The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-01

strange thing about it. too. is that no
| body knows where if has gone. and it's
exactly q week today since 1t was sold
Not many minutes after he had thus
! spoken runner burst in upon US MI.
JamTach; ne cried eXcitedly- do YOU
want TO buy the big sualle2' Certainly;
ana II give You a couple of sOVeTeigns II
buy 1t Come on, then returned the
eager runner we haven't a minute to
lose on they hurried in cab l AFTER
ward learned that the snake was remark
Hbit Tor size. and proved TO be the rare
Tetlcuiated python from Java The lucky
purchaser Of il for 81 had been holding
1t for 800 Being a man in q small way
ne got appTehenSiVe- and began to FEAR
the snake might die on his hands as the
+iy9 dId not come as quickly as he had
anticipated, so he had practically sold IT
for Sac to another dealer before Jamrach
got there The dealer was coming that
very night with the money Here, my
good man, is SO said JamTdCh on hear
ing the price he had been offered, and III
take the snake away with me now. An
right, sir; the snake is yours
There was . boom in kangarOOS some
years ago. It will be remembered that a
boxing kangaroo was exhibited in Lon
don at the Aquarium. It drew such crowds
( that every other place Of entertainment
/ had TO have its boxing kangaroo; but kan
garOOs were not to be had in such num-
berS, and some reSOrted to the clumsy eX-
pedient Of clothing man in q kangaroo
skin Even so, the demand remained IN
satisfied, and cables were sent out to Aus
tralia to agents and the captains of ships
lying there to bring over as many kanga-
Toos as they could find kangaroos con-
Sequently. which before were practically
unstable, bounded up to &10G apiece; now
they are again unstable and are heard
of only IN connection with a rather rich
soup that is made out of their tails.
\ leading animal buyer in this country
Is the Hon Walter RothsChiid- He is a
keen naturalist. and buys everything that
Is specially rare. The results Of BIS oh
ServatiOnS and Investigations he publishes
from the Tring geological Museum in his
journal, ''Novitates Zoologicae-" Not q
week passes without kilograms or letters
between him and Jamrach. It Is the lat
ter s habit, as soon as he lights on nov
city. to send off a telegram to likely Gus
toner: and often an animal that has been
travelling for weeks viii be sent on jour
ney again an hour or two after its arrI-
val, and when it has been seen to be all
right once "CHTnivOTa i amTaCh
tTucuIent Geographic address-wired to
client that he had two lion cubs, just ar
rived, price $50. Would he send them2
Back came the reply: Don't want any
! live pups at any price, the first telegram
having evidently been muUlated. To re-
turn to Walter ROthschild, he has for
some years been making a special study
( of the caSsowary, and the Christmas be
/ fore last brought out book on that bird,
maEniiicentIy illustrated with cOlored
I plates.
I Very little IS known of cassowaries;
! even experts cannot always tell the male
I from the female. On one occasion Jam
Tach sold a cassoway that all concerned
ward he received from his customer this
/ Geographic message, Your male caSsO-
/ wary has laid an egg Again, there are
( only some four OF five species known to
/ science. Walter ROthsChiid has establish
! ed the existence of fifteen species. This
has involved enormous outlay which no
mere man Of science could have borne.
/ It entailcd, 70 begin with, the puTChaS-
/ ing Of hundreds Of live Cass0WaTies.
I which sometimes cost as much as $50
each Then these CaSSOWaries which
I birds had he KaTT until
! they came into color. the owner knowing
all the time that he Should derive no
! profit from this outlay: Previous students
! of the casSCwary had to content them
! selves with the study Of the mere skins
and could command only such skins as
/ good luck might place in their way
/ Walter ROthschild, on the other hand,
/ was able through JamTac h-whose hearty
/ cooperation he recognized by presenting
/ him with two copies Of the elaborate
/ book, which Is for private circulation on
ly-tO institute z systematic search for
( cassOwaTiGs; and the officers Of every
/ ship that sailed from New Guinea and
other haunts Of the bird knew that good
( prices awaited them for every Specimen
/ thy found
There is always more or less steady
] demand from geological gardens for aEIi-
mails. Even collections that may be com
! pIete get broken INFO by death and re
: GIITe recruiting. To this extent death may
( be regarded rs the friend Of the animal
! dealer; but it IS as often his foe There's
EI6G gone" said JamTdCh to me once as
he handed me a telegram It ran VIII
/ accept -taPIr at $50 and was from Bar
/ mum < Bailey. The tapiT had died two
days previously. Jamrach succeeded In
/ saving SO. however, which ne got from
an animal suffer for the carcass. Some
times, too a dead animal can be used TO
J feed other animals with The yUltUTes and
/ hyenaS- for instance, had the pleasure not
/ long ago of feastiug on CeyIon pyguy
I bull worth $50 The last thing Jamrach
does at his place Of business before going
/ home IS 70 record the days deaths in the
/ deathbOOk. Opposite each animal he puts
/ its cost price, and the loses TeckOned on
! this basis run from $50 to goo a month
! -Chamber.S Journal.