The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-02-10 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

RARE ANIMAL—The Count de Bentivoglio has sent a " guepard" to the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris. This rare animal is &native of Arabia, Surat, and Malabar, where it is used by hunters much as a hawk was by the falconers of olden times. In size the guepard resembles a panther; its body, however, is slighter, and its head somewhat smaller. In its native plains it is caught soul regularly trained for hunting purposes. It quietly submits to be conveyed to the place of meeting closely hooded, and secured to its master's saddle. On game being scented, its hood is removed, and the guepard creeps on to the nearest tree or conceals itself in neighbouring bushes carefully watching the animal designated by the huntsmen, on which it springs with marvellous agility, speedily strangling it and sucking its blood. For this service its master rewards it with a piece of meat. The gnepard quietly submits to be rehooded,ile swung on the hunter's saddle, and conveyed back to its home. A SHOCKING All•RDEß.—Near Detroit, on the sth of January, John Cooper. alias Hanley, entered tit.. house of his sister. Mrs. Wm. Lynch, and shot her with a revolver. The ehot not taking effr ct, he seized an axe, and with its edge aim...l a murderous blow at her head and face. The blow took effect just below the brows, cutting across the nose and eyes, and sinking deep in the brain. Shy fell to the floor a corpse, when the murderer with might and main struck the axe repeatedly into her body, cutting diagr molly across the breast from the left should, r, the bloody weapon wring completely through at more than one stroke, actually cutting the heart from the body, laying it in a quivering bloody mass at her side. He afterward* exhibited the most unaccountable indifference and cminess, extrreesit g his joy at the deed, and declaring that he did it partly in retaliation for the alleged act of his sister in poi.ning her parents in Ireland, as he sail, and partly from fear of his ewn life at her hand..  Tug TASM %NIA,: DEVIL (" Diubolus Ursinus")— A specimen of this animal, which is now almost extinct, :priced in Edinburgh on Saturday for Wombwell's Menagerie. Few animals have geserved their title better than this animal. The innate and apparently ineradicable ferocity of the creature can hardly he conceived, except by those who have seen it. In captivity its sullen and purposeless anger is continually excited. An animal soon learns to recognise its keeper, and to welcome the hand that supplies it with food, hut the Tasmanian devil seems to be diabolically devoid of gratitude, and attacks indiscriminately every one that approaches it. With the least cause it will fly at the bars of the cage and endeavour, by dint of teeth and claws, to wreak its vengeance on The keeper, while it gives vent to its pass.onate feelings in short hoarse screams of rage. The coat of the Tasmanian dex il is very appropriately black, with a white spot here and there. The fur is a deep dead black, and utterly devoid of that rich silky glossiness which gives to the coats of many black animals no pleasing an effect. The great power of the devil's jaws, backed by its unreasoning ferocity, renders it extremely formidable when attacked. There are no Tasmanian dogs, however large and well trained, that can boast of a victory over a Tasmanian devil.