CRIBBAGE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13736, 30 May 1913, Page 7

CRIBBAGE.

WAKATU ASSOCIATION

Last ovcniii": the Union defeated tho Port by 13 games to 12.

A FAMOUS TAMER.

A true friend of animals died recently in Carl Hagenboek, the founder of the wonderful park near Hamburg, called the "Beasts' Paradise." The story of how Hagenback.came to take up his profession of trainer and "zoological provider" is related by the Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." His father who was a Hamburg fishmonger, who; in addition to his ordinary occupation, was in the habit of exhibiting at Christmas time an unusually fat pig or other object to divert a holiday crowd. One day some fishermen sold him half a dozen seals, and realising their show value, he set up a seal show, which paid well. At twenty-one his son Carl took over the collection, which formed the starting point of the future "Beasts' Paradise." The business grew apace and eventually assumed extraordinary dimensions. In 1905 Hagenocck supplied the German Government with 2000 dromedaries for use in the suppression of the rising in South-West Africa. He imported 50 zebras in one year, and bought 43 elephants in a single transaction. Some strange orders came his way during his long experience, not the least strange bein;. that of an Italian professor who asked for two rattlesnakes which must be "drowned in a keg of olive oil." The reason for this strange provision never transpired. Needless to say the intrepid trainer often came near meeting his death at the hands—or rather the claws—of the inmates of his "Paradise." On one occasion he convoyed an ant-bear with him in a cab for a distance of four miles, believing the creature to be harmless. The beast, however, which measured seven and a half feet from the tip of its nose *t tho end of its tail, mado strenuous attacks on its captor, who was completely exhausted ; through struggling with it by the time the cab reached its destination. Hagenbeck Mas on other occasions dashed against a barrier by a "rouge" elephant, dragged a couple of miles through the streets of Suez by a runaway giraffe, hunted by an infuriated hippopotamus, knocked down by tho kick of an ostrich, hurled into a tank full of alligators by a blow from the tail of one of these reptiles, and more than once almost crushed to death in the coils of a python.