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Show PYTHONS ADVANCE $5 A FOOT AT ZOO Chicago. Feb 14 "With the price of pythons advanced $5 a foot lion? more than 100 per cent a head and other animals in proportion to the supply, "zoo" keepers are facing a condition that makes the high cost of living 'bugaboo" appear insignificant insignifi-cant In comparison " I Thus spoke "Cy" Dc Vry, keeper of the Linconl park zoo yesterday as he stood before the cage of Guinevere, Guine-vere, a huge python "And just as 1 was getting rendy j to put in a reptile bouse, too." he added "It has got to a point now where you cannot get a 26-foot python py-thon for less than $1000. They have advanced $5 and more a foot But j Hie price of reptiles is not so bad as lions I paid $1200 lor Roger, our I prize lion, a few months ago; got a ' bargain; he Is worth $5000 now j "Elephants have gone up, too. a first clas one costing about $6000 And a rhinoceros well, if you get al fair one not too old and not altogether 'second baud,' he will cost you $7000. I wanted to add n rhinoceros and a giraffe to my collection, hut I canno' have both Why, a giraffe is as good an investment as a diamond. He will cost you $7000." |