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Show I SELLS FLOTO GREAT CIRCUS H MANY BABIES WITH CmCXJ8. H The Sells-Floto Circus has what you M might call a whole (lock ot babies H with H this year. Of course, every ,H self-respecting show must have a B baby, but It Is not often that the vis- HBl ltor to the menagerie finds as many K as five little tigers, six baby lions, PM three small bors, -a Juvenile camel, VH and at last but not least a baby Zebu, H the first probably ever seen In a we- nagcrie In this country. Added to m these 1 unl)y hlppopotumus, also H three baby 'elephants, the eldest of which is but 17 months old. Of this H wonderful collection, the baby Zebu H v,ill, no doubt, attract the major por- H lion of attention by reason of Us H xarelty. H The zebus attain their greatest do- H -velopment In India, but the breed Is H found eastward to Japan and west- H -ward to the Nlgre. All the sculptors B of elephants, which nre ot the highest H nntluulty represent these cattle. They H are used In many parts of India as H beasts ot burden and occasionally for H riding, being venerated by the HIn- H doos who consider it n sin to slaugh- I ter tnem, uiiuoub" iuej uu nut uuji-. H to working them. H The white zebu bulls, one ot which, H by the way, is owned by the Sells- H Floto Circus, are held particularly sa- H cred by the Hindoos. They are bran- ded by the image ot Siva, relieved H from all labor and allowed to wander H at their will, levying contributions an H the stalls and bazaars without let or HJ hindrance.. H The Sells-Floto Circus will Arrive B here on Saturday, June 15. HJ The management have announced B that they still adhere to their policy Hi of popular prices. H The time honored parade will be H given at 10:30 on the morning at the H first performance. H Visitors to the menagerie of the H Sells-Floto Circus this jsoason -vill ibo H j'Uvlleged to see, among other th'.ngsj H two very strange animals. These .ire I "Itarney" and "Estelle" the orang H outangs, which were imported from H Borneo last summer, trad -whioh nro H ro nearly human In an their actions that they almost rniko the spectator H subscribe to the Darwinian theory con Afli cerntng tho descent of man. flw Dut tho btrangest thing about these H simcons lies In the fact that they arc B still nlivc. hearty and as well tods) H as when they landed from their native H wilds. This is the first time recorded M that nn orang-outang has lived longer than six months after having been de- M ported from Borneo. M All tho scientific authorities and all H tho students of natural history lave asserted and given it as a concnsiu H of their Individual and collective opin- H Ions, that the limit of life for an orang- H nng outnng Is ISO days form the time M ho Is taken aboard ship. M Up to the present time the savants i have been boastful of the argument, because no case was recorded where H ni.o of these animals lived longer thuh B the stated period. But now cometh H' "Barney" and "Estelle" as HvlngwU- H' j.esBes to tho fact that science, upon H occasion may bo all wrong. Next June W they will be exactly ono year In -his wM, country. M Heretofore it lias been alleged tint H most of tho orang-outnngB whK-'i have H hojn imported to this country have H died from tuberculosis, and Indeed H when "Barney" and "Estelle" arrived H In Denver they both appeared to be H suffering from that dread disease, but H' Dottor Ellis, n loco physician inter- H ealed himself in their case making at H tboiough an examination ot them as H, no would of .i h'tinan being, subse quently fclvfng It as bis opinion that the lungs were In no wise affected, lut that the trouble lay in the r food rnd that they were the victims ot acute indigestion. Through skilful tie'tment this ailment was remedied so tliat now there onlmals art Pi-pat-cntly In as good health as any o: their companions in the menagerie. So it Is that evidently the scientists et the last century have diagnosed tho case ot the orang-outang without ie.il ly getting to the root of the besetting o. They will be seen In the mpnageil without extra chaigu when the Sells-Holo Sells-Holo circus arrives here. |
