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foolishness. The real up-todate house
H8if4f5u hold must now be supplied with an
annex in the way of menagerie. Per
each other in the collection of queer things
in the way of geological specimens which they
NAV either fondle exhibit to their friends
as evidences of their prowess in the field. The
hunter of few years past was content to orlng
back skins and heads, which were made to adorn
the floors or walls of his house Office, but
now it is his delight to bring back such speci-
mems alive. Instead of killing his quarry, he
wounds it and then, after capture, nurses IT
hack to life and makes pet of it. AS rule,
the wounded animal is easy to tame, and he
can quickly be made to understand that he Is
in the hands of friends. He soon becomes quite
tractable and by the time his wound has healed
the beast has worked up a strong affection Tor
his owner.
PETS FROM THE FOREST.
To a gentleman hunter who is fortunate enough
70 have a country place, the presence OF small
deer will add greatly to the picturesqueness OF
+be nlace and will afford unlimited opportunity
for exploiting ones manly prowess without any
sacrifice of modesty
Smaller animals become even more affection
ate than the larger ones, and their presence
moving around the house or grounds IS even
a more eloquent evidence of the hunters skill
than the skin on the floor stuffed heads
on the wall. 1t requires much more skill to
deliberately disable an animal than to kill it
outright.
STARTED AT NEWPORT.
The fad for pets from the forest is claimed
to have originated with the Newport set, where
it seemed to be essential to be really and truly
smart one must be eccentric. There were par
ties and functions of all kinds arranged for
domestic pets of fashionable households, and
the dictates of etiquette were rigdly and redic-
ulously adhered to-
Word now comes from Paris that it is quite
the usual thing to see children and adults on the
boulevards of that city accompanied by bears,
monkeys orangoutangs something equally odd
in the way of flesh and blood pets. No men,
her of the animal kingdom seems to be too
humble to be showered with affection, and the
stranger the beast the more it is priced.
Miss Ethel Warwick English actress, is
shown in one of the accompanying illustrations
nursing a monkey which sent to her from
South Africa 1t is quite valuable specimen
of the monkey tribe, and the young lady is to
be seen every day walking driving on the
Paris boulevards, always accompanied by her
monkey.
prohab,v the most remarkable thing in the
nov, of the development of affection between the
man and beast is that of M, Louis de Rouge
mont, Frenchman who has become very much
attached to a drove of 'loggerheads" He com
menced by cultivating the acquaintance of one
of these giant tortoise and soon became much
interested that he had several around him, each
one having learned some trick. One of them
has developed into a water steed, Upon being
thrown into the river he allows his master to
take up a position on his back whereupon the
tortoise darts through the water with great
rapdity The particular loggerhead made use
of for this pupose weighs about 225 pounds and
is under perfect control of the rider.
A big tortoise at the Philadelphia Geological
Garden has been trained to carry small children
on its back This animal weighs 100 pounds
and carries seven-yearold boy with ease.