The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-21

to the bottom. The water is drained off, the mass. of starch is dried and used by the natives for soups and made into form of bread, That in- tended for exportation is mixed into a paste with water and rubbed through lsieves into small grains, and is known as pearl sago, bullet sago. etc, and it has become an important article of strachy foods. Various other palms yield sago, but of an inferior quality
 to that of the sago palm.-Albert Turner in Health Culture.
 WHY THE CATS ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS OF WILD ANIMALS.
 "of all wild animals" writes A. w. Rolker in the February Appleton s Magazine. including the rhinoceros with his frightful charge and his dreadful horn, including the rogue ele- plant with his unbounded strength, his marvellous cunning, and his vil- famous trunk, and including that gray shaggy rogue the American grizzly with his rib-crushing hung, his pond- erous paw, and his hot, rocking maw, no beast. is as dangerous to man as any one of the big cats. For besides the mouth provided with teeth that can crush through the leg bone of a man as if it were pinestem, each foot is provided with five poniard-like claws, pointed like needles and from three to four and a half inches long. As the beast strikes with these he draws the claws in keeping hold of muscles and tendons and fragments, and tearing them out of the flesh un- til they snap like rubber bands, so that unless the victim succumbs it will be months and months and some- times years and years before he can regain use of an injured member
 But not only do these talons tear Curious to say, considering that, al- though the claws are needle pointed the edges are dull as the tip of a lit- tie finger, a cut with one of these hooks is like the cut of a dagger. Last year. in Bostock's trained wild animal show, a Bengal tigress made a sweep at a European black bear, cut through the six-inch-thiek fur of the bear, and cut three parallel strips two feet long and six inches and clean as razor slashes to the very backbone of the beast. As matter of fact, the dexter ity of one of these big cats claws is astounding. Here is a curious accident which happened to Bostock himself when he undertook personally to break in a rogue tiger that had gone bad Provided with soleleather guards, worn next the skin and covering the fieshy part of the leg from the groin to the knee, he entered the arena with the bad one, and was attacked and wounded. His trousers were slashed in one spot just big enough to admit a single claw, an undergarment show ed two similar and the sole-leather guard three similar cuts, while the flesh was torn an inch deep in four places three inches long Still another instance showing the marvellous quick ness of claw, happened in. the same show when the trainer In charge of leopard group was saved in the nick of time from rogue which had tried to pull him down by climbing up on him. The arm of this man showed, be- tween wrist and elbow alone, twenty six wounds, varying from quarter of an inch deep and an inch long to one inch deep and four inches long.
 "0f all the big cats, including that magnificent iungle-named monarch of might, the lion and including those beautifully spotted orange-and- black williams, the jaguar and the leopard, and their cusin, that noiseless, lighten- ing-swift traitor. the panther, trainers prefer to handle the tiger. This is contrary to the popular belief which credits the tiger as the most blood- thirsty of all wild beasts. The tiger is however the quickest to lean and the easiest to handle. Whereas the tiger always remain a nervous, high stung brute, after time a lion be- comes phlegmatie and lazy and re- quires urging, which is apt to cause trouble. Whereas the tiger is a demon incarnate and merciless, once aroused, he is at least an honest fighter who gives ample warning when about to attack, and only as rare exception attacks man from behind, unlike jaguar, the leopard, and the panther, which are treaeherous and almost in- variably attack when back is turn ed Again, of all this dangerous family the nature of the tiger comes nearest that of an ordinary house cat, and always comparatively, the tiger it Is that is most appreciative once the master has succeeded in establishing his truce. Then, like the domestic cat he likes to brush up against the person of his trainer, loves to have his back rubbed and groomed and the top of his head scratched to soothe the everlast- ing itch between the ears, while he omits purrs of satisfaction, forgetting that the least unforeseen accident may murderous instincts that would in a twinlsling convert the friendly meeting into shambles."
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