The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-06-06
sTRoUDsBURG MONROE COUNTY, PA, JUNE 6, 1872
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Leopards command S2500 to $4,000 a
palr. They are among the most beauti.
full of all wild beasts.
Camels being useful animals and not
beautiful are worth only 5000 piece.
This may be bad lesson, but it is trne
Beauty commands more money and re.
spect than utility. The poor camel coz
not help its hump back made so for a
good purpose, but its value depreciates
because 1t is a beast Of burden, and can
carry load hundred miles a day over
the burning sands. A pair of white
camels once brought $4,000.
Monkeys are valuable, and will con-
tlnue to command a good price in this
country, provided the Darwinian theory
is not accepted as Gospel truth. In that
case, the monkey would become totally
worthless as property, under the opers.
ton OF the Fifteenth amendment Be
sides, they could never he anything bst
'poor folks" who are very uninterest
ing people. If they are allowed to ex-
ercise their prerogative as apes of the
human species, they will continue to be
respected, but if they rise to the dignity
OF man, down they go to mans CONNER
ciai level Under the present arrange
ment OF species, African monkeys are the
most valuable. Those from South America
take cold when they move north, and
soon die of consumption. Sailors often
scrape an acquaintance with monkeys,
and take them with them in the forecastle
Ostriches are worth $500 to $500 a
pair. They would rather die than be
caught on their native heath To cap
ture them involves injuries that are sure
to result in death to the bird. They are
obtained by making geese hatch ostrich
eggs, and the goose never knows any
better until the new conner refunses to 90
swimming, and commence TO eat forbid
den goose fruit-sticks and stones, and
the like
1t requires great care to raise ostriches
In this climate. They have to be brought
up by hand. Their appetite is not at
all delicate, but when they can get it
they prefer fresh meat to iron, nails, shot,
and such indgestible articles. This
foolish bird does not eat minerals and
metals because it relishes them, but be-
cause it can. Its chief desire is to be eat.
ing, and it is too stupid to recognize any
difference in victuas.
A gorilla has never yet visited Europe
or American. Du Chaillu got hold of an
amiable one once, and thought he could
send him safely to Europe. The gorilla
is a great glutton. He has most vora-
cious and everlasting appetite, and, un-
like the ostrich, is very dainty about his
food. Du Chailu put his gorilla aboard
ship, with, as he thonght, enough pro-
vender to last the voyage, but he made
a great error in calculation. Having
nothing to do but eat, he did nothing
else. He finished up his rations, per
refused ships fare, and actually
starved to death, nineteen days out from
Africa. a gorilla would be worth mint
of money in this country if he should
turn out to be lawful property under our
and could get enough to eat.
The eating capacity of the gorilla in
PRODUCES the general subject of the eat
ing of animals.
A first class menagerie requires from
800 to 500 pounds of raw meat daily for
lions, tigers, leopards, ETC. A healthy
elephant is said to eat from 500 to 700
pounds of hay per day, besides pocketiug
apples, cakes, etc., given him by the
children for dessert.
Camels eat about twice as much as
horse, of the same kind of provender.
Giraffes eat hay, oats aud corn, but if
they can do no better they can make
living of young trees.
Bears are vegetarians, but all gegeta-
riaDs are not bears.
Sea lions eat 100 pounds of salt fish
day. Fresh water fish are not good for
them.
The meuagerie property in the United
States, including animals, appartus aud
material requisite for their exhibition and |
is over s2,000,000 worth.