New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-20
SAD FATE OF CHESTNUTS.
a MONKEY SWALLOWED BY A BOA CON-
STRICTOR.
PANIC IN AN ANIMAL sroRE-MR: REroHE AT
vAcKED BY THE MONSTER.


LACKED BY THE MONSTER.
Chestnuts IS no more Peace TO his memory. He
never harmed a living creature-neas excepted-yet
he passed away effcctnally IL executed by an
alternating current of electricity. He buried
without honors the precise spot where death over
took him. His grave remains warm and occasionally
moves about with an expression of pain mingled with
q large degree of satisfaction. Chestnuts will have
no tombstone, monument Though far beyond
the sphere of congratulations It is not too late to
wish him JOY his escape from epitaph. Poor
Chestnuts. Such is life To think that you had to
come 5000 miles to meet the fate that you might
have met at home any day Alas. poor Chestnutsl
chestnuts was honest a monkey as ever hooked
his prehensile tail limb and played pendulum
IN an African jungle. He passed his youth in the
haunts of Umslopogaas, and not different from
other monkey children Fate brought him to Reiohe's
animal store. No IS Park Row, and there. In a
back room, he spent the last days of his life ike
, Georgia convict--at the end OF chain. BuV
Chestnuts was not unhappy. He realized that ne hsd
more freedom than his neighbor the pigtaed monkey
hat looks like John l. Sullivan, and sits all the day
idle in small cage Why. Chestnuts could describe
. circle three yards in diameter on the brick moor
and as happiness goes by comparison, be was CON
tented He never envied the 500 canaTies In ther
little three inch cages nor the 200 gray parrots IN
theirs
Chestnuts nut his wrong foot out OF bed yesterday
ing evil But he said nothing about 1t to the atteho-
ans and no one suspected the cause of his gloom
AT half past o'clock of Mr.. Reiches recent
importations from the dark continent, huge DOG
constructor. awoke and signifed It's Willingness 10
pe,form its morning sbiuiions This gentle creS
ture Is twenty-five feet in lei 9Th and trained uow l"
fighting weight-its present condition-nps inc oean
az sxty-one pounds For weeks it has been hungrier
than Jake Kilrain in the hands OF MITCHELL anu INC
hot weather has limbered IT into unoecomlng anu
even dangerous Iveliness. The attendants cOveIo'
It's nakedness with a tarpauln and dexteIouSy hiea
its gigantic coils from the old box IL occupleu vi u
tourney from Africa TO new and fresh one p@"'eu
ercen They then withdrew for a while to get SOAP
water and feshing brush.
The python not two minutes In oiscoVer'ne
that the ia of the box not fastened down. ~
II decided 10 take an airing and gdod graceIuhy ou"
The chimpanzee uttered an exclamation OF surprise
and tcu in heap behind the glass front of MS cage
ss the serpent darted out it's tongue at him. But
he was perfectly safe. The g-taed monkey thanheu
fortune that the bars of ms caso
we're less than two inches apart Inc
carrots set up an awful chattering The boa SaWre'
twice and stretched Then its Fllttenng eye iol o"
Chcstnuts III,
so,pr hut hastily and precpitaOey got Behind a
box he bestowed himself His cham wouu HUI 'o'
him 20 further and there he died Ike little nero.
The python reached over the box and took Ches',
nrts's head in its mouth 1hen' WIN i"Ii'y
motion which the eyes Of the chimpanzee faheu 10
follow IT drew up its long body and coiied II rounu
and round Chestnuts until the MONKEY was
tid from view The muscles Of the monster con,
,racted and in a minute and quarter CheS'nu'S ha'
ceased 10 breathe or struggle. The crusheu' MS
.bep n lfeless body of the monkey was then rele aS
from the awful coils and the serpent prooeeuou I"
'"s A1 feis m ment an attendant rushed =, ID
,cd with pocket knife cut the i0d'hol
collar hy which theStnuts chainel ~, -
1be process of swallowing was auehueu Win a ii4
email efort The neck of the python was Anh
Ia a. enormous degree the m0nkey passtl -
Dscutiton required twenty minutes anu "aS a.,
named iv a ow of saliva. Aher the OPP d'V SieIe
boa became quiet almost torpid ana Nj. ' az
,bor.bt /; a good time restore the creature 10 "a
box The reptile struck at him as he appI ', ,
sYG fastened its teeth I'm his hand lie couid hoI
eicatS himself The teeth are long and directed
bscEuard 10 prevent the escape of prey MI. heche
Shouted for assistance, and two OF his helpers wen,
A. the rescue ono took hold of the boas heah anu
d,g hts thumbs into its Jaws while the ouher pr,N
~ mouth omen with a steel bar. Mr.. heche Ma MA
badlv burt and hastened TO see physlcldE n nI
nyfbon has no poison fangs, but its teeh are 'rroo
weapons. -, - A. ao~.roror ~
az throwing a tarpaulin over the destOyer oi
C,beetprts fbe attendants succeeded in returning II
90 90 r,reen box The snake lay down with big
Load on is stomach and a big lump IN its body, ana
The IA was securely fastened.
visitor called to see the boa at p. m. . 4,
q wouldn't open that box for $780, SAID the
chief clerk.