The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-06

pearance of the little thing was O decided
sensation. The huhbub aroused the faith
er of the family, who had been asleep with
woe begone-multjplicatiop- of the fauliiylook
his tail and when he heard Rose lie down
again he got quiet
THREE GIRLS AND ABoY.
Since the last reportithas been ascertaiped
from the nurse that three of the children
are girls and one is a boy. Mr.. Blackburn
says 1t is the fashion to give young animals
short names, but this deiuge OF girls pre-
vents his christening the young ones Tom,
Dick, Harry and Bob. He has about made
up his mind TO baptize the boy lion as
Duke" He suggests Princess and Duchess
as names for two of the girls.
He, doesn't like Trilby, that is. he didn't
mention it as possibility, owing to the re-
spectability of Nine. Rose, who is not a wo-
man with a past, but has an interesting
future. Royalty seems to have q good deal
to do with the proposed christening. Bess,
AGtoinette and Pauline ought to do, and
especially as the latter is well known as
the Lady of Lyons.
Mr.. Blackburn, however, is master OF
the situation and he says:
Long names look well enough in print,
but they won't do to handle lions with
This family is referred to here partic-
ularly as they are interested in the subject
of the coming winter quarters. They are TO
have one long, eternal summer. There will
be no danger TO them of humps, measles.
cramp, pneumonia, or chillblains.
The arrangements for the housing OF the
elephant and the other graminivora look
to temperature of only so. But 1t would
be practically impossible to get things too
hot for such salamanders as the South Amer
lean and Central Asian and Central African
animals.
SEA LIONS QUARTERS.
The sea lion must be moved out of her
lake and is to be put under the antelope
shed in a special tank in which she viii
have less room but more comfort than in
her open-air lake
The coons are not to be moved, but they
will have the hollow of their logs stuffed
with hay, in which they will sleep warm.
As usual, on moonlight nights they will
study astronomy in the forked limbs of
the trees, taking a course, as 1t were, In
the higher branches.
The badgers have lately been provided
with q Gagged area, in which they have al
ready burrowed several miles and thrown
up Notifications. They have recently been
very industrious in this self-entertainmant
The polar bears, which have had an
awning placed over their reservation In
front of their cavern, are in an exquisite
humor over the approaching social season.
when they can eat frost. chew icicles and
walk glissando over the ice.
The buffaloes and elks, which only go
into their house to eat, Will soon make
retreat, but they do not like any kind OF
restraint, and are generally seen out OF
doors all the season round.
The hippopotamus Ia to have warm
bath in his tank. which is all he cares for.
ROOMFOR THE AIAN-EATERS.
One of the most recent accommodations
for the man-eating animals is a long and
wide saged area, In which they are to be
let out to stretch and feel homelike- This
cage was only completed yesterday 1t 10
divided into compartments to prevent
free fight and the general humiliation OF
each other by the fierce deDlzens Of the
cages.
'sIf they ever get together" said Mr..
Blackburn, wen soon want a new stock
at the Zoo"
The winter weather is really now athand,
so that the next few Sundays will find the
usual annual preparations all completed.
There is one animal a t the Zoo that has an
everlasting look of don't cares blank
blankedness on his hideous face. He is to
be found in monkeys row. He is called the
.'Capybara-" Nobody has ever seen him
move. He is cross between hog and
rabbit When you see him once you see him
every night thereafter, whether you eat
lobster salad or sausage. plain bread and
sweet milk before bedtime.
Whenit is hot he Is apparently happy. and
when 1t freezes he is as still as brass monk
- with q marble heart He moves only one