The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-10

Sdllup, WITH an angry roar, w men
wounded and followed into dense cha
parral it has been known to lie silently
In wait. ready to spring upon its pursu-
er To follow grizzly into close cover
is as dangerous an undertaking as can
be attempted in quest of large game.
The ferocity of the animal when reused
is not less remarkable than it's extraor-
binary tenacity of life. The fact is we'll
attested that the grizzly will sometimes
live Tor a number of hours and perform
amazing feats of strength after its
heart has been pierced by bullet
Old hunters have laid down the rule
that IL man be set upon by q grizzly
at close quarters and there is no
chance to use rife it is folly to at
tempt to use knife or to struggle in
any way. They say that the best
course is to keep still and make no
noise; to lie PROSTATE, face downward,
and feign death, though the bear use
teeth and claws. In one instance a
hunter shot at and wounded a grizzly,
which Immediately rushed at him, He
attempted to climb tree, but the ami
NAL caught him by the foot and
dragged him to the ground. He
shrieked for help, struggled and tried
to ply his knife, but with one furious
stroke of its mighty paw the bear tore
out his vitals before his comrades could
reach the spot.
And yet it is related in q number Of
Hutching's California Magazine of 1856,
that a colored man who was attacked
by a grizzly, near Mud Springs, in Ell
Dorado county, succeeded in stabbing
it to the heart and escaped serious in
jury. The adventure occurred in 1S49
and the bear is said to have weighed
eleven hundred pounds when dressed.
1t is further related that the meat was
sold at 1.25 a pound at which rate the
negro would have realized $1,375 from
his exploit. To persons acquainted
with the eXtravagant prices of the ear
ly days of gold mining this story will
not seem entirely fabulous.
The grizzly rarely, if ever, hugs an
adversary. Its chief weapon is its paw,
The tremendous power of the brute is
exhibited in crushing the ribs of a steer
with single blow With one stroke of
its paw it has also been known to stop
instantly the rush of a maddened bull,
Fights between bear and bull We're
common in the early history of Califor-
MIA, and the grizzly was often victori-
GUS This ursine monster is more than
a match for the bison and superior in
strength as we'll as courage to any 9TH
er member of the carnivora.
The grizzly is decidedly inferior in
agility to either the lion or the tiger
but much excels all the great cats in
weight and bulk. Hittell, California
authority, says that the grizzly has
| been known to reach two thousand
pounds in weight The captive Sam
son, which Adams exhibited many
years ago, weighed fifteen hundred
| pounds, according to the testimony of
| that Veracious hunter. A San Fran
cisco furrier has a superbly mounted
specimen of an Alaskan grizzly, taker
on Kodiak Island in 1891, whose weight
was 1,760 pounds. The same dealer sole
| to John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia
last year an Alaskan bear skin whose
| length was about twelve feet, measur'
ing from the tip of the nose to tho
stumpy tail The animal from which
it was taken must have weighed fully
| ton, though the skin was doubtless
stretched somewhat in curing.
The identity of the Alaskan bear witt
the grizzly has been doubted, but 1t ha!
| the same structural characteristics
| however much it may vary in colol
! from the grizzly of California and thu
Rocky mountains. 1t is well selected
| that, in addition to the polar species
there are two distinct species of bear il
North America, the black or brown
| bear (Ursus Americanus), and the griz
Zly UJrsus ferOx or UrsuS hOrribilisl
| The cinnamon, the silVer-tip and other
are now generally regarded as but va
rfeties, and some observers stout,
maintain that they are the result o
crosses between the two species. TIL
two great differences between the blacl
bear and the grizzly are those of siz
and claws. The black bear is compare
lively small, rarely attaining a weigh
of four hundred pounds. It's claws ar
short and more straight than those 0
the grizzly, which have been known t.
reach a length of three or four inche
on the fore paws, and are always muCl
curved, with edges that cut like chisels
An invariable characteristic of tn
grizzly Is that the claws of the for
feet are much longer than those of tn
hind, in the proportion of about two t.
one. This is not the case with tn
black bear or any of the varieties
known.
In color the grizzly shows many vari
atoms in shade between dark brow
and gray Ordinarily the fur, on clos
| examination, will be found to be dar
brown. tipped with pale yellow, givin
to the animal an ashen hue, which
most marked on the back. Some skin
have many gray hairs mingled wit
the brown, and in the Rocky noun
tains what are known as 'silver tips
are common.
The name of grizzly was no doubt be
slowed because of the animals grayis
or ashen hue But some naturalist
converted this into "grisly," regardin
the term as an apt equivalent for ''fe
FOX" or ''horribilis" Mr. Roosevelt, i
his admirable work on wilderness hunt
ing, has adopted the designation c
"grisly,'' but it is never used in print o
the Pacific coast. The boOkish wor
"grisly," however appropriate as ind
cative of the nature of the animal
not in common use, and as "the griz
zly'' the monarch of the Sierra Nevad
and the Rocky mountains is likely t
be known. The familiar term well de
| ccriI,ee tho ora wish mr. orrizzJad arnea r