Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-07-09
Facts Concerning Jay Gonld.


The ether morning while Mr.. Cole,
the proprietor of the approaching circus
and menagerie OF that name, was pick
| ing his teeth on the steps of q hotel
quite popular with showmen, tall,
sun-burned, baldheaded man, with pine
burs in his clothes and stick of sassa-
fras in his mouth, approached and said:
" BE You the wild animal man, mis-
terP"
The proprietor of the "Douhle Nam
moth Mastodon Aggregation admitted
that such was the fact
"Thep," proceeded the party from
the mountains, al think III get you to
mako me an offer for q llrge-sized
healthy California lion I've got"
Good specimen, Ell? asked the cir
cusmnu.
ttHood? Well, | should say so.
Measures eleven feet from the tip of his
nose to the tip of bis tail. Caught him
myself when cub. Just four years old
tomorrow"
"IIam good appetizer
Appetite? Great Scott-appetite!
Wen, / should smGe-that's just the
point-that's just why I'm parting with
JaYzI call him Jay Gould because he
h takes everything IN. H-TU wUsrr-U- fvr-
his appetite and the queer little things it
makes him do | wouldn't part with
Gould for forIune'
"Sayage, ehP'
"Well, no; ! don't know Us | should
call JAY savage, exactly-sorter nib
blish, though, he may be. Has u kinder
habit of gnawing up things, 50 to speak
In fact, thaneighbors-l lyeup at Blad-
der's Peak have gotten to be so fussy
and particular of late that | can't 50
much as unchain j. G. for little fresh
air without their getting grumpy over
it!n .f
"There's no pleasing some people,, "
said the hippodromer.
81 should say not. Now, f'rinstance,
bout three months after Jay got
to be as big rs a boarding
house sofa, | came home one day
from picnic and found he had
eaten up Aunt Maria, who had been left
at home to mind the house-leastwise
~ she was nowhere to be found; and a.
Jay Gould seemed sorter bulgy-lile, and
kept coughing up hairpins and false
teeth for day or two. we kinder sus-
picioned the whole thing"
"Maternal auntHn inquired the show
man, thoughtfully,
Exactly. My wife took on dread
fully ut first, aud wanted me to shoot
Jay right off. But told her that he
probably suffered good deal as it was,
and that as most likely he'd catch rheu-
matism and the like from the remains,
we'd better call it square"
"Aud she dd?'
"Well, she kinder gotreconciled after
while, especially as Jty seemed fond
of playing with hechihiren. One morn
ing soon after that my wife's mother
whole family lived with me, you see -
didn't come down to breakfast. As al
her false hair was hanging over chair
0ack, and Gould crawled out from under
The bed licking his chops, aud with hi;
tongue n GOOD deal coated mother.in
law was always taking things for tht
liver cOmpaiut-we saw at once it wa
-.--alnQllec visitation Of Providence, anC
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