Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-10-22
Tho Perlls Of Misunderstanding.


Barnum's employ. For sixteen years
Winner has lived night and day with
the wild beasts he has been training,
and the familiarity with danger, which
led him at times to be careless in the
presence of the beasts, has resulted in
tho marks that he will bear to his grave.
In 1866, while he stood talking to
friend, too near lions cage in this city,
the lion reached his paw through the
bars and brought it down with terrible
force upon his head. The animals
claws tore up the flesh and left deep
scar upon his forehead. Some wears
ago in st. Louis, Winner leaned his
head against the bars of cage contain
ing hyenas, and while he stood explain
ing the habits of these animals to some
visitors, one hyena snapped off his lit
tie finger and devoured 1t.
" 1t is easier to tame lion than a
tiger" says Mr.. Winner. "They re-
spond better to kindness. There is no
animal equal to the tiger. til the gen
uine king among beasts, for it is not
only more ferocious than the lion, but
comparatively stronger. OF four lions
that Barnum has in the cage with his
show, two were born in captivity. sgd
ney, the one who escaped some years
ago, is named after his birth place,
Sydney, Australia. The lioness, which
has two whelps new, is considered most
valuable property, as she is one of the
few lionesses which raise their young in
captivity"
"But many whelps are born in this
countryp"
"True enough; but they starve to
death, as their mothers refuse to suckle
them"
I" Is there any difference in ferocity
between males and females among
wild beastsp"
In all animals of the cat species the
females are more vicious and dangerous
than the males"
Have you trained any animals late
ly"
"Yes, there's Beec9er, the Poonah
bear, very funny animal, unlike any
other bear l ever saw. 1t stands on its
hind legs and gesticulates like speak
er. 1t has a number of amusing tricks,
puO ~ was OdSlly lduD0U.
"low is the baby elephant?"
" 1t weighed $50 pounds last June,
and guess it weighs over q thousand
now. 1t weighed 2l3 1-2 pounds upon
its birth in Philadelphia on March 10,
1880, and when it was three months old
it weighed 235 pounds. We are now
watching to see how long before its
mother. weans it. We expect that it
will be between two and three years, if
it is not taken from her."
"What food does it eat?"
cit has never yet been fed, but Hebe,
its mother-by the way, one of the best
trick elephants in the worlds teaching
it to eat. The mother picks out the hay
for the baby, which minces at it. But
what do you think is the baby's favorite
drink Being native American, you
think it is a gin cocktail, but it is not"
"What thenP"
Why, circus lemonade 1t will suck
lemonade all day up in its trunk"
Mr.. III. III. Copeland is the keeper of
t;arnuw,,s twenty elephants He says
That while most animals will respond to
kindness the elephant is controlled by
fear, and he thinks there is no such
thing as affection for its keeper with an
elephant Sometimes, after patient
training, when they seem to have been
mastered so that they understand every
command and obey it like man, they
become all at once sulky and obstinate.
In one of these fits it takes terrible pun
ishment to master them. 1t is necessary
to chain their feet, join the chains to a
rope, run the rope through block and
tackle, hitch another elephant to the end
and throw the refractory beast. When
they are thrown they have to be pun
ished with prods until they yield. Chief
is the ugliest elephant Barnum has got
At East Saginaw two years ago Chief
broke out of the line of the street pa
rade and started after countrvman
who was passing in two-horse wag-
on. The elephant beloved and lifted
his trunk and steadily chased the
man for three miles lie caught up
with the. wagon, which he overturned
into q ditch, and was about to do
further mischief when he was captured.
Chief rebels every time he has to 90 into
q car, and he has to be prodded with a
steel point before he moves. Albert is
another elephant that has the sulks. At
Ottawa last month all of the elephants
were turned into the river to battle, and
while Albert was in the water he was
seized with the sulks. When his keep
ers came about him he seized one with
his trunk and came very near drowning
him. Juno, one of the best-trained of
the elephants, after recent perform
ance in the ring, to take revenge upon
Prof. Arstingall, one of the ring-mas-
tiers, squirted u paiful of dirty water
over his spotess linen from her trunk.
To punish her steel prod was run
into her hind leg until she roared with
pain.
Il. II. Dockrill, the horse,trainer, who
is the husband of Nine. Elise Dockrill,
the bareback rider, relates that a few
years ago, when he was with circus
near Basic, in Switzerland, one of the
elephants became mad, and, breaking
away, began to tear up everything with
in its reach. No one dared capture it,
and its mad career was stopped only
when a cannon was loaded with grape
shot and fired into its body.
A curious noise was heard in the CAGE
occupied by the seven anacondas and
the two boa-constrictors in Barnum's
menagerie early one morning recently,
and the keepers who were aroused wit
messed a magnificent fight. The ana
condas had joined forces against the two
boas, but the latter conquered. When
the smallest of the anacondas was killed
the LARGEST boa covered IL with slime