,
CMS.
The Chancellor is not an eloquent speaker
and has not an exalted opinion of orators.
Be said, speaking of them: "When a man
has the misfortune to be an orator, he makes
speeches which meta) long and too frequent
The gift of eloquence has done a great deal
of harm in parliamentary life for every one
who thinks he is able to spelle must have
his say whether he has anything worth con-
tributing to the discussion or not. The con-
sequence will be that elcquence will come
to be looked upon as a public nuisance, and
will be punished accordingly, when it is
guilty of a long speech."
veer
Historical and geographical subjects have
a special attraetion for the Prince, while he
reads' much on social and Cajon cau otioas.
He is quite a Mimi's% speoalcing with fluency
severalanguages, and exceedingly fond. of
Shakespeare and Goethe. Be talks little
on art or artists, and his homes are furnish-
ed in the simpleststyle,with rather a:notice-
able lack of fine pictures. He enjoys
music with real German delight, and is ap-
preciative of his wife's musical abililties,
writing of her, "1 long for you and the
children, blended with the sunset and Beeth-
oven,"
As a diplomatist Bismarck keeps a good
table, but usually eats but one meat a day,
and a very hearty one, after six o'clock in
the evening. He was formerly an inveter-
ate smoker, and ono traveled from Cologne
to Berlin, and smoked all the way "mit
einem Better,' 1. ea lighting each cigar from
the one he had just finished. But after
1870 he gradually gave up cigars, on account
of his health, and smoked a long pipe 18 -
stead; and in 1881 he gave up smoking al-
together, convinced that it was harmful to
him.
For a quarter of a century the most mo-
mentous questions in the history of Ger-
many, with its problems itiad enigmas, its
entanglements, excitements and dangers,
have been worked out in his busy brain, and
have all been taken anxiously to heartIn
the course of a conversation at the table in
April, 1878he called himaelf "an old man"
whereupon the Princess, remoeatrating
with him, said,: "But you are only sixty
three,"
"Yes," he replied, "but I have lived
fast, and cash m hand." Then he added,
"Dy cash in hand,' I mean that I have
always done what .1 had to do with my
whole heart, and 1 have paid with my heAlth
and strength what I have attained,
His yearly income, ten :meta gime. as
Chan eller of the German Empire, was
513,500, while as Prime Minister of Prus-
sia he had no salary. De ponessve a4011'•
enterable goautity of landed property, TM
Emperor, Some yaws einee, preeeuted hira
with Saelmenwald, an estate of twenty
thousand acres, which had. previously been
crown land, and was eovered for the moat
Part with magnificent :beech forest. The
Chancellor understands farmiug and foreet
culture), and hag achtleyed considerable
eueeese al the management of his estates,
making groat improvemente uptat them all, '
illustrating in this the maxim, "when
nature oda not, then Clio mast," whicb in
many instances be haa put into prectice 18
other spleeree.
'retrain Defined,
We have received from a subectiber e re,
quest to deane Commercial:7 ohm and Unre-
rioted Reciproeity with the Vatted States,
and also to distiegoish between CcaninexciAl
Union and Annexation.
Commercial Union would require a emu -
men tariff with dinner duties cellectal at
theports of the united countries on impor-
tationa teem the rest a the world, mid with
Wel freedom of canmerce beeween them,
so the* they would in oemmerciel neettnee
become QUO couati•y, and ultimetely ona
country politically.
Unreetrieted Reciproeity, so far an it le
not used merely to centime ideas, would
eeena to imply free trede between the two
two countries, in all their owe produeM
whether natural or manufactured.
would not be wothable ia practice with.
oat a similarity of tariff, and thia weuld
mean thAt Geoede woad luive to allow the
taria to he framed and altered by the Veit,
ed Siatea elateet without check, for la both
couatriee the rule of the majority is the law,
aud a miteority ef oue twelfth ef the joialt
populetiou ceuld not teptct ite viewa to
prevail over therm of the eleven-zwelftbe,
Cernmerciel *Calm ie dietieguiebeel from
ADI3eXatiOU in *het 18 18 only Annexation for
mettere of cemonerce, trade manufaeturing
and kiudred affairs, Ail 18 covers the most
iennortent worldly iutereats of a people, it
differklittle in practice from complete Annex-
ation, le whieh, unleee there laae been a
rupture and a war, it hats alwaye marled.
Saved, by a Firm Juror.
It bus been demonetrated that the Btu •
born juror, who dieegreed. with the other
eleven, has owed the life of an innocent
num. In the fall of 1St,7 a. man named
Bigler was doing beelines in hiswirets name,
at Ingram- Laudirg, La:queue county,
hlisa., and hie rival for trade was a man
named Bickert. The rivalry wearer etroug
as to create conmeot, but Bigler got the
tion'seliare of tbe trade. Bigler lived in
the rear of the store of hie wife, and one
night the stare was burned. The fire was
the work of an incendiary, and Bickert was
indicted for arson, the penalty for which is
death.
The feeling againet West* WAS etrong,
although ho deltic d his guilt. Hie pitiable
condition, however, endued the spinpathies
of If. L. Mover in his behalkwho went on
his bond. The case went to trial at Mayers.
vide during the January term of the Crim-
inal Court in 1W7, and Although the prison-
er was ably defended, circumstantial evi-
dence was produced which canoe near hang-
ing him, the jury etandirg eleven for guilty
and ono for acquittal. But tbia ono stuck
to his conviction of the innocence of the ac-
cused, and the judge finally discharged the
jury and ordered anew trial.
Last August, 2r1r. Mayer received a let.
ter from a man in Ohio who confessed that
it was he who fired the atore. The man
haa been located, but now denies his guilt.
His letter of confession, hoeover, and otbor
letters which ho acknowledges having writ.
ten are in the hands of the (dicers, and es-
tablish his identity as the writer of both.
The court in Mayersville, which meet'
next week, will solve the matter.
Fast Horses of 188'T.'
The record smashing of the thoroughbreds
during 1887 will compare favorably with the
performancea of previous years. Maud S.
has not been dethroned, and. 2.0$O still
marks the trotters' top notch. Phallas,
carrying 2.13O on his banner, maintains su-
premacy among. the stallion% and J. I. C.
still remain the =Mats of the man owning
the greeted of the geldings. The average
time, however, leas been lowered percepti-
bly. Sudie D. broke the yearling record, to
be in turn displaced by California's Nor-
laine. Among the three-year olds 2.20 gave
place to 2,18, and Sable Wilkes had the hon-
or of pulling it down. The pacers did not
get lower than 2.10, and Johnson's 2.06i is
still good. Running. races :have received
more attention than it any previous year.
The slate -smashing was as follows: Kings.
ston carrying 118 pounds", eeven-eights mile
in 1:27i; the Chicago stable's Little Minch
ran fifteen -sixteenths of a mile in 1.35,
carrying 107 pounds; Stuyvesant ran a mile
in 1.39h against time and 1.40 in a race;
Joe Cotton ran a mile and three -sixteenth
in 2.00e ; Dry Monopole ran a mile and a
quarter in 2.07.
According to the dying request of a
woman in Nashville, her new bonnet was
buried in the coffin with her. So the under
taker says.
• Some idea of the extent of the rabbit pest
in New South Wales may be gathered from
the fact that during the month of September
last those engaged in the work of destruction
produced no less than 2,607,723 scalps, and
yob the number of rabbits was found to be
increasing on upwards of 600 blocks visited.
On the holdings inspected 3,500 men are en-
gaged in the slaughter, but the number is
wholly insufficient. The Minister of Mines
has had under his consideration 386 inveze
tions for the extermination of the pest, and a
device for preventing the arrival of fresh
supplies of rabbits coming from neighboring
colonies has already been adopted. This is a
"rabbit -proof barrier," a line of which has
been erected on the Queensland border and
another on the South Australian border. It
is proposed that the colonies shall make a
combined offer of a reward of E100,000 to
anyone discovering a sure, speedy and safe
means of getting rid of the pest The rabbit
le a live issue in Australia.
SNARED A BEAR, SURE ENOUGH
The City limes True 'Worked, and 'mere
wee acne or Excitement.
Nedronwooa, Ilitenienin Comae, N. Y.,
ecember 26.—The miming of the snow 'to
North Woods peeple is like the arrival Of a
golden tinge on tee fickle of .grain la most
other farming communities—it denotethe
Arrival of the harvest season, the crop here
being epruce and herniae and birch toes,
and the mill pond of Mr. Wit is the place
where the haeveet is etored. Mr. Odit, he,
aides owning the "taw -mill, serves the peo-
ple as Pedometer emdruus a. general store.
After the farmers have rolled their loge
into the pond tiny generally sitop at the
store to lay in supplies aad melte a pipe of
tehaeco beside the dove, Dere they tell
dories of their experience§ in the wands.
"Talkitog about trapping bears," old
laDgeeaoakeialltd Vint, 4( slid you ever hear of Auer -
Ne one had ever heard. of snarteg anythie
larger than rabbits.
"Well, .1 never did, eithora()WY odde•
Do you remember when livedup the other
side of Ed Wilkineenhi in that log Mime en
the left i3Me of the road ? Yee ? Well,
uted to get city folks there every aunimer,
who came for iresh Air and tram. It was
040 of those city lotto that did amending:"
"Do you mean to eaer hecaught a bear in
Silater Pelted Peettedeter Odtt,
"That's whatel do," old Vint.. "It's
about five years ago le -et spring. That
fellow mime font Utio, banging eine
nimbi full of duff along to try experiments
with, as lie f aid. One ex.peruneoe sees the
bear mere. I told him le wouldn'e work,
hat he welled as it he couldn't help being
unwed at my ignorance, but dide't IVA% 0
hert my feelluge, and I laid te myeelf
*I Fueee you deeetknownruchtebout bears."
*He asked me selsere 4 likely lace ler
bears could be found, and 1 told lame Ahead
a, bit of swamp back of the Immo A mile or
au with 4 la44411104 ridge adjoining. There
wee an old trail miming out there, and 40 it
WAS jUSt the place for a stranger.. So he
wait to his trueh alai got out a coil of stout
brute wire, strong enough eo hold up a too
and 4 six -feet pogo of Wert matilte rope
aucia bottle of tell oil, Then we went to
the barn, where be cut MT a nix foot elab
and bared a twodeoll bole in the middle.
Taking a keen ropikee er en and an axe,
witla the wire *pd rope, and a dank of
bacon sweetened with the fish oil tar bait,
we eterted into the WOOS. Near the wrap
we fouutl a big hitch, with the note spread-
ing out du all dinette's% and a, stout *Peeling
handy by, The city chap spiked the alab,
remain aide down, acme the roots, so
that the augur hole was alutoet plumb.
Then he tied A knot in Saead of the rote,
and onother a foot er eo up, and, fastened
QUO end of the wire good and str000
around the rope above the second knot.
The rest of the with he formed into a,
drat -clam, three.foot noose. He then put
the knot on the end. of the rope down
through the hide in the slab, and stuck a
short peg that fitted pretty tight up in be-
side it and, of couple, aatlitngeould pull the
ope up through the CM until the peg
dropped out or the knot.gavo way. To the
peg he faetened the batt, and then set the
nom so anything getting the bait would
have to step through the noose, or at least
put its head through. The next thing was
to hand down a atout sapliag after trim-
miug'sofr the branches, and matte the top
fast to the end of the rope. Wo had to
work pretty hard to get tho sapling fast to
the rope, but when at was done wo had the
biggest snare set I ever saw befo.e. or Educe.
All the bear bad to dowas to grab the bacon
and pull out the peg, when the saplingwould
hoist oil the rope and life that bear clear of
everything."
" Itworeed, did it,?" mid thoPoetmanter."
"It did, it did ; but I don't act any more
imam for suoh animals. The city chap was
up bright and early next day to go out and
look at the snare! and I don't mind aa.ying
I was a little curious about it myself. We
took our guns. without waiting for break-
fast, and put for the snare. When we got
within twenty-five rodner so weatoppedand
listened, and, sure enough, there was a
rumpus of some kind around that snare. I
cautioned the city chap, who was for rush-
ing right up, and we crept up slowly, with
the wind, as luck would have it, right in
our faces. The brush was pretty thiok and.
we getup within above twelve rods of the
thing before we had a square view. There,
sure enough was an old she bear about twice
as big as anything we had expected to find:
so heavy in fact, that no sapling we could
handle could do more than ruse her four
legs clear of the ground. She was standing
on her hind legs, with her nose and. paws in
the air, and turning and waltzing about in
a ridiculous way while she just made the
woods ring in her rage.
" I was so astonished that I could not
speak, but the other fellow took off his hat
and said:
" Whomop 1 but dtdn't I tell you so ?I'
" Gosh ! If I had been astonished before
I was more so after he shouted. That old,
she bear just stopped her waltzing, and
turning her head gave us one look, and the
next moment she was clawing her way
over the around toward us and frothingat
the mouth in a way to make your hair raise.
Then I saw she wasn't in the snare at alt;
so did the city man, and he started on th
run for home. I let drive at the brute with
my rifle and missed her through having a
touch of buck fever myself, and then I
started after the city man just as fast as I
could leg it, leaving the rifle behind. It
wasn't an even race as anybody knows that
ever saw a bear shuffle heraelf across the
country in a hurry, and she was gaining two
to one when the fellow ahead dropped his gun
"'What a fool to throw his gun down,'
I thought to myself, and then I thought how
I'd dropped my own gun, and that made me
laugh, and then my scare was over. I pick-
ed up h, is gun and shot the bear through the
ba
The listeners laughed.
"So you snared her with a bullet, after
all," said Mr. Odit.
' "Snare nothing. It wasn't the old bear
that got in the snare at all, don't you see,
but one of her cubs. The little beast pulled
the peg out, and the snare lifted him so high
that we never noticed him when we saw the
old bear. She was up on her hind legs try-
ing to think how in creation she could get
the cub down, and we were so much excited
that we never realized that she didn't have
any wire around her till she began to make
tracks with the claws our way. After we
made dee that the old one was dead, we
went back and got the cub and took him out
alive. The snare had him around the body
behind the forelegs', and hadn't hurt him a
bit. We came out all right; atil,1, I an not
sinning bears any more."
TAIIIING WILD BEASTS.
now Itions, 'niers end Oilier Ferocious
Annuals are 'refight to Obey tlielf
'keepers.
Some of the beasts that are to take the
place of theme recently destroyed i/A the
burning of Baraureht circus quarters at
Bridgeport, COA.0., have arrived, and ethers
are expected, That the new lot man be.
come tractable and sufficiently tamed for
keepers to enter the dens and brave the
fierce animate a season of training it About
to be entered upon. Next semen numerous
dens of these wild. beasts will be toted aortem
the country to histriiet the lovers ef neutral
history. To the titnid beholder the daring
set of riding through the anent cned up m
a liou'a ie blood -curdling. Tiaehpan,
gled keeper in 4 lion's den and, the insitetion
Indian ina dea of wolves are, the hethee of
the hour, hut could the timid spectater
koow thettliere was ready no aothal dan-
ger the procession would be devoid of ite
anguinary allurements. Tlie training in
simple,persistent an4 effective. The king
of heaste when compered is like 4 latab,
end the young lion* are tented one at a
time.
For several days the animal is well fed:
He is zempeed to thrust bia forepaws out in
front of the den, Over them is slipped a
nom, 0Pd the feet are then *only lied
down, The lion At rive begios to roar and
thrash his tail and hind legs about the cage.
Atter a time he Ode SIQWo and the
keeper enters the den. Witha dexterous
amain's; a beg is drawn down over the
lion's head, Tee keeper sometimes UP^
atridea isa beck, and holds Ide eeet by tight,
ening his lege 4400414 the Inely and graving
the name of thQ anima In the 11444 VOV.
ming is malty a eponge, getureted with
eight fiancee et chloroferna The lion will
try to abehe oft' the liteepv; ;bat ier power.
leee when hia fore paws are toed down, In
moment or two the beeet becomee UnCen-
clans, Other traluere then enter the den.
Geeet, attention and ceee ie exerchied over
the phleatioee of the Hetet; heart. The
pulse in felt uutler the lower jaw the ewe
ea in 4 hem. it ie dangerous 10 ethenixe
or hloreforon an :mined of the lot specie*
*00 rely, and the Inetant the puteetione
become at all feeble the doe has to be
lightened.
When the keeper become eatieded that
the animal 18 00400400444 tiley. begin opera.
doom upon his teeth, The emontta.bieuepiele
aud tumsore'tare mat c ff. It mimeo greet
dexterity to how how Inc iu the crown to
cat without laying the nerve hue, After
the (operations en the teeth are finished, the
keeper eltpe the ele,we. and lea few momenta
the lion is bereft of hiti leathered clans. A
heavy collar and chain are faeteued Around
his net, k mod evame he comes to ceurciouneess
he Ls a very differeut beast than beferc.
The keepers will enter the cege atatort
Intervale :after this mod ebould the lion at,
tempt to spring the clactin Teter& hint and
*18 keeper at WO adminiateee a ebenprepe
with a maidtle whip. The lion, depraved
in teeth and dente eon become* cow -
Ile is kept well fed and if Mee
ferocious is drugged until he !newton end
ce his keepor'e presence in the cage.
Tigers are more ditlicult th conquer.
Their teeth and, clawa are eut off in a emuler
urnmer to them of the lion. Tiger* aro
more treacherous, mod will eplirg at re
keeper rinexpeetedly and vailioUt any were,
ieg..whatever. They are drugged and kept
chanted for 4 Icing time, and awn ilegged
into subraiesion.
Leoperds and paathere are oldie, tamed.
With the wolf and the hyena the keopera
fear only the teeth. They are "dog -footed,'
and do not strike like a cat animal. Their
teeth are cut, and a good dub will do the
rest.
The operation upon the long tusks of the
baboon le to 'minim and apparently so in-
humane tie to call for Henry Bergh's inter-
ference. The keeper will secure it baboon's'
paws and. legs aud draw the creature close
up to the bars of his oge. The head will
be tied also. After he is made fast his long
twits aro awed off. The baboon is aubject
to toothache, and ilia teeth are extremely
sensitive. When the aaw cuta through to
the nerve the pm beast will utter tho most
piercing shrieks and bottle. To allay the
pain, toothache drops of oil of cloves, oil of
cajeput and chloroform are poured in the
teeth and ter rubbed on to keep out the air.
After the operation is over the keeper re.
treats, the fastening is removed aua the ba-
boon allowed to recover. After such an
operation a baboon seldom shows a disposi-
tion to attack a man. It is, therefore, not
so wonderful after all that the man-eaters
and all sorts of carnivorous animals are
paraded through the streets with keepers
among them. Timid people should take
heart and remember that animals clipped,
drugged and ehained in cages are not cos
nand of such ferocioue instincts as therm of
their native wilds.
Engl. - king.
The eagles of Northern. Scotland are de.
structive to fawns and lambs. An ad
writer, describing the Western Islands of
Scotland, says the black eagle fixes its talons
between the deer's horns, and beating its
wings about the animal s eyes, causes the
animal to run till it falls over a precipice,
when it becomes 0 prey to the CUAlling
hunter.
• A more modern author tells an anecdote
of an eagle which was torn apart by its
prey. On the edge of a, wood, at the base
of Craig Tollie, an eagle pounced upon a
roe -deer, and deeply fixed its talons in the
poor beast's aide.
The roe, taking to the wood, was near
crushing the eagle against the trees. The
eagle clutched at a branch with the claws of
one foot, still holding on to the roe with the
other foot. But the speed of the deer was
so great that the bird was torn in two. One
part of its- body was found fixed to the deer,
and the other in the tree. The deer died
from loss of blood.
The author, to support the credibility of
the anecdote quotes from a writer on Rus-
sian Asia, wile says the Kirghiz train eagles
to fly at wolves. A strap of stout leather is
fastened round each leg of the bird, allow-
ing ten inches play.
When the wolf is sighted the eagle is
flown. As soon as the bird seizes the ani-
mal it plants one foot firmly in his loins and
drags the other along the ground, clutching
at stones, weeds, anything that gives a little
bold.
Should the wolf turn, the eagle peeks at
his eyes with its powerful beak. The pow-
erful drag on the animal's back causes him
to go so slowly that the hunter easily over-
takes him. Riding up, he despatches the
wolf with his riding -whip or knife. The
strap is used to prevent the dgle being torn
asunder.