Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-02

iL-patd plumber. who has been engaged all
the week IN stopping gas leaks with bar soap
and charging war prices Tor it with freight
added. Here you viii find the glad children
improving their minds by studying the
works Of nature.
Last Sabbath I spent the afternoon look
ing over, in a cursOry way, our wealth of
animals at the park; also our plantigrades,
quadrumana, MARSH pals, and graminivOrOus
mammalia. At first strOlled along the as
pha1tum walk beneath the wide spreading
beach GagalS sylUatjcG and fagus Jie'7-1C-
g5neG) or listened to the sOugh Of the glOri-
GUS elm (JtJnlIJS cGTlDeStTiS, also GtLT71ILS
AnleTlcG1G. also Utll1S FUtgl1dJ or the slip
perry elm Of the DharmaCOpR1a. As StrOlled
on watching the nimble squirrel (the small
rodent animal of the genus SCiUTtS), I was
attracted by the distant sound of the dra-
cOYalans calling to the deWficker Cor
eGt1cUS OWtgdrUs), as We say IN scientific
circles.
Judging that the sound came from the
menager1e, moved on in that direction.
There found q large number Of people,
mostly OF the working classes and trades
people, persuing the elephant Dos Lucas, as
we say, the tiger being called the Dos eatjcl;S
or CGr7liUOTG ViTtU0SO We have the Ele-
DhGs Afrjcan1s, both of which are quadru-
peds. This popularity they retain even in
captivity. We all stood looking at the huge
pachyderm for some time, and heard
Baxter street man say that if he couldn't
made his OveraiIs for him he would never
try to sell another suit OF clothes as long as
Dos I3djcaS would shorten his suspenders
about four feet and get his trousers pressed
he would call forth less adverse criticism.
When the elephant wakes I'D in the morn
ing he calls in some diSinter6st6d person to
tell him which end to wear in front during
the day. No matter how sober ne goes to
bed after eating a carload Of hay, he is al
ways more or less confused IN the morning
about which extremity to use as a PROV.
Numerous entertaining true anecdotes are
told of the sagacity of the elephant, many
of which are lies. IcOUld tell few my
self. but it is bad enough, think, for
school books to do that. with out allowing
such things to creep into literature.
Next went over to see the bear cave or
home of the UTSUS MGTitU7I3LS, the white or
polar bear; the black bear, or UTS1lS Amer
GcGnltS, and the grizzly bear Of the Rocky
Mountains, the asrsWS ho1Ti6ttl5S or Dos 6lte@-
Gus.
State, is Of a darkish black color, while the
polar bear, or white bear, is Of an opaque
drab or sOiled white color, with dark trim
mings. The bear has a pungent OdOr,
which holds its own against the sharp com
petition of the entire aggregation OF ami
malsnO in the park, and has a good work
ing maj Ority in this great congress of wild
amusement, I think, than otherwise. He
would make a poor parIOr entertainer, eS-
pecially while mOultin0. The OdOr Of the
bear keeps the crowd back somewhat from
the cave, but when gentlemen from Castle
Garden, on Sunday, wearing seven suits OF
his neck, walked up to the iron fence and
began eating his lunch, the polar bear
tainted.
The polar bear inhabits the frigid zone
north and south of given point, where he
subsists on trapped relief expeditions.