The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-17

anu all right. MeanWnllei you keep Tn
animals for me-" This was agreed to
and in about month Jamrach sen
one of his men down to Malvern wit
the strange freight Most people ar
fond of animals-fond of possessing
them, at any rate; and as we all haC
country estates and plenty of none,
, we should without doubt be Otter
found INDUCING our fancy in quite al
expensive q way as this Worcester
shire squire. A notable example of this
Is furnished in the case of Captain
Marshall, who died a few years ago
He had wild animal farm in a mead
: oW on the banks Of the Thames a
Great NARROW. Among his animals
which included the finest collection OF
cranes ever got together, were three
or four elephants--I forget the actua
number Now and then, just for the
fun of the thing, he would go up the
river in tow of one or other Of these
He had an old lion, too that used to
follow him by day like a dog and
sleep at the foot Of his bed by night,
until it took to licking his face when he
was asleep A lions tongue is as
rough as a file, and scarcely to be en-
dured on the human hand, to say moth
ing of the human face.
Young men inheriting fortunes fire.
quently begin to show their independ-
ence by heavy purchases in the AMI
NAL world and give a flip to prices.
once such appeared some years back
with fancy for snakes. One after
noon about this time | was having a
! d11iat f,to To, oh N No m n
room that serves for an office. He was
! telling me of an extraordinary snake
reported to be twenty feet long, that he
| had lost through not going down to
the docks as soon as he had heard
about it and purchasing It, 1t had been
brought over for Jamrach by the cap
| tain of steamer from China, but no
Jamrach appearing the captain grew
nervous with it in his possession in the
docks and let it go for 912. Foolish
fellow!" exclaimed Jamrach. IF he
had waited just over night-for | went
down next morning-Td given him f40
or ESQ for it, The strange thing about
it, too, is that nobody knows where it
has gone, and 1t is exactly a week to-
day since 1t was sold" Not many min
utes after he had thus spoken run
ner burst in upon us. Mr.. Jamrach!"
he cried, excitedly, do you want to
buy the big snake?" Certainly and
I'll give you couple of sovereigns if l
buy it," Come on, then" returned the
eager runner; 1--WE haven't a minute to
lose" Off they hurried in a cab. / af-
terward learned that the snake was re-
markabe for size and proved to be the
rare, reticulated python from Java.
The lucky purchaser of it for Ell had
bee Unfolding it for 910O. Being a man
in a small way he got apprehensive
and began to fear the snake might die
on his hands as the e10O did not come
as quickly as he had anticipated, so he
had practically sold it for e4O to an
other dealer before Jamrach got there.
The dealer was coming that very night
with the money. Here, my good man.
is G45,' said Jamrach on hearing the
price he had been offered, "and I'll
take the snake away with me now"
"All right, sir the snake is yours"
There was boom In kangaroo some
years ago. 1t will be remembered that |
a boxing kangaroo was exhibited in
London at the Aquarium. 1t drew such |
tertainment had to have it's boxing |
kangaroo; but kangaroos were not to |
be had In such numbers, and some re-
sorted to the clumsy expedient of |
man in kangaroo skin,
Even so, the demand remained unsat-
isfied, and cables were sent out to
Australia to agents and the captains of
ships lying there to bring over as many
kangaroos as they could find Kan
garoos consequently which before were
unstable, bounded up to
9100 a piece now they are again I'M
salable, and are heard of only in con-
nection with a rather rich soup that is
made out of their tails.
A leading animal buyer is the Hon
Walter Rothschild. He is a keen nat
uralist and buys everything that is
specially rare. The results of his OBJ
servations and Investigations he pub
shes from the Tring Geological Muse
I'm in his journal, Novitates Zoologcae,
Not week passes without kilograms
)r letters between him and Jamrach,
t is the latter's habit, as soon as he
lights on a novelty, to send off tele-
gram to a likely customer, and often
IN animal that has been travelling for
weeks will be sent on a journey again
IN hour or two after its arrival, and
when it has been seen to be all right
once "Carnivora '-Jamrach' truculent
Geographic address--wred to client
hat he had two lion cubs, just arrived,
rice ESQ., Would he send them? Back
anne the reply: Don't want any live
ups at any price," the first telegram !
aving evidently been mutilated. '
To return to Walter Rothschild, he
as for some years been making spe-
ial study Of the cassowary, and the !
christmas before last brought out /
ook on that bird magnificently illus 8
rated with colored plates. Very little 9
; known of cassowaries; even experts S
annot always tell the male from the
emale. On one occasion Jamrach sold q
cassowary that all convened regard q
i as a male. A few months afterward v
e received from his customer this v
,legra phc message: your male cas- v
owary has laid an egg" Again, there n
re only some four or five species X
nown to science. Walter Rothschild e
as established the existence of fifteen
oecfes. This has involved enormous y
ltlay, which no mere man of science
,uld have borne. 1t entailed, to begin L
it'll, the purchase of hundreds of live U
lSSOWa rieS which sometimes cost as u