The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-11

exhibition here /:
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After paying the 5 cents at the glass win
dow, the spectator enters the little room,
and confronts q cage about 10 feet long, 5
feet wide and 5 feet high.
On the side of this cage, opposite the door.
are several rude tiers of seats, arranged
after the manner of an amphitheater, and
on which the spectator may sit and look
down into the cage, should his sense of hor-
ror and pity be so blunted as to permit him
TO do so. The cage is OF stout wooden posts,
surrounded by meshes Of wire, and outside
the wire is red cloth to keep out the unpaid
for peeps Of the curious crowd outside.
Within this cage Is the vivid girl, the idiot
The cage is fitted up very like the ones in
which geological gardens keep their choicest
specimens Of chimpanzees and oraug-
outangs, only not so we'll. In it stands a
chair, aud on the floor ia a piece of worn
carpet. The other furnishings are a tin
bucket and a broken rubber doll.
When the spectator looks over the side of
the cage he sees a figure like that of a
human being, but made to resemble that
of chimpanzee by a single garment of
rongh brown cloth with which 1t is clothed,
the resemblance being heightened by the
mulatto color of the creatures skin. Its
feet are encased in shoes with patent leather
tips-grotesque apparel indeed. Words
cannot properly describe the head and face
| of the hapless human monstrosity. The
head, which is for theatrical effect, close
| clipped but for a single tuft of hair left
| growing on the extreme peak, Is perhaps as
large as a very big orange. Beneath a very
large mouth aud thick lips is a
small, retreating chin. Above the mouth
Is q pug nose with wide nostrils,
like those Of the negro, and above the nose,
where the forehead should be, Is a slight
| oil vuhich inc Eos in ~
peak whore the back of the skull, straight
up from the neck, meets it. The brown
| eyes, under handsome eyebrows, are beauti-
full, but from them the light of reason has
never shown. The proudest and vainest
woman that ever lived could not wish for
more perfectly shaped ears, but they are
| poweress to translate human speech into
the ideas the words represent. She is said
| to never sit down. All day long she wan
ders about her cage, fumbling with a rag,
the rubber doll or the tin bucket. or ws9ch-
| ing the actions Of those who gawk at her,
which actions she tries to initiate.
| When sufficient crowd las gathered the
| lecturer, a man who makes his living from
| the unspeakable tribulation put by nature
upon the creature in the cage mounts a step
and says: This, gentlemen, is the most
marvellous creature ever put on exhibition.
She has been in this country thirteen years,
and the circumstances Of her capture can be
| seen from the placard in the window. She
is unusually bright and frisky, but some
times gets very violent, and even bites her
SELF as you will observe from the marks on
hands" Then turning to the creature. he
| says: "How are you to-day, Minnie2 Oh
Minnie likes the men, don't she's Hey,
Minnies"
Slowly the creature turned her big,
brown eyes upon him, and in answer to
him there Issued from her lips what would
have been, to other human beings, a burst
of laughter. 1t was such a sound as u
! clever Partisan toy might make. 1t was
the echo of laughter in an empty mind. 1t
was sound without meaning. signifying
nothing.
Then the man fed her. Dipping dough-
nut into coffee. he broke off piece and
held it toward the creature between thumb
and forefinger, over the top of her cage.
She ate it direct from her fingers. After
the third time this was repeated the Great
ure put her hand to her mouth, inserted her
| fingers, fished out the half-chewed food,
and. without looking, flung 1t through the
wires of the cage against the trousers of a
| spectator where it chung until he tipped it
| off with loud gaffaw.
That's the signal that she's had enough, ~
| said the lecturer.