The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-04-01

logical Gardens-The Lions Mate Breaks
| Her Cage, and Spreads CONSERVATION
| Abroad. tfa-s
About three o'clock yesterday after
noon, as boy named George Schmidt
was leading young donkey by the
cages containing the latest purchases
of the Geological Society in the Gar
dens, a two-year-old lioness showed
signs of unusual excite ment. The
boy, with that large-eyed curiosity
peculiar to boys, stopped for a mo-
ment to contemplate and admire the
movements of the queenly animal.
This action naturally enraged the
lioness still more, for the proverbial
dignity of the leonine race always feels
outraged by rude aazing. She bore
the scrutiny for time with expressions
of awful wrath, gradually lashing her.
self into more terrible phase of rage.
Then she gathered herself into solid,
compact mass, and launched herself
like cannon-ball in the direc-
| ton of the boy and his long-ear COM
panion. The strong iron bars parted
| like laths beneath the assault, and in
another momentMrs. Lion came Jump
ing toward the boy twenty feet at a
jump. The boy ran as though the
devil himself were in pursuit, wisely
getting on the other side of the dom
key to begin with. Even then, however,
he was but just in time, for the lioness
succeeded in tearing his hand Just as
he turned to run. Then the lioness
turned her attention to the donkey,
seizing him by the head, and system
atically carving his body with knife
like claws. Nevertheless, the poor
little donkey made quite brave fight
for life, displaying much of that stub
bornness for which dOnkeys are pro-
verbal. AT first both rolled on the
ground. the donkey underneath, but
| finally the weaker animal succeeded
in temporarily freeing himself, and
sinking his teeth in the back of the
| lioness. Thts ignominious termina-
| ton of the first round quite sickened
70 y,
Justify, while Lieutenant Cody, who
happened to come upon the scene at
the moment with a squad of police,
bravely rushed up with his seven
shooter drawn, and, assisted by sever
al attaches of the Gardens, interposed
between the lilo ness an her would
be victim. The donkey was found to
| be horribly mangled about the hinder
parts. Meanwhile the lioness stood
afar off, roaring and lashing her sides
with her tail.
A few moments later seve raj men
rushed up with shot-guns and revolv-
ers, intending to kill the lioness should
she attempt to leave the Gardens. A
messenger was imm cdiatetly dispatch
to the Geological Garden authorities
to learn what should be done in the
emergency, while the lioness amused
herself with trying to jump over vari-
Gus trees, and by playfully chasing
people who came too near her. Dur
ing the rest of the afternoon it was
turn and turn about, Lieutenant Cody
and his followers sometimes chasing
the lioness, and sometimes the lioness
chasing Lieutenant Cody and his fol-
lowers. Lieutenant Cody wanted
badly to shoot her, but was fearful of
incurring the displeasure of the Zoo
logical Garden authorities. AT last
accounts the lioness was still at large
surrounded by shot-guns.-Enquirer.
Mar. 25, 1875.
SCORPIONS are numerous in India,
and are frequently very troublesome.
A physician there has recently been
trying some experiments with their
| poison, which he obtained by irritat-
ing the animal. The experiments
were conducted upon dogs, pigeons,
Nand frogs. The nine-tbousandth part
of grain of fresh venom injected into
the thigh of frog caused the skin to
become violently infiamed and the
animal to die in fifty-seven minutes.
On examining the blood microscop-
ically under the influence of the poi
son it was found that the corpuscles
were strangely deformed, and they
rapidly became agglomerated into Wis
cous masses, running into each other.
The function of the blood is thus
destroyed, and death in one of its
most agonizing forms must ensue.
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