The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-24

are Drought, carefully concealed I'm nanar
Aue monkeys must not see them until the
.S.ons Is set going and the trumpet il
pointed IN their direction. =
VERY HARD TO CORNER.
! ar. 9arner bites OF little bit Of carrot
iTo aIr silica and holds it up.
Hh.u-n-h!" be says. A little chan darts
Forward and makes the sane sound eettioc
the carrot as a reward.
Oiu you ever try 70 get monkey 10 talk
IuIo monograph Don't ever attennnt n
unless you have lots of time. The little
utter their cries freely enough. but
S s1e snaeWdest OF lawyers could not guard
himself more carefully against 0oinS On
record. They won't talk into the trunpet
nen tney talk into it il is when the wheels
aren't moving, 80 that their remar<s are
lost. he moves the phonograph and the
cumbersome pedestals Of boxes and ladder
on which 1t rests half a dozen times over 10
some promising monkey whose garrulIty he
thInks be can catch on the fly.
there Is one little imp of the rhesus spe-
bars and making quick, sharp exclama-
zion. 1t Is not the "Wh-u-u-hln of the
other monkeys. but 1t seems TO mean the
same thing. Both Mr.. Garner and | tried
20 reduce the word to writing. but it is too
puzzling. We can make nothing Of It and
can't even repeat it.
But the little rhesus keeps 1t up and the
monograph Is moved down to his cage 90
that this new sound may be recorded. The
rnesus wants the carrot, but not the phono-
graph.
Others Of the rhesus tribe begiu ro nalxe
the same remark. begging for carrot at the
same time. IL monkeys have words, as Mr..
Garner thinks, this Is certainly a word.
After an hours tantalizing work the word
Is collected. Il is not very loud, but it is
there all the same.
II believe have discovered the rhesus
Tor food, says Mr.. Garner, enthusastio-
ally. "All the rhesus monkeys utter this
cry when they are hungry, apparently.
shall take this word as basis and find out
II 1t doesn't mean food l shall analyze
and study it till l can reduce it to spelling
and then learn it.
"The monkeys have a lot of sounds which
1 cannot repeat. except with the phouo-
graph, but l recognize them when | hear
them. They are always called forth by
the same set OF circumstances. That is Ian
guage."
RHEsUs TALK.
Kesper Jake soon afterward comes in
with warm milk for bis pets, and some OF
the sounds they make when they sight him
are taken down. The word uttered bv the
rhesus. however, is always the same when
food is in question
The experiments vera brought to close
at about 10:3O o'clock. The work had been
going on for three hours, but SO absorbed
and interesting were we all that it did not
seem half as long. Six wax cylinders were
loaded altogether, and as this was all Mr..
Garner had, proceedings were discontinued
necessarily.
No further work could have been done
any way, as a big crowd began to swarm
into the monkey house, the report having
got out that some exciting things were going
on there.
81 start for Africa in a month" said Mr.
Garner. II expect TO go to London, then to
Marseilles, then to the Canary islands by
sailing ship and thence to the west coast of
Africa 10 some trading vessel"
Superintendent William A. Conklin of the
menagerie, arrived after the experiments
were made. He was very much Interested
in the results aRd win probably be there
when Mr.. Garner holds his next seance with
the simiaus