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Show Indian Lions Dying Out. The lions of India appear to be going the way of the great bustard and the dodo, and the reason is found in the extension ex-tension of railways, for the monarch of the forest shares with Mr. Ruskin a mortal mor-tal antipathy to the smoke and screams of locomotives. Withn the memory of many persons lions were common enough in Rajputana, and even now the roar of one may be heard occasionally in the wildest parts of Central India; but the new railway from Nagpur is now being constructed through this country, and this is practically a notice to quit served upon the few remaining lions in the central cen-tral provinces. Practically the only lions li-ons now remaining that are worth mentioning men-tioning seem to be the race existing in Kattywar, which was visited by Prince Albert Victor the other day. Their number num-ber remains, it is believed, pretty stationary. sta-tionary. It is strictly forbidden to shoot them, save by way of the grand sport; but many conditions are unfavorable to their multiplication, and even the Kattywar Kat-tywar lions are clearly doomed ere long to disappear. London News. |