Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-16

A reporter of the New York Times, who has
been making morning calls at the home of some
metropolitan lions, thus describes what he saw
and heard at his informal reception:
snow, sir, this way, and you shall be the first
to see our very latest arrival, our infant" Here
the general-u-chief of animated nature, lord of
elephants, commandant of lions and tigers, die
tator OF hyenas, gnus, Glands and yaks, and all
NOah's ark, Il sIngufarly well-knit little man
with stiff shoulder (btten through TO the bone
by lioness), with that COOL quiet gray eve so
indefnable, but so necessary to any one having
IN charge mad-houSe or q menagerie, lifted IN
the flap of tent in the rink.
Feeling indefinitely obliged to the great ami
NAL lnlpreSsdri0, who had spared me very GER
tany journey to the great Sahara, | gazed
with wondering eyes at a newborn camel. He
certainly was a fresh conner. His babyship could
not stand yet. He made one or two attempts
to get up on his very attenuated legs, but gave
1t up, and doubling them under him, sat down
apparently quite comfortable. He was about
the size OF a three months old kid; the hump
was beautifully developed, in fact he seemed all
hump and head, and his body was covered with
ong dark hair. Occasionally he would look
around in a most satisfied way, with his great
big lustrous eyes, blinking just now and then,
IN nervous manner, particularly when that
vigorous artist, the bass drum PLAYER, would put
in a few extra physical poundings on his re-
sounding instrument, for the band was Just then
IODSlbIlIlH circus GTltfge his lul-
laby. Madame Mere received our visit in a
most aiiable way, though she looked as if deter
mined 10 resist any fondling of her baby eX-
pressing her anger by very hideous curl of her
up, She seemed to say to us, "rhis is all very
lne, poking your nose into our privacy. Why
cantyou let me alone, and satisfy your curiosi.
ty with the Feelees, or the living skeleton. or
the bearded girl-all your own kind? Now if
you had handful of dates or some very nrick
" cactus, or measure Of nice dbOurrd OF a
particularly succulent thorn bush which grows
III 1.-THE Tel, you would be quite welcome: NOT
having that, please pass on your way, and allow
me to attend to the toilette of my little one"
You will have no trouble with her--or raising
this little onep asked
None in the least. Ofcourse we won't travel
with her. The young one will be as easy TO
raise as calf, especially as spring is coming
and we can give the mother food. There is no
difficulty at all in acclimaing them here. IFS
been proved, long ago, that camels have a pnr-
ticular adaptiyeness to all climates We have
one here year old-born in the business. They
might have been useful on the western plains If
more pains had been taken with them, II Is
rather provoking kind of beast, little uncer.
tain IN temper, and sometimes gets the studs
aud won't move. Ii we wanted TO- we could
multiply them from the stock we have TO anv
extent, and camels would be likely to become a
drug. Their milk is very rich and good If we
were going to stay, should he glad ifyou wonid
come and have glasslul.'
AS Gamers mix punch, ] replied, 81
should not have the least objection to irving II
some future warm summers day" Then we
went to sec the lgiraffe--a splendid specimen.
Though not more than three.quarters grown, he
Is as fat, sleek and in good condition as can be,
He was exceedingly gentle, and held down his
long head to be scratched, and thrust out his
plant tongue, and made dart at the paper on
which VIC were trying 70 make a sketch of him.
Though picture-books and street.posters afford
you pretty good idea of his form, they fail to
give you the exact curious markings of his coat
His spots are much smaller and more numerous
than the drawings represent, aud are never ofan
oval form, always having more or less square
edges This specimen is year and half old, and
II he lives will have his full growth at four years
old. No creature has such large globular, lustrous
eyes as the girafiei they seem out of proportion
TO the Size OF the head His origin, of course,
was in Africa, some 800 miles north of the cape,
and he was purchased from a dealer in Ham.
burg. He has been carefully blanketed during
the winter, and the temperature of bis room
KEPT TO an exact degree Of warmth. lie is,