| Show PASSING AWAY IV 1 twenty years ago millions of buffalo roamed the plains between the missouri river and the rocky mountains now we are informed that there are left alive only some six hundred head and the indications are that they too will soon be slaughtered the government some time ago instituted measures for the protection of the natural wonders of what is now known as the yellowstone Yellow atone national park from the vandals who might seek their destruction if something of th this la kind is not done for the buffalo one of the noblest animals of this continent will soon disappear leaving not a vestige of the vast herds that once darkened the plains as far as the eye could reach until recently they have merely suffered at the hand of the hunters but now the museums aie are also after them and their beir days are numbered an exchange has t the e following the national museum recently sent its taxidermist william T hornaday hornada watib two or three assistants si to liontina lion montana tana and wyoming for fuji the purpose of seeming good specimens before it is too late mr more herc aday reports in a letter to professor or baird that he has succeeded in getting tt twelve of these animals some 0 of aw which hi 6 will be mounted and placed on eab exhibition lb I 1 in the national museum and t the he the remainder dietri distributed buted to the principal colleges of the country bythe by the time the other museums are supplied it is highly probable that the last buffalo will be stuffed and stuck up on sticks as a curiosity |
