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Show AN IMA I. lll.Sl 1UCII0.V. Tlie fatso report regarding tho op-ltaranco op-ltaranco In thu city's notluorii vx-tieiully vx-tieiully of n mountain lion, bent on prey, to which story sooie credence was given nt tho time, nad the actual carrying oQ by one ot theto inoDstcn) ulnihlldlii Colorado is few months io, suggests the subjeot of bow tbo tamo Lipid aud wild ipnJiupid com-inro com-inro now In thu mstttr ol numbers. The war u-ou the lutn-r by the former hnj Uvn sttalynid cuistlcss alunst from the beginning, wbl e penoilrs, the Itasta have not merely lien on thu defensive but etrlMugiy and at times ill fir actively oil thu ollenslvr. Hu lar mankind is decidedly uhcad In the work uf destruction so f jr as records (to, aud heiiiefolth tbu rogiua tpwsrJ final extermination of the loiir-loolej prou lers uf the wIlJi mess will probably be mora rapid and mo u cetlulu by naaon of the Inroads of civil litlou and the use ol pirftcltd weapons. Httttlstlcs show that In ludU tho account ac-count itauda i.3,UUU (ojplo uud over US.uuO cattle killed Irarlv. on an average, ly tlgeis, leopards, boars, wiilves nud snakes, tho grintutik. utructlou being by tho rctllu liamu. Hie government bounty has resulted In thu destruction of ll'.tWil of tho car-nlvota car-nlvota a id t73,i)uu sonkui per annum. Dieiu llgutts represent a total cuiliage which is scarcely comprehensible In this country, but will not bu doubled by thosu who know how vast and yet thickly 11 u lite J Is thu Indian empire, together with what an Immeniupro. poitlou of lis aria ladoiuln-itoj, by rank growths of forest und Jungle and their ferocious Inhabitants. H iw bng It will be before the woik of deittucllon will have so far thlnuul out the monsters that, ns It la liure, they will btcomn a ratu Instead of n cuiiiniou sieclacleto hum ill i lie, ho ono inn tell; but unless much greater projrisi ismado than has In en so far, II will not bo In our day uor that of ourchll-driu. ourchll-driu. France has bten greatly troubled with wolvis, but tbu rnnsikablyhlgh bounty given (IS per builp has had thu illect of tliluulug tliuiu out won. derfully audixloiiuliiatluiiU close at baud. It Is tstlmatitl that tho Kjs sluu foierts I u IS ill contilued 17J,UJ0 uf thiso voracious vsts, nuj that they, with theosslttbince uf buirs, duvuurud jeiily IMO ulilUreii and tmveliw, 5iW horses, loot) uxe, nud luOD other time animals; ocuuduunlly. In lime uf great hunger, they will duvour i-ach clhor, but this gnitlfi lug performnucu dees noteeem tobu inrrlei oj ixtenslvely t nuiigh to make much ol a dunlnii bg. lu Austria, ne are advised that l-'Oi ul them, together with Didhymiu nnJ 1 m) bears on an uvctage nru killed tvery year. Aud thus I; gets tbu uorlJ around, only v-u are doing aud have douu very much better than nny other I ait of It lb it m is ever ovurruu Wholly or In j art by HllduulmaU. |