Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1897 — Glass Eye for a Tiger. [ARTICLE]

Glass Eye for a Tiger.

A tiger with a glass eye Is at present in the menagerie at Stuttgart. A serious affection of the muscles caused the beast to lose the sight of one eye. As the public didn’t appreciate a oneeyed tiger, the beast was put Undei cocaine, and the useless optic removed. He was measured for a new eye, which had to be made with a special degree of ferocity. For the first week he tried to rub it out, but he now rests contented as the only wild animal with a glass eye. &