Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

We mentioned some days since the importation into Baltimore of eleven Camels from the Canary Islands. From an article in the New York Herald we learn that they are the property of Messrs. Sands & Howes, the enterprising and well known circus proprietors of that city, who are about establishing an overland route to California. Their first caravan will leave Independence, Mo., early in June, direct for San Francisco. Messrs. S. & H. have already thirty-one of these useful animals in this country, and are daily looking for the arrival of a vessel at New Orleans, from Algiers, which has on board twenty-two more, making in all a stock of over fifty. A number of the camels have been selected with great care as brood stock. It is said that a caravan of upwards of twenty will leave each point once a month during the year.