Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-17
SUNDAY UNDER The TENTS.
Elephants Get n Plunge Hath and Lion.
Have Their Toes Manicured.

Elephants Get rlungc Hath and Lions
Have Their Toes Manicurcd.
orang.outangs, lions, tigers, hippo
potami, elephants and the other repre-
sentatiycs Of the animal kingdom from
every country in the world spent quiet
Sunday with their attendants on the
sircus lot in west indianapolis.
The managers go to Sunday school
the performers recuperate, the canvas
mon and drivers sleep. aud in fact every
body rests except the attendants la the
munngerio. The orang-outang must have
his whisSers trimmed, the lion his toes
mnicurod, and the elephant must have
sponge bath and his colns pared
The hippopotainus porspircs blood dur
ing the whole week, and unless lis
rough skin is washed ON Sunday black
crust forms aud he gets "scaly." The
American water Is not 30 soft and FIRE,
from nlkali Ms his native water of cen.
trail Africa aud his teeth get coated with
matter resembling the sodiWont OF tea
kettle. On Sunday his mouth must be
priod open and his teeth cleaned aud
brushed with scented tooth powder made
AVN AAAN AstNA iAAik VI ~ NAff MAlA'Al
grows ON the banks Of the Lukuga river
in Africa. IL his teeth wcro not thus
preserved they would decay In three
years and dyspepsia would send him TO
premature grave in foreign lRd.
The tocnnils Of the lion grow long and
sharp. Twice year they must be
trimmed with clippers TO keep them
from tearing each other 10 pieces IN
their family brawls. The tigers and.the
bears rub against their cages 80 much
that sore spots break out and they must
be healed with limment and medicated
oils. In fact all animals must receive
treatment of some kind. As their rcgu.
lar keepers alone understand how to
treat them, Sunday Is thus busy day.
When the representatives, OF the city
papers visited the monagerie they found
the lions roaring and much excited.
Ncar one Of the cages two men held
down on tho ground u cub, while Lion
Tanner Conlling with u large pair OF
nippors was clipping its toe nails. There
were four cubs In the cage, and one by
one they were taken out OF the cage by
Conkling and their nails cut short.
While this operation was going ON the
lioncss was crying piteously and shed.
ding great tears. No human mother
could show more parental solicitudo for
its offspring than this queen Of animals.
Tho lions In another cage 100 feet dis.
tant almost chilled ono's blood with
their terrible roars while the cubs were
undergoing the operation.
The elephants seemed TO DO having the
bestof the day. Thoyw0ro being sponged
with soft warm water and enjoyed the
bath hugely. An old elephant had a
corn on one OF his fore feet and he grace.
fully rested 1t in stall while his at.
tondant removed It with razor. After
the lion cubs had been attended 10
Tanner ConklinB entered the cage OF
three hugo lions which Mr.. Perley said
was the biggest cage Of lions in America.
Two arc Asiati, and one is African.
Tho latter. tho largest aud most noble
Of the lot, had sore paw, which Conk'
ling took in his lap and rubbed with u
black, waxy substance, which he said
was distilled from the sap Of an African
tree growing near Timbuctoo. Near by
was a cage Of hyenas in which the koepc.
was washing the sore eye Of Az old one
who, the keeper explained, had chowed
oil the lip of his predecessor.
a double horned rhinocoros, which
has worn ont his horns rubbing thcm
against tho bars, submitted TO u thor
ough scrubbins from the hands Of man
who had tho nerve to straddlo his back
while rubbing his toadliso skin with
wool brush. indianapolis Sentinel.