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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.