The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-19
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GdtdGy are as tolloWs;-
Lady Judith, q Tale of Two Continents,
chapters xxx, XIV, and XVI, by Justin Nc
Oarthy; "Abbaye aux Danes" by Mrs. Mary
B. Dodge; Republication in England" by
Justin Mccarthy; Through Window" by
Louise Chandler Moulton; "Overland," chap
ter xl to end, by ]. W. De Forest; "The
Neither Side of New York." vI-Faro Gam
bling, by Edward Orapsey; "Conscience, by
Marian Douglass; 'The Dutch at Home" by
Albert Rhodes "Half an. Hour" by Nora
Perry "0ught We to Visit Herr" chapters
XXX, xxi, xii, and xiii by Mrs. Edwards;
Edinburgh and its Surroundings" by M. E.
w. s.; ''The Man Did Not Marry" THE
Kiss, by Charles Sibley; 'Reoollections of
an Old Woman" by E. de M; ''La Belle
Dame Sans Merci," by Charles Oarroll
''Drift-wood, by Philip Quilibet; ''why is it
so?" by F. A. Blaisdell; Scientific Misce-
lany;" "Ourrent Literature;" ''The Galaxy
Club Room;" "The Nebule," by the editor
In the Galaxy Club Room" we find the
following tribute to the memory of ''Ben,"
the Learned Pig
THE LEARNED PIG.
/ have turn for swine. might say that
/ have taste for swine. l do not mean q
taste for pork, but liking for the living pig.
To pnt it into plain English, like the hog.
The hog to me is like the fool i the forest,
meat and drink. I study him. 1 understand
him. am amazed at his ways and am filed
with admiration of his sagacity. 1 was
brought up on hog. 1 had rare opportunities
to study his character and appreciate his traits.
With due deliberation L assert that for
shrewdness of observation, knowledge
of character, for thought and memory. your
hog excels all the other beasts of the field and
forest.
He is selfish. Well, looked at from GER
tain standpoint, hoggy is selfish. But deprive
man of his hands and tongue; put in him q
stomach thst will digest Bancroft's "History
Of the United States" stomach of great
capacity and inordinate demands in the way
of appetite; then build up fences, shut the
gates and turn loose your dogs, and what will
become of mans generous impulses, etc. ?
They will go ''where the woodbine twineth"
over the Erie stock. AS it is, with all his
advantages, man comes nearer to the hog in
this quality than any other animal. AS
the pig puts at least one foot in the trough
while eating, SO a man will degrade his pos
sessions in proof of his ownership. This is
especially the case with his wife, and would
be with his children, but that as they grow
| older and stronger he grows older and weaker,
30 the pig mastery predominates in the off
| spring.
| With these tastes and ideas was walk
| ing slowly along Pennsylvania avenue,
when 1 saw the sign of Learned Pig"
done in huge letters upon the side of q
house read further along that the
admission fee was twenty-five cents
servants, children, ministers of the gospel,
and Sunday schools admitted half price," l
brought up promise to pay issued by our
paternal Government to the amount of
twenty-five cents, as 1 did not come under
either of the exceptions. and presented it to
| the guardian of the entrance who, glancing
| ot h; fof,
insulting examination.
| "All right, he said, motioning an invita-
tion to enter, and adding apologetically, ''No
offense, Cap, but counterfeits do gravitate to-
ward scientific swine most amazingly"
The choice language of the doorkeeper i'm
pressed me deeply. 1t was as surprising as
the educated hog. Learning had seized upon
the concern.
/ entered a room that had once been de-
voted to the sale of Intoxicating drinks. II
yet retained its counter and its odor. Ones
nostrils recognized the spirit of departed
cocktails and mint-juleps that pervaded the
atmosphere, mingling with the vile smell OF
old cigars. The educated swine was moi
visible; but certain eminent statesmen, dis
tipguished by their thirst for knowledge, were
of the audience. A consumptive young man
labored steadily at hand organ that gave us
the air of ''Shoo Fly" as if the air of ''Shoc
road. In the pauses of this orchestra tha
came kindly to our relief, we heard certain
snores and grunts, indicating that the
learned beast of tusks and bristles was repos
ing from his laborious studies unknown to the
audience.
when the room was sufficiently filled, the
consumptive orchestra abandoned his post
and going to the door relieved the gentleman
who had expressed the sage opinion touching
the tendency counterfeit currency had Il
eravitate to the learned swine. This taker-iI
of dimes and curious people proceeded in
business-like manner to the counter, and rap
ping on the side ordered the educated pork
under the name of "Ben, to come forth
grunt of recognition was the only response
A louder rap and more imperative orde
brought a series of grunts, that tC
those acquainted with hog language
meant q remonstrance; whereupon the lee
turer reached under and administered certain
blows that brought out squeal and the
learned shote. He was of the species known
at the West as "saw-back," and described il
the language of that region as ''slab-sided
long-snouted, and spindled-legged;" of the
sort to break mans heart, if that heart wa
bent upon adding some adipose to the bon,
and muscle, so as to bring out the pork il
merchantable quantities
He had, however, aR intellectual expression
of face, and it was really comical to see tn,
poor animal swapping his jaws together witt
,, that emphasis peculiar to an indignant porker
and all the while cycling frou under his lop
ears the holder of the rattan.
Ladies' and gentlemen" began the ex
hibitor, ''this animal is the most intelli
gent and the best edicated hog in tn
world. There be some pigs on exhibi
that pretend TO be edicated pigs, and / don
| danU that ancb craatures hava claims huk adj