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Show HalivLion, HalfTiger Haccnbeck's Experiments in Ertcding Have Produced a Strange Monster. Allhourh the pi i.llilllty uf breeding Hon and titer liybrlil. In captivity haa Ion a bein known, the reauli, of tha ekperlmenta have not ben very auc-i-eKeful, the anlmalH rarely reachluM to their full sire ami development. Moi-e recently Mr. ItiiRetihiH-k ha, ole tallied nome extraordinary renult,, and haa eutipllcd uie with piiitlculara. One In thai of a iiiiilure aulinul whli h wan born on kluy II, I S'j7. and It la now rnttier more Ifmn live yi-aia oltl. It la a male. It, lulthl ncniHii the wither, ae H Htnnila erect In 4! Inihea, KtiKllKh meneiirement. Im length from tho none to the lip of the lull la 10 feet 2 liiclie,. a length which excoeila that of a full Krown lion. In May duilnif iLe preectit year It i-IkIi"'I Z'Zh kllo-KfainH, kllo-KfainH, einial to 417 Kui;!Uh leitiniU. It la an exceeilliuOy tlnii. well-Kniwa animal, nhowlnx nllchtly the alrlpea of the Hk'T, hut It In not fnrnlhd with a mane like a lion, and aa Ihls uppentln;e uennlly appeftra In the Hon when three year, old. It niuy be presumed pre-sumed that no nuino will ever be pre,-ent pre,-ent In the hybrid. Mr. II&Kctihcck haa not yet succeeded lu reartux any off-sprltiK off-sprltiK from It. This animal I, do scrlhed by him a, linger lu aire than any Hon or Hner. Ha aiieaka of It a, a oi'-lstcr, and aaya that tha two youtnt oueH, which are now only thirteen thir-teen butith, old. are larKer than any purebred linn or tlper of the snma nca, mil ho think, If they mnrc. natlKlicliiilly they will Krow to a Kraa'tr ,lo than the large male. V.t two younger ones, which wer, a j n old on the I'Hth or Unt April, ait belli mulcH, nnd show the tljir marl Iiu-h rather more dllluctly than tin iiir animal, lu addition to pho-ti.gnipliA pho-ti.gnipliA of Iheun Mr. lluKenheck has ai-ni ,n another of two yoiini; lion and lu;t f liyhrldn, m ile ami fi mule, botn Aptil :iu In Die preHont year, twelve mantle after thn othera. It show, tha two Xttle ones lying across a small terrl. whh-li hna furnlshi-d them with a Haiill miMily of milk, the remaluder b' liK Klven tn them by a bottle. The hiui, Icrrtor was the nursu for the two InrKer ones. These animals, thus brl In what may bo termed domcHtl-citiu,, domcHtl-citiu,, become exeeedlnKly tame and ilo'ila. W. II. TeKnleiueler, In tha |