Show PASSING OF THE ELEPHANT it la said that the clarcna favorite IB B scarce there is a wail in the new york ledger that there is every reason to believe that elephants like the ameri can bison are fast disappearing in a worker in ivory in sheffield england endeavored in all to figure out how long the elephant would last his own house he said had in the one year used 1280 pairs of tusks which meant the killing of more than that many animals for not every elephant yields two tusks of ivory to the ivory hunter that the african species is disappearing fast there is little doubt there are many elephants in ceylon and from that island most of those that arc displayed in traveling menageries and zoological gardens come the showman lias very little use for the african elephant because he is lees intelligent tell igent than his indian cousin and much meaner in disposition the african ele pliant is the longer legged and smaller bodied animal jumbo who was a halfbreed half breed had the long legs of the african and the body of the indian elephant jumbo was undoubtedly the largest of all elephants standing IS feet eight inches in height tho largest elephant remembered in india was one ridden by the viceroy in which stood ten feet four inches col pollock records that the king of burmah had a sacred white elephant which was two inches taller |