Daily American organ., 1856-05-13


WAsmSoroN, d O., May Z, 1856.
rfi.0f From the Westminster Review. s; Bird
The Loves ofthe Lions. sgaa
Let US first sketch the history of the lions life
beginning with his marriage, which takes place to-
ward the end OF January. He has first to seek a
wife; but the males are far abundant than
the females who are often cut off in infancy Il is
not rare to find a yorng lady pestered by three or
four gallants who quarrel with the acerbity ofjea-
II lous lovers. II one of them does not succeed in
disabling or driving away the others, madame, i'm
patient and dissatisfied leads them into the pres
ence Of an old lion, whose she has appreciated
at distance. The lovers fly at him with the te-
merity Of youth and evaporation. The old fellow
receives them with calm assurance, breaks the
.4 neck of the first with his terrible jaws smashes
the leg of the second and tears the eyes Of the
third. No sooner is the day won, and the field
clear, than the lion tosses his in the air and
roars, and then cronches by the side Of the lady,
who, as reward for his courage, licks his wounds
earessingly. When two adult lions are the rivals,
the encounter is serious
An Arab, perched a tree one night, a
loness followed by tawny Hon with full grown
name; she lay down at the foot of the tree, the
lion stopped on his path and seemed to listen. The
- Arab then heard the distant growing of lion,
which instantly replied to by the lioness under
the tree. This made her husband roar fdriously.
The distant lion was heard approaching and AZ he
rearer the lioness roared louder, which seem
ed to agitate her husband, for he marched towards
her If to force her be SILENT and then sprang
back to his old post, roaring defiance at his distant
,Hrival. This continued for about an hour, when
lo black lion made his appearance on the plain. The
lioness arose. rs if to go towards him. but her
usband guessing her intention, bounded towards
ts his rival The two crouched and sprang on each
other rolling on the grass in the embrace Of death.
ars Their bones cracked, their flesh was torn, the
cries of rage and excrutiating agony rent the air.
and all this time the loness crouched and wagged
her tail slowly In egn of satisActiOn u When the
= combat ended and both warriors were stretched
!, Il the plain, she rose, smelt them, and satisfied
h,rsef they We're dead, and trotted off quite re-
gardless Of the uncomplimentary epithet which the
!. indignant Arab shouted after her. This, Gerard
tells US, is an example of the conjugal fidelity Of
my lady, whereas the lion never quits his wife, nm
y less forced, and is quite pattern of conuga hde
ity F1E8
Our lion, then, is married, let us say He is the
saye Of his wife. 1t is she who always takes pre-
cedence; when she stops he stops On arriving
Mt donr 1.-THE collection Of tents-what is called
vllage,) for their supper, she lies down while he
leaps into the enclosure and brings to her the
booty. He watches her while she eats, taking
that no one shall disturb her; and not until
her appetite is satisfied does he begin his meal
When she feels that she is about to become mo-
'ther, 1. e. toward the middle Of December. thew
seek Isolated ravine and there, without the aid
Of choroforn or DIR, Locock, she presents her lord
with one, two, and sometimes three puppies ger I
orally one male and one female. If the reader has
ever seen and handled puppy lion, he will under
stand the father aud the mother. She never quits
them for an instant and he only quits them to
bring home supper, When they are three months
old their weaning commences.a The mother ac
customs them gradually to il, by sbsenting herself
for longer and longer periods, and brings them
pieces of mutton carefully skinned The father
whose habitual demeanor is grave, becomes ktigued
by the frivolous sports of his children and for the
sake of tranquility removes his lodgings to dis
tance, within reach however, TO render assistance
if required E4s.as,4 attaT fF&
At the age of four or Eve months their children
follow their mother to the border Of the forest
where the father bring them their supper At six
months old they accompany their father and
mother in all nocturnal expeditions From eight
TO twelve months they learn to attack sheep,
80 goats, and even bulls but they are 10 awkward
that they usually wound ten for one tn y kill 1t
is not till they two years old that they can kill
horse or bull with one bite. While their edu-
cation is thus in progress they ten times more
ruinous to the Arabs, since the family does not
content itself with killing the cattle required for
ri its own consumption. but Kills that tie children
80 may learn how to kin At three years old the
children quit home shd set up for themeelvss bs-
coming fathers and &others in their turn. Their
places are occupedN another brood. At eight
+ years oid the lion Haches maturity, and lives to
tn'rty or Iorty; When adult he d magnificent
Creature, very different in size aspect and siispo
~ asition from the lions to be seen in menaseriee
and sociological gsrdens--snimals taken from the
Y mothers breast, bred like rabbits, deprived of the
fresh mountain air. AZ an Indication Of the size
ttained by lions in a state ef nature we NAV cite
toe iact mentioned by Gerard, lhas the strongest
"a man IN the cavalry regiment . tfksA he belonged
I'D was unable 70 carry the skin and ssd ~ the lion
which Gerard had killed .1ph ss'---
5gq8 sFei8s srq 7sE-- -- ---- - --a- Foa sai4s.
y y has been my fortune to lore in general sbsss
men most Who have thought most differently from
me on suh5ecis wherein others pardon - diacord.
.a ancs In my opinion have no more right TO 81
s., angry With msq whose resson haS lonowed M Z
proce~ diherent from what mine hSA, ead l. satis
Ned with the reeuk, than with one Who has gene
4 80 70 verice while am st F1ornce. and Who rritss
Or 70 me tpas ne likes the place and that although
sshs said once he shsud sst>s elssehsse IL s6SII1
reside In that city.--LArpos