Show I 1 SUNDAY UNDER THE TENTS elephants get a plunge bath and ilon have their toes manicured orang outings lions tigers hippopotami elephants and the other depre of the animal kingdom from every country in the world spent a quiet sunday with their attendants on tha circus lot in west indianapolis tho managers go to sunday school the performers recuperate the canvas men and drivers bleed bleep and in fact everybody rests except the attendants in the menagerie the orang boutang must have his whiskers trimmed the lion his toes manicured and the elephant must have a sponge bath and his corns pared the hippopotamus perspires blood during the whole week and unless his rough sidn id washed on sunday a black crust forms and he geta scaly the american water is not eo soft and free from alkali as his native water of central africa and his teeth get coated with matter resembling the sediment of a teakettle oa sunday his mouth must be pried kopea and his teeth cleaned and brushed with scented tooth powder made from the pulverized bark of a tree which grows on the banks of tho lukusa river in africa if his teeth were not thus preserved they would decay in three years and dyspepsia would send him to a premature grave in a foreign land the toe nails of the lion grow long and charp twice a year they must be trimmed with clippers to keep them from tearing each other to pieces in their family brawls the tigers and the bears rub against their cages so much that sore spots break oat and they must be healed with liniment and medicated oils in fact all animals must receive treatment of some ednd As their regular keepers alone understand how to treat them sunday is thus a busy day when the representatives of the city papers visited the menagerie they found tho lions roaring and much excited near one of the cages two men held down on the ground a cub while lion tamer conkling with a large pair of nippers waa clipping its toe nails there were four cubs in tho cage and one by one they were taken out of the cage by conkling and their nails cut short while this operation was going on the lioness was crying piteously and shedding great tears no human mother could show more parental solicitude for its offspring than this queen 0 animals the lions in another cage feet distant almost chilled ones blood with their terrible roars whilo the cubs were the operation oDe ration the elephants seemed to he having the best of the day they were being sponged with soft warm water and enjoyed the bath hugely an old elephant had a corn on one of his fore feet and he gracefully rested it in a stall while his attendant removed it with a razor after the lion cubs had been attended to tamer entered the cage of three huge lions which mr perley said was the biggest cage of lions in america two are asiatic and one is african the latter the largest and most noble of the lot had a sore paw which conkling tools in his lap and with a black waxy substance which he said was distilled from the sap of an african tree growing near near by waa a cage of hyenas in which the beeper waa washing the sore eye of an old one who tha keeper explained had chewed off abo lip of his predecessor A double homed rhinoceros which has worn out his horns robbing them against tho bars submitted to a thorough scrubbing from the hands of a man who had the nerve to straddle his back while rubbing lug elan with a wood broth indianapolis sentinel |