The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-24
NATURAL HISTORY.
Things About Animals That Every
body Should Be Posted On.

The lion is called the king of beasts
because he can roar louder and DO
more bluffing than any other beast
with tail seven feet long. It IS be-
lieved that a lion who keeps his feet
warm. gets to bed at 9 o'clock and
lets champagne alone. may live to
reach the age of so, but there is moth
ing certain about it. Until few years
ago it was supposed his roar came
from his throat, and was caused by an
attack of bronchitis, but now it has
been definitely settled that he carries
q cahOpe, a base drum and a fog horn
attached TO his royal person to produce
the sounds.
A lion is a good deal like a prize
fighter. He may put up a terrific scrap
and astonish everybody. or he may sell
out for $25 and lay down to a hyena.
An eminent citizen going home at
midnight with a jag on would, perhaps,
be in less danger if meeting a mule,
but this statement should not discour-
age anyone from tagging when he feels
like il. Take it all IN all. the lion does
rs well as he can when living, and
when dead his skin makes a beautiful
rug for the hired girl to trip UP on
when spread on the library floor
The tiger has never been given a
Understanding title He is simply what
he is and he does the best he can with
the capital invested. Now and then a
tiger has been known to roar, but as a
rule he keeps his mouth shut and goes
in for meat instead of wind. His APP
petite IS his only sorrow. To appease
that he is obliged to hunt around for
about 100 pounds of fresh meat daily,
and If he can't come across a cow or
an OK he has to take up with a Hindoo
or an Englishman and pick the bones
4 little cleaner. If he could only get
I'D Of that appetite. or order canned
beef direct from Chicago, his life would
be q happy one.
His strength and agility are said to
be marvellous. He could carry off the
latest woman in Kalamazoo as easy
as q man could saunter away with a
strawberry shortcake. and a profess
stonal baseball twister might stand
and throw turnips at him all day long
and never come within a rod of him.
It is recorded that the tiger never let's
go OF his prey when he once has mis-
claws on it. This shows him to be a
beast with good sense Anything or
anybody that let's go of a good thing
when he has got the dead-wood on it
is lacking in hair on the top of the
head No one knows TO what age a
tiger lives. If constantly hunted by
New York spOrtsmen, he probably dies
OF disgust at the age of 100 years.
The elephant is the largest animal on
legs, and if Nature had known her
business she would have given him six
a dynamite torpedo at the end of his
tail The great beast is like a red
headed boy from the country who
walks three miles in the morning to
attend a village school. Everybody
picks on him and calls him names. and
he would rather run than fight When
he does get his back up, however
things have to hum.
In his wild state the elephant has
nothing to do but wander through the
forest dells and stuff his hide with the
best the land affords. In a state OF
captivity he is hauled about by an iror
hook fastened into his ear and made
to work u hours per day. union or nc
union He is also sworn at and made
TO STEP lively, and we cannot blame
him If he now and then weeDs sa5
tears and signs over what good thfnE
he has lost An elephant VIII use his
trunk to lift a stick of timber which
30 tramps would stand with their hands
in their pockets and look at for five OIL