Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-24
SHOW ANIMALS.
How They Sometimes InduiEe In Dnnre rou
Anilr.---An Enrnrrh ElrnhnnIs Pm,

How They Sometimes Indulge In Dangerous
Anucs---.An Enraaed Elephants Fury.
LAST evening an Enquirer reporter.
while chatting with Uncle John Robin
son, the wurld-rcnowned Snowman, asked
If it were true that the lion is coward
~ beast. The lion has been called the
king OF the forest, but there are persons
who profess 10 know that deny the ale
CATION, and claim that the much boosted
bravery Of the animal in question is all
bosh. As Uncle John has had a great
deal of experience with animals of all
kinds the reporter was anxious TO hear
the testimony ofthe old gentleman. Said
Uncle John:
"All of the information have from
men who have Travelled in the countries
where lions abound in their native
habitatiOn goes ia show that lion will
moi attack man. A man named ALI the
first that ever brought hipp0potamus
TO this country, once had "a talk with me
on this subject, and he said that the
lion would not court an attack from a
human being. In fact, the beast would
run, II possible Ali was celebrated
beast tanner. and had hunted for many
years IN Africa, aud, no doubt he knew
what he was talking about. The Bengal
tiger, he said, would make one
spring at a man, aud IL il missed him il
would keep on going straight ahead
after uliEh2n,s - the fsro.sad Rut as
TO the lion being coward ! have my
doubts. One day we were going into a
little toxin called Washington, in Vir-
ginia, and it happened that the door of
the ctge OF big African lion we called
Prince came open, and Prince sprang
Quot the cage. The band-wagon was
jj4t ahead 0f the lions, and the band
tader said; Let's get out and catch
lhat lion Old Prince was waiting 20
be caught, though. He smelled the
horses Of the wagon behind him. and,
tnaking spring, he embraced one of
the horses around the neck with his
fore legs, and sank his claws in the
poor brute's shoulders The horses
began TO rear and plunge, and the lion
went to work in earnest Quick as
Hash he caught his hind claws in the
horses belly and literally ripped his
entrails out OF him. II was a terrible
fight and the widest excitement took
possession of every body. The lion
after he had killed the horse Jumped on
his feet and in quarter of minute
You couldn't see member of the band.
Not one stopped to see what Prince
would do next Every fellow OF them
took to the field. Prince then knock
ed wagon and team over into ditch
and raised irightful rumpus before he
was secured. And that lion was as
tame as kitten in his cage. | have
seen men sleep in there with him and
nobody thought Of being afraid of him.
But when he got out he wanted to tear
cyery thing to pieces. 1t matters not
how quiet and tame cat animal is in
confinement, II doesn't do TO let them
out. It's dangerous
A LEoPARD's LEAF.
"One day lent man named Hutch
ison leopard to help out in an exhi-
bition he was having over here at the
Gait House corner. One day while the
exhibition was in progress they came
over 10 my house and told me that the
leopard had got out went over and
when got there l said, Why don't
YOU catch that things? IL will do some
damage among the other animals Get
him, says T. 'and put him back in his
cage. You cowards,' says |, go for
him just about that time the leopard
made a spring at man who had a
board, and il seemed TO me the beast
went through the air sideways 1t
jumped twenty feet, and as il passed
the man with the plank it fetched him
n swipe with its paws, and tore the
whole side Of his face Off The leopard
jumped into stall and went under the
manger As quickly as possible tho
men got boards, and, after getting the
horse out of the stall, they boarded il
up. Then they cut hole ia the boards,
and, by means Of shifting-box, they
got the animal back into his cage
A GRIZZLY WHIPS A LION.
" How is the grizzly bear on pluck9n
Z" j remember one time at the VauX-
hall in Louisville. KY, we put a grizzly
in Il case with = Non. You ought 20
have seen that bear 60 for the lion
il just whipped the hair of it, and the