FROM FADERLAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9280, 5 January 1892, Page 4

FROM FADERLAND.

That German commercial enterprise does not disdain to court popular favour through the medium of ingenious fiction may be gathered from the following announcement, at present adorning tho pillars provided by the Berlin municipality for the aocommodation of advertisement bills : "The Indian Rajah, Nana Sahib XXII. has presented seventeen royal Bengal tigers to our Zoological Garden. " These noblo animals were oaptured in a novel and interesting manner. His Highness caused a large track of jungle to be strewn with palm-leaves lavishly besprinkled with fluiil fish-glue of surpassing stickiness. " Towards nightfall the seventeen tigers, on predatory thoughts intent, were strolling as usual about the district thus prepared. The light was bad, and they were either shortsighted or culpably careless, ' for presently they trod upon the glutinous leaves, which adhered to their paws with invincible 'pnacity. ' ..*•'' "Angered at tua fruitlessness of. their; 'Strenuous efforts to disembarrass themselves those impediments to locomotion, ;the jigera rolled upon the ground in fury, boplaatering themselves with vast numbers of Btioky leaves, until blinded- and cowed in spirit, they were easily sedttred, and eOnyeyed to captivity by the Rajah's servants. , "They -were subsequently ; forwarded by steamer to Hamburg, and performed ' the land journey thenco to Berlin in # a singlefile procession on foot, each tiger's tail affixed with fish-glue to the right fore-paw of the tiger following in the rear. "The paramount adhesiveness of a. preparation -with which Royal Bengal tigere' are thus captured cannot be impeaohed. It is, moreover, available for other purposes, s,ueh as monding glass and china, chair-legs, rocking-horses, statuary, billiard cues, and meerschaum pipes,' and can be purchased for a nominal price at the establishment of Adolph Lemma, 98, Potsdamer Strasse." • - ■■♦'■■ ■