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EXTRAORDINARY FIGHT BETEEN A LION AND A TIGEIL-Our readers doubtless noticed, a few days back an account of a tiger which escaped from a cattle truck in Rateliff highway, London, and which, after running along the. centre of the road for some distance, was caught by his keepers while in the act of tearing a lad who j unfortunately crossed the animal's path. The tiger was the property of Mr. Jamrach, and he sold it a day or two ..afterwards to Mr. Edmonds, the successor of Wombwell for his well-known travelling menagerie, which it joined OE Monday at West Bromwich, It was placed in one of tho ordinary .carriages, one of two compartments, the adjoining den-being occupied by a very fine lion, six or seven years old, for which Mr Edmonds gave £300 three years ago. The attendants had all left the j menagerie to go to breakfast, when suddenly those in the carriage which the proprietors occupy were alarmed by an unusual outcry among the beasts. They soon discovered the ca.use. The newly-bought tiger had burglariously broken through the slide" or partition dividing his den from that of the lion, and had the latter in his terrible grasp.^ The combat which ensued was a terrible one. The lion acted chiefly on the defensive! #iUd having probably been considerably tamed by his three years' confinement, the tiger had the advantage. His attacks were of the most ferocious kind. The lion's mane saved his head and neck from being much injured, but the savage assailant at last succeeded in ripping up his belly, and then the poor animal was at the tiger's mercy. The lion was dead in a few minutes. The scene was a fearful one. The inmates of every den seemed to be excited by the conflict, and their roaring and howling might have been heard a quarter of a mile distant. Of course Mr. Edmonds and his men could nrft interfere while the confliet lasted, but when the tiger's fury had partly subsided they managed to remove thl carcase. He must have used his paws as a sort If w tering ram against the partition, as it wa* v j rather than torn down. He cost Mr p Mas. Pushed m Birmingham Journal. on(*s £ 400.— MORTALITY AMONGST CHILD*™ TV V. disproportionate numbemf^ i? T he remarkably early age from tho -v <^ren w^o perish fit a rery nesa of !nf»r eease8> peculiar affections or feeble- medipnl m 8 °ften been commented upon by meaicai men, and formed the subject of sanitary inves- tigation and statistical reports. To all who know tho perils of this early period of existence, the following communication, made to the Medical Timet by Mr. Thomas Hunt, Vice-President of the Medical Society of London, will be read with deep interest, as the remedy referred to is not only simple and ssfe, but within the reach of the means of most personsIn badly- nourished infants Dr. de Jongh's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil is invaluable. The rapidity with which two or three teaspoonfuls per diem will fatten a young child is aston- ishing. The weight gained is three times the weight of the oil swallowed, or more and, as children generally like the taste of the oil, and when it is given them often cry for more, it appears as though there were some pros- pect of deliverance for the appalling multitude of chU_ dren who figure in the weakly bills of mortality iaann^ from the office of the Registrar-General,"

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THE COUNTERPOISE OF CALUMNY

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