New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-11-25
JUMBO'S SUCCESSORS.


Arc Elephants Dying o.t OF tho World!-
Big. Bad and Dead Elephants-theD isci-
pline Administered to Several Refracto-
~ Ones.
Only few years have elapsed since
the London Spectator declared it quite
likely that if Jumbo attained the nat
ural limit Of his life, $50 years, he
might be the last of his race on the
globe. The production of the 1.2OO,-
900 pounds of ivory used in England
alone every year necessitates the death
OF 80, 600 elephants, and from various
causes the annual death rate Of this
most interesting of quadrupeds is. es-
minated at not less than 100, 900.
Breeding in captivity must, then, be
depended on eventually to propagate
the species, and how far successful
this has been may be inferred from
the general rejoicing among show peo-
pie when at rare intervals a baby ele-
plant is born.
In death Jumbo, by his tilsks alone,
proves his immense value. Ivory at
Liverpool has brought as high as e.
200 q ton. In 1879 it went down to
5000 a ton, but has since advanced
nearly a hundred per cent. The dead
mammoth's tusks entitle him to the
rank accorded him of prominence in
size over any elephent ever brought to
America. There is agreat beast which
has for nine years never left his prison
pen at Moscow which is twelve inches
higher than Jumbo was. There are
climber toters" among the draught
elephants on the banks of the Ganges
thirteen feet high, and from whose
number greater Jumbo might readily
be procured. But there will never be
q more docile, and consequently aside
from his size, less interesting elephant
on exhibition.
Bad elephants, elephants on their
travels, and dead elephants are the
most interesting, by all odds, except,
of course, the intelligent beasts which
are paraded in Sunday school books
and first readers for the delectation of
the young, and which haveno existence
anywhere else.
The fish-eating elephant is considered
IN India themost vicious ofhis species.
In the Himalayas each variety of the
semi-sacred beast has name. The
crab-lover is called Hinaxat, and turns
readily to a man-eater. Another mon
ster, which eats SO much fish that his
hide becomes scaly, is called Bek. But
the famous mad elephant of Munda is
conceded to be the worst ever known.
For years he had been in the stud of
the East India Company One night
he became possessed of a demon, and
the next morning broke loose and
fed to the woods. For weeks
that whole province was terror
stricken. With cunning which
could never be anticipated, the mad
elephant set hundreds of hunters at
defiance, and, creeping on unprotected
villages, smashed the huts and tram
pied the women and children. He had
destroyed thirty -fve lives when killed.
When Jumbo first came over here
the London Times commiserated his
unhappy lot, but said it was better
after all than the treatment the trib-
ute elephants sent from Burmah to
Pekin get when they misbehave. They
are blinded and tumbled into great
pit to starve.
When the Emperor of Brazil came
to Philadelphia in 1876 newly ar
rived elephant at the Zoo was named
Dom, after him! When Dom became
insubordinate hundreds OF people
went out to see first one foot chained
and then another, until each of the
four was fast to cable running over
a pully wheel, when with a single pull
Dom's legs were stretched out, and he
was reduced gradually to subsection.
Dom had to be punished this way
when he was ten years old!
Barnum's big Pilot had to be severe
ly disciplined once tor engaging in a
regular prize fight with fellow NAM
NAL. Pilots morning cocktail of
twenty seven gallons of water didn't
cool his coppers on one occasion, SO
he deliberately kicked out and black
ed a companions eye. The rough
and-tumble fight which ensued was ex-
citing. But no elephant is ever SO
wicked as when heis travelling. In 1880
John Robinson's Chief, with the cir
Gus at Charlotte, N. c., instantly kill
ed his keeper, John King, while the
latter, in the presence OF a large crowd,
vas endeavoring to show how the
beast climed into his special railway
:ar. The comedy became a tragedy
when Chief seized King by the waist
and dashed him to instant death
against the side of the car. Thecrowd
Of North Carolinians become SO en-
:aged that, until the absurdity OF the
Thing dawned upon them, there was
actually serious talk oftryingto lynch
Chief.
The first modern instance Of devil
Try on an elephants travels was the
murder by the Duke of Edinburg's
Tom OF his keeper en- route from Plym-
outh to London. Tom had been
brought from India in 1870 in III. r.
HIS yacht Galatea, and trumpeted
frantic protests when put on the cars.
A few minutes afterward he reared
and crushed William Patton, his keep
er, against the partition.
But themost ferocious elephant spree