Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-01
cHI1-PASzEEs AS SERVANTS

bHlu pduZSes nave OILen Deen taught 10 walt
on table and sweep out rooms. the wages given
them for such work being usually paid in
bananas. Indeed they respond better for
training purposes to gentle treatment than to
severity. and much can be done with them
easily by permitting them to go hungry for
while and then giving or Withholding from
them the fruit of which they are most fond.
They aEsctIOnate beasts and become
strongly attached 10 their masters There
Is very old story of a man who
had chimpsnzcs that waited upon
MS table eXceeclngl v vol. But one
day guest whom he had invited to dinner
wanted a Clean spoon IN place of one he had
dropped on thu floor. To his surprise he
the attendant ape. who, his master had said.
was accustomed to wash the dishes, go behind
tie dining room door and, after giving the
spoon big HEX with his tongue. polish it off
with his apron, thsreupon fetching it back with
a grlmace. II was a!terward discovered that
the animal did all the dish washing that wav
finding the method easier than the one he had
been taught.
RENARKABLE STORIES.
Some time ago a distinguished Frsnchman
published book. in which he tried to show
that chimDanzees would sooner or later take
the places OF household servants He himself
Possessed one of the animals. which was trained
10 light the ire and to wake Its master as soon
a. the oven was hot. This author referred incl
dentally to the use which the ancient Egyptians
are known to have made OF balloons They
employed them TO gather oranges amony
o;ner things. Many carvings on the ancient
tOmbs exhibit scenes in which monkeys ara
pIcNng fruit IN the trees, while people stand
below with baskets.
Stanley tells story. on the authority Of
LINN Iasha, about u certain tribe OF MONKEYS
which EmIn saws he found in Central Africa
These intelligent beasts were accustomed to go
on fOrays at night III the vegetable patches of
the natives, carrying lighted torches. Inasmuch
a
afraid of fire. this must be considered
a remarkably steep yarn. Ii might be
inquired also where they got their
lights. Gorlllas. however, do often gather
about fires that have been left burning and de-
serted a; night for the sake OF the warmth
which they seem greatly to enjoy But the
limit OF their intelligence IL very apparent
here, for II never occurs TO them TO proloug
TIER pleasure by putting on more wood An
other silly thing the gorilla does is in stealing
sugar cane. 70 try TO pull I'D many stalks at
once, gathering them together in one grasp
am attempting to uprOOt them bv angle
EFFORT Of the mighty strength for which this
fierce and dreaded animal Is noted. /. never
seems to occur TO him 20 take ono sugar cane
at Il time.
BRAINS AND INTELLIGENCE
No satisfactory experiments have ever been
made Tor determining IN captivity, the degree
o! tine gOrIi!as intelligence, because the an
lila. mOPes al the time when confined and IL
Nar.dD!v dies within year. The intelligence
o. monkeys Is not TO be judged by the relative
slZe o. their brains IL 10 curious fact that
tAe little squirrel MONKEY has more brains IN
proportion 10 It's size than any of the higher
apes; Indeed. II has a greater quantity Of brain
h,stier relatively to Its physical dimensions
tEai man has Furthermore, the skull of this
squire. monkey Is more nearly like O human
skuII III shape than that OF the ch.npanzee
even the facial angle being very remarkable
anu yet tho animal Is not really par
tcu4arIy intelligent for q monkey. 1t is not
Quantity Of brain that tells you see, but the
COM o.utions OF the gray matter. And yet it
u'ed 10 De gravely asserted that woman could
not De mans equal in intellect because her
brain weighed a few ounces less porpoise
h's much bigger BRAIN than a mans but il is
not Credited with as much sense liz in worth
mentioning that orang- outangs buiId houses
Tor he.r fam lies very much after the fashion
adopted In The construction of their dwellings
b. tie lowest African savages.
POWERS OF SPEECH OF MoSKEYs
II Is likely tina; before long further experi-
nents WI! be made at the Smithsonian regard
ing the powers of speech OF apes. in which DIR
Garner. one OF the honorary curators of the
Institution, believes SO earnestly He tbinks
that monkeys really have speech in the bun,an
sense Of the term. We find in tba 49,.
forms OK the animal Kingdom" he toki a
STAR representative the other day, That
signs alone prevail as means Of comu,rp;ca
ton. As We ascend the scale Of deyelonmsr.
We perceive that the signs grow mora
uniform and expressive, and gradually we
observe that they are accompaniad
by sounds. Among the higher animals sounds
arc finally substituted Tor signs. The number
OF words employed by the monkey is Quite
limited, but the same sound is modified by
enuHcIatlOn IN such q manner as to enlarge
their language greatly. My observations lead
me to believe that they possess some ten or
twelve distinct roots or cardinal sounds and
Stat by modulatIng these ia certain ways they