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INTERESTING wi.D ANIMALS.
A Giant Tiger and ~ Lioness with Cubs At
Central t'nrk-Oiher Queer Creatures.

What is claimed to bc the largest tiger oror
brought to this country was sent n Tow days
ago to the Central Park Mcna.erio by Donald
Burns. whose FREQ mcnagcrio near Roosevelt
Street Forty is one Of the delights Of the little
folks OF tho Fourth ward. This tiger is valued
at 81. 800, and came from tho Ieipsic Zojlogi-
cal Gardens. Tho animal is six fc1t long.
weighs several hundred pounds. and has n
skin OF brilliant markings. A lioncss from tho
Lcipsic Gardens WIS added to tho mcnaGor.c
nt the Same time that the tiger arrived. These
superb brutes arc not yet tho property Of tho
city. but thousands have had u chance
to SEQ them in the PARK. y ,hrong OF
Fourth ward small hoys anil Adults
crowded in Burns's place in Roosevelt
street yesterday to see the three cubs Of the
new lioness. Tho cubs are about ten months
old. and one OF them is so tame and plnyfil
that children were permitted to thrust their
hands in its cage and pat 1t. The cub licked
the chubby hands Of It's juvenile admirers and
tumbled about III great glcc. ,.
In "a cage alongside the double one OF the
cubs was u curiosity that New Workers haven't
had a chance to see here hcfpi'. a VAR OF
young lo,.rarcl goats from Africa wer" tuck
inE AVA Mt the bars with Their tiny horns.
Their dark ears. dnnrlcd. upon thrir uccks in
odd fashion. and they licked the hands Of AL
another picnic PLAYING will. four young Nal
,ese-iiucd bears. two ~ which were II lius-
glth pt'tts WIN NV Wv 49, th'il'tI.
When the little ones tired OF the bcars. tho zig.
gnpd-naturrd owner Of the freq. meAa.cric
iicklcd the throuts of n couple Of baby ant
caters and made them whistle liz" birds. and
lifted u lriirir do. from its Gag and dis
played its soft coat and tiny. sparkling eyes.
The dog had .lu.t come in from the prai;
rie, and looked ike a small w.oodrhurk. All
this afforded sevo. al hours Of Jolly aiiiuse-
ment to the little folks uf Roosevelt street.
tn. experiment Of tax ing II nnsh-liSht Pho
togripli OF the snakes cages is soon t.n he
tried in tho Roosevelt street mriascrir: There
are about thirty big ra;tlers. and constructor;
on tho second floor of the lI-tasllonsd
house who are nearly always asleep IN the
daytime. Thoy wake un in the dark. and Mr.,
burns saws that the brilliant illumination Of
the magnesia flash will present to the cameras
eye til. spectacle Of tho snakes heads swayinE
nervously in all directions near the ceilings OF
the cages. The snakes, viii strike at th"
j., taken. but the glass. doors and wire
netting will! protect tho ,rhotosranher
will b. the nrst ever made in this city to turn
u fnsh-lieht camera upon snakes. ono OF
the big bo,s shed his. skin on Tuesday; 1t
camroT roiled ur in &. thick ring. hut unio!d.d
readily into II long. transparent film. Snake
skins Of this description are priced as RENE
dies for r~hcunntisni. They also make an excel
lent dressing. for cuts on tho hands or face.
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house. the old trccs whoro all OF them cooned
apples and got the collie; the windows facing.
ine road win. u, dozen tiny pnncs to the .aSli
.hro.igh ,Whtrn the wuyinrcr once saw shadow
whcre tho charming schoulma'nm stood and
inn. Tho, cracked bell to call tho children to
their studies.
One may cross tho lava beds Of Idaho. may
LOOK uLon the treeless deserts OF, Nevada:
may even penetrate to Death Valley Itself
WITHOUT ilnuins n picture. OF dcsolntion that
VIII, hrrcal to him as will these faded relics OF
II He that Is son" forever.
W course there is another side to the long
picture that onn socs during tho drive. The
woo,sy. .r,ss.grown road. with its cooling
shadows Frightened 10y radiant srOts OF sun
SHINE, isn constant delight to the owe. Tn.
hroht meadows. with their clninns, ard divid-
Ing Strsirh., OF Young trees arc, like a vision
Chlcfasaws. The forests on the mountain
side. broken here and there by h%ectling cliffs.
are NhiiaratinE,t TO look upon. But when the
crest of IN" divide Is reached, and one leaves
trail and arrives at last on. the bald crest OF
old Croydon. 1000 feet above thu valley lo
lett below, tho dcsolation Of tho abandoned
homes aud all other sorrows Of liie are for
gotten: From ones feet tho waving green tree
lik" yellowish threads. the sparkling
streams and cleaning lakes. the rolling
ridges; and n thousand rounded peaks. all
hatiieh IN the sunlit air. stretch way to melt
rom view IN the smoky blue haze that wells
the distant horizon.
In it's steel walls. its great accumulation Of
curious nnd interesting inunn. in its oppor-
tunlt!ieS Tor scientific Investigation. and In its
origin Blu" Mountain forest is unique. IL is
the american republic. and its development
worth tho attention OF every tourist. and OF the
student OF social science us well.
JoBS II. SPEARS.
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A LAKE UITYiIN 4 GLACIiR.
The Cause or the Alpine Diaas:er Wh:c,
helm- I'd n Part of ST. Gervais.

OverNh eIm- I'd n Part of ST. GervaiS.
The gcolr:ists who have investigated the
cause Of the great disaster which overwhelmed
a part OF st. Gcrvais. Switzerland. with ice and
water from the lower part of tho Bionassy
glacier. have solved the mystery. Cnthe side
OF the mountain. ut the foot Of the steop glacial
wall whose lower part broke away the eNplor-
ers found in tho lee an oval cavern about $50
feet in width and - feet in height. In the in
terror of the cavern was n corridor covered
with blocks OF ice and leading into a gigantic
basin with perpendicular walls OF Ice. 1t was
A. feet long. 200 feet wide. and 40 feet high.
In this great cavity there had been an intra-
glacial lake of whose existence no one had
been aware. The condition Of the walls proved
that the cavity had been full Of water recently.
The existence OF this great reservoir OF un-
froz q water enclosed on all sides explains
the nature of the immense avalanche that
overwhelmed the valley below. The excessive
heat Of the days before the disaster had prob
ably increased the quantity Of water in tho
natural reservoir. and the greater pressure
broke the front wall. cracking away the lower
part of the glacier. and permitting the i'm
mense volume If water to pour down the
mountain into the valley be ow. carrying with
it the broken too' Of tn, glaGier Thn water
inclined plane, two miles long. and a part of
st. Ciervais had been overwhelmed almost be-
fore any one heard the roar OF the approach
ing deluge.
This is the only accident duo to such a re,
murkahle cause ever known in the Alps. 1t
has been followed, however. by n. somewhat
similar accident at the Mlsaun. glacier near
Pontresinn. 4 considerable part Of this short,
steep glacier fell. and. although there was no
loss II life. the accident draws attention to the
fact that all over the Alps climbers have re-
Gently noticed a swelling Of the upper SHOWS
which feed the glaciers. They report tina: not
without great risk this season. and that the
uprer edges of the great crevasses have over.
hung in IL remarkable manner. These facts
point to an expansion OF the uprer snow field
by great heat. and before the past season was
more than half over climbers were warned Of
this fact. which WAS doubtless the cause Of
many avalHnchcs.
A fall OF ire from ono Of the glaciers in the
Valley OF Visp partly destroyed the village Of
1asch. near Zermait. 1t carried, away nearly
a quarter of q. milo OF the highway. The
waters Of tho Niege torrent. swollen by melt
ing snow from the mountains. attacked the
stone he'd OF tho virSe-X"rmatt railroad. and
destroyed a large section Of the line; For y
number OF days tourists going to Xermatt
were transported on mules around the break.
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-,
Auouooh anu 'a'o'. anu learn "hnt o'nnrs
hau ooserveu about tue ueer OF america INC
reading OF these was IKE Climb NJ tie trail
on croydon peak IN tho hlu" Mountain Forest
1t brought to the Wow n Widening vista with
svery step. Inc beautiful red deer plnying
ABOUT the Corbin larm at BabVlon were hnta
part OF one family OF American deer. There
wore t'e antelope the elN' the moose. an" tho
caribou not to mention the black-thiied' the
Mexican. and tho mule deer. Whcn young
Austin began t" consider these cousins OF his
little herd Mt Babylon and to talk about thom.
no carried his father barl; in memory
to other days. Austin Corbin. Sr.. not so
very many years before had been n school
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vos rustllnr for . living on tho p~rairies Of

Iowa.
of time and the e. expenditure of more money
than Corbin Will tell OF to get possession OF the
ers md %tonnnts moved away. Old public high
ways wore abandoned because there was no
noiphtiess Efforts OF man that had restrained
The ioweis of nature wcro wholly removed.
and the impatient forest was free TO regain its
ancient hold upon the land.
Then began tho work OF making q country
home. rs wcll ms. a game prcscrye. me tract
wybich Mr.. Jorbin was born. A eite giving u
charming view over tho valley OF Sugar River
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AwATERFALL ON CROYDON MOUNTAIN.
ing officials In the county that it was q man Of
great wealth who wanted the land aud
an aero the price went TO $50 at u iump. and
then 1t ran to $40 and 500. Mr.. Corbin had
!ust such ~ eXperience. As farm land. IN,
value. Tho lields were bald or red. haired
with wiry grass. tho woods u tangle of second
The most valuable parts We're those covered
by maple trees large enough to be utilized in
land that 1t had been abandoned altogether.
Ths wRyfarer In the forest comes. across old
ct0n IN ,sf fsrm ana t6 Ssfef r mRer Wsary t fSnn Ws1s
cut from the green woods before Gen. John
Sullivan's name had been given to the eounty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
RAILWAY INTERESTS.

A RENEWAL of the Canadian Pacific strike
Is threatened.
AroH1soN gross earnings for March zap
proximated), including st. Louis and San
Francisco, $S'25l, 498; increase, $7S,5ls.
AN Injunction obtained by the grocers of
Wichita, Kan, against the railroads, on the
freight-rate question, has been dissolved.
THE Lehigh Valley shops at Easton, Pa,
will be closed three days week until
further notice. The shops employ 600 men.
THE Southern Pacific Company has notified
its conductors to dishonor all tickets issued
by the Santa Fe, sold at San Diego Oh Los
Angeles.
THE transfer of the Blue Line Electric
Railroad at Newark, O., owned by Judge
Altgelt. of Chicago, was made last night to
the Newark and Granville Electric Com
pany for 500. 900. Connections will be made
to make it belt line system.
THE Clover Leaf Line, otherwise the To-
ledo St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad, has
almost completed arrangements for new
terminals in st. Louis. Heretofore the roads
terminals have been in East st. Louis, traffic
across the river being taken care OF on the
Eads bridge. It is said that within few
months the L. and N. and o. and M. Will also
cross to st. Louis proper.
A CONVENIENCE of the lines operating be-
tween St. Louis, Chicago ana st. Paul will
be held Saturday at Chicago to further con-
slider the question Of the application Of the
lowest short-line passenger rates from Texas
points to st. Paul by way of st. Louis and
Chicago. At present the rates by those roads
are from 81 to IS higher than those by the
more direct lines. although the difference in
time and service is all in their favor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
BUSINESS BREvITIES.

THE cotton crop of the Gulf coast in Mexico
is failure.
EFFORTS are being made in Canada to form
nickel trust.
THE London wool market is advancing for
the first time in months.
VERMONT has yielded only quarter crop
OF maple sugar this season.
MEXICAN merchants have petitioned for
tax on commercial travellers.
THE Alleone copper mine at Red Jacket
Mich, will shut down Saturday, probably for
ever.
$50. 600.
GERMAN Government statistics show that
the trade with the United States has largely
iallen of during the year.
BRITISH medical and horticultural papers
are renewing their attacks upon American
ana Canadian apples, because of an alleged
use OF arsenic in orchards.
The returns issued by the London Board
OF Trade for March show that the imports
Increased E7.250.000 and the exports de-
creased 4O,CV,Oo, as compared with those
iof THE corresponding month last year.
STEPS have been taken toward the organ.
ization Of big sugar refining company,
backed by not less than 100 OF the leading
sugar distributors of the country with re-
nneries on Staten Island. Erastus Wiman
Is taking an interest in the movement.
GALL, ANDERSON & Co., wholesale lumber
merchants OF Toronto, who recently ar
ranged composition with their creditors.
hnd themselves unable to carry out their
agreement and have now made O complete
assignment Liabilities, abouv $3.50, ,OOO
cHrcAso seamen's unions are agftating
strike to compel Captain Alexander McRae,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
THE BUSINESS WORLD.
A Commercial Agency for the First
Time Is Held Liable for
FALSE REPORT TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Statistics Showing the Growth of Iron
Business in the South.
FIRES, FAILURES AND RAILWAY NEWS

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1sPATcH.1
NEW YORK, April 7--Some time ago the
City National Bank, of Birmingham, Ala,
began a suit in the United States Circuit
Court against the commercial agency of R.
G. Dun & Co. to recover 1924 46 lost on
drafts which the bank discounted for w.
A. Kits, lumber merchant of Oswego,
on alleged false representations concerning
the credit and financial standing of kits,
furnished the Commercial Agency by s. B.
Burchard the representative.
The case was decided yesterday after q
three days trial before Judge Shipman and
jury. The jury was out Is minutes and
found q verdict tor the full amount claimed,
including interest. which aggregated
S., 1872 26. This is the first case in which
any commercial agency has been held liable
for false report sent out to a subscriber.
In all previous cases of similar kind the
agency has been relieved of all response
bility.
Judge Shipman, in his charge. told the
jury that the plaintiff could not recover un-
less the jury was satisfied that Burchard
made the representations fraudulently, and
that the defendants were not responsible
for any negligence on the part of Burchard
in obtaining the information upon which
the representations were made.
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IT FAILED TO EXPLODE.

Forty Quarts OF Nitro-Glycerine Dropped
Into an Oil Well but Not Discharged
A Remarkable Incident-The Cause Of
the Failure Mystery.
The eccentricity of nitro-glycerine was
never better displayed than at the Grover
Cleveland OIL Company's well on the Kelly
farm, last Tuesday. Since oil operators
first began to use the dangerous compound
to break mp the sand rock in their wells, it
has given frequent instances of its treacher-
Gus qualities.
Without apparently any cause, and when
shooters who were in charge of it believed
it to be safest, whole magazines have ex-
ploded, leaving only holes in the ground
At other times wagons filled with It have
been overturned and the cans tossed
about, and dinged, but it failed
ing, and the shooter always knows that in
case of an accident to his wagon he will
either come out all right or his friends Will
have to search carefully for remnants of
him.
The Kelly we'll is located about two miles
and a half southwest of Mcdonald. 1t had
been drilled to the fifth sand, but was dry
in that formation. Some oil was found in
the fourth sand, about 30 feet above the
NTH, ana the owners decided to shoot 1t in
that stratum. The Acme Torpedo Com
pany was engaged to put in 40 Quart shot
This was done, and the shooter announced
that the glycerine had been exploded.
There was good deal of gas in the well, and
when the drillers let down the tools, to their
astonishment, the 1900 pounds of iron
dropped without resistance to the bottom of
the hole. They then ran the bailer and
brought up over bucket full of nitro
glycerine, which they dumped on the der
rick floor
Without waiting for orders they left the
derrick, shut down the we'll and went to
Mcdonald. The torpedo company's shooter
went to the we'll and put in squib, ex-
ploding the elycerine which remained in the
bottom of the well. 1t was evident that
when the drillers ran the tools they had
pushed the 40 quarts of glycerine down
DO feet, and finally crushed the shell on
the bottom without exploding it.
1t is the only time in the history of the
oil country that such thing has occurred.
In many wells, when 1t was thought the
shot had gone of, the tools have been run,
but in every case the explosion that fol-
lowed made junk Of the tools and ruined the
well.
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THE FIRE RECORD.

At Keifer, O., Marshall McDonald's store.
Loss, 5000; insurance, $2,o0o
AT Dennison, Tex, N. M. Sherbourne's
business house. Caspar's United States
clothing store was damaged. Loss. S25, 900;
insurance, $5 500. 1ncendiarism charged.
AT Pullman, ILL.,, the Market Hall, which
originally cost the town $4,000. Total loss,
$4,000 Many stall keepers lost small
amounts. Cause. an overturned pan Of hot
grease.
AT Austin, Mich, R. J. Jones' Hotel and
barn, Loven & Stevens general store. F. w.
Andrews printing house, L. H. Georges
meat market, the Odd Fellows Hall, G. A R.
Hall and A. A. Lavenes dwelling. Loss,
$40, 600; insurance, $4,000
AT Halbertstown, a Hebrew settlement
near Millville, N. j., forest fire did great
damage to cut wood and standing timber.
The fire was caused by a crowd OF Italians
burning the grass in an old field, Hayes
farm. A large lot of cordwood, owned by
Hon. B. F. Lee, of Trenton, was stocked near
by awaiting transportation and it fell a prey
to the flames. MI. Lee is the principal
loser
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THE sOUTH's IRON RECORD.
Statistics of Growth Presented by the q. {
Commissioner of Labor

Statistics of Growth Presented by the q. s.
Commissioner of Labor.
NASHVILLE, April Hon. Carroll D.
Wright, United States Commissioner of
Labor, arrived in this city to-day from
Washington. This evening he delivered an
address at Watkins Institute on the pro-
gress of the Southern States from 1880 to
1890, in the course of which he said:
The Southern States in 1870 produced but
1S $40 tons of pig iron; in 1880, 397, ,301 net
tons in ls909l, 7s0, 909 net tons of pig iron ore
were produced. In steel the South has not
yet made much progress. In 1880 the num-
Der Of net tons was 4 $50 and in 1890 1874, 1926.
This is a most encouraging outlook, and be-
speaks for the South steel industry in the
future of which she will be proud. The
average cost of pig iron in the northern
part Of the United States is for run of fur
mace about sl4 per ton of 2.24o pounds, while
In the South the average cost of run of fur
mace pig iron is $40 Is. This difference Of
SS % in favor of the Southern product will
be increased to larger amount as labor in
the South improves its standard of living,
and the development of coal and iron min
ing and transportation increases the facili-
ties for assembling the materials. Tennes-
see produced Al, ,s73 tons of pig iron for the
year ending May 81, 1880, while for the year
ending June. 1880. she produced 800, 747 tons.
Her percentage of the total production in
the United States in 1880 was 127, while in
1880 the percentage had been increased 3.04.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
TO PREVENT GRAIN FRAUDS
Stringent Legislative Enactments Recon-
mended by the Minnesota Investigators.

Stringent LoS1SlatlVe EnactmentS Recon-
mended by the Minnesota Investigators.
ST. PAUL, April THE Legislative Com
mittee that for the past year has been in
vestigating the alleged frauds in the grain
inspecting department of this State, whereby
the producers were alleged to have been
defrauded out of many thousands
of bushels of wheat, has finally
finished its work and to-day prepared its
final report The summary OF the testimony
has heretofore been given. Its recommen-
dations to the next Legislature, to which
are in general that a law be passed
tending to the greater protection of
the producing and shipping interests Of the
State. Its more specific recommendations
are that all railroad companies be re-
Qutred to maintain the track scales at all
points and at a reasonable charge; that pub
lie warehouses be made to keep
record OF outstanding warehouse re-
cefpts and Of wheat in bins, that the next
Legislature consider the advisability of pro-
vfding for the erection by the State OF pub
lie elevator contiguous to deep water,
in which Minnesota grain be stored without
mixing the different grades; that the
next Legislature, by memorial to Congress
or otherwise, seek to counteract the evil in
fuence Of wheat gambling at Chicago and
vators be required to construct scales and
weigh grain upon the ground floor before
the grain is elevated: that the unloading of
cars may be under the supervision of the
State weighers, and that under no considera-
ttons should screenings be shipped out of
public elevators without weighing aud in
spect1on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
BUILDING A RAILROAD IN A DAY.

The Company Doesn's Stop to Secure q
Little Thing Like Right Of Way.
SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PA, April T.
People were astounded this morning when
they awoke and learned that street rail-
way was being built in the town,
notwithstanding that no ordinance has
been passed by the Town Coun-
Gil giving the right to any company to
occupy any street with track. At day
break an army of workmen began work on
the rocky road between the new street
bridge and Second street. The men were
employees of the Allentown and Bethlehem
Rapid Transit Company. BY noon all the
ties along the entire street were laid and
about half the singers and rails were
placed.
Simultaneously with the breaking of the
ground, Mr.. Sweitzer, Superintendent Of
overhead construction, started his men at
digging holes for trolley poles. He said he
would finish tomorrow night. Cars will be
running to the corner of Second and New
streets by May 1.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
WHITMAN'S SMALL FORTUNE.

He Left an Estate Valued ut Sc, 5OO-A Fund
to Be Started.
CAMDEN, N. j., April THE will of
Walt Whitman was admitted to probate to-
day. The poets entire estate, exclusive of
royalties from his writings, amounts
to about $3.5O0 OF this sum $1,000 is
in cash, and the house and lot on
Mickle street where he lived is assessed
at s., 500. To relatives and friends Whit
man bequests s., $50, and the balance of his
estate to his brother, Edward L. Whitman.
An effort is to be made to raise by popular
subscription a sufficient sum to preserve
Whitman's residence intact so his home
will always be open to his admirers who
visit this city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-08
PHILADELPHIA's PRIDE,
The Jefferson Medical College to Erect a
S50O,OOO Structure.

Ahc ochCTsoH WeulCal C0ilege To Erect a
s5O0,OoO Structure.
PHILADELPHIA, April AT meeting
of the Board of Trustees of the Jefferson
Medical College this afternoon the commit
tee having the matter in charge reported
that they had now secured in all
225 feet frontage of land Oh Broad
street between Christian and Cath
crime streets, for the new college building.
The new building when erected will cost In
the neighborhood of $500, 900, and will be
the finest and best adaped of their kind in
the country. OF the needed $500, 900 $35,-
600 has already been subscribed
The college has recently established full
professorship in chemical surgery, and DR..
E. E. Montgomery has been elected to fill
the chair. In addition five clinical pro-
fessorships have been instituted as follows:
Orthopaedic surgery, DR.. H. Augustus Will
son; children's diseases, DR.. E. E. Graham:
Dermatology, DR.. H. w. Stelewagen; nery-
Gus diseases, Dr.. f. X. Dercum, and adjunct
hygiene, DR.. w. n. Scoplin.