The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-22
TIE " DGNoAL.

Since 166O $4,000 human beings I'm India
have been killed ny Wild beast., and I'm
1857 over loo perished under the terrific
fury of the tiger.
Ii In now conceded that the tiger grows
larger than the lion, and he 10 q far more
terrible beast. His muscular development
In enormous, and when once he gssts the
taste Of human blood he is the terror Of
the country for miles around. A writer i'm
the Nineteenth Century gives this interest,"
ing account Of the ravagcs OF Ina tiger I'm
India:
"The tiger can not only strike down u
cow with N blow of his forearm and hold
IL with his fanRs, hut can raise IL from the
ground and drag or carry IL tn his lair,
where IL Is devourcd at leisure. Their, are
five claws on each fore and four on each
hind foot. The mechanism by which they
are moved Ia peculiar; the claw and thu
phalanx into which IL IL fitted arc kept i'm
the retracted position by an elastic li9a-
ment, and are unsheathcd and extended
by the fiexor tendons which oppose IL;
the claw and it's phalanx when rctractcd
lie obliquely ny the side of the second
phalanx. by this arrangement they arr
kept out Of the way during ordinary pro-
grs.ssion and not worn or blunted by con-
tact with the ground.
sThe Tiger attains it's greatest size i'm the
jungics of India. Blyth says truly thai the
largest tiger exceeds I'm size the largest
lion. The statements as to length are
conflicting and sometimes exaggerated,
errors arising from measurements of the
skin being taken after il has been removed
from the body and undergone stretching.
The animal should be measured from the
nose along the spine as he lies dead where
he fell; one that IL ten feet by this MEAS
IN is large, and the fnli!grown males
seldom exceed this, though IL is certain
that they do occasionally attain "a. greater
length. ! nave been present mt the death
Of tigers ten feet eight inches and ten feet
six inches, accurately measured where
they fell, and there are examples on record
where the length exceeded eleven feet, so
others that the average size of the male
tiger is from nine to nine and one-half
or ten feet am able to assert, from indis-
putable evidence, that they sometimes do
attain the length of eleven or twelve feet
or three inches more. The tiRrcss seldom
s sxcen s;n nil,e an ,sf. ..;s ,hs o nwf nnsna pi'n sss,t n or
occasionally nine feet, and perhaps i'm cx-
ceptional cases even up tn ten feet,
1.-THE haunts OF the tiger are often near
villages or cattle-grazinR stations, where
much damage is done, for he will kill "a
COW every second or third day. In some
populate n village by killing some and
Frightening others. When cattle are not To
be had, tigers snbsist largely on deer or
AS furnishing n better meal and being
easier tn kill, for Inc Indian cattle are at
creatures. The smaller bu~ffaioes are also
easily disposed of. IN the full grown bulls
are Formidable antagonists, and often
wound him mortally. The wild roar is al
so - dangerous object to attack, and not
nnfrcquentiy, il is said, fcils it's enemy.
Cattle and buffalOes especially seem to
have an Instructive knowledge of the
proximity Of a tiger, and will form "a pha-
attack, when they will also protect the
herslsncn, who takes shelter within the
compact body which faces the tiger. Tn
orally deferred until some member of the
herd il caught and struck down,
but even then the others have been known
a.. laRxR suSy 6UEsNA. NhAa Dsar XF Ahna
alt has been said that when "a tiger has
food. l can not say how this may be, hut
there il no doubt that when he has over
come the natural dread of the human
the terror Of "a whole district. Al Nyneetal
u tiger provided within u circle of twenty
miles, and for three years killed ON AN
average eighty men per aunlnl. 1t some
times happens that n road In closed for
weeks by "a single tiger; not only pedes-
carts. are attacked and carried Off; and
yet il Is remarkable with what apathy the
danger is sometimes regarded, for natives
herlsmen or w~ooi-cutters close To the
cover i'm which the tiger il concealed. On
the other hand, they will often not
without tom-toms or torches to
scare thc tiger away, while i'm other
f Sim sa s,' , Ss%,Srs . %,,a II h on break r""s r Back hf Ha
Is pretty certain to strike some one down,
infiicting u dangerous, often a. mortal
wound, but IL less likely to do this il un-
wounded. l have repeatedly seen herds
men who were willing To you
on foot to the Jungle in which the tiger
to mount an elephant for that purpose. IL
is IA popular belief, not confined To the ig-
norant, that the wounds inflicted by a tiger
are of ~ poisonous character. 1t is possi-
BILE that the teeth and claws may bc con-
taminatcd by septic matter. but this is the
exception rather than the rule. The real
fact il that the wounds nrts Slnlps.rDllS b<-