Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1914 — Makes Elephant Sausage. [ARTICLE]

Makes Elephant Sausage.

Some time ago an enterprising German pork butcher contracted for the carcass of an elephant belonging to the Ghent Zoological Gardens. The elephant had become unruly and it was necessary to have him killed. The butcher at once proceeded to transform the huge carcass into Frankfort sausages. According to report he was able x to manufacture no less than 3,800 pounds, which found a ready sale, owing to their novel origin. The elephant’s heart, which weighed some forty pounds, was also sold in slices. This story is suggestive of the report from Paris that a butcher had used the carcass of a lion for making “Lyons sausages.”