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Show ser 1,0 attempt i, made to pile up S "T7!61- literally K Sif rrfo, hke " bny "wounded by a ea of money, the crests of whose waves Iow1nd alevel the vn nCcnd n th6 P com-r-Kelly closes the window and step, carefully over thw bed of money Ther? and not till then, is any attempt Jdeto to several thousand dollars in pieces of aUdenonunaUonsNew York PresT the StrWo8 BeaBts cil Be Sean In the Philadelphia Zoological Zoologi-cal Garden. gjTEEBOE OP THE TRAPPERS ! r)f This Pair of Rare Animals Was Obtained and How They Live. ajpjrintendent Brown, of the Zoologi. flgarden.is happy; Head Keeper Byrnes ddiant and every under keeper reflects hehppineesand cheerfulness of their BperioM. A pair of wolverines hag been ved t the garden and bid fair to live, J, and otherwise conduct themselves U regulated wolverines should. A visit to the garden brought forth a sojt interesting talk from Head Keeper loes, which wae upplernented by a ,W and accurate scientific description thegolo lnscus, as this animal is called, at ii particularly gratifying is the Kt that this pair, now in possession of Philadelphia Zoological garden, is ie oniy pair known to be in captivity, Bd for that matter no other garden has rati single specimen. gOME NATURAL HISTORY. foe animal belongs to the badger laily and is extremely shy and retiring , disposition. It is a habitant of the itire northern hemisphere and is not A plentiful in any locality. It has OT knoro to zoologists for a long time, it ibout it have been related more raar-doos raar-doos tales than even of the salamander chameleon. All over the world where it is found ,tjve hunters tell incredible tales of its focity and voracity. As far back as 1563 Ijfllaginue, a Scandinavian writer, ffltions tho wolverine and tells how, s gorging itself with food, it will try squeeze itself between two closely owing trees to enable it to digest ita tab, after which it will again return .devour more. Every district nearly gives it a name id it is indiscriminately called the In-aa In-aa devil, the glutton, the quick hatch, ie carcajou. Linnaeus describes the animal under ie name of the one eyed glutton, and leteim one eyed is supposed to have me from the fact that the only epeci-cb epeci-cb he ever saw or heard described was iadinoneeye. The western trappers give the wol-nne wol-nne a reputation for craftiness, enn-ajand enn-ajand general devilishness equaled by i other animal. They claim that it 31 fight worse than a grizzly bear. In rt, a scout of Superintendent Brown's scribed to him a fight between a wol-rineandashe wol-rineandashe grizzly with two half own cubs, in which the wolverine nquered its opponents, and declared it he witnessed tho whole battle from reo. Of courae the shyness and suspicious-a suspicious-a of the animal has much to do with ese tales, hut there is no doubt that it far more powerful than one would ipsct from its size, which is about that a half grown setter dog. It is a terror trappers from the way -it will steal the it from their traps, and if caught will at desperately. . rhe little ones at the garden now have tady proved their ferocity by chewing ; hands of two of the keepers who inv dently handled them. HOW THE GARDEN GOT THEM. fowtheZoo obtained the specimen! ;owhas is a most interesting story, specimen was sent to the garden somt i Years ago which had been caught in rap in Idaho, and had its foot badly We was never put on exhibition, a lied about half an hour after its arri-.tat arri-.tat it was stuffed and is now on ex-ition ex-ition in the superintendent's private i Some six years ago as superin-Jent superin-Jent Brown was returning from tingtrip in the west, he stopped in nier's in Chicago, where he saw a iverine's skin. One word- led toan-t, toan-t, and ha made arrangements with finn that if they heard of any lm being captured to notify him. , , : . 01er day he received a telegram H that the father and mother hav-both hav-both been shot he could obtain a paii. ;mg wolverines if he desired them, 'receive such news was to a man ol fflargy and decision equivalent to H them, so in answer to bis prompt I expressing an earnest desire to get o the young animals were sent on. ? arrived in excellent condition and "w occupying comfortable quarter! the aviary. appetite for small birds, the food 'agiven them, has not as yet been TOnear satisfied, and they seem aeserve their popular name ol In appearance at the present ! resemble a large skunk, hav-""same hav-""same long body, long hair and ejhave a habit of sitting up on Munches and shading their eyes 'one paw whenever anything at-fw at-fw attention. "f Ke?Per Byrnes says that though fc'en't been with him long enough their habits .correctly, vet ha ' jueve they are half as bad asthej M to bei "Though," he added, neai'ly chew up the hand of 1 "fsepfri" confident that he will be able to successfully, and even now wound to their cage and gazes ately at the pets every ten "or so. pendent Brown explained theit 4 4 told many tales he had heard e beaste and seamed delighted aiS found specimanB of an animal . aological garden has, or prob-Tuts prob-Tuts able to get for some time t -Kuladelphia Times. |