The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-04-26
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1888.
ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.
a Coming Social Event Which Will AS
tonish the Animal Kingdom.

A prospective event in high life, which
the World has failed to forecast, says
the New York Truth, is evidently con-
templated from the following adver-
tisement, which viii (probably) appear
in the next issue of Our animal Friends,
under the standing head of Engaged"
ROONEY-JOCKO-Mrs Rooney of PhilaSel-
phia, late OF Africa, to Mr. Jocko, of New
York, late Of Malacca. No cards
The lady in the case is the charming
and celebrated Mrs. Rooney, the female
chimpanzee, now fulfilling a star en-
gag-ment at the Philadelphia Geological
Gardens. The other Oh contracting
party is Jocko, the orang-outang, whose
afternoon and evening receptions have
been so largely attended IN the Bowery
by the elite of Murray and Cherry Hills
The lucky dog who is Familiarity
termed by many of his admirers .'Jocko,
the Rangatang, has achieved great
success in his visit to America as pro-
fessional beauty. His portrait, even as
seen from the elevated road. has aztec ted
many susceptible young ladies so much
that they have neglected their common
conquests, the conductors and brake
men.
Despite the conventional intin.ation of
an absence of pasteboards, Mr.. Charles
Ii. Bradenburgh, Brad as he is IA
military addressed-in his mind-by Mr.
Jocko, informed Truth that a few
favored ones would witness the marriage
ceremony uniting the belle-of-the-forest
to the man-of-the-woods. 1t is W hisper-
ed that Tom, the wild and poetic Aus
tralian child, and his lovely, but lachry-
NOSE sister, Hat, viii respectively sup
port the happy couple at the altar as the
best man and bridesmaid. Mss Anna
Canda is also mentioned as possible
bridesmaid, but whether she will be
present at all or not depends upon the
success OF her physicians in arousing
her from a constitutional torpidity that
Expresses her during the winter season
in this climate.
This alliance between two of the first
families of Africa and Malacca viii
doubtless be regarded as having po-
litical significance by the forest tribes.
Jumbo's betrothal last year, while at
Madison Square Garden, is said to have
ever since been the paramount social
topic, and this will prove welcome
news. The particulars, however, that
will prove the sweetest morsel to the
chattering gossips of the Jungle is the
fact that Mrs. Rooney is divorced wife,
she having been granted decree of alb
solute divorce from Mr.. Rooney after g
protracted trial by the high munky
munk of the Philadelphia Zoo, on ac-
count of incompatibility of temper.
Among the guests will be Mr.. Henry
Bergh, the Pithecus and Gath, it having
been determined to invite the latter BE-
cause he would say he had been there
anyhow.
The wedding breakfast has been or
dered from the leading ''scavenger" of
Philadelphia, as John Stetson would
say, and the menu will be extensive and
varied, although flesh diet will be strict
ly eschewed. Prominent dishes will be
cocoanut fecaille and sawdust mush
and milk. The brides costume will be
of fig leaves, with corsage decollete and
court train, fringed with husk hair from
the cocoa de mer. The groom will not
ape American fashions, but will appear
in his usual evening dress of a horse
blanket cut bias. 1t is but properly
taken liberty for Truth to mildly eau
ton the American guests that all allu-
sions to monkeying, hand organs, or
caudal appendages will be regarded
with extreme disfavor.