Show HERD Of GIRAFFES Barnum Barn T Baileys Show Has the Worlds Record for k Number There is no living animal so attractive aUt tive tivo HV lu iu appearance as 66 the tho to giraffe beautiful In color graceful in form Corm ut fil and stately in movement measuring meas sometimes twenty feet Ceet from the fore forefeet feet cot to the tho crown gi gl giraffes ratios were well known to the te an au ancient cleat cent rae Romans Romans They The were cre a co conspicuous plc feature in the tho gorgeous exhibitions loos of the te Coliseum at Rome ori originally or on called tho the Gibbons in an no elaborate de do description of a Coliseum entertainment tolls tens how by bo tho the order of ot a great quantity of large trees torn tor up by b the roots rot were wera transplanted into the tho midst of the circus This spa sp and and shady forest was as Immedi Immediately immediately filled with lions HonG tigers boars r zebras zebra eld old and camelopards tho the last lal being beng tho the loftiest loWest and n most moat harmless h g creatures that wandered over oer the tho plains of and The Theun un fedin strength with which na nit nature nature ture tune has baa ha endowed the tho to greater quad quadrupeds ds was a admired in the ross ros rp the hippopotamus and a 0 majestic This herd berd of ot elephants awful aul exhibition of slaughter was aR gazed upon in stupid wonder by b tho the theRoman Roman Romon populace With the tho ultimate overthrow of the theRoman theRoman Roman Homan to Empire the tho camelopard final finally and for ly Jy I disappeared from Europe some somo centuries became a n stranger to tho the civilized civilised c world word Wo We T do tb not 10 find the tho giraffe arain aln mentioned until Iho the close clone of the fifteenth century con tun when Lorenzo do de Medici Medic exhibited one in Florence Tho first of or these animals Been seen in England was waR a n gift gUt from rm the to Pasha of ot Egypt to George FV TV It I ur ar arrived rived in London in 1828 and died tho the following year On the of May 1836 four giraffes were exhibited in inthe Inthe inthe the Zoological Gardens Cargoes Gar ens Regents Park London They were ere brought from the tho I southwest of and cost coat CO t to I transport 1 pounds oun 5 or 12 I 00 00 The largest herd nerd of giraffes known lo to be bo In captivity is owned and exhibited e lied by br tho Barnum Barum and Bailey BaBe Great Greatest Greatest Greatest to est Show on Earth Erth which comes come Ogden for two performances next Wednesday W The herd Includes four fine healthy specimens two males mates and aud two females Though young youns and growing the tallest tal l raises his head hend to a height of nineteen foot feet The utmost vigilance Is ia exercised In the care Cr of these precious animals each ench having its ita individual groom This Watchfulness is an absolute no no cs s owing lo to the delicate delicato nature and the peculiar formation of the animal rendering It susceptible to the least Jar jn or bump in railway transportation Tho The giraffe o has a comparatively small smal head hea supported on a neck near ly 11 I six sl feet eel in length His height reckoning from the tho top of o his bead head to t his fore feet let Is i about equally divided between nock neck shoulders and legs lc tho the eyes of or tho tIle camelopard are worthy of all praise large soft sort and more mora I gentle than the tho r gazelle and andare andar ar are aro so eo placed that It can see in every ever oer direction without turning Its It head All l Its Us senses are so acute and It is isso Isso so timid that In n Its wild wid state slate the tho giraffe can only onh be approached by byman byman byman man when mounted on a fleet feet horse hore It I feeds feed on the te leaves and ad blossoms of ofa a tree called by bv tho the Africans and kame by b the tho Dutch settlers of or the tl Cape Cup In cap captivity its He food consists of carrots carrot lettuce bananas cooked rice r ce pure milk mik and occasionally the tho boughs bl hs of or trees from which it peels tho park The ro commercial value of a n giraffe can cnn easily easly be estimated whon whoa it is known that the management of or the Darnum Barnum Barum and antI Bailey Shows Shown recently declined an offer made by b the Zo Zoological Zo Zoological Society of London of oC 40 O I for fOI the four animals now noW with i ithe the menagerie I The Te giraffes form only an m incidental coHee collection interest in the rare rue zoological then tion ton exhibited by hy the te Barnum Barum arid and ad Bailey Menagerie which opens iw lIe It Icons doors dors one ono hour hout earlier than the aron aren aronic arenie aronIc ic ie performance thus allowing without extra charge ample aple time for a n thor thorough thorough ough ou h inspection of thin monster exhibition of or rare wild Ud animals both caged n d free |