Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-11-03


of those countries as actually more dan
gerous to meet than the tiger of the Jun
giles. This fact is well authenticated
by many Euglish hunters in Ceylon and
India-lhe English sportsman thereway,
TO make sure Of him, use large bore
rife, with iron or copper balls. 1t is
always found in the marshes and grassy
glades Of the Jungle forests of the hot
coast of Ceylon. the Bay of Bengal,
Siam. Cochin China, the large islands of
the Archipelago and the Southern coun-
tries in great numbers. 1t is about one-
quarter larger than the American Bison,
has very thick skin of blush color,
sprinkled with short coarse hair, and a
very ugly, wicked physiognomy, illumin'
a,ed with reddish eyes of most devilish
aspect-its mouth has pair of thick
lips, which can assume curl, malignant
and wretched, surprising the like OF
anything of vice and scornful hatred of
the base part of humanity.
However, like the civilized and wild
Arab outlaw, the Buffalo of the Orient
can be captured, conqared, disciplined,
and finally tanned and domesticated 10
carry the yoke of labor and civilization;
he then becomes a useful servant 10 man,
and leads the plough over the tough soil
with greater strength and ability than
any other animal, excepting the ele-
phant.
1t has a hump near the shoulders,
which, with the tongue, are the only
parts eaten by Europeans-the remain
der of lis flesh being coarse and rather
strong in flavor. It's food is plantain
leaves and succulent swamp grasses
its life and pleasure is among the marsh
es and pools of river banks and thick for
ests. In the rutting season it is fero-
cious, even in the tame state-in the
wild state, it will often attack tigers
and elephants. 1t has been used as a
draught animal in the countries before
mentioned from time immemorial; its
strength, stubbornDess and indocility
greatly exceeded that of the Buffalo of
the Great Prairie of Western America
The habits of the Oriental brute are en-
tirely and distinctly different from the
noble animal of our accidental plains.
which we fear will become entirely ex-
tinct from the earth, if The Western
fronliersmen DO not within few yea rs
corral and tame them to the use Of civili-
zation. To effect this, every facility is
now being opened by the onward march
of colonization and the settlement into
those intermiBable patsoral ranges, which
are destined 10 sustain and support mil
lions of men, who promise to be the very
sinew and back bone of our great en-
pire, when the fevered, enervated, and
vicious populations of the Mississippi and
the Atlantic have forgotten the whole
some lessons of primitive faith and integ-
rity with which Washington and our
homespun forefathers cemented the foun
da;ions of the fabric, which only in the
days of their first descendants has reared
itself before the eyes of the world in
such colossal proportions. For in these
countries, and thence to the Pacific, the
land is one fit to form societies inteilectu-
al, healthtul, active, vigorous and bold
men at once cuItivators, hunters, beast
tanners, and .subjugators Of savage tribes
-and may happn to lick up with over
whelming clouds; like fire the dry grass
of the prairies; the crazy factions whose
embryo eggs are now being laid in every
foul nation, to hatch into crocodile exis-
tence as soon as the foul breath of am
biiion shall quicken with its heat the vile
life wilhin.-Saa Francisco Herald.
A MoTHER's INFLUENcE.-How touch
ing the tribute of the Hon. 7. H. Ben
ton, to his mothers influence:
"My mother asked me never to use
tobacco, and | have never touched it
from that time to the present day; she
asked me not to game, and have never
gained, and | cannot tell wEo is winning
and who is losing in games that can be
played. She admonished me too against
hard drinking; and whatever capacity for
endurance 1 may have at present, and
whatever usefulness l may attain in life
l attribute to having complied with her
pious and correct wishes. When l was
seven years of age, she asked me not to
drink, and l then made resolution of
total abstinence, at time when l was
the sole constituent members of my own
body, and that l have adhered TO it
through all time, l owe to my mother.
A LADY correspondent of one of our
exchanges says: "When your slippers
and buskins begin to be white at the tip
OF The toe. W. can recommend a black
ing discovered by our own necessities
and misfortunes as ga careless boarding
school girl" Take three parts of the
white of an egg, and one from the ink
bottle. Put it on with bi. of sponge.
Ordinary backing would Of course,
ruin kid or morocco. :.