The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-23

distinguishes young from old and male
from female visitors. He is exceedingly
attached to the society of children of
two or three years old, plays about with
them as though recognizing them as
playfellows of his own age, chases them
round the cage, allows them to pull him
about, drag him by the leg, and roll him
over and over, swings with them on the
trapeze, kisses them if they will allow
him, and permits them to take every
kind of liberty with him, without making
any unfair use of his superior strength
With older children he seems to under
stand that he may be more rough, and,
when he is racing about with them, he
slyly upsets chair and takes the Oppor-
tunity of giving them friendly boxes on
the ear. When ladies visit him in his
large cage, which is suitably furnished
with sofas, chairs, table, trapeZe, and all
kinds of gymnastic appliances, they have
nothing to fear, except from his somewhat
importunate amiability. Heis particularly
delighted if they take him up in theirarms;
he embraces them, and leans his head
against their shoulders with a grateful
and gratified air; he is by no means will
ing to be set down again. The Berlin
aquarium, in which he now hold court, is
rich in varieties of the larger monkeys,
and when he goes into the monkeys
cage he rules there supreme. Even the
chimpanzee treats him as distinctly his
superior. The gorilla, however, appears
to recognize the chimpanzee as nearly
his equal, chooses him almost exclusive
ly for his playmate, and bestows friendly
but rather rough caresses on him. He
is fond of getting hold of the Chin
panzee, keeping him down and rolling
over him on the ground. Sometimes
Tschege manages to slip from under him,
and then Pongo sprawls awkwardly on
the floor on both hands, and looks up
with an expression of accepted defeat.
He walks on the soles of his feet, lean
ing at the same time on the outside of
his hand, but he turns out his toes far
more than the chimpanzee, and he car
ries his head more grandly erect, this
seeming to be the mark of high social
standing. When in high spirits he has
a way of showing the top of his red
tongue, which makes his black face look
all the more like that of a negro boy.
His mode of life is as human as are all
his ways. He sleeps on a mattress
rolled in a rug, and atabout eight o'clock
in the morning he rises in his bed, sits
up, yawns, scratches himself and re-
mains in sleepy, listless condition till
he has taken his milk, which he drinks
out of a tumbler. He is now wide
awake, and leaves his bed And looks
about in his room for something to play
with, and perhaps, if he is allowed, to
destroy, for he is as mischievous as any
child or as any monkey. Then he looks
out of the window, claps his hands, and,
for want of some more suitable com
begins to play with his
keeper. This man must be continually
in attendance on him; he does not allow
himself to be left alone for single
moment. If he finds himself alone, he
utters the shrihest cries until he regains
the society of man. At nine o'clock the
gorilla is tubbed, an operation in which
he takes the greatest delight, expressing
his approval in base notes, which per-
haps it will be impolite to call grunting.
He takes his meals at the usual German
hours; for breakfast he has sausages, pre-
served meat, cheese, and the favorite
funny to see him try to hold the glass
with his fat, short fingers while he is
assisting himself with his feet. He is
fond of fruit, which he eats with the
most gentlemanly deliberation, carefully
removing the stones, when eating cherries
or other fruit of the kind. At one
o'clock the keepers wife brings him his
lunch, and he seems to possess so punCt-
ual an internal monitor of the time that
this should be brought that he is always
extremely impatient if it is not there to
the minute, and always goes down to the
passage to look for it when he hears the
bell ring. He begins by looking into
the glasses, and tries to steal something
cut of them, whereupon he usually has
his ears boxed and then the meal begins,
consisting of gravy, soup, rice or veg
etables boiled with meat, etc. Some
times it finishes up by most welcome
slice of roast chicken; this is his great
treat The keepers wife is mistress of
the ceremonies, and sees that he behaves
himself with propriety. Under her
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spoon respectfully. After his meal he
wants siesta, like all other inhabitants
of tropical climates. After a sleep of
about an hour or an hour and half
he is ready for more play. In the after
noon he has some fruit, and in the
evening tea or milk, and bread and but
ter. He goes to bed at nine o'clock, ly-
ing on his mattress to be wrapped up in
the wooden blanket. He always insists,
however, on his keeper sitting up by
him till he is asleep, which soon comes
to him. He prefers, however, being
allowed to sleep with the keeper, and
then he puts his arm round his keepers
neck and leans his head against him.
He sleeps uninterruptedly all night. In
this way of life he has lived and thriven
until he has increased in weight some
thirty seven pounds. A short time ago
he fell i'll of the bronchitis. He was a
very restless and impatient invalid, and
seemed utterly wretched and far from
amiable in temper. Many doctors as
sembled round him every day. He was
treated with quinine and Ems water, and
an uniform moist temperature was kept
up in the room. Now, however, he has
completely recovered. Great anxiety
was manifested by the people of Berlin
bic i1lpacc and morn than q hmm