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Show A PET TIGER. Among the pets which are newly coming into fashion are, it would seem, playful young tigers. At any rate, one which is described as a "beautifully marked and splendidly striped tigress, and whose mirthfulness and docility were especially dwelt upon, was sold a short time ago in London for fifty-two guineas. It is not stated what the new owner proposes to do with this very interesting acquisition, but for the sake of his neighbors it is sincerely to be trusted that he will keep the "elegant creature" in a strong cage. It was one of the most playful tigers ever known in India which, getting loose on a fine summer evening in the walled city of Jeypore, devoured or otherwise disposed of more than twenty of the Rajah's loyal subjects before its jocularity was satisfied, and not long ago a delightfully docile specimen walked off with its keeper in the vicinity of Dareda. There is something, no doubt, exceedingly fascinating to certain minds in the idea of controlling the immense, and the same person who could take pleasure in curbing a royal Bengal tiger would be equally delighted could he play with a thunderbolt. But while the latter species of amusement would only concern the individual himself, the experiment of keeping a "playful" tiger may affect the neighborhood. The most beautifully striped tigress, if once loose, might thin down the population of a parish with startling rapidity.-London Telegraph. |