Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-20

prisoners produced bundle. 1t was q
knotted bandanna, and when he united
it store of silver coins was disclosed.
The magistrate thereupon decided that
they must pay for the first experience in
free country the sum of SIS, and he di.
rected tho policeman to see the men,
women, children and bears over tho Har-
lem Riycr, at which the officer made q
very wry face. Five dollars to these old.
world Migrants sounded like fine oil
cruel proportions, and there werc fearful
and excruciating lamentations before they
paid it.
The bear which these people exhibit
for bread is usually of tho cinnamon va.
rfety, found in tho Pyrenees or Yosees
Mountains. Not being ESSENTIALS car.
nivorous animal-that Is to soy, feeding
on fruit, honey, vegetables and smaller
animals-he is easily managed, and If
taken young learns fow simple tricks,
such as climbing polo at tho word,
footing measure to the strains of an ac-
cordeon, counting up to ten with move
ment OF his paw, marching with a stick
for gun, caching pole and making a
salaam. He is by no means ON intellec.
tual animal, and it is only by great cx-
penditure of patience and constant prod
ding with an iron shod staff that he &c.
quires the tricks Which SO amuse the chill
dren. Old bears are not in demand for
show purposes. In their natural state
they serve to guido tho mountaineer to
tho cave where their cubs are housed. It
becomes an easy affair to capture the lit
tie fellows after the big ones are trapped,
The cost of cub is trifling to the French
or italian stroller. A few dollars will
buy one in almost any town in the Medi-
terranean districts. In America the deal
ers make you pay dearly for the privilege
OF possessing cinnamon bear. Out of
curiosity the writer asked we'll known
Park Row dealer in wild animals what
the market price of young cinnamon
bear vas. SIT will cost you $780," he
said, "and you can't get one cheaper in
this country"
Tho common black bear OF Americas
is sometimes carried around tho country
by the Fronch Canadians. They cross
the limo in tho spring md exhibit
through the New England and New
YORK country places, working their way
to tho factory towns, where they have
compatriots. In the wilderness the black
bear is almost US timid rs n wild duck.
You may hear him breaking through
the brush in numbering run rs you ap-
proach, and he will never face you I'M
less he is come upon suddenly, OF is
rendered desperate by hunger. The
dam, if her young are in the vicinity, is
npt to show her teeth to the intruder
she has forty-two of them. In combine
ment the American bear-like truo
lover of liberty-often grows morose and
vicious. 1t does not prove SO tractablo
MS the brown bear of Europe. Not long
ago siaewy French Canadian was earn
ing pretty penny by giving wrestling
with his bear, an unusually
big black one. OF course the bouts were
a farce. The animal had been trained to
stamp around on his hind legs, take hold
of his master gingcrly and do q back
ward fall Mt the right moment. Occa-
sionally the man would so down and
bruin would paw the earth around him,
the whilc emitting grumbling growl.
One day Jean had beaten the -.bear
savagoly, or it had not had its fill of cab
bage and roots, and the pupil got his
down and clnwed and rended
him until ne blcd to death on the spot,
and tho pumpkins gathered around
were too scared to interfere.
No one, of course, has ever attempted
to train and exhibit tho grizzly, "cow-
ard of heroic size," though Bret Harte
has called him. One of them has been
known to carry the carcass of steer
weighing 1000 pounds several miles to
his lair in the boulders. Wrestling
would be sorry business with tins mon
ster, aud to teach him tricks even when
an infant would be fraught with too
much excitement for daily pursuit.
Next to the bear the monkey is the
animal which man finds most useful MS n
bread winner in nomadic life. The
little ape, in greatest demand, comes
from Brazil. He has n most whimsical
cast of countenancc, and is as harmless as
he is ugly. He can soon be taught to
wear scarlet uniform-in fact, he is as
vain of personal adornment US a dude
and struts around in o feathcred cap with
out the irresistible desire of most pet ami
mails to tear it from his head. Monkey.
are comparatively cheap. For from S3t
to $50 you can buy at the regular depot
diminutiye ape whose hideousness is ,
perpetual study. AT the watcrsid,
In New York along South ant