Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-07

Arab, who lunges at them with his sword" In glass case that stood where the light from the door could shine full upon it were about 200 birds whose rainbow tinted plum age defied description. There were tiny ruby -throated humming birds and paroquets of pale green and gold There were birds with blue backs and black breasts and others with black backs and blue breasts. thou sand hues gleamed and flashed in the glass
 
 Above tho case was a collection of stuffed game birds. prairie chicken from the western plains touched the beak of long necked black cock from Scotland. The gray sage hen from the alkali deserts of Arizona and Nevada stood side by side with the beau tiful English pheasant. Ducks, geese, brant. pelicans and famingoes from the Falkland Islands, quail, ptarmigans and hundreds of other birds filled up the shelves and were stacked about the counters. big boa con- strictor WAS coiled around a crocodile on the floor. Cinnamon, black and grizzly bears were apparently holding matinee in one corner with giraffe coyote, wolf, fox, a raccoon and an opossum among the audi ence.
 From where do you get the birds and animals to stuff ?" asked the reporter.
 'I get them from sailors who bring them here from all over the world,'' was the re- ply. ''In addition to this have skins sent to me by the Broadway furriers to dress, and when there is an exceptionally fine skn I will stuff it. Then very often gentlemen hunting kill animals which they get me to stuff for them. I stuff many elk, moose and buffalo heads for army officers. The process of prep solution of pickle, and afterward passing it through water. It is then treated with a pr paratlon of arsenic and arsenical soap, after which we stuff it with tow, cotton or excelsior, which is a sort of shavings much used in packing"
 nrto +hn went down stairs, where room, darker and more dingy than the one up stairs, was found literally jammed with heads of animals of all kinds. workman" was busy dressing 8 beaverskin at table. Hawks and eagles the royal, bald headed North American bird of freedom predominating-thei fierce eyes gleaming in the twilight of the room. perched on bit of rocky crag or scared aloft with outstretched wings. There were bears, lions and wildcats, and many other animals in the room.
 "See here" said the taxidermist s:here is female caribou with a history. It was shot in Manitoba by Lord Dunraven 8 year or so ago. He sent the dead animal as present to Bierstadt, the celebrated painter, who had 1t brought to me to be stuffed. cut out the flesh and unjointed the bones and found the bullet that killed it buried behind the shoul- der. Here is the very bullet, always car ry it with me" and he produced the fatten- ed lead from his pocket. ''Then here is & monkey" he continued, turning to a large specimen of that tribe, with long black hair on his whole body except 8 triangular bare spot on his breast. "There is no other mon key of this kind in America. About thirty years ago four of these monkeys were brought to this country. They are all dead now and this is the only one that has been preserved. Here is also robe of the royal Bengal tiger which we dressed for Fifth avenue furrier It will measure twelve feet from it's nose to the tip of it's tail That robe is worth $2OO if 1t Is worth a cent"