The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-21

seeing Tue UAuScTs LOOK refuge De
hind one of the legs of that val
liable animal. She raised her
trunk in her masters defense.
the lioness made to seize him; but
the elephant lowered her trunk,
seized the lioness, choked her,
flung her a distance, and would
have crushed her to death if Mr..
Lott had not commanded her to
desist. After that she extended
her trunk, stamped with her foot,
trumpeting and showing her sat
isfaction at having saved her
friend from certain death, full ac-
counts Of which are to be seen in
the journals of February, 1882.
In the course of the exhibition
she will go through all her exer-
cises, which are wonderful, and so
numerous that it is impossible to
enumerate them in this bill: they
must be seen to form a just idea of
them.
Prices: First places. Second
Soldiers and children half price.
Dick and | used to make our
bow to our audiences in the fol-
lowing fashion, came on with
her, and said, "Otez mon chapeau
pour saluer then she used to
take ffmy hat, wave it gracefully,
and replace it on my head. She
then proceeded to pick up five
francs pieces, one after another,
and keep them piled in the ex-
tremlty of her truk. She also
fired pistols, and swept her den
with a broom, in q most pains
taking and ludicrous way.
But perhaps her best business
in a real judges eye was drinking
bottle of wine. The reader will
better estimate this feat if he will
fancy himself an elephant, and
lay down the book now, and ask
himself how he would do it, and
read the following afterward.
The bottle( cork drawn) stood
before her. She placed the finger
and thumb of her proboscis on the
mouth, made a vacuum by suction,
and then, suddenly inverting the
bottle, she received the contents
in her trunk. The difficulty now
was to hold the bottle, with she
would not have broken for a thou.
sand pounds (my lady thought less
of killing ten men than breaking
one saucer, and yet not let the
liquor run from her fesh-pipe.
She rapidly shifted her hold to the
center of the bottle, and worked
1t by means of the wrinkles in her
proboscis to the bend of it. Then
she griped it, and at the same
time curled round her trunk to a
sloping position, and let the wine
run down her throat. This done
she resumed the first position Of
her trunk and worked the bottle
back toward her finger, suddenly
snapped hold of it ny the neck
and handed it gracefully to me.
With this exception, it was no
her public tricks that astonisheG
me most. The principle of al
f these tricks is one. An animal ii
+ taught to lay hold of things q
command, and to shift them froH
one to another. You vary the
, thing to be laid hold of, but thu
act is the same In her drama
which was so effective on the stage
Dick did nothing out of the way
. She merely went through certain
mechanical acts at a word of com
mand from her keeper, who wa:
unseen or unnoticed; i. e. he wa
either at the wing in his fustial
, jacket, or on the stage with he
in gimcrack and gold, as one of :
? lot of slaves Or courtiers, or wha
not. Between ourselves, a singh
trick I have several times caugh
her doing on her own accoun
proved more for her intelligenc,
than all these. She used to pu
. her eye to a keyhoie. Ay, tina
she would, a1d SO watch for hour
! to sec what DEVILS trick she coult
do with impunity,-she would se
q me out of the way, and then go t.
; work. Where there was no key
hole have seen her pick the kno
out of the deal board, and squin
through the little holes she hat
p thus made.
A dog comes next to an ele
f plant, but he is not up to lOokini
4 through a keyhole or a crack
He can think of nothing bette
t than shutting under the door.
I at one place, being under
: granary, she worked a hole in tn
t ceiling no larger than a tumble
r and sucked down sackfuls of grain
+; before she was found out. Tall
of the hslf-reasoning elephant
b she seldom met a man that ceul'
: match her in reasoning,-to ba'
? end. Her weak points were he
cruelty and cowardice, and b
8 this latter Tom Elliot and gov
erned her with a rod of iron, vul
| carly called a pitchfork. IT
mouse battered about the floor j
her stable, Dick used to trembl
all over, and whine with terro
till the little monster was gone
}. A ton shaken by an ounce.
I have seen her start back
b dismay from q small feather float
d ing in the air. If her heart ha
It been as stout as her will to d
mischief was strong, mankin
o must have risen to put her dow
= Almost all you have heard abor
/ the full-grown elephants charaC
d ter is a pack of falsities. The
l. are your servants by fear, or the
o are your masters. Two years ag
1t an elephant killed his keeper I
&c Liverpool or Manchester, / forg'
n which. Out came the "Times'
d he had pronged him six weeks b
i fore. How well l knew the ol
Of lie; it seldom varies q syllabl
That man died not because he hs
ye pronged the animal, but becau:
te he had MT, or not enough.
r Spare the pitchfork, spoil the e
he ephant.
N There is an other animal Peep
l. misconstrue lust as bad,-the b