Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-02-20

Whoever has seen a series Of the volumes
OF the old London Penny Magazine-the de-
light OF boys of q generation ago in both
hemispheTes will remember picture OF an
hex standing on the top Of tripod OF sticks,
which the animal set up for himself. This
wonderful performance was in Egypt, thirty
or forty years ago and DIR. Clark sent the
account TO London for the amazement as well /
as amusement of English readers everywhere.
The great wonder OF the feat lies in the fact
that the hex is one OF the least tractable, anu
so OF COURSE would be considered one OF the
least intelligent of animals. The goat species
are playful enough in their own way, but are
dull scholars, and the wonder is not that the
performance Of this hex should be so excel
! lent, but, as DR.. johnson said of the execu-
ton of difficult passage in music, possible al
all.
Learned pigs, dogs, horses, monkeys, and
Cynocephali have been common enough on
both sides of the Atlantic but, till about two
years ago, since the days Of Dr. Clark hex,
nothing has been heard of performing ami
nal Of the goat kind, and Of course when one
did appear 1t was in the far East. During the
past eighteen MONTHS from time 10 time have
appeared in the London papers, and once or
twice in letters published in this city, some
account of an extraordinary goat, occasional
lyon exhibition in Alexandria and elsewhere
a. M that rode on horseback, did the
inc OF bareback tricks and jumped
S, and of the horse, walked on
klked the wire, and spelled out
n Hugo makes Esmeralda's pet
Ue'D do English and Ameri-
Pre- on the alert TO secure this
hanging from $500 to $4,000
"a. Finally, II was reported
gone 10 London in exchange
Humber OF guneas &c sum no
pposed 10 be enormous-anC
Tier such q goat did appear II
pndon theatres, and for seyera
Juror commensurate Will
Fnts.
was the Egyptian goat, or on
III and education, the Londo
managers never told So, toe
hspered here, some weeks age
t had arrived, or was to arrive
Vn, but was presumed that th
tied from Egypt TO Londo
se followed the track Of Otht
AT all events a learned gOI
khere can be no doubt Of its beln
]lI.I9Ifs Goat. because no other periormin
u. ~Ilmal Of its species Is, or has been known Il
VI the past two years. The matter has been kel
ION very quiet but finally Professor Samwell
er- who appears with the trained dogs in Il
80 'BlacS Crook at Niblo's, has exhibited TO
les select audience OF shOwmen, at the irainir
uW ring in Twenty-nnth street, the great go
nc at Nblo's
~, For an hour OIL more his goatshlp aslOhls
10 ed aud delighted the eXperts-eyerything th
lai boy can do on horseback first in the art
en' sticking on" and preserving perpendicul
Il. let the horse go his iastest-and next
INC leapng the bars, jumping the ribbons, fiaE
~, hoops, &c, this goat does with grace equ
VW led only by the imperurbable gravity wi
~, which the animal goes through its yario
nih performance Its other accomplishments,
.lle the way of wire walking, &c, will double
Ienl be exhibited In the "Black Crook" and
a goat will be an enormous drawing card
lte 3 besides doing something in that way on
~ ~ own account.
lVn These performance are extraordinary I
UNI in themselves as done by trained animal
i ., such as q dog or q monkey-but because Il
!! !he supposed-to-be stupid animal, the comm
loi, goat does them or rather since hundreds
's.u goats have been tried in training, and OF
~, wv ono, at tho most two, have ever been heard
late as amounting to anything this is "
70 ~ uncommon goat and hence the extraoT
rs nary sum which lumor says he cost his owl
DIV ,iu- (whoeycr he may be-, and the equally ext
~, nv ordinay interest attaching to the pcriorman
M Of the highly-tuincd animal
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