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Show ANOTHER SACRED CALF B0Ri This Makes the Fourteenth Which Has Come Into the Chicago Zoo Zebu Family. Chicago. Another sacred calf, t ti fourteenth born to Romeo and Juliet, in the 14 years of their residence at the Lincoln Park zoo, has made It? appearance. Hundreds of pcrsom thronged to the zebu's pen to look v at. the new arrival. ' "The Lincoln park zoo is getting s J reputation as a breeding ground foi animals, and we are supplying al I y I i i Zebu "Juliet" and Calf. most every zoo In the country with our rare specimens," said Superln tendent Cy De V'ry. "Only the other, day we shipped a two-year-old zebu to tho Washington Park Zoological so ciety at Milwaukee. "Although the zebus have the rec ord. the lioness and lion are slowly srn'nii.K upon them In raising a family 'i he lioness, as a rule, gives birth lo ihree al a time, whil" the sacred cow has only one offspiing." The zebu is a native of India, where it is revered by tli Inhabitants. It Is pampered and caressed, and to feed It is deemed a meritorious act. The animal Is used as a beast of burdeD and can travel from ;:t) to -10 miles a Jay, |