The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-03
CARNIVAL CROWDS GROWING
Managers Look Forward to Great Bust
ness all Day Tomorrow.

Hess All Oay IomorroW.
AS the end of the week approaches.
the carnival crowds are growing at
the Laurium driving park, each even
ing 50 far having seen a notable in
crease I'm the number of patrons at
the different shows. Enthusiasm is
also IN the increase, the true carnival
spirit having prevailed last evening.
The various shows offered by the
Patterson Carnival company are meri-
torious and clean and have attracted
favorable attention from all who have
tccn present. The principal attrac-
lions probably are the animal show,
motordrome, Nomia, freaks and curios,
the minstrels and the sea COW. There
are numerous other shows almost as
good and the charge is i'm proportion
with the quality of the show.
The sea COW probably was the big .
gest attraction last evening because
Of the report circulated I'm the after
noon and early evening that IL was
dead The animal exhibited no signs
of life, hut the attendants hold forth
the belief that ii is still living. although
i'm an absolutely dormant state. No
signs of breathing could be diteeted,
but as the sea COW is able To I've for
"A long period under water. il is pos
sble IL is still alive. The curiosity is
valued at several thousand dollars and
it's loss would he severe one on
the owner Mr.. Warren of Chicago.
on Monday and Tuesday evenings
the COW performed many stunts. most
of which were ~een by the local press
representatives. but last evening and
today the COW could not be aroused
from its stupcr
The sea COW" is known scientfical-
~ as the manati or manatee. The En-
cNclopedia britannica, Eleventh Edi-
ton. Volume XVII. says:
THE name adopted from the carib
tManatouD was given by the Spanish
colonists of the West Indies To the
American representatives of a small
group of herbivorous aquatic mann
mails constituting. with their allies. the
Outgoing aud the now extinct Rhytina.
The body is somewhat fish-like, but
depressed, and ending in "A broad, fiat.
shovel-like tail with rounded edges.
The head is of moderate size. and dt-
vidod from the body by slight con-
striction or neck The fore limbs are
f,attcned oval paddles. placed rather
low on the sides of the body. The
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being cleft in the midle into two
iobes, each of which is separately
movable. The nostrils are two semi
lunar yalvelike Sits at the apex of the
muZZle. The eyes are very minute,
placed at the sides of the head, and
with a nearly circular aperture with
wrinkled margins. The external ears
are wanting. The skin is Of dark,
grayish color and finely wrinkled;
both upper and lower lips are supplied
with short, stiff bristlcs.
Manatees have ms many as twenty
pairs of two-ridged teeth in each jaw.
rhey pass their life I'm bays. lagoons
and large rivers. The open sea is UNI
suited To their mode of life"
The animal on exhibition was cap
tured after an all-day struggle I'm the
I.agoona Madre. Point Isabel. Texas,
July 4. 1912, and is the only one alive
m captivity and il estimated To he
over two hundred years old by the
Smithsonian Institute. II is the sec
ond one of this species that has been
seen in ESQ years, according to the