The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-02-19
THE ORIGIN OF MAN.

CHAPTER 1.

tHAllfk i.
Twas a lovely summer morning in the
year 8 O0l before Christ. The woods OF
/ Senegambia were clothed i'm the fairest
costume: the lovely birds were chirping
and singing their morning lays the sky
was one vast sheet of blue. Every thing,
in short. was full of sweetness and light,
except the lovely Lady Adcliza de Chin
panzee. She was in the dumps. MoOdily
She rubbed her shoulder against huge
palm-trce, and while performing that act
heaved vast sigh. just at that moment
her mamma dropped from the tree above
her.
MY daughter" said the Duchess de
Chimpanzee, "why that sighy"
"Ah, mamma. look at me- said Lady
AdeliZa. ''See how different | am from
the rest of our tribe. See how white am
becoming"
My daughter said the Duchess Ian
guidly. a. she seated herself on "A con-
venient boulder, you should be proud OF
the difference We are higher race"
81 don't know, mamma. See what lit
tie caudal appendages we have; all the
other folks can hang from trees by their
tails, but we are compelled to sit on the
limbs.r
1--WE are advancing my dear. You are
whittier than ! am; you can talk in your
youth. could not till middle-age; your
grunt il. You are moving 10 a higher
sphere"
swell, mamma. none of our folks will
marry me-" said Lady Adeliza, pouting.
mo, my child; Ii has been decreed that
there should he a selection of the fittest in
marriage. We have offered you TO the
Prince d'Ourang Outang, who is even
whittier than you are, as Wife"
"Oh. mamma" gushed the Lady AIDE
liza, THAT'S splendid. win he come
soon ~
"Restraln yourself. People of high
blood and short caudsl appendages never
get excited. He will be here in short
time"
Lady Adeliza went away TO look for
cocoanuts the Duchess sat on the rock,
and rellectively scratched her head.
CHAPTER II.
The Duke de ChimpanZee was Chief of
a very large tribe. Ii he had been in the
show business he would have made his
everlasting fortune. lie had but one child,
the Lady Adeliza, and. as she would in
herit the live stock over which he ruled,
many of the neighboring chiefs desired to
marry her. Her parents. however. re-
solved that she should be, if possible, the
fountain head of the new race TO which all
their traditions taught them they were
working up. They determined that she
should wed the Prince d'Ourang Outang.
The Duke proposed the matter TO the
Prince.
"Aw,- said the Prince. as he adjusted
his eye-glass, sis IL nice?"
"She is very beautiful" replied the
Duke.
"Awl" said the Prince, "give it-aw-
much stamps?"
IL shall give her all Ethiopia" replied
the Duke.
Il will--aw-step down. and-aw-
look at it," murmured the Prince, care
lessly. by surprise. you know
This was agreed upon, and the Duke
departed.
The Prince knew his worth; he was
quite white. and he was not troubled with
the slightest particle of caudal appendage.
but Ethiopia was big prize and he re-
solved TO win it,.
One week after the Duke had offered his
daughter, the Prince started for Senegam-
bia with the intention of looking at the
fair face of Lady Adeliza.
CHAPTER III.
The Prince was wandering through the
woods of Senegambia. gaily humming:
"rd he a butterfly
Born in a bower"
when his eyes fell upon lovely chimpan-
zee, sitting i'm shallow brook. sucking a
cocoanut. She was the loveliest creature
he had ever seen. His heart was touched
at once. He raised his eye-glass and stared
at her until his eyes fell in modest con-
fusion.
Fair chimpanzee," said he. "will you
not-aw-tell me y0ur-aw lame -
{" AdcliZa," whispered She
The Duchess de Chimpanzee, who had
witnessed the meeting from behind a
clump of bushes, chuckied, and slid off on
her left ear.
Adeliza." sighed the Prince. "thou art
-aw beautiful! Wilt thou-aw-marry
me in
The Lady Adeliza threw the remains OF
her cocoanut at the head of ChlmpanZee
who was loating in neighboring tree, fell
4 into the arms OF the Prince. aud gently
murmured. | am thine"
They We're married in great splendor.
The Right Rev. Bishop Baboon. assisted
by the Rev. Simadar Ape. performed the
ceremony. The choir sang that lovely an
them, :" Monkey married the baboon's sis
ter.- Lady Adcliza and her parents rub
bed noses, and then the bride started on
I her tour on an slaphapf with one trunk