Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-23

eivsutemAnE You Aaven't, seen Cl4rg
Cofiander. haze your Nol Well you
have not seen thu loyellest end beet giElin
the world, then. But, as was Saying,
old Coriander was preparing for a years
campaign IN this citY, and allotted great
deal on . real live gorilla which had
been oapturod In the wilds OF Africa
somewhor9 oh, curse that ogorills, I
wish hAd been dead before ever heard
of him" -. .
sAne here Jack proanSa. " F q 81 {
81 loved Clara Coriander. ! suppose
you have guessed that out already. But
It was the old story; poor young man,
without fortune or friends; cruel parents
determined that their only daughter shall
not marry a beggar young lady iAcon4
solable and devoted to aforesaid poor
young man, but dreadfally afraid Of papa,
whose only child she is Well, Coriander
came on here and followed, the old man
giving me the job Of writing his posters
and advertisements--to keep me from
starving, suppose The long expected
Gooroo arrived from Zanzibar. hut no
gorilla was there on board fofMr. CorianA
der; there was skin of that celebrated
animal. the beast himself having departed
this life off the Island Of st. Helene, in
imitation Of the example Of another much
feared person who once resided in that
locality
@Cosiender was frantic. The great
card for his menagerie was not to be his
His long cherished plans were a wreck !;
his money was spent for naught; he had
no gorilla After all, rather like the old
wretch (Coriander l mean). He has an
absolute passion with his profession as
n 0ollo and tvRA Aoo.afr ho
cause he had no gorilla, than because It
was bad financial operation, which
left him without that fer which he had
spent so much money. BE was wretched
in his disappointment, and postponed in
definitely the opening of the menagerie,
though my elegant advertisements were
in ali the papers, and our flaming posters
covered the walls of the city from one
end to the other. Gloom reigned in the
house of Coriander.
"This was my opportunity. was in
love with Clara and without any perma-
nent occupation. Presenting myself be-
fore the old man, l said: 'Mr. Corian-
der. you want gorillal' xg II &
"tTo be sure, said he testify.
-"'I will furnish you with one.'
"The devil you willp
"Look here said /, stepping back a
few PAGES. Grasping the top of heavy
old wardrobe that stood in the room, i
swung myself up, clambered along the
top, sprang up and down, over chairs and
tables, raced around the room with huge
strides and jumps, and finally wound up
my performances by rushing at the aston
ished Coriander, and, beating my breast,
gave terrific howl that fairly made the
old man quail as he writhed in his chair.
had not been practising for nothing,
evidently. Coriander was actually fright
ened.
"What does this meanF he gasped,
with some rage mingled with his pertur-
baton.
"'I am the live gorilla from the wilds of
Africa said I. Give me my skin that
arrived by the Gooroo from Zanzibar, and
/ will scare this city. out of its senses,
when the menagerie opens, after a brief
delay on account of the difficulty of pre-
pairing for enormous additions, which a
discriminating public will be delighted
TO see.' - ~
"Oid Coriander embraced me, with
tears in his eyes, declaring that ] was a
real genius and was born to the show
business
"But,' said l, though am poor and
need the money which you will pay me,
have one Other. condition, and that is That
yop J, y s shan give me gopr daughtsrs hand
THE old man was rather taken back at
this, and fatty refused at first; and we
wrangled over the matter for two or three
days, but, after seeing me, in the skin of
the gorilla, go through many antics and
performances, he reluctantly gave in aud
agreed that after one year of gorilla life
IT, hso oAa.,lI 4ko
ness of marrying Clara. He only stipu-
body of the cheat and that not even Clara
should know of it now.
81 am aware that my profession is not
high art, as you call 1t, and on hot days it
is precious uncomfortable. But what
won't fellow do under the pressure of
an exchequer in distress, and enticed by
the promise of the hand of the prettiest
and best girl in the worldl The pay is
not much, but keep soul and body to-
gether, which is more than some poor
devils do in this great city. BY the way,
Sam, have you got five dollars about
your"
Now, if there was anything that Jack
Gale specially loved, it was the state of
being In debt. He was never so happy
as when in debt, and when by accident,
or the interference of friends, he got out
of it, he was uneasy and wretched, appa-
rently, until he got in again. The nor
NAL condition of the man was debt so
when he asked me for loan, I could not
help laughing; and told him that he had
undoubtedly found one of the greatest
privations of his gorilla life to be the diff
fculty of contracting new debts.
"ThRt's a fact" said Jack !" the me-
nagerie opens at eight o'clock in the morn
ing it takes me good hour to get my
self up for the day, and we don't shut up
until ten o'clock at night SO you see my
professional duties are very confning, and
a real, live African gorilla is not supposed
to have first-rate credit with the people
who poke stale sandwiches and peanuts
through his cage-bars by day" ~
Ipromised Jack that If old Sesnecks, Of
the Interoceanic Monthly, accepted my ar
ticle on the origin of the human species,
would divide the proceeds with him.,
Jack and l had shared and shared alike
with our little gains too often in years
gone by for me to remember which owed
the other now Besides, htold him that L
had studied his habits as gorilla, and he
had some claim upon the profits of an ar
ticle in which his personal peculisrities
figured SO largely.
During the next few, days / observed
the characteristics of Coriander's African
gorilla with new interest. he petfoFmed
wonderfully well; it was diiflcult TO real
ize that the hairy, ravening, agile and gro
tesquely- y-moving beast, from which every
visitor shrank back aghAst, was only
Jack Gale serving ont his hard serYitude
for an anticipated bride, very much after
the ancient fashion OF Laban's kinbInah.
The cunning rascal had fashion Of leap
ing at the bars when curious people came
row inspection by his hideOus yells aud
angry moutnings. But his roars, which
were really artisiic Ia their brutal sonor-
business. served us good purpose. As i
was night editor on the DaiIv H16hfDey1
and kept pretty close from ten until three
o'clock In the morning, and JACK ,ytas
Gagged until the hour at which 1 went to