Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-26

Here the great breakers of civiliza-
tion along the celebrated avenue break
upon the shores of an artificial will
derness. A few PAGES from the wealth and
refinement of the great thoroughfare the
great gray rocks and spreading elms of the
primeval forest extend themselves, as one
may say, while the roar of the Fifth avenue
stage and the rattle of the silver harness
and the trappings of swollen prosperity
mingle with the sweet songs of the parakeet
and the low plunk of the hippopOtamus.
Here the worn husbandman and stock
grower from Wall street may be discovered
on quiet afternoon engaged in keeping off
the grass. Here you may see the weary and
illpaid plumber, who has been engaged all
the week in stopping gas leaks with bar soap
and charging war prices for it with freight
added. Here YOU will find the glad chill
dren improving their minds by studying the
works of nature.
IN A CURsoRT WAY.
Last Sabbath 1 spent the afternoon look
ing over, in eursorY. way, our wealth of
animals at the park, also our plantigrades,
quadramans, msrsupials and graminivorous
mammalis. At first strolled along the as
phaltum walk beneath the wide-spreading
beech, foQus sulUdticd and fdqus fer7Lgined,
or listened to the sough of the glorious elm,
aIlnluS cd1lpeStriS, also ulnl0S americana,
also dlauS FUlnc or the slippery elm of
the pharmacopes. As I strolled on watch
ing the nimble squirrel, the small rodent
animal of the genus SciUrus, 1 was attracted
by the distant sound of the dracovalans
calling to the dewficker or edticuS UulgGr-
us, as we say in scientific circles.
Judging that the sound came from the
menagerie moved off in that direction.
Then found a large number of people,
mostly of the working classes and trades
people, perusing the elephant bas Lucas, as
we say, the tiger being called the Dos eaticus
or CarniUerd T5rtuoso. We have the Ele-
phas AlricdRus, 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 a
Baxter street man say that if he couldn t fit
= an elephant better than the man who made
h1t overalls for him, he would never try to
sch another suit of clothes as long as he
LIVED 1 think myself that if the average
Dos IndfcUs would shorten his suspenders
about four feet and get his trousers pressed
he would call forth less adverse criticism.
CONFUSED IN THE MORNING.
When the elephant wakes up in the
morning he calls in some disinterested per-
son to tell him which end to wear in front
during the day. No matter how sober he
goes to bed after eating a carload of hay, he
is always more or less confused in the morn
ing about which extremity to use as prov.
Numerous entertaining true anecdotes are
told of the sagacity of the elephant, many
of which are lies. I could tell few myself,
but it is bad enough, think, for school
books to do that, without allowing such
things to creep into literature.
Next I went over to see the bear cave or
home of the UrSus MdritunuS, the white or
polar bear, the black bear, or UrsuS AD1eri-
cdaus and the grizzly bear of the Rocky
Mountains, or urSLs horribillis or bos
b5tedcus.
The black bear of Central Park in this
State is of darkish black color while the
polar bear or white bear is of an opaq ne drab
or soiled white color, with dark trimmings.
The bear has pungent odor, which holds
its own against the sharp competition of the
entire aggregation of animals now in the
park, and has good working majority in
this great congress of wild beasts. The bear
is better as an outdoor amusement, think,
than otherwise. He would make a poor
parlor entertainer, especially while mouth
ing. The odor of the bear keeps the crowd
back somewhat from the cave, but
when a gentleman from Castle Gar
den, on Sunday, wearing seven suits