Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-05-18
An Obituary---FOr the Young
Folks

The telegraph informs us that Tippo
Sahib is no more. He breathed his
last at an insignificant town in Indiana,
on Friday, after cheez9fed and event
full career of about one hundred and
fifty years. He has the distinction of
leaving behind him a name which, al
though it has been blazoned over the
whole country in letters of the most
abnormal length, and although its
owner, seen and criticised by many
thousands, has never been accused of
dishonor, or of belonging to any ring
except the circus ring, nor has there
been any breath of scandal affecting
his reputation as a steady-going ele
phant. When Tippo Sahib was ush-
cred into the world, in the early part
of the eighteenth century, it was with
the expectation on the part of his
parents that he would live and die on
the soil of India, and that when he
should finally check his trunk for the
land where good elephants go, he
would leave his native jungles in
about the same condition as he found
them. But how contrary was the re-
suit Tippo was compelled by cir
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troll, to join the innumerable caravan
which moves toward Columbia, to fol-
low the star of empire westward, to
cast his lot in the land of the free and
the home of the brave.
The result of this determination had
a most important bearing upon his
destiny; insomuCh that, instead of
passing a life unnoted by any event
outside the monotony of East India
days, he saw, in the last ten years OF
his life, more of life than all his an
cestors for ten elephantinG generations
had done. When Tippo Sahib first
beheld the light of day, the country OF
his adoption was a bowling wilder
ness. The cities where he has made
his triumphal marches, and where lie
has borne squealing and delighted
maidens upon his caparisoned back
were unknown to civilization while YET
Tippo himself was a tolerably ole
elephant. The villages where TippC
has waved his proboscis on high tC
the terror of gaping urchins, or waved
his mild, conservative tail in reeogni
! ton of propitiary candy, were til,
a scenes OF savage pow-wows or wilC
deer hunts when he was cutting hi
!, fo@rth set of molars. and munching hi
+ frugal meal of rice, millet, and sugar
. cane.
1t is generally admitted that the ele
: phant is the most intelligent of quad
r rupeds; so that if there be, as one o
: our Chicago diyines has urged, futur
: existence for dumb beasts, it is evi
O dent that the elephant will have an ad
r vanced nook therein. When Tippt
S Sahib shall there salute his ancestor
o and youthful playmates, it will be in
: teresting to hear the tales he will havt
to tell them of his American expert
S ence; what sweeping progress he ha
! observed in the great West; wha
c dread convulsion she has observed i
# the political world; how a free gov
II ernment can enforce. its authorIt
II against an unreasonable rebellion of
t. vast section; how many times this
If section can be reconstructed while hi
h (Tippo's) tusks are growing a fe
r, inches; how seriously those self-sam
Is tusks are endangered by the high dut
le on ivory; how anxious the America
people are to see the elephant; an
is how Theodore Thomas may fiddle
lie vain to Chicago if Tippo Sahib
ct around, with good circus show to +
es inforce him; how suddenly proce
IN sion may be improvised in an Amer
IL can town, if but brass band and f;
ry elephant appear to lead it; how,
ee short, the Fourth of July itself pal
er its Intellectual fireworks beside t
wv superior splendor of menagerie.
De. short, the death of this great amin
,w is an important event altogether, n
ire only to Tippo SahTb and his propr
,er tors, but to the devotees of zoolog
ed and to the children of America,
Ut Chicago Tribune.