Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — The Lion and the Lady. [ARTICLE]

The Lion and the Lady.

[Boston Post.] Mrs. Lincoln, who raised aud petted a pair of lion cubs on Howard street a few years ago, on Thursday paid a visit to one of them, the lion Emperor. The huge beast recognized her and manifested his delight by the most extravgant demonstrations. He licked her hand, sprang up, and placing his paws on the grating, tried to lorce his head between the bars. Mrs. Lincoln laid her face against his vast jaws and put her arms through the bars around his neck, and the monstrous animal purred like a cat. He put out his paw to “shake nauds” at his mistress’ command, and then, as if overcome with joy, laid down aud rolled over and over, uttering meanwhile queer little grunts and growls, and behaving altogether like a frisky kitten. - ■■■-■■—.— During the year just passed 322,934 tons of poal were mined in the state of Alabama!