Litchfield enquirer., 1869-09-23
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 .dafoqGand tigers may De boughs m Lon don at wholesale Or retail, like haberdash- monESys zebEass tigers, leppards and any ofheriWiid Ieastoare all On sale, "a together wtthW young alieness, hwhoeis warranted s'to eafFon aW Uiecas il, sha can get z at you, T and binds and lTeptiles innumerable. These aresatsthe great central warehouse for Wlld bsas&sydn Radcliffe highway, from which 6eat htae parcels of tigers and zebras,. ten ohsaSh ia All. were sent, last week to their pnfehasers inntha provinces and on the continentr There is no limit to this strange trade. Tine extremely animated stock can hesinspscted any daysnoA Agents are at work for thefWild beastadealer inq every quarter dfHheOglobe; and he dispatches travellers" t6pfckiup strange varieties iin Central Al riea or South, America, just as other trad CTS send bnyers to- Paris or the city. He has dealinpsY too with most of the govern nfents lof Enfope; our own Geological Soci- eties pays him honsands and his establish Inents are always filed with birds and ami mals enough to stock menagerie. The supply vafies daily, for consignments are constantly coming ins and the creatures are constantly packed off; but cali onJ Jam rach-the very name.is savage, and strange ly bellies the name of its courteous owner. --when youawill. 8 curiouslya ihvely coilec- tionrwin make ,themselyes eard.i la sfi1 f
 ssOnce in Radcliffe highway you may find your way to Jamrach's by car.5o The ma caws, parrots and paroquetsi of his retail shop are shfieking always, you have but to follow their sound to find yourself in one or the other of his establishments. The first of them is given tip to strange foreign ornaments, and the other to birds. In the one. vases monsters, idols, joss house, mandarins, feathers, osiyory knick-knacks, hugepwhite tusks with portraits of eminent m en engraved on them in black, fans of immense capacity, and grotesque color, Ghinaseshoes, Japanese pictures, strange pipes, and strange .igew4gaws, | are for sale. sZyHL .il3ssH " sD-G3sA t5h3s31f
 1oAtithe end of the narrow yard is a sort of'stable; over which is a loft to be gained by steps, .oa The recent departure of the ti- gers and zebras has left the stable empty for the moment, and we ascend to the apartmsnt above, proceeded by the atten- dant in charge. The manifestly business air of the place and the way in which the denizens of the stall are regarded as mere items, of ck.iwith fixed prices attached toeache soon afeeta stran ger.s Insensibly himself, he comes to regard wild beast dealing as an ordinary branch of commerce the pecuHaritiesd of. which sink into the background in the face of the matter of fact sarfang ngements and forms of speech. It is beasts instead of hams or calicoes, that is all, and "We can do you neat thing in Jlyenasl'i or, Gan tempt you with this tasty article in the boa constructor line?' would rouse no sense of incoDgruity If said. -Accordingly, when you are invited to pass up1thet ladder into the loft, you do so ,carelessly, as if complying with 8 request to walk from one show room to another in a fashionable shop. o14 e.t'ss bl1 ~. -'..'S'
 You are interested but not excited. calm lywilhng to see all that is brought before you, but neither anxious nor perturbed. Bat this lasts only until you are eShead and shoulders above the apartment reached by the ladder. ,It is quite open at the side by which it is gained by caged lined yard ana you are plainly seen by everything With flashing luminous eyes all around it. If your pulse, bounds. up suddenly many degrees; Iyour face sfushes and hlanches alternately, and youtfeel a curious tight ness across your chest, as If 1t were tied by a,cords siwhichf reminds youof that one great crisis in your life in which you fear ed yoa3 would suceumb and go under to be seen of men no, moreAif these physical and men tai phenomena assail you-there will be nothing ?, exceptional in your case. III ,s& &
 The contrast is great and sudden be. tween what you have been seeing and what to the prosaic character of commerce in beasts are gone. A roar, a growl, snort, a mad dash at iron bars; 8 frantic desire to flesh white and pointed fangs in your car cass;, vigorous. writhing,' and tossing by some powerful body upon wooden floor, and against wooden partitions, which shake and rattle under the shocks they have to bear, and kaleideoscopic effect, in which ferociously beautiful eyes, 8 savage mouth cavern ously open, tawny bristly hair, and ponderous limbs and talons are intermixed con nfusedly. form your greeting as you pass on the topnost rungs of the ladder to theAeers--Itis-enly-a y-a young lioness who has taken fancy to you" in the most lit eed eense. of that phrase; but the transi- tioh BBHd den, ana you do not recover presenesEo mind easily @4 S <zy a@
 A cab drives up laden with what look like packing cases, and a foreign looking man stgtits aud presents bill of 3lading. "A 1Jrle tot or rare blrdS from America,
 it is explaipea; and the packing cases turn out to be strong woolen cages, which with the red ibises.) ihsl whitea eagles and the Trumpet, bird they hold, are speedily brought in, amid "a cliOrus of derisive wei comes from the macaws. tsWhen we've many asimals1 waiting at particular places swegeherMly send an agent oyer for them. ,MyisohIis on his way to Calcutta now, where there are three rhinoceroses, six ti- gers, some elephants and smaller things waiting to be brought away. The last pair ofIhinoceroses J had, I sold for Gl, 200; and Isapply fue tigers at $500 each. and zebras-I have lot waiting at Southamp- ton now-at from 945Q ito $500 for pair"
 We4 learn, moreover, that MT. Jamrach occaslbna5 lends animals. he has on hand, and that couple of elephants belonging