Show THE AMERICAN BISON it is announced with a degree of delight by an eastorn exchange that a young bison has been born at the zoological garden in philadelphia it bays probably the birth of no other animal would have caused more mother old emily is one of the few surviving specimens of the race and little edith her calf is regarded as of more value and importance to tho garden th an alie of any other animal may the magnificent buffalo that formerly inhabited the western plains by the million be perpetuated the buffalo could live with the indian barbarian but when the christian pale face invaded his country ho faded away liko dew before the sun many of the inhabitants of utah remember the times when thousands of bull aloes roamed the plains and as for the immigrants to this territory men live among us who have slain great numbers fur this purpose while matrona matrons still have a vivid recollection of preparing the luscious game at the camp fire neither is this so many years ago between the years of 1850 CO such incidents were very common and therefore it is quito surprising 0 learn that the birth of a bison at a zo logical garden i biow baided bailed with so much delight owing to the fact thia breed of animals is almost wholly extinct alio only representative that y t are found t such places a zoological when thach die ot nothing ant skeletons will remain to tell the future man of tho mil liona of ant once reamed the western plains of the american continent |