LIONS AND TIGERS 
EXTRACTING BONE FROM TEETH. 
Not very long since one of the keepers came to me 
and informed me that one of the lions seemed very un- 
comfortable and was trying to get something out of his 
mouth with his paw. I went over to the Lion-house and, 
upon examination, found that a bone had become fixed in 
the mouth of one of the animals. He was becoming very 
disagreeable, and the difficulty was, how it was to be 
extracted. I had him removed into one of the shift- 
ing dens, where he would not be far from the bars. I then 
discovered that the substance in his mouth was a large 
porous bone as large as a man’s fist, and which formed 
the hip-joint of a horse. The lion had had his usual 
dinner of horseflesh, and had somehow or other forced one 
of his upper canine teeth into the soft spongy piece of 
bone ; on closing his mouth he had pressed the corre- 
sponding canine tooth through as well, so that the teeth 
met in the centre and had become a fixture, thus prevent- 
ing him from taking either food or water. With a great 
deal of difficulty I managed, with a pair of blacksmith’s 
tongs, to get this bone out of the beast’s mouth, and for- 
tunately no injury happened to the animal or to any one 
concerned in the operation. 
KILLED BY A LION. 
An announcement with the above heading is calculated 
to attract attention, for so much has been written and 
said in praise of this powerful brute, of his noble disposi- 
tion, and his respect and forbearance towards mankind, 
that many persons are deluded into a belief that a lion is 
less to be feared than any of the other large carnivora, and 
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