Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — PET FOR THE QUEEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PET FOR THE QUEEN.

Victoria in Receipt of a Lion’s Whelp from Central Africa. The Queen of England recently received a royal gift. It arrived in Liverpool from the regions of Central

Africa by the steamer Mandigo last month. It was a lion cub, which the Sultan of Sokoto requested the Boyal Niger Company to present to her Majesty. The cub was allowed much liberty on board and was greatly petted by both passengers and crew. Mr. Bartlett went down to Liverpool to bring it to the Zoological Gardens, where it is now safely lodged.