The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-08
With tho Lion Talner.

Lalla Rookh is seventy-five years old
and Sampson over 1OO," said George
Conklin, the lion tanner, recently, " jim,
tie 'em loose and We'll take 'em into the
| ring and show how to break elephants.
Lalla RoOkh only came back to me three
weeks ago, and she's little cranky from
the accident which happened to the Kir-
alfy show. You remember that about q
month ago there was a collision in which
four train men lost their lives, and Lalla
had her head projected through freight
car, which blow knocked her silly, but
she will soon be all right, I guess. That
tackling there use to teach them to
stand on their heads. / make Tom lie
down and my assistants hitch that chain
and pulley to his hind legs, after which
another elephant is put in harness and
hauls TOMS feet up into, the air and
makes him balance OH his head. All the
elephants shed their milk teeth when
about twelve years old. Here's one that
Lizzie cast about two weeks ago. Samp-
son is a heavier elephant than Jumbo,
but not quite as tall. He is, however,
the largest Asiatic elephant in America
to-day. come of circus stock. My
brother, Pete Conklin, is a clown, John
Is Hercules, OF cannon ball manipula-
beasts.'
g Is your life insured.''
mo the agents never bother me,
and those to whom l have applied for
insurance, refer me to the company, who
invariably decline the risk. Bitten i?
Oh, yes; Pm SCARED all over, but am
not manned as you see. [ got the two
lion cubs up here all right the other day,
and shall begin to perform them as soon
as possible, but Pm afraid that fellow
with his eye partially scratched out amt
going to make much Of u trick lion. l
put him in there with those two old lions
yesterday after putting collar and chain
on him, and you Oughter seen the wool
fly for ten minutes, but lie got enough
and is quieter now. "
Mr.. Conklin then opened the door of
the den and entered, after jokingly inyi-
ting the reporter to join him. He per-
formed the older lions, placing his head
IN their mouths, but the green fellow
who left England but three weeks ago
would accept none Of his overtures, and
growled OminOusly. .-...-
Can q zebra be broken to trickS3"
-. eyes, but we don't do it because the
people could not be made to believe other
than that it was painted trick mule.
OoVl lciiCo Sttll NO Dlohcll, dlfll DdIllulll
will have boys ride them around the ring
for races. The rhinoceros, which lost
its horn few weeks ago. is sporting an
other, you see. Pm going to teach that
hippopotamus to stand OH a pedestal and
dance, but he's good now for nothing
but showing his lungs through that big
jaw of his. The most interesting ami
NAL here is that kangaroo, which has a
daughter six months old that she carries
i'll her pouch yet. Look down in there
and you'll see the young ones head stick
ing out, and the little eyes looking shyly
at you. The baby kangaroo will stay in
the pouch for two months longer--f,lnny,
ain't it? I lost my sea lion a few weeks
ago; it committed suicide by drowning."
"IIow?''
"Laid down on the platform and put
it's head in the water until it died; you
see it had heart disease and was very
weary of life. Sea lions are often aflltct-
ed with heart diSeaSe,n