The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-06-17
VOL. XVII.-NO. 81.

male ana the IeIhaie. ne cOSt OF a Tut-
noceros is from $4,000 to $4,000, and not
many circuses possess one. The hippopot-
anus is peculiarly constituted animal
When let out it viii follow its keeper around
like dog, but viii snap at every stranger
that comes within reach II lives on veg
etables, and takes great delight, apparently,
in yawning, which occupies the greater
part of its time. 1t can be taken into the
ring, but thus far has been educated to do
no tricks of consequence. The value of
the animal is from $4,000 to $1,000.
More giraffes viii be shown this year
than ever before They are valuable be-
cause it is difficult to keep them alive
They are very gentle and shy, and have to
be treated like children. This season they
will appear for the first time in street pa
rades 1t has been maintained that they
never utter a sound, but some of those in
the Madison Square Garden have been
heard to make noise which was something
between grunt and gutteral "Oh.n A
giraffe Is feet high is worth $25, ,000
Camels have become too common to be
of great value. About the only things they
do that are worthy of note are to bite and
kick and throw their relocated riders off
in the ring, to the great delight of the
younger portion of the audience The
better grades cost $500 and s400 When
first exhibited the sacred cow was consid-
cred great card, but it has lost its prestige
and can be purchased for $700 to $500.
The zebra is no longer prize to showmen,
possibly because it is too easy to stripe
donkey and palm it of ON an unsuspecting
public as the genuine animal. Zebras viii
not breed in captivity, and the 500 or $500
that they cost is a poor investment. A
gazelle is worth 81 900; nylghau 81 900;
an Gland $4,000 and hartbeeste $500.
The ordinary oryx has never been exhib-
tied. When one is captured in Africaiti is
taken to Persia, where the people worship
it, The llama, which comes from the wild
OK family, and is used as beast of burden
in the silver mines of Brazil, is valued at
$500, while the yak, from Siberia aud Tar
tary, ranges from 81 900 to 81 500. There
is said to be but one blesbok in the country.
and the figure set upon it is $4,000. The
oudad, strange looking beast from the
north Of Africa, costs from 5000 to $500.
Kangaroos are ratsd at from $500 to
81 900.
Few ostriches are shown. The price
fixed for them is from $4,000 to 81, 500.
The Australian emu, somewhat similar in
appearance, brings the same figures. In
the males three feathers grow on one quill
and in the females two. 1t Is IN this way
that they are distinguished. The different
kinds Of birds, including the disconsolate
looking pelican and the CHEEKY parrot, cost
from Is TO S100 The big snakes which
coil themselves around the oiLstove in their
cage to extract tropical warmth from il are
worth from 5000 to $500. They only
arouse from their lethargy long enough to
take at single gulp the guinea-pigs or
chickens, feathers aud all, thrown in to
them. A cage of monkeys IS as much
part of show as the ring performance.
They are valued at from $50 10 $500. The
people like to watch the droll creatures, and
the droil creatures like TO reach out and
snatch hats or anything else in reaching
distance
A small menagerle W0diu cost AZ the
lowest estimate $50, 900, while some of the
large ones are worth nearly 81 ,000, 600.
Most Of the animals are bought from dealers
on the other side Of the ocean, who every
/ year send out expeditions to capture them.
There is one firm in New York which
imports largely. Some circuses hire ani-
mails of gardens for the season, aud in the
fall great many auction sales are held at
which they are bought and sid The sight
in the winter quarters Of tie animals is far
different from that in the tircus tent. The
animals are taken from their gaudy cages
when the long tour is ended and placed in
rough boxes, one piled upon another.
Until the approach spring, when school
begins--and their training is commenced,
they do little else but eat and Sleep
" T. Times.