The Daily Cairo Bulletin

A YOUNG CAMEL
How The One Born in Central Park the Other Day Looks.

NEW YORK, April 3.—There has been an interesting increase in the happy family of birds and beasts which are assembled around the old arsenal in Central Park. The latest comer is a camel which began its career of earthly troubles on Saturday night. Its first experience of life was a rare one for a camel, for it found itself reposing in a heap of snow. Nevertheless it did not sigh for the hot sands of the great Sahara, which ought to have been its native birth, but proceeded to make itself as comfortable as it could until day dawned and a keeper removed the youthful quadruped to more comfortable quarters. For six hours the little infant was not permitted to draw nourishment from the natural source. The OLD MRS. CAMEL was rather inclined to be ungracious toward her little one and she had to be tied up with strong ropes before she would permit the caresses of her babe. Said babe is about the size of a colt. It consists principally of legs. These are long, cumbersome and apparently much in the way. The young camel has a back just like any other animal's. There is no hump visible yet. The keeper says that the young beast will sprout a hump in course of time, and be as proud of it as a boarding-school boy of the first down on his upper lip. Its neck is so short that it could not eat grass, were there any to eat, without lying down. This slight discrepancy, however, will be remedied within a year. This young animal is the third camel born in the park. His mother was born there before him, and he is, therefore, a true American.