——————— o_o or AS AAA SN, I
OLD PETS MADE OVER
AT THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY THEY APPEAR
AS IF ALIVE.
The Vicious Old Elephant Will Be
Stuffed Like Other Park Animals
Which Died Before Him.
Few New Yorkers appreciate the
mine of information and entertain-
ment that they have at their com-
mand in the American Museum of
Natural History. The immense mu-
seum buiiding in its park between
77th and 81st streets, and Columbus
and Eighth avenues,
sight to all, but of the interior and
its contents it is surprising what a
large proportion of old New Yorkers
are blissfully ignorant. How many
people are there who know what be-
comes of their old pets at the Central
Park ‘‘Zoo’' after they are missed |
from their cages and reported as |
among the long list of the dead?
is
present trip is
of the western
southern.
const down
to be a very fine one.
Museum, but they have not been un-
packed as yet, for there is no room
to exhibit them.
when the new building is opened.
But the most interesting part of
the work at the
the
18
bones are
idermists’ department, and in
where the skeleton and
mounted.
paring for exhibition, the animals
which die at the Park Zoo, and those
which are presented to» the Museum,
is carried on. A force of men is kept
constantly at work under
mist John Rowley,
ing and mounting the skins of speci-
mens for exhibition. It was to this
department of the Museum that the
of the murdered Tip was
given after the vicious old brute had
received his quietus. The work of
preparing the hide and bones of the
CARrcass
and the terror of his keepers, was a
difficult one and will take many
——
BUFFALO COW AND CALPF.
—
i
Would it not surprise a great many
of those who were on terms of famil-
iarity with Crowley, the* almost
human chimpanzee, which attracted
so much attention for several years
at the Park menagerie; with Kitty,
his mate, whose antics when she was
first introduced to her future lord and
master, were all told in the news-
papers; with Bombe, the great un-
wieldly rhinoceros which was fed
every day by an admiring fringe of
awed visitors who shrrounded his
huge swimming tank; with dear old
Jumbo, upon whose broad back half
the children of New York were car-
ried around Madison Square Garden;
or with Tip, the vicious old elephant.
which had such a long record of
crimes committed, ‘‘with malice and!
intent aforethought’''—would it not
Tip was skinned at once in the cage
was killed, and the flesh
The skin was taken to the museum to
be prepared for mounting, while the
bones were sent into the country to
be macerated. They now lie in tanks
of water up in this State near Scoha.
rie, slowly rotting off the flesh, to
prepare them for being mounted.
The hide was at taken to the
basement of the museum and a force
of men set at work paring it down for
mounting. An important
moose was in praparation when the
skin of old Tip arrived, so his mount-
ing had to bedelayed. The skin, when
cleaned and thinned down somewhat
with drawer-knives, was put away in
the cellar to soak in an antiseptic so-
lation. The moose group will occupy
the attention of the taxidermists for
some months to come, so it is not ex-
pected that the work of mounting
Tip's hide will begin until the first of
Once
group of
surprise the old friends of these |
former pets to suddenly come upon!
them all now, years after they have
passed away, standing in the muse-
um, in their accustomed positions,
just as they did in their days of
former glory?
It is intended by the trustees of the
American Museum of Natural His-
tory to some day extend the building
until it almost entirely fills the park
in which it now stands. Up to this
year, however, there was found to be
enough space for all the exhibits
available within the limits of the
single wing completed, that facing on
77th street. year a second
wing has been building, however, and
when it is completed and opened to
the public the facilities of the mu-
seum will be nearly doubled. There
are now in the possession of the in-
stitution enough exhibits to fill both
wings, and additions are constantly
being received.
This new wing is being built on the
southeast corner of the plot of ground |
and connecting with the old building.
t will be a five-story structure faced |
with red granite, like the other wing.
It will be 70 feet deep and have a |
frontage on 77th street of 175 feet. |
The work on this addition is progress- |
ing rapidly, and it was said at the |
museum last week that all but the |
interior work on it would be com- |
pleted by the first of next November, |
The woodwork, plastering, show-cases |
and installation of specimens will |
take several months more, so that it |
is hardly expected that the public |
will be admitted before the early part |
of néxt summer,
When it is allowed this privilege |
the change that will have occurred in |
the museum will astonish even the
oldest frequenters of the place. The
classification, as at present arranged.
by floors will be retained, and the
collections extended out through the
new building as well as the old.
There are already a number of exhib-
its at the museum which cannot be
shown for lack of accommodation,
and these, with many others, which
are expected before the new building
is completed, will be found within
the walls of the new wing when it is
opened.
The Museum has many other ‘irons
in the fire.” It has collectors in its
employ in both Mexico and Peru,
: explorer down in Mexico made
_ his first trip some time ago, and sent
up the results of his work this winter
from Arizona. He went then trom
“his
the northern part of Mexico to the
“central part of the country, His
next year. Then it will be put through
at once, and will be exhibition
early next Spring.
The skeleton of Jumbo, Barnum’s
giant elephant, has been loaned to
the Museum by James A. Bailey Mr
Barunum's successor, and his mounted
hids will soon be in the Museum as
well. It is thought to be very doubt-
ful if either will be taken away again,
When the new wing is opened next
year the present position of the buf-
falo group in “Mammal Hall’ will
be given over to the exhibition of
these two elephants. Jumbo was an
African elephant, while Tip was a
specimen of the Indian variety, and
both are very fine examples of their
different breeds.
One of the finest and most recent
additions to ‘Mammal Hall"’ is the
group of buffaloes. This is composed
of seven specimens, including differ.
ent ages and sexes of the American
bison, all mounted in a life-like man-
ner, with accessories and surround-
ings made from studies made on the
plains, and all inclosed in a huge
glass case. The big cow with the
little calf by her side was presented
to the museum by Buffalo Bill. These
two specimens died at his Wild West
camp at Erastina, 8. I., two or three
summers ago.
tg
ug
on
group, the taxidermists are now at
work on a group of moose.
bo the masterpiece of the
tion, and Mr. Rowley is taking won-
derful pains to have it correct in
every particular. There will be seven
to the museum by Dr. Edgar
Mearus, a surgeon in the United
States Army, stationed at Fort Snell-
cow to the collection.
The largest specimen of all, an
enormous bull with antlers spreading
five feet from tip to tip, was shot by
Taxidermist Rowley Pr up in
the wilds of the Province of New
Brunswick, last October,
The last piece of work done by the
osteologists under Wiliiam Richard.
son, who Is head of that departmend,
was the mounting of the skeleton of
Bombe, the great wrinkled rhinoceros,
which died at Central Park ‘Zoo’ in
1886. The hide had been stuffed and
mounted two years or so ago, but the
bones were set up only last Saturday
in ‘Mammal Hall.” Bombe was an
Indian one-horned rhinoceros, and
originally possessed a long horn that
his keepers in captivity decided that
hig hugh tusk was dangerous to his
visitors and themselves, as well as to
his cage, and it was gradually
sawed off closer and closer, until at
his death Bombe had only a short
knob left. This omission has been
with an imported horn,
taken from some more fortunate rhi-
noceros out in India and shipped
New York for Bombe's special
HE RHINOCEROS ‘‘poMne.”’
One special feature of this speci-
men which Taxidermist Rowley called
attention to was the beautiful wrin-
kles in the skin. These might not
ordinarily be looked upon as great
¥
OCEAN CABLES,
FOURTEEN OF THEM CROSS
THE ATLANTIC.
How the Continents Were First Con~
nected By Telegraph -- Materials
Comprising Submarine Cables«-
Cost of Cabling.
Of the fourteen submarine cables
vhich lie at the bottom of the Atlan-
tic Ocean, connecting the United
states with Europe, the oldest now
n use, according to the New York
News, is that laid in 1878.
years ago to-day sinve that elephan-
ne monster, the cumbersome side-
wheeler Great Eastern, compieted
the laying of the first 50 miles of the
sable westward from Valentia, on the
southwest coast of England.
It is 21
There are now over 1,500 telegraph |
ables under water in the different
oarts of the world, 1,277 of which |
wonnect wilh London, and thus indi- |
ceetly with this country. These
measure in length 178,000 miles, and
as seyeral of the longest contain two
r,three conductors, they make in all
rhinocerous
the d
hide
put in
reatest trouble,
first
19 én JOY
jombe i the
this country
of having wrinkles in
death, and that 1
ly the g
Long iron rods had to be placed un-
der the skin in the
ridges were in lif
the
out.
One of the most
the i
seam
stuffed
8
istinetion
i%
ney were
there on after
places where the
10 kes Pp
nn order
wrinkles from be ing sn oothed
afiraclive cases to
many children who vigit the
ig that which contains
bodies of their
mu-
two
fiancee, Kitty,
which died in captivity at
Crowley mounted and
time. though
ely recent addi-
died, it
broken
has been on
exhibition for s«
Kitty
!
tio
He
is A comparatiy
to the
be remembered,
She
of
1 museum,
will
heart
tion of
n
and, incidentally
wher and
New features are constantly being
added to the
when the new
year, and the capacit}
is increased, as
be many new
there, At any
I repay
museums stock
wing
a 1 opened
there will
be
il even now
LO Bean
¥
any one to
make avisit Lo
Natur
"i
of al
itn Of ni
History
1 he View
ries
sensat
can
clouds
lessly break
'
he faces
cliffs Occasionally
dee
depths ben
£ tl '
of the (
broken by ths
rom the
the voice lor were
dict Oi on
the
h o ind, a rattle of
ing a stern © destructi
SLOorm rises, envelop
hail
(1 o0n
F103 $Y
Ort fore entering and
hold up your hands. You feel
the sharp tingle of the electric cur
rent as | from your fingers
tips. Ti over, and
you can sunbeams gilding
the upper of the white
clouds that and swing below
you, half way down
sides, and completely h
the
shifts:
Bi
Can
gtorm is soon
soe he
surfaces
EWaY
the
ide from view
The scenery
like a drawn curtain the
clouds part, and, as from heights of
another sphere, we look forth upon
the majesty of the mountains and
the plains. An ocean of inextricably
entangled peaks sweeps into
Forests dark and vast
vague shadows on distant mountain
sides, A city dwarfed into the
compass of a single bloek;
courses are mere threads
laid in graceful curves upon the green
Worl beneath.
seem
is
The red granite rocks beneath our
feet are starred with tiny flowers, so
minute that
scopie, yet
delicate and
the
colors.
tinted with
tender
most
copper wire, sufficient to go around
the earth 20 times. Only a small
fraction is owned by the different
European Governments, the bulk be-
ing in the hands of private concerns,
nearly in) (MMs END,
Government
{ apitalize d for
I'he British
has more under water than
any They are 118 in
number, and bring the most remote
portions of Hindostan or other ob-
India in
juick touch with the Government at
is Cork, Ireland
wildly pictur-
naturally
cables
otl
ier nation.
ns
London, as
The Pacit
with
$e
i
Ocenn
its thousands of fathoms
cover up
and mountainous bottom,
in weipices sand yawni
efied man cable in-
genuity. The sea is copper-bound
New York and Halifax eastward
to Gibraltar Mediterranean, the
Black. the Red, the Arabian sens and
the Indian Ocean, but the great Paci-
fic remains iil free
] from Sydney, Australia
“ n
sidered
ue
water which
an
abounding
uneven
of
huge pre ng
chasms, has d hit
f ¥
irom
the
a short
New
this
unless
10
‘0 as in
k ne
ntic Was if
mey raised by Cyrus W. Field
. ’ in 1856
the
with
He
everybody WHE
cable aid
nt abroad from here i 13¢
i. Lhd
A ngust 1807.
in belonging
mpany was formed
and on
Agamemnd
shh Lrovernnmu and Lh
States
left Valenti;
which was
Niagara
gleam
hat which
11608 (lee ld
i
‘ ARR. ¢
WHS Sa INIGE ONY
atiempis
1858, thirty-six 3
t work was accompl
bye opened an
3
f that year
ing
the
How-
sent
O
ever, only messages
ne enable was im-
t and was never opened for toll
The fifth dispa ch
was from New York to Mr. Cunard
at London, telling him of a collision
steamships Europe and
werd
over this line the
a rioe
business nt
sent
between the
Arabian.
The breaking out of the
pped Of in
business this ¢
England, and during th
we had no
tions with the other side. After peace
was restored, however, Mr. Field was
London organizing another
company The new cable was made
+h stronger, and the Gre
eivil
the
war
cable
yuntry and
e great strife
telegraphic commaunica~
sie negotiations
between
again in
1
u
at Eastern
was chartered for the Iaying, the sup-
position being that the vessel's pro-
digious size would relieve the cable of
any sudden jerks or strains. It was
on a lovely evening, July 24, 1860,
that the Great Eastern, with the cable
stored comfortably away in her hold,
steamed westward from Valentia.
All went well until she was within
600 miles of Heart's Content. New.
foundland. Mr, Field was on board,
nn
to face.
to deseribe
who have beheld
its grandeur and
[Cassier's Magazine,
the scene,
it can
magnificence, =
Sparrows Kill Locusts.
The English sparrow, which has
been voted an unmitigated nuisance
in this country, seems to have at
least one redeeming trait. He loves
to kill the seventeen-year locust, It
is reported from Woodbridge, N. J,
where the locusts are superabundant,
that the sparrow hes evidently de-
clared war on them, and has killed
large numbers of them. The spare
rows do not seem to care to eat the
their eyes. When these are gone,
ground and die.~{New Orleans Plea-
yure.
Antidote for Cyanide of Potash.
One of the deadliest and most sub-
tle poisons known to the pharmaco-
paeia is cyanide of potash. It is now
reported that a Hungarian chemist,
Dr. Johann Antal, has discovered a
sure antidote for it, the efficacy of
which he has proved in numerous
ensos, first on animals and afterwards
on more than forty living persons,
who had been accidentally polgoned
with prussic acid. The antidote did
not fail in a single instance. The
antidote is a newly-discovered chemi-
compound, nitrate of cobalt,
1
§
i
teries aboard, trials were made to see
if it was all right. Suddenly it broke
in the very deepest part of the ocean
and was lost. Having lost all the
grappling gear the ureat Eastern
steered homeward,
The next year the Great Eastern
tackled the job again, and on July
27. 1866, landed the shore end of a
cable at Heart's Content. Then the
expedition returned to the spot where
the cable was lost the year before,
succeeded in grappling it, and in a
short time America and Europe were
connected by two lines of telegraphic
communication.
Submarine cables are now con-
structed differently than formerly;
that is, the different sections vary in
size. The shore ends are two inches
in diameter and heavily armored,
while the deep sea section remains
about as of old, viz: three-quarters
of an inch in diameter. In the new
pounds of copper, 9,500,000 of steel
wire, 1,800,000 of jute yarn, 1 ,800,-
000 of compound and 800,000 pounds
of pure gutta percha. This costs
about $1,500 a mile, and laid, nearly
£3,000, so it is safe to estimate that
the actual cost of laying all the
submarine cable in use to-day is
$500,000,000. The heavy eable costs
$2,000 a mile, as it is armored
with 86 steel wires three-sixteenths
of an inch in diameter, and 20 of one
sixteenth inch.
The cost of maintaining ocean ea-
bles ia also Immense. Ab present
there are 40 steamships employed as
repairers in the service, and these
generally have to be built for the
jiepose. Cables about the fishing
nks of Newfoundland are often
broken by the anchors of fishermen,
down go fine that they soon have it
mended again. The repair-ship ar.
riving at the point of breakage, which,
by a peculiar sounder, can be readily
ascertained at the nearest terminal,
drops its grapnel overboard and steers
at right angles with the line back
and forth until the liook catches the
eable. This is then pulled up and
anchored to a bugy until the other
end is found in the same way. Then
the two ends are scientifically spliced
with another piece and let go again
to the bottom of the ocean.
Only 18 years ago it cost Dom Pe-
late Emperor of Brazil, $20 a
cable back to Rio Janeiro
Centennial Exposition.
can be sent all over
world, starting at San
thence the conti-
Messnre
known
fCTrOss
Pacific to New York; thence follow-
ing the world’s northern telegraphic
through England, Nor-
way, Sweden, Russia and Siberia, go-
ing south touching at Wagasaki, in
Japan, Hong Kong, China, Singapors
Sumatra Australia to
New Zealand; thence to Bombay ;
thence to Ceylon and Aden, around
the Cape of Good Ho leaving t
line at Zanzibar for interior lines in
Africa, up the West Afri
St. Louis, to Senegal, acro
HOTORS
he
ie
an Coast to
Atlantic to Pernambuco
versing South America
over to Valparaiso, Chil
thence north th
to Galveston, Texa
for $18 a word.
COAsL ;
“
BURIAL AT SEA.
it Sobers Crew and Passengers and
Is Oppreusively Solemn,
I can’t
sively solemn ceremony than a burial
ut suid A. Denny,
to a St. Louis repor It is sol-
Cri } yu Ai cept when
remain i
Carried
charge of a Congre
but
ceremony
ity as much as the aw{
imaging:
Bea,
emn
the
peng
ugh «
rf
% O
lamented nro
:
a burial at
on and
ur of
, soft
nie
Rr wild
mid-ocean iia
beauty
the sea are
surg fission
a tranquil
not gi
of
ven
musit
0
as.
he
makes them
jut when
i the
ship
characte
stant
red
dea
con
ribal i.
board
piety
in
i Nee
1} »
which
great,
with
desoiate sire its
fio
mountainous Hilloy and its howling
gaies, seems to}
the grin reaper
i character
the livir
CRS
ninds of
f the terrors o
land, with
trains nd
a trenody
he line of
to graveyard. You can «
it, matter bh
nardened i
i
fron vl
DOU
that no
the
hat and bares his head t«
he i
g of oppression
over the
death occurs is 80 over]
for this very reason, |
rid of
spe il.
snlior
yaEses the
sky whenever
“The feelin hich
extends all ship when
owering that
{ for no other
it is necessary to get tiie «
with all
getting
And
isa climax to
possible
rid of it
the man who has never exp
it can imagine. The idea of d
the cold insensate
clay into the bottomless
ocean, to be gnawed at and n
by the greedy monsters of the
is horrifying to the stoutest
mass of
limitiess
done, and
doi
do
it must be
shrinks from
upon him to
hands.
ne
E
it
it i
with his
board, face up. To the foot of the
board are attached heavy weights,
usually cannon
balls. Then
the ship by some of the crew, who,
after doing this, make haste
scurry back out of sight of the final
proceedings, leaving no one
but the captain, whose duty it is to
tip up the board and let it drop into
the sea, feet foremost. Maybe you
think you can sleep after doing that.
If you do, just volunteer to perform
this service for the first captain on
whose boat you are passenger, when
a death occurs. 1 assure you that
{ you won't get any more sleep for a
good many nights afterwards.”
Science in Old Shoes.
A French savant has invented »
new science which he terms scarpol
ogy, whereby he proposes to diagnos.
ticate mental qualities from the ap-
pearance of the shoes worn by the
subject. He claims that shoes that
{ have been worn are full of faithful
| indications as to lack of energy, fickle.
ness, bad temper, or the opposite
qualities, as the case may be. If the
sole and heel of a shos, after two
months’ wear are equally worn, the
owner is un energetic business man,
an employe that can be relied upon,
a good wife or an excellent mother,
If the outside edge is most worn, the
owner is adventurous to rashness and
of a bold and persistent turn of mind.
Wear of the inside edge indicates ir-
resolution and weakness in man and
modesty in woman.—~{New York Tele
gram.
TC RH AN AR
HER WANTS,
Butcher—Have you any orders this
morning, madam?
Young Wife (who is keeping
house)=Yes; that ecall’s liver you
brought me last week was very
fine. I want another one, but be sure
bit the repairers now have the work
and get it from the same calf, as
husband ls very parieutar, |
DISPERSED BY SAUERKRAUT,
Peculiar Cause of the Children
Quitting the Old Home.
They were talking about the deser-
tion of farms by the younger genera.
tions for the alluring charms of the
cities; how young men and women
left the home nest in the country as
soon ns they felt any confidence in
themselves and flocked to the paved
streets and brick walls of urban life
in the hope that work would not be
#0 hard and money would ese easier,
“Our family furnirhes a in
point,”’ said a young German who
has latterly appeared in minor roles
in ward democratic
politics. “We're all in the city now
except the old folks, who stick to the
farm Our
reasons farm,
however,
given, and I doubt if a parallel case
be found.”’ Then he told hig
CRs
twenty-fourth
and are doing pretty well
for
were n
ning ne
abando
Of those usuunily
Cal
story
With two
ters
and three gis.
farm 100 miles
they
broth« rs
he lived 0 on
a ail aided a
bos i { iw id
ithier 11 wrating
oid ft
place. It
and the fami
i
prosperous a
the piece of
and
disaster came
3. The
yi
Y was J
land mppy
Ark
shape of a eabbag:
ia Croj
i ” i
t
gp
f si Ge
~
{farmer
£ rop.
he ping 144 sev-
excellent
cut up and
market shows
andthe
a profitable
ree DOYS
eral acres in cabbage, with
The
d there
Crop
result
d ar
friend
the North
an
mn
DUSINess on
Armer received order
A few days later the
that the best he
iI, the
nan
All went well
reers
gan wo
haa beet
several t
he ¥y au
ed old T
went t
MIO |
A Young Eagle.
The eagle, as many of you know, is
the King among Diras
ist as ti
is the King among Mammals
eatest strength when full grown
of ti
The
the ed
tilt eps.
ese qualities in
eagle, just
is the most
(atare under the sun.
a thick white coat of
we slips out of the shell, and
yy days afterward the young
bird lies huddled against the broast
of the mother-bird, for it cannot even
Weeks pass by be-
fore it can trot about the nest. The
first ign of the flapping of the wings
does not occur until the bird is ready
to leave the
The young birds are amply fed by
which the
their craws before
it to the little ones. When
they are about half grown the
eagle nest looks like a slaughter
house well stocked with provisions.
The parent birds scour the neighbor.
hood for miles, gathering all the
prey they can.
When the birds are full grown they
are permitted to leave the nest. The
parents go with them, teaching them
first how to fly and then how to as
enil and steal their prey. By that
time autumn has come, and now the
family separates. The youngsters
leave the parental nest, and some-
times roam about for eight or ten
years before they set up an estab-
lishment of their own and in their
turn raise young birds. In 1719 an
eagle died in Vienna, Austria, who
had lived in captivity for over 104
years, ~[St. Louis Star-Sayings.
royal
emerged
om
helpless
down, |
for ny
ma
nest.
latter digest in
feeding
She Swims in Her Sleep.
A young woman of Crab Creek,
Adams County, indulges in frequent
freaks of somnambulism, One of
her recent exploits was as follows:
She arose from her bed about three
o'clock in the morning and was seen
to approach Crab Creek in her night
robe. Upon reaching the stream the
young woman waded in for a short
distance, as if Jasling hee way, and
swam safely across. Upon reachi
the opposite bank she awoke, hal
frightened to death, dripping wet,
shivering from the cold, and made
her way to the house of a neighbor,
where she was cared for and taken
to her home.~{ Morning Oregonian.