The evening world., 1890-01-13
LESSON TO A FOOL MONKEY.
How a Big, Vicious Slmian Treated
One Of His Family.
A V%eritabic Circus in the Corner of
u Washington Zoo.

monkey is nh entertaining animal at
all times. Prof. Hornaday has the fine
beginning Of a monkey menageric to take
out 20 Rock Creek when the Geological
Gardens are ready. says the Washing
ton Post. The greater part of his monks
are aminblo little runts. with spindle
shanks and tails M long rs a three-volume
novel. They chase each other around
the premises and chew each other in the
most friendly way.
But there is one big fellow who seems
20 have suured IN the world. His face
looks like II frozen leather bag and his
mouth is wrinkled ns though he had bit.
ten into n key Of nails aud green persim-
mons. Ho IL so ugly that II WINS found
necessary 10 put n stout belt around his
whist aud chain him to one end Of the
cage.
The first few days of his narrow cnp-
tivity lie spent in trying TO get iid OF the
belt and brcnk the thaIu. hut the belt is
too tough and the chain has double
swivcls the who'c length. So he finally
gave in and climbed upon his perch.
He has black eyes, a china-blue nose.
brown fore feet and mauleys on his hind
legs Ms long as the hand of Providence.
There is n black stripe down his hnck and
his stomach looks like n Rugby football.
He hasn't much tail, but what he has is
marked with a freckled pink insertion.
II is difficult for anon-expert to deter
mine which are his elbows and which are
knees, but they ali have corns III them,
and while there are NO flies on Daniel Nc
| Ginty, he wears down his toeuails in
auarantining certain 9th or game.
But the na,n made him weary. The
heas might go to Bnllyhnck for all he
cared; he wasn't going to play with them
any more He sat on his perch as sullen
~ the man who - saved " his party and
didn't get nn office. lie Is gone now. The
reason il this
One day last week a reporter saw him "a
he sat on the roost. His right leg hung
limp over his left shoulder. His left arm
was careless'y wrapped around his whist
and with the FINGERS of the right hand
pressed over his eyes he sat in deep medi-
tn,ion.
The little monkeys bad kept way from
that neighborhood for several weeks. II
was too thickly settled. They didn't
throw peanuts at him, or rattle his chain,
or sing McGinty ut him. But he seemed
so soundly immersed i'll his W thoughts
that they got careless. and finally one
little fool monkey crossed the dead line.
Like n flash that left hind leg shot out
and grabbed tho venturesome by the
scruff of the neck. Then there was n
circus. Tho big monkey jammed the
little ones head into n pan of water and
mopped the floor; he banged him against
the liars aud swntted him over the foost;
he swung him by the tail and filed the
air with him. He took him by the shout
ders and iounced him up and downs. he
laid MIN over his knee and spanked him I;
he stood him mp and cuffed him.. He
chewed his ear md twisted his tail: he
hunted him with his head and rasped him
with II stick of wood. He put him on his
back and filed his mouth with filth. And
when monkey ingenuity could think of
no more torment TO infict he gathered his
victim into a wad and flung him the whole
length of the cage.
Then he climbed up on the perch and
set his trap for another.