A TIGRESS AT LARGE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 10 July 1885, Page 9

A TIGRESS AT LARGE.

"HeUiges sacrament, komme nieht hierin," shouted Julius ToefEener, as he slammed the door of his butcher's shop on West Van Buren -street, Chicago, in the face of a royal Bengal tigress on Saturday afternoon (April 11), and then collapsed into a dead faint. The beautiful > queen of the Indian jungles placed her huge paws against the door, which refused to yield, sniffed the ham sausages which hung in the window, and quietly walked away. The animal belongs to W. fl. .Harris, proprietor of the Nickel Plate shows. He lives in South Roby street, where two lions, a bear, an elephant, and the tigress have been hibernating in a barn on the premises. The animal is one of the largest of her Bpecies on the continent. She is possessed of an unusually vicious temper, and is regarded as dangerous. It was about ten o'clock when she escaped from her cage. Her keeper •crouched with blanched face and paralysed muscles behind a stove near by. The elephant bellowed until the hay-seed. rattled through the rafters. Passing out of the barn door, the striped pet trotted off through the alleyway across Van Buren street. A little child sat in an unhorsed buggy playing. The tigress put her paw on the wheel, .and offered a caress that showed two sets of long, white teeth. The .little one screamed, and the animal peacefully ambled off to Mr. '.Toeffener's meat shop. Repulsed there, she continued her flight to a vacant lot in the rear of a house in Avon- place. She prowled about . among the tin cans and ash-heaps an hour. Excited people scrambled to the tops of the sheds, stables, fences, and houses in the neighbourihood. Fully 3000 people crowded abou'i to see the performance. After two hours of meat-throwing and coaxing, the royal Bengal tigress entered a wood-shed, into which she was quickly nailed. A hole was sawed through the sides of the structure ; she stepped lightly into the cage which hid been placed opposite tha aperture, and was again securely confined. — Nero Torh Herald.

A despatch from Berlin to the Standard states that Germany is preparing a series of enoimous colonial enterprises, the magnitude -of which will surprise the world. The acquisition of the kingdom of Zanzibar by Germany, the despatch says, is certain to be accomplished ooner or later. The fact that Garter and Co., of George street, are the only Drapers in Dunedin doing a strictly Cash Trade who import their ■ own Goods direct from Home Markets, is the one cause of their being able to sell cheaper than any other firm. Carter and Co. have just opened, ex 8.8. Coptic and Kaikonra, 16 cases Men's and Boys 1 Clothing, and in consequence of the desperate scarcity of Beady Money, they have decided to offer the whole lot, for a few weeks, at landed Cost. Therefore call, inspect, and judge for yourself. Carter and Co., 60 and 62, George street, Dunedin A few years ago a community ot religious women, who had to leave Germany because the Order to which they belonged was obnoxious to Bismarck and his " Kultunrkamf," pitched their tents in ■at King Williamstown. The tents soon became handsome spacious buildings. The last nnmber of the Watchman says : — " It must be gratifying to the worthy Prioress and Sisters of the Convent, to find that all their pupils sent up for examination have passed, seven of them with honours." . This paragraph should be put before the man -who rules by personal forces, not through the people.— South African :.paper.