The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-30

the panther's mouth, and when he
and when he got the fork in he pushed
the beast off my back, though it took
NV clothes and good deal of nv flesh
with it."
ooh. byena bit that off. That was
about twenty years ago in the geological
gardens at st. Louis. We had spotted
hyena, and when the striped hyena ar
rived the manager told me to put them
in together. l told him they wouldn't
live together, but he thought ] didn't
know. and said to do as he ordered. So
we did. and the result was that they
were no sooner in the same cage than
they began fighting like everything.
W emit in to separate them, aud the spot
ted hyena bit my finger off as easily ss
you would bite Oft stick stick of candy tS:
strongest jaw of any of the animals. 1t
can break Che shin bone of an OK. In
this fight where lost my finger the spot
ted hyena bit the other ones hind leg
and broke it."
"And how about that hole in your fore
head?
of his paw. It was down in Barnum's
old museum, and the lion was in cage
adjoining that of a leopard. The parti-
tion did not reach to the roof of the cage
and one day the leopard jumped over in
to the lions quarters. Then there was
a fight you may believed I went in to
separate them, but the lion gave me
blow with is paw which knocked me
senseless, and the men pulled me out of
the cage My skull was fractured, and
the doctors took out piece of the bone
as large as half dollar. It's all grown
over there now, and though it doesn't
look very pretty, it does not trouble me
except in very cold weather."
And the broken nose?"
"That was a delicate attention from
lioness who was SO anxious to embrace
me that she broke her cage to pieces and
knocked the iron door against my nose.
Here, pointing to long scar on his left
hand. us where baboon bit me.n
"Have Won ever had an encounter with
a chimpanzee like Chiko?
"No, and don't want any. They are,
in my opinion, the worst animals to
handle, because they have the advantage
of going on two feet. They knock you
down and go right for your windpipe to
stranQle YOU. That's their way Of fight
ing
"I've been knocked by them a good
many times They knock you down
with their trunks, and then, Il they have
tusks, try to gore you. If they have no
tusks they step on you and crush you.
One time an elephant hit me with, his
trunk and knocked me out of a railroad
car Just as it was starting. I fell across
the track, but the train was going so
slowly that had time to roll out of the
way, but it was a mighty narrow es-
cape"
aren't they?"
"Well, sometimes there are vicious
camels, in which case they take to
biting. I once saw camel bite through
an elephants trunk and hang on until
they hit him over the head with club
and knocked him down. Some animals
are naturally ugly. Now, we have
tigress which has been with us several
years, but we can never depend on her."
Mr.. Winner led the way to the cage
where the tigers lay asleep, for it was
just after they were fed in the morning.
"Fannie! Jack! Maggie!" he called
Come Get up!
An enormous tiger, said to be the larg-
est in America, got up slowly. He was
Jack. A young tigress in separate di-
vision of the cage also got up, but Meth.
er of them made any noise. "Fanniel
said Mr.. Winner, sternly, and then a
large tigress sprung up and leaped to the
front of the cage, snarllng viciousiy.
Mr. Winner put his hand up toward the
bars, and Fannie snapped her great jaws
at them and snarled in way calculated
to make one shiver with apprehension.
Then Mr.. Winner spoke to Jack, who
put his nose up to the bars and let the
keeper pat and rub his sides. Maggie
was even more friendly, she purred
with pleasure when Mr.. Winner stroked
her nose.
"S1r,n he said, maggie is going to be
a pet. You couldn't make one of Fannie
if you tried forever. But she's good
mother" he said judicially.
Here's the big trained BEAR" he said.
passing on to the next cage. mo one
can do anything with him except the
italian who exhibits him. We have to
have all the woodwork of his cage COW
cred with zinc. He's chained to the
floor, you see, by ring in his nose. The
bears are always putting their paws out.
II they are vicious, they're looking for
chance to nab somebody; and if they're
good natured, why, they're begging"
"Do the men ever get hurt by the ami
mails getting their paws through the
bears?"
sob, yes, have been caught ON the
shoulder good many times when L was
careless. If / should stand near Fan
nie's with my back toward her she'd
steal IN and get her claws into me.
Fannie's a sneak. Here are the pam
thers.n crossing to a cage containing
three of them. One began splitting like
great cat. "That ones got to be put
through a course of sprouts" said Mr..
Winner, regarding her critically.-N. Y.
Sun.
esTHE ROAR OF SUN SPOTS"