Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-06-24

You see, the audience got excited in the |
tight, and wanted to interfere TO see fair
play, and the people thought that we
spoiled nice lot Of fun for them by
parting the animals"
(Which animal do you regard as the
worst 20 tackle, Uncle Johnp
A HYENA's EXPLOIT.
"The hyena has the strongest jaws
OF any animal in the world | suppose.
We were Ia st. Louis a number Of years
ago, aud were going down into Arkan-
sas. As we desired TO use rs few wag-
ons as possible, so as to lessen the
number Of horses required. we conclud-
ed to put as many animals ~ possible
in cage II Is not the heft OF the ami
mails that amounts TO anything, but II is
the room they take up. So we put a
byens, a tiger, leopard and lion in
one cage. Well, sir, that hyenR went
20 work on the whole gang, and before
the men could get at them ho had
whipped the crowd. He scalped the
lion and used the tiger up, and had the
leopard scared half to death. A hyena
will eat out Of any place you can put
him. We have to keep them chained
/ in their cages all the time. A hycna
will work away until he gets a tooth
into the bottom of cage, and then
something is bound to come. Heavy
sheet iron is no more proof against one
OF these animals than tissue paper
I would be against cannon ball. They
are very troublesome on this account,
and II they were not kept chained they
would never stay in a cage"
ELEPHANTS.
"ls an elephant cowardlyg"
! "A male elephant, when he gets old,
I Is always very cross. When he gets
mad he is like "a mad bull. His rage is
/ beyond conception, and he wants to
knock TO pieces and break down every
/ thing that comes in his way. George
/ Bailey. Barnum's partner, had big
elephant showing with him in South
/ Carolina one season. They were conf
/ ing out of Camden one day, on their
way TO Columbia Aftey they had got
/ about five miles they came TO mill,
near by which was little bridge across
Il pond. Mr. Elephant wouldn't go
over the bridge George West was his
keeper. and when the animal got stub
born, George tried to compel him with
q spear 10 20 across The bridge. The
NAN 'AAttAAN AAAAA'N fAAbtaiaaAf NAltAs lAE ~
colOred man on horse, he made at
them. He knocked them both into the
pond and killed the horse. He then
started out r road that led to States
vile, and George tried TO turn him
back. He then took after West. and,
striking him with his task, he broke the
man right in two. The unfortunate
mans heels hit his head. The elephant
was so enraged now that he tore West
all TO pieces. He tossed him TO the
air, and scattered his entrails and
brains and flesh along the road for n
( quarter of mile Wherever he could
( find piece OF the dead man he
/ would throw 1t into the air as high as
his tremendous strength would send it.
Scarcely any thing could be found of
/ Vests remains after the elephant got
( through with him. You see he was so
mad that he couldn't satisfy his ven
/ geance on the man, and kept on de-
I stroying the remnants of his enemy as
/ long as he could find them. There was
no help for West, for nobody saw the
/ killing but a negro, and he couldn't do
/ any thing. From the way the black
man described that scene il must have
been the most horrible thing ever wit
messed. As soon as word was received
/ at the nearestt town about hundred men
I armed themselves with rifles, and they
hurried to the mill and got inside. The
/ elephant had come back and took pos
session Of the miltpond, and the rifle
men began firing ON him. Each man
aimed at his eyes, so as to blind him.
The elephant tried to get into the mill
at the men, but he couldn't reach them,
and they peppored him for hours. At
| length one Ot his eyes came out, ana
hung down by thread. Reaching
/ backward with his trunk the animal
seized the eye, and stulling it into his
mouth he ate il. The firing was kept
up until the elephant had been shot a
thousand times. At last he was over
come, and the rihemen killed him.
''Did you ever have any trouble with
any of your elephantsP'
+" / had one, while in Louisiana one
season that was a bad fellow to handle.
He ran his keeper on u raft several
miles from New Orleans one day and
tried to get at him on the raft. he
killed a negro, threw a cart over a
fence, and killed mule. Another
negro got under mill and the elephant
made the most frantic attempts to get
at him you could imagine. He could
reach within about foot OF the col6red
fellow, and it was laughable TO see that
big brute running and lunging ut the
darkey; and every time the elephant
made at him the negro would
yell for dear life. Finding he
couldn't reach his intended victim, the
animal started through Algiers, break.
ing and smashing things at a fearful
rate, and creating regular stampede
Il was some time before he was caught
but little fellow we had with us fol
lowed him into the country with some
feed and got chain on him, so ht