The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-25

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contribute should choose his gift and pro-
vide for it's purchase. This happy thought
met with prompt and generous response,
and as a result every animal in the lion
house collection is the special gift of some
individual member or friend Of the So
ciety.
How the Collection Was Obtained.
Believing it unwise to attempt to pur
chase this important collection By COR
respondence, the director. w. T.. JIorna-
day, was instructed to visit all the prin
cipaE dealers and geological gardens Of
Europe personally inspect all feline. an
i1nals offered for sale, and make pur :,
chases. Accompanied by Nv w. Niles.
the director sailed Tor Europe on Aug. 18,
and visited the gardens and dealers To-
Gated at Liverpool, Manchester, London,
Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hanover, Achen,
Hamburg, Berlin Frankfort Cologne,
Dusseldorf and Antwerp with the follow
ing result: s,-. 800
u In London the suciety's representatives
purchased one couded leopard and two
snow leopards; in Antwerp, one Senegal
lioness; in Hamburg, five lions, two tigers,
two black leopards, one African leopard,
| and one jaguar. In Berlin, the only
| cheetah procurable in Europe was pur
chased Of the Berlin geological gardens,
whose director kindly consented to sell it
as a favor to the New York geological
society.
| In: addition. several other specimens
were obtained from other sources. At the
opening of the lion house the collection,
as a whole, stands as follows:
A magnificent pair Of Barbary lions.
The male Of this pair, named Sultan, is
| 4 years old, and is as handsome a lion as
| ever trod a cage floor. He is as good :
tempered as he is handsome, and his mate
Ian Abyssinian ioness named Beduuin
Maid-is4a model fit to represent her sex
! in any studio. On Dec. /, Bedouin Maid
gave birth to five cubs, in her travelling
cage, temporarily quartered in the large
room Of the elk barn, while awaiting the
| completion Of the lion house.
| Another fine Barbary lion, with a par
ticularly luxuriant name, is s years old,
and in every respect a. fine madel, is
| named Hannibal. HannlbaIS mate is
named Cleopatra.
| A lusty young Nubian lion, "Dongola,' =
between 2 and 3 years old, represents the
| short named type of lion, and renders
the collection of lions quite complete.
The sixth lion is a beautiful female,
about a year old, imported from Senegel,
/ West Africa. This animal is named
Sandibel, and between her affectionate
j disposition and beauty of form is already
! a. prime .favorite with the animal men.
The finest pair of tigers found for sale
in Europe are from northern India, and
1 altnOuSn Cney are HOW I'll lllS SIG, CIlt;y
| are only 21h years old, and have not
/ yet attained their full stature. They are
livery handsome animals and when fully
Isadult, will be exceptionally large. These
/ two specimens are named, respectively,
| Rajah and Rance.
1 A pair Of Siberian tigers have been
/ ordered, but owing to the great difficulty
of procuring this very rare variety,
| specimens have not yet been secured.
4 | A strong and vicious tiger cub, year
4 old came from Singapore. but from the
length and abundance of it's hair, 1t seems
quite probable that it came from much
4 farther north. It is possible that this
/ specimen came down to Singapore from
some portion Of China, and If this proves
i to be the case, this specimen will be par
i ticular1y interesting.
In the interior of Paraguay was pro-
i cured one Of the largest and finest jaguars
i IN captivity.
"A beautiful and fully adult specimen of
1 the cheetah or hunting leopard--for some
i reason now quite rare in captivity, was
4 secured through the good will of Director
Heck Of the Berlin Geological gardens.
r The two snow leopards, rarest of all
4 the large feline animals-which were en-
i gagged in London, to be shipped from
4 Calcutta, have not yet arrived, but are
i supposed to be somewhere between Cal
4 cutta and New York. s.s
i "A pair of jet black leopards from the
i Malay peninsula, are not quite 80 savage
4 as black ,leopards usually are. A Man
= ehurian leopard, imported by way Of
4 Shanghai, and representing the most
northern form Of the leopard Of Africa an6
4 India, is of special interest for compari.
son with other leopards. There is also 8
4 male African leopard which will, il pos.
sible, be installed as a cage mate for the
female Indian leopard. The cloudeG
4 leopard died en- route and the female
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shows that the cunning Of a Gagged ANNA
q is past finding out, until the event occurs
q Then we are all post-mortem pIliloso
Il piers. -
81 From the day of his arrival at the parl
last May, Lopez, /" a magnificent jaguar