DESCRIPTION OF THE NEWHOUSE TRAP. 

 THE GREAT BEAR TAMER! 



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No. 6 is called tho 

 GREAT BEAR TRAP. 

 The jaws spread sixteen 

 inches. The weight of 

 each spring is six Ibs.; 

 weight of the trap, with 

 chain, forty - two Ihs. 

 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; but it ought to 

 be known, and we trust 

 it will be, ere long, in 

 all parts of the world. 

 Its use need not be con- 

 fined to the capture of 

 animals for their rare. 

 In the interest of civil- 

 ization, it ought to go 

 wherever ferocious ani- 

 mals exclude man from 

 the soil. India, in all 

 her jungles, needs it to 

 exterminate the Tiger. 

 Africa needs 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 

 effectual than fire-arms 

 in encounters with any 

 of these monsters; and 

 onght to be put in the 

 very front of the battle 

 of man against the sav- 

 ages of the forest and 

 the desert. 



