Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1885 — JUMBO’S SKELETON AND HIDE. [ARTICLE]

JUMBO’S SKELETON AND HIDE.

The Work of Mounting the One and Stuffing the Other Going on In Roeheater. (Bridgeport (Conn.) dispatch.] The skeleton of the late Jumbo is now at Prof. Henry A. Ward’s natural science establishment in Rochester. Prof. Ward, in writing to Mr. Barnum, s>ys: “I have felt from the first that it is quite an undertaking to so prepare the skeleton that it shall travel safely around with the show; still it can be done to a certainty. All it wants is an extra strong mounting, and then special devices to relieve the. leg bones of the weight of the weight of the body and to keep all perfectly stiff and firm. It is a fact that the bone will suffer some by the forcing process of driving out oil, and it Will never look so white as it would by twelve or fourteen months’ maceration and bleaching. We are getting on nicely with the work; . The large-sized bore which we have put through the long bones of the legs helped toward rapid progress. We drove out of them, by using hot steam, twentyfix e gallons of marrow.”