Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-12-03

world, of the existence of links of oonnec-
tion between man and the lower animals.
Thus far tho general conclusion among nat
uralists seems to be that no such links and
no indications of the existence Of any can
be found.
The nearest approach of the human to the
animal organization-using the term ami
NAL i'm the restricted sense in which it is
sometimes employed az antithetic to human
seems to be i'm the Andaman Islands, for
here the race of men is of the lowest and
most degraded type; while, on the other
hand, there are some species of ape or mon
key occupying the islands with him that
simulate more perfectly, perhaps, than any
other brute the functions of human intelli-
gence. Thus in these islands the lowest
men and the highest monkeys come into
close juxtapositon.
The superiority of the Andaman monkey
is shown strikingly in recent specimen
which has attracted some attention even
among men of science. The case referred
too is that of an Andaman monkey which,
or who-for it is rather difficult to decide
which relative ought really to be used-was
received not long since at the Geological
Gardens in London. The monkey Is fo-
male, and her name is Jenny.
Jenny's history is somewhat romantic.
She was procured at a port at the Andanan
Islands by the sailors of the British ship
Nigilant in 1864.
She remained on board the Vigilant for
four years, while that ship was cruising in
the Eastern seas and engaged in co-operat-
ing with the Abyssinian army in the famous
campaign for rescung the English prison.
ers from King Theodore. The sailors made
great pet of her, and took quite an inter-
est in her education. They taught her to
smoke pipe, to draw the cork from a soda
bottle, after first carefully untwistng the
wire and then to drink the contents, hold
ing the bottle by the neck with both hands,
and lifting up the bottom of it with her foot
to make the contents run into her mouth.
The education which she thus received was
no sham, but was genuine for Jenny would
really drink the soda water and really
smoke the pipe, and not merely make be-
licve. She was also intrustcd with the
charge of a chicken which the sailors had on
board for one of their pets. Jenny took
good care of this chicken in her cage at
night, and often carried it about in her arms
during the day.
The sailors, moreover, not properly ap-
preciatng, it seems, the importance Of strict
temperance principles for monkeys taught
Jenny to drink grog, of which she learned
to become mmoderately fond.
At length, when in due time the ship re-
turned to England, and the company sepa-
rated, the sailors gave Jenny certificate in
due form of having well and faithfully
served her majesty during the war, and also
decorated her with silver chain and medal
as a badge of her distinguished merit, and
then consigned her to an honorable retire
ment in the Geological Gardens of London,
where, as the account from which we gather
these facts states, she is waiting quietly for
her share of prize money to be divided
among the crew of the ship when the cir
cumlocution Office shall have completed its
labors.
Jenny is about feet inches high. She
has a mild and good natured countenance,
with no marks of savageness or ierocity in
its expression. The character of her face
was observed to be agreeably affected by
her head-dress, which consists of a black
mass of short but very fine and soft hair,
somewhat in the form of the letter V, and
parted in the middle.
Notwithstanding the gentle and quiet and
very innocent expression Of Jenny's coun-
tenance, she is not always to be trusted in
respect to propriety of behavior. ON one
occasion when the distinguished geologist
Buckland was visiting the Garden, and
came to pay his respects to Jenny, with
cigar in his mouth, which he was smoking,
she suddenly seized the cigar, snatching it
from his mouth, and began very coolly
smoking it herself. She went on until she
had finished the cigar, and then threw the
end away in time to save burning her
mouth.-HdrperS Magazine.