Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-29
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HOW EIErHAxTs ARB rDuoArED.


 P "A Detroit paper has the following: losss B z fBaby Annie, exhibited on Friday and saaturday in this city, is as popular and Weit known as the maj ority Of human ac- tors, who tread the boards instead of the saw. dust ring. Like them, she endeavorsi Co please; and h her way feels schagrin as deeply when she fails to receive the appro- bation believed to be merited. She is now five years old. and though far from her teens she Is nevertheless Q pretty good lump of body, weighing eighteen hundred pounds, Her history has, been trainer, can tell you everything about
 = At the time of her capture she was on- ly two years old; but Smith, the captor.. as as- sisted by . party of Africans and dogs, found her as hard to control in her infan- cy as most women are at matnre age. Af- ter few weeks training she was started for the coast, eight hundred miles away. and Kenyon has yet in his cages two large llyenass that rode in baskets slang over Miss Annie's back. Her cost in New York was eight thousand dollars, and at the time of her pnrchase she was the smallest ele- jphant in this country, and is still the only genuine African elephant. Though she has never been hard pushed to test her en- en- 'durance on the road, she took . stretch of forty two miles over the rocky roads of Pennsylvania. in eleven hours, and when the journey was completed showed not the least sign of exhaustion.
 2 Miss Annie is model female one of as a of Sh %s hs4 s BF Spa Sa a sw hss man being who. treated her courteously. IT xufn ck 1..f phia. she exhibited love and hate in very singular manner. Mclaughlin had imbib- ed rather freely, and, returning to the barn got into difficulty with policeman, who was bent on arresting him. The "cop" had been around the barn good deal, and was somewhat acquainted with the elephant. The trainer fled to the barn, and getting behind Baby refused to submit to arrest The M. P. boldly advanced to bring him ont, when the elephant thrust him aside with her trunk. This was repeated seye- raj times, the trainer encouraging her, when the policeman gave her an angry blow with his baton and sought to push by. Blowing her shrill trumpet, Baby caught him around the waist, and giving him strong whirl deposited the frighten- ed blue coat in barrel of oats thirty feet away As he had no instructions to arrest elephants, and could not arrest the man without her, he concluded not to press matters further. O'' ao"At another time, last summer, during hot night, Mclaughlin lay down beside Baby on 6 atbaiea of hay, and soon fell asleep. Near him was the cage of, the Bengal tiger, fierce and ungovefnable an- imal, and treaehefous to the last degree By lying down the beast could get his paws under the bars and on the morning of that very day he had thus given his unsuspect- ing keeper stroke with his claws that tore open the mans cheek in 8 horrible manners Restless. Mclaughlin rolled about, and the eyes of the Royal gisteaed as he saw the body coming nearer to his cruel claws. At length, just as, one of the keepers entered the door, the trainer roll ed down 50 near that the tiger reached out and caught his clothes. With 9 savage snari, he was strengthening back for a pull to get the flesh under his nails, when the elepnant, who had also been sleeping, rose up at the growl, and seeing the situation ata glance rusned forward, before the man at the door had scarcely advanced a step, and with blow of her trunk made the ti. ger let go his hold and scream with pain and fury. foaioat aa4 os ao4d snofsas $ sl
 
 seven hundred pounds in weight, xand six inches ID heignt. Three years ago she had not sign 0t a tusk; now, she has iyorles SIX inches long, an growing finely. In the summe r, whenthe weather sodry, she gets 8 bath. at every creek, and her trainer gaves her dozen pails of water oyer her pack if standing long in the tent. About twice q yearshe gets six gallons of Hnseed 1oll rubbed aoverher skin; without 1t, the Mde would get 90 dry as to feel and flsof1nd nke . board = Her usual feed per day is q bnsheI of oats and one hundred and fifty pounds of hay, aud sne drinks, if moder- aatsiy th1rsty, twenty pails of water at g time. As stated, she is very docile, mindIng read fly if she understands what is wanted. Do wrong, through ignorance, let her trainer .bless her eyes little, iand@ Baby shows as much sorrow as Q repentant tinfant.0 As this is her third season, the, person must be sharp who can impose upon her 2 worthless gift. About four weeks ago a man gave her stick of candy which had been soaked for some time in tobacco juice ISseming hot sto mind the joke; Baby waited Q little, and when the joker had al must forgotten the incident, she took np 2 huge piece of liver lying near the cage oi Hons, and sent the mass fnlt against the sfelloWss breast, knocking him down nand altogether spoaliRg the bosom fihis white Ishirt, and hls ideas of superior smartness.
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