Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — Rising in Values. [ARTICLE]

Rising in Values.

“Our last giraffe,” said the manager of a Philadelphia zoo, “died in 1885 after a life here of ten years. Since then our collection has been wanting in this animal. Giraffes now cost $5,000 apiece. In 1874 we bought six, and they lived with us respectively five, eleven, nine, three 7 and two years, while one died in ten days after its arrival of congestion of the lungs. Of the others, one was carried off by heart disease, another by a spinal trouble, and the remaining three by ailments of an unknown kind."