Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-09-27
RcmIls, the ChimpanZee.

From the New York Tribune
The young chmpanzee at Central park has
been purchased and will remain fixture here.
He was brought here three months ago by his
owner, John H. Smyth, minister to Liberia. Mr..
Smyth brought the chimpanzee with him as q
cabin passenger. He was a great pet in the
minister's family. He left him in care of Mr.
Conkling superintendent of the Geological de-
partment at Central park, intending to caf1 for
the monkey. Mr.. Smyth's plans having changed,
he decided not to return with the chimpanzee
and consented to give him to the city, receiving
only his passage money, S125 in exchange The
name Crowley, by which the little fellow has
been known heretofore, was given him by his
keeper, who had never heard his real name,
Remus.
Remus is now nearly twenty-one months old
and has grown considerably since coming here.
He Is to be moved into a new house. which will
be built on the left of the monkey house. Mr..
Conkling said recently that he would have a
bedstead, with a mattress and blanket, table
and chairs, looking glass and wash bowl. His
keeper will eat with him at noon.
"The large chimpanZees at Antwerp, said Mr.
Conkling, ''sleep in bed six feet long, set on
chairs at the table and eat with their keeper
take their bottles of red wine with a relish and
are very human-lke Remus we expect to grow
to be four feet and halt high. 1t is difficult to
keep them through the winter in this climate
and worry about Remus."
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He Wanted the Medicine.
From the Boston Globe.
Ina suburban town, where ''local option
decreed that physicians prescription must pre-
cedea sale of liquor, man entered drug store
and called for pint Of whisky.
."Have you a prescrption!' inquired the
druggist.
"What's that?" asked the applicant
The law was explained, and the customer re-
oval I'm an invalid. Where can find a
doctor?''
II am a physician" suggested the druggist.
you make it out, then" said the invalid.
This was done. the whisky put up, and de-
livered with the gentle words:
"a dollar and q half"
"WhuffOr?' inquired the invalid.
"a dollar for the prescription and fifty cents
for the whisky"
"Wa. guess I don't care for the 'scription;
smother Teller may want it." said the invalid,
as he threw down half dollar and escaped.
stopped the Train for a Wager.
From the Chicago Herald
"Queer incidents?" echoed Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific conductor. ''Yes we have a
few. We meet all sorts Of people, you know,
under all sorts of circumstances Only last
week a little thing occurred that made me so
mad wanted to kill somebody. We We're run
ming out from Chicago, and were an hour be-
hind time. had orders to side-track at Seneca
for an east-bound special, provided l could get
there by such minute. We were going fast to
make it, when all of sudden the engineer
pulled up out in the country. I rushed out to
sec what the matter was and we saw farmers
boy q few rods down the track waving an old
red shirt that he'd taken from a scarecrow in
the field near by. I shouted to him to come up
and tell us what was wrong. He sided along
bashfully, me oil the time yelling to him to tell
us why he had stopped the train. When he got
about forty feet of the engine he skipped off the
track and climbed the fence. Then he turned
and said:
Providence game cum out yesterday? Me aud
Jim Jackson has got o bet on it, ;"