DESCRIPTIOIS OF THE NEWHOUSE TRAP. 

 THE GEEAT BEAE TAMEE! 



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No. G is called th 

 Gbeat Bear Trap 

 The jaws spread sixteen 

 inches. The weight of 

 each spring is six lbs.; 

 weight of the trap, with 

 chain, forty - two lbs. 

 This is the trap for the 

 Moose and the Grizzly 

 Bear. Its tremendous 

 power of taming wild 

 beasts is already known 

 in the mountains of Cal- 

 ifornia ; hut it ought to 

 be known, and we trust 

 it wiU be, ere long, in 

 all parts of the world. 

 Its use need not he con- 

 lined to the capture of 

 animals for their furs. 

 In the interest of civil- 

 ization, it ought to go 

 wherever ferocious ani- 

 mals exclude man from 

 the soil. India, in al. 

 her jungles, needs it to 

 exterminate the Tiger. 

 Africa nee^s it in her 

 long battle with tho 

 Lion. South America 

 needs it for grappling 

 with the Jaguar and the 

 Boa Constrictor. There 

 Is not an animal living 

 that can defy it, unless 

 it is the Elephant, whose 

 foot may be too large 

 for it ; and even tho 

 Elephant, taken by the 

 trunk, would have to 

 succumb. It is safer, 

 and far more sure and 

 eflectual than fire-arms 

 in encounters with any 

 of these monsters; and 

 ought to be put in the 

 very front of the battle 

 of man against the sav- 

 agcB of tho forest and 

 the desert. 



