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Tag Archives: Women/All-Ages

Elephant Laborers.

It would be too long to relate all the uses to which elephants are applied in Burma. Let us watch them at work among the woodyards where the logs of the tickwood tree, which come floating down the river, are plied. Every working elephant is mounted by a driver called a “cornac,” whose principal business […]

Herr Driesbach. (Big Cats)

This celebrated lion-tamer is now living upon a beautiful farm within a mile of Potosi, Wis. He was recently in Dubuqe, Iowa, and went with a companion to a menagerie there, and the latter describes the visit in the following, interesting style; On entering the canvass, which was before the audience began to collect, Herr […]

Black Lion.

A black lion has lately been added to the collection of animals in the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris. Lions of this color are found only in the interior of the Sahara, and are scarce even there.

First Elephant In America.

How Moses Smith’s Eccentric Notion Made a Fortune for Another Man. It is not generally known that a former citizen of Owensboro brought across the ocean the first elephant that was ever in America, says the Owensboro (Ky.) Inquirer. The name of the gentleman was Moses Smith, who at one time owned a vast body […]

The Lion-Tamer’s Job.

One Who Has Been Bitten Forty-Seven Times During His Dangerous Career. “Eternal vigilance is the price of immunity from bites,” said a lion tamer recently to a New York Telegraphman. “Although my lions do not often catch me, they do with a frequencey sufficient for all practical purposes. Within three months I have been bitten […]

Easy To Teach Blackbird.

Is a Natural Imitator and Responds Quickly to Training-Its Memory Strong. The blackbird, which belongs to the thrush family, has strong imitative powers, and has even been taught to speak. There is not much variety in its natural song, but its voice has a pure, flute-like tone and full volume. The bird is very susceptible […]

City Is Being Invaded By Army Of Enormous Rats Which Are Doing No End Of Damage In City.

In One Instance the Foundations of a Modern House on the North Side Have Been Seriously Undermined by the Rodents-Up to Now Worst on North Side. It develops that Waukegan has been invaded by an army of large rats which promises to develop a most serious condition, especially on the North Side where the pests […]

Mexican Plague Of Field Mice

Manzanillo reports that a plague of mice has visited the fields in that section of Colima and almost destroyed the corn and rice crops. The rodents have gnawed away at a rate that alarmed the farmers and they have appealed to the authorities for some means to exterminate them. Whole fields of corn have been […]

Dog Saves A Child.

Carries Three-Year-Old Florence Rogers Through Flames. The hero of the fire brigade along the border between Yuba and Butte counties, Cal., is a great Dane, that fought his way through the flames bearing in his jaws the living body of 3-year-old Florence Rogers. The parents of the child, when the alarm of fire was given, […]

Big Goat Ranch.

Missouri is to Have the Largest Goat Farm in the world. The Frisco Livestock Company was organized in St. Louis for the purpose of maintaining an Angora ranch near Cuba, Mo., on the Frisco Railroad. The ranch will embrace 30,000 acres of timbered land. It will be stocked with 35,000 goats brought from New Mexico, […]