The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-06-28
JAY GOULD.
Some Facts About Him Which the
Public Doesn't know.

The other morning while Mr.. Cole,
the proprietor Of the approaching cir
Gus and menagerie of that name, wa
picking his teeth IN the steps Of that
excellent circus hotel. the Russ house,
q tall, sunburned, baldheaded man,
with pine burns in bis clothes and .
stick If sassairxs in bic mouth, ap-
preached and said:
BE you the wild animal man.
mister!"
The proprietor Of the double
Mammoth Mastndon aggregation" ad-
mitted that such Was the fact.
"Then," proceeded the party from
the mountains, II think I'll get you
to make me an offer for . large sized
healthy Csliforny lion I've got"
"Good specimen, eh!' asked the
circus man.
"Goodi Well. l should cay 60.
Measures eleven feet from tho tip of
his nose to the tip of bic tail. Caught
him myself when . cub. Just four
years old tomorrow"
"Hum-good appetitei"
"Appetite!-Great Scott i-sppe-
iite? Well. l should smile-tbat's
just the poins-that's just Why I'm
parting with Jay. / call him
Jay Gould because he takes every
thing in. If it wasn't for his appetite
and the queer little things it makes
him do. l wouldn't part With Jay
Gould for . fortune"
Savage, eh!"
"Well, No; I don't know q should
rall Jay savage. exactly-sorter nib
|ish, though, may Be. Has . kinder
habit Of gnawiog up things. 90 to
peak. In fact-ths neighbors-I
i've pat Bladders peak-havs gotten
10 be 90 fussy and particular OF late.
hat l can't % much q uochaio j. G.
|or . little fresh air without their
yetting grumpy over il"
"Thereis DO pleasing some people.
aid the hippodromer.
81 should say not. Nov, instance,
bout three months after Jay got to b
Is big - . boarding. house sofa, I came
rome one day from picnic and found
Ne had eaten up old Aunt Maria. who
,ad been LETT at home to mind the
,ouse-leastwise she was nowhere 70
- found; and - Jay Gould seemed
orter bulgy-like, and kept coughing
Up hair-pins aud false teeth for . day
Y two. ws kinder suspicioned 10
vhole thing"
"Maternal aunt!' inquired thsl
bowman, thoughtfully.
Exactly. Ny wife took on dread
ully at first. and wanted me to shoot
lay right of: But 1 told her that be |
probably suffered . good deal - it
ms. and that - most likely bed catch |
heumatism and things from the re:
mains. we'd better call il square,"
"And did she?"
"Well. she kinder got rsconciled |
fter while. especially - Jay seemed !
o fond Of playing With the chiIdren. |
)oe morning soon after that ny wifeis
uother-wbols family lived With ne,
on didn't come down to break
ast. As oil her false hair was hang
pg over Q cbairbeck, and Gould
rswled out from under the bed lick.
~ bic chops and with his tongue .
ood deal c,aied-motber.in-law Va
lsays taking things for the liver
omplaint-we saw ct once il Was
mother visitation Of Providence and
bat the heavy hand Of affection We
gain upon us.'
Looked that way, didn't it"
"Well. - you may suppose. the old
,dy-thats my wife-pranced around
good deal then, and got down the
reach.loadsr right away. But just
hen arrived . gold medal from the /
. P. c. b. society. awarded on o.
,upt Of ny forbearancs in the Aunt
Iaria business, and % I got her
lined down after awhile"
"Paci6ed her. ehi"
eye; I managed to arrange . 10
rieve for Jay, somehow. You 80, I
- always awful fond Of psts. and
,udee-heertsd. and al that, yos I'M
.rstand. ! argued that The poor mi.
I'll didn't know b was doing vroogI
-msrcifal man i nerciful to Bic beast,
e., etc. That snothsrsd thing cover
ooth."
"Wbat happened thenf'
"WslI, one day I seot Tommy. our
,ungsss boy down 70 Tie stare foe