Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-03-11
Jumbo on a Tear.

Jumbo is sedate chimpanZee and
has received Christian education.
Visitors at the museum will have
noticed him, as he occupied cage in
the third story of the museum, and was
very vivacious at times, showing great
strength in shaking the heavy iron bar
and swinging with solemn cadence on
the flying trapeze. "Jum' is charac-
ter and his exploits recently showed
him to be a schemer of no mean order.
The fastenings of his cage were thought
secure, his keeper Lowanda, always tax
ing the precaution to carefully paddock
the bars; but woe alas to carelessness!
A key was left in the lock and his worthy
monkeyship proceeded with great eau
ton and subtlety to unfasten his lock
and liberate himself from the dreary
confines of the cage. Once out Jumbo.
like all true revolutionists, made license
of liberty and commenced to free the
birds by running across to the other
cages; letting out the cocatoos, parrots
and other rare birds, and stirring them
up with club, as various marks found
ION the aforesaid birds would indicate.
There is large glass cage in the mu-
scum, and on the same floor, in which
are kept several snakes of the construct
or species. A Bunson burner, connected
with tubing and lighted to warm the
occupants, was burning, and the Gallic-
looking chimpanzee thought he would
investigate. How it occurred the keeper
could not tell, but coming upstairs, he
heard the unusual chatter of the feath-
cred tribe, and then suddenly fiendish
yell, that indicated something unusually
interesting, and startling. Bounding up
stairs a strange sight met his gaze. The
monkey had just leaped' out of the snake
den and large constructor was drag
ging after him, his fangs fastened in
the unhappy Jum's stump of tail. At
the sight Of the keeper the howling mon
key made for the stairs, the snake still
clinging to him, sweeping a dozen
sleeping parrots out of the way, who set
up perfect pandemonium of screeches
at the disturbance. Lowanda says it
was worth a mans life to see that CHM
panzee go down the stairs and thump-
ing the constructor after him, who like
bulldog never letup.. Hastily closing
the snake den and extinguishing the
light, Lowanda ran down to the second
floor and then began the chase. Over
the freak stages, upsetting chairs and
smashing medicine and photographs in
a way that was a caution; then crossing
the hall, leaping the iron grating that
separates the crowds from the theater,
the monkey went at headlong gait,
leaving his snakeship stranded high
and dry on the wire gratinga wiser if
notsthoroughly awakened snake. Down
into the darkness Of the passage went
TJum," and at the bottom OF the stairs
he collided with a colored girl. was
working about the building, and the
how thoroughly frightened monkey,
chattering and jibbering, clung with
: might and main to his friend sin need"
Lowanda says he appeared at the top
Of the landing just as they rolled over,
Ppd that the chimpanzee had a lot Of
q Gngs and frizzes of African fashion
~ ID cut in his paws; howsoever be it,
t5dm' was captured and taken back to
den, docile and Wheeling slightly
t0m his exertions. When D reporter
WV him he was esconsced demurely on
his launches, and at the approach Of
the newspaper man no cooked his eye,
and scratched his chinchilla whiskers
as much as to say. 'Old chappie, it's q
cold day when we get left sd Paul
Globe.