The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29
Animal Antipathies Without Apparent
Reason.

Sometimes, for no very apparent
reasons, animals will evinee special antip-
athy toward one out of crowd OF per-
sons. These auimal-aversions, as we will
call them. are not at all times easily &C.
counted for, seeing that the object Of an
tipathy may be a. child, or as in the fol-
lowing case, lady, who we are assured
had never given the animals the slight
est cause for jealousy or ill-feeling. Our
correspondent writes as follows:
Some time ago, in company with some
of my relatives and friends, I paid a
visit to the Geological Gardens at Cliff
ton. One lady of the party, Mrs. NJ.
had travelled with her husband in for.
eign countries, and expressed herself
very fearless about wild beasts. Before
entering themonkey- house, she informed
us there was one monkey which had
taken agreat dislike to her, and, however
long period elapsed between her visits,
its recognition of her was almost instan-
taneous. The house in which the mon
keys are confined bad cages round the
wall, and huge one in the center in
which were large number of all sizes
and shades. We entered on the tiptoe
of expectation to see if this time it
would recognize her. We were not long
in determining which was the enemy.
One of the tribe jumped from its perch
and chung to the bars nearest to us,
chattering and grinning in a frightful
manner. Whichever side of the cage
we stood the monkey followed, all the
time intently watching Mrs. M,
who had with herginger snaps and nuts,
with which she proceeded to feed the
other monkeys.
Seeing this, Mrs. Ms enemy
sprang upon them, seized the food, and
threw it back angrily in her face, chat
tering and screaming in great fury; and
am not sure if it was not the same
monkey that succeeded in tearing of
some deep lace Mrs. M wore round
her mantle, and climbing on to the top
most perch, commenced tearing it in
pieces. z
/ was BOT sorry when we left his ugly
grinning face and screeching voice behind
us, and paid visit to the lion and the
tiger house. Here Mrs. M--informed uE
was tiger which would show its dislike
as much as the monkey had done. On
seeing her, it began to growl fercely,
and turning, walked slowly to the, other
end of the cage; then facing us again
he threw himself with great force against
the strong bars, which, had they yielded
to the shock, would have involved Ger
tain death to Mrs. M, who, fixing
her eyes on the enormous beast, and
shaking her umbrella at it, exclaimed
| should like to tame you"
A gentleman standing near, watching
the proceedings, said:
1t is your eye it does not like"
And here / should mention, Mrs
M has very dark and prominen
eyes.
After visiting other parts of the gar
dens, we returned to a last farewell o.
the tiger. 1t was agreed Mrs. M
was to stay outside, while some of oul
party entered, myself among the mum
Der. We stood before its cage and com
menced to make remarks about it; bu
beyond looking at us very quietly, ne
further notice was taken. On the en-
trance of Mrs. M nearly the sam
scene ensued as at the first visit; al
length the huge animal gave lout
roar, in which all the lions and tiger
joined. Nearly all rushed from tn,
place but Mrs. M, who stood he
ground before the cage while the roarin,
continued, while the keepers ran il
haste to learn the cause of the disturb
ance. We then left the gardens, com
menting on the strange conduct an,
knowledge Of the monkey and tiger
which, after SO long period, had recog
nized and SO Enthusiastically expresses
their great dislike to Mrs. M.