Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-02
THE
How a scientist MysiiAed and
DisgusIed the Proprietor Of
q Living CurioSitits Exhibi.
Hon.
s.n F,snol.cO Post.
zion.

The other morning, while the
urbaIe manager OF Woodward's Gar
lens was smoking a iour bit cigar and
neditatively listening to the mufled
walls Ota tOmcat that had just been
.wsllowed alive by the anaconda, a
tall. thin, scientific looking man, with
4 goatee and blue glasses, entered the
gate and remarked in an insinuating
manner:
'Or course, you pass the scientific
fraternity"
"Of course we do not" said the
snowman, emphatically.
What, not the servants, not the
p%ioneerin the great march OF the mind
into the hitherland of the infinite be-
,UuHag' returned the professor, with
great surprise
II will not deceive you" sarcastic
ally replied the proprietor OF the only
,alamander. we pass nothing but
he quilts on the freifil porcupine-
[ mean the press. You can't see the
nStrldges unless you come down and
put up
Dear me. dear mel sighed the
chemists, rt%hecIivtiy. ITO think thai
professor of cJsmugraphic cor oholo>
y should be denied admittance to .
third class zaol Has the Skamgatibus
Oeen fed YETI"
"Skam- Wbich2' asked the tiger
imp lrter.
mhy, the Skamgatibus. You've
got one, haven't yOu9'
"Ye>e.s; | believe we've a female
,omewheres, said the grizzly friend,
loubtiully.
why, | never knew q first class
collection to have less than two pair,
'aid the professor, CONTEMPORARY;
how do your Azimuths stand this
cold weather, eh2'
"Azlmuthsl asked the Napoleon
,%ggregator oil curiosiues; what themI
Some new kind OF bird-you don,
uean ostri-?'
'0stridges be hanged said the
successor Of Darwin; ''ostridges ar,
nothing. I've shot more oslrldge,
Sith quail shot than you've got hair,
IN your head. You don't actuall
mean to sit here and tell me you hav,
'nt got a single Azimuth to YOU
back?.
Don't believe l have" admitted
he alligator breeder, mortified; what
IRE they like?"
oh they're Of the order Spinalis
.piemo' is about eight feet high Fun
peels off in the spring, you knOw-the
SlberIan species, 1 mean. | suppose
you've got n of those Rectanular
lfdcan F~lipgoohlies that reached
New York the other day."
mo, I'm id if | did" said the
much agitated Snowman. Here I've
been keeping an agent in New York en-
a big salary to look out for attractions,
nd ne doesn't catch on to the frs
blamed thing. Spends all our money
on second hand pantbers and kanga
zoos with the rheumatics. I'll bounce
him by telegraph"
Haven't even got a Flipg0ohly,
eh?" unused the scientist in a tone Of
great pity. And | shouldn't he sur
prised if you didn't have a Golden
Crested Ouspider in your whole
show"
Neither | have-neither [ have
replied the wretched promoter Of
pelieans in a tone Of great bitterness
"S'pOse you just step in sir, and look
round; mebbe there's something else
y5a could say"
"N-n.o. l guess not" said the tai
man. ut would hardly pay me tC
spend much valuable scientific time il
a fourth class show like this. No
even an Azimuth, oh, | should thini
you would be afraid of being actually
mobbed sometime. I'm sorry for yoI
ny good man; sorry for you. I've u,
doubt you mean we'll. but not a soil.
tary Skamgatibus-great Scott"
And as the disciple Of Audubon
passed into a saloon across the stree
nd snapped a lead nickel for a glas,
u beer the bar keeper heard hin
chuekle something to the effect tha
he had got eve on that old hyeni
puneher, and don't you forget it.