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Show LION KITTENS BORN AT MIDNIGHT IN PARKZOO . Purring rhythmically In a cage at Liberty park are twe brand new kinga af tha Jungle, axilea In a atranga land. "Deny," their mother, a big Afrioan lioness, watohea ' over them tealously, for tha ayea of these "midnight babiet" they were born at 12 o'clock last night-are night-are elosed. Tha two Hon kittens kit-tens will not aea tha light for nina days, and until then their mother will feed and ears for them. Their dad doaant aeem at all r leased with tha new arrivals, n another cage Brutua ar "Duke." aa ha ia called by Keeper E. H. "Dutch" Shider, roars and teare at tha bars that restrain. ' Brutua, a - reputed mankiller,' became aa violent laat night that Shider waa forced to pereuade him Into tiumpiti i with a isaw-fork. isaw-fork. "Dutch" aaya Brutua would devour tha youngsters if ha ware given tha chanoe, either in deference ta jungle custom er Just out af plain "onery nss." "Daisy," tha mother, who waa bought from Barnes' circus in June, ia about 10 years eld. Brutua, one of tha moat hand-I hand-I aoma animala In captivity, has I bean at tha park about threa i years. Thair offapring are tha i first lion cube born In Salt I Lake. fi 'I |