The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-25

place. Others were rooted to the spot from
sheer fright. 1t was a picture worthy of
reproduction.
And the object of all this commotion?
| Closely pursuing the fellow came keepers
| and trainers and others of the Hagenbeck
show. The lion disappeared from sight,
| but was caught at last in an adjoining
| room. The poor beast was frightened out
of his wits. The animal was a young
| lion, half grown and absolutely harmless
| The whole affair was a practical joke, put
| up by the enterprising press agent of the
show Here was an opportunity for test
| ing the courage of man. Truth necessI-
| tates saying that the courage of man was
conspicuous only by its absence.
The young lion had been let out of his
| cage, and the passageway led gradually
| from the menagerie 10 the Cairo Thea ter.
The door was opened, the revolver was
| fired off to brighten the animal; the rest
| has already been told.
| The newspaper men who remained be-
| hind to hear the true story, and candor
| obliges to say that their number were few
| realized that the much vaunted ferocious-
| ness of lions had been overestimated to
| the full.
| 1t is safe to say that when these news
| paper men in the future encounter a lion
| they will pay no heed to his presence-pro-
viding, of course, that the king of beasts
is locked securely behind his iron bars
| AS far as Miss Heliot is concerned, pho
| Biography is too true a dehneator of facts
TO deny the assertion that she knows no
fear, and dares beard the lion even in his
| den.
A Lion Hunt.
In connection with lions it is very in
| tersting to learn of the methods by which
the Beers now at war with Great Britain
| capture them.
John Guile Mil,ias, F. H. S., the famous
zoologist and artist, has fortunately visited
| the wilds of South Africa and brought
| back with him bits of the life of the an
| imals that roamed over its wide plains
| Here is his description of a lion hunt:
| 1t in the morning twilight, when
| one of the Beers cried, DE lieuw GU basr'
| CA lion, mastery There was an uproar
among the donkeys and there could be
| seen a huge animal standing over the Door
| broke their tetners, and one of them hav-
| ing run off into big meahe patch the lion
| started in pursuit. At every bound he
| emitted a subdued "boo-uff'' as his fore
| legs struck the ground, and then came
| loud scuffle, a crack and the sound of
heavy body failing, after which all was
| silent-for a moment. When day broke
| clearly it was found that the lion had
| finished one of the donkeys at a meal
| The other carcass showed that the lion
| had rushed up to his victim from the
| front and fixed his right paw in its left
| shoulder, at the same time forcing the
| animals head down with his left paw on
| the right cheek and biting where the YER
tebrae join the head, thus dislocatng the
| neck and causing instantaneous death.
| After hunting for the lion all day
| Still was set for him over the uneaten
carcass. Two rifles were so fixed that as
the lion approached his prey he touched
wire which fired the rifles The Still
worked so well that some time after mid
night the watchers heard first one shot,
I
! loud roars, gradually dying to painful
moan. He was found dead the next morn
| ing.
A fact not before noted is the close re-
| semblance between tfle roar of a lion and
| the cry of an ostrich. They are so muca
| alike that one may be mistaken for the
| other. Mr.. Millais, after long study. found
| this way of expressing the difference
! L.ion.-Crescendo. Diminuendo dying
| away) Moan Roar R-O-A-R-Roa
| Grunt-grunt
Ostrich.-Crescendo. Roar Roar - Roar
| Roar-R-R-R (prolonged)
The difference between the two is rather
in power than in quality, the lions roar
being three times as strong as that of the
ostrich. Their voices are sometimes com
pared, to the disparagement of the lion,
but that is because the lion very rarely
roars his loudest.
| The lion, too, is something of ventrilo-
quist, being able to make his voice sound
quite far away when he is comparatively
near. When he does let himself go, there
| is no sound i'm the world to touch it.
The lion Is commonly portrayed in the
attitude of roaring-with his head well IN
in the air, like stag; but this is a mis-
take. Nearly all deer put the head up
| in the air, stretch the neck and let The
| horns touch the back, while roaring while
buffaloes of all sorts depress the neck and
| raise the muzzle as they below. But the
| lion, If closely watched, will be seen to
| emit his first moan in any position, and
| then draw his neck in and lower his head.
with extended jaws right down between
| his forepaws, as If about to be violently
| sick. while az the same time the back is
| arched, and the whole animal bears an
appearance of concentrat ted strain
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Applying a Remedy-"T Tommy doesn't
feel like going to school this morning ;,