Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — Tigers in the Arctic Regions. [ARTICLE]

Tigers in the Arctic Regions.

■t. Louis Post-Pispatch. One of the most surprising facts hat have been brought out by the lussian scientific expedition to lorthern Siberia in 1885-86, the reults of which are now being pubished, is that the tiger in compara-» ily recent (although probably prelistoric) times, ranged far within he Arctic region, leaving its bones irmly imbedded in the deposits of he Yana river and of the Liakenov ir New Siberian islands. The conliiion in which the remains were ound point to the occupancy of the ’ ■egion during a cold period (postglacial), when seemingly the climatic ■elations could not have been very liffcrent from what they are at the iresent time. John Burns, M. P., and David lolmes, the English labor leaders at iresent in this country, have been epudiated by the London Socialists. ?he reasons given are that the first las supported the Liberal party and hat the latter Gen. Nelson A. Miles has con- i lucted every campaign against the ndians in the last fourteen years, le is described as being quick, lecisive and a stern disciplinarian, mt courteous and gallant withal, le was born in Massachusetts fiftyIve years ago.