The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-10
QUEEN JUMBO AND BALDY
Some Incidental Information About Ele-
plants Which Not Every body Knows.
eddy Young Msnsgeris Pets. Aged Twenty
Two and Thirty Five. and the Comical Di-
dos They Cut Up When In Good HumOr.
San FRANCISCO Chronicle.


If Badly aud Queen Jumbo. the two big
elephants out at the park, could write their
photographs. they would undoubtedly
De interesting reading. They could give
many interesting "reminiscences of life in
America. but their most entertaining stories
would concern their childhood days in
fsr-off India. Hardly anything is
known here of the early history of
these pets of San Francisco children.
but as elephants seldom breed in captivity
they were undoubtedly caught by natives
in some elephant corral after they had
roamed Indian hills and jungles for few
years 1t may be that both of them have
many time stood In shaded waters of the
Ganges with the rest of their herds. slowly
filing their trunks with the delightfully."-
cool water of the stream and sending il in
floods over their arched and dirty backs
Just how long they associated with brown
people after they were torn from their
loved jungles 10 not known. Neither 10 il
known whether or not they had to work
for tkeir board at piling lumber or hauling
big loads. but they probably did. for in
that country they do not put elephants in
fine parks to be fed on candy and popcorn
and be looked at and admired. At any
rate Queen Jumbo was taken TO London
and put IN the geological gardens
the big elephant that Barnum
bought. was there then, and that was how
Queen received her present pane. She
was bought ct the gardens and brought
made q trip from India to Hamburg. eight
years ago. and was soon bought there to
supply the wants of American show
man. All this history is according TO Prof.
Da<t hal nd fratn hn
has been with them ever since they came
TO this land of freedom.
Whatever their early experiences were,
their education was entirely neglected
until they came TO this country of free
schools and were placed under the tutor
ship of Professor Petit. Before that they
did not know anything except what they
had picked mp themselves, but now they
can form bigger pyramids than the physi-
cal culture classes OF the Olympic Club,
and they have learned to mount o big.
high tub before q large assemblage with
entire self possession. extend a hind and q
front leg In the air and 20 through other
Deisarte exercises that illustrate the Walt
Whitman poetry OF motion.
PROFESSOR PETT's PETS.
There is great deal that most people in
this country do not know about elephants.
and most people would be interested and
profited by hearing Professor Petit talk
about them rs he does sometimes to Chron-
icle reporters Mr.. Petit takes chew of
tobacco occasionally, but any body whose
business 10 the moral. physical and intel
lectual training of members of the family
eiephantide order proboscide, 10 entitled to
be called professor"
Professor Petit has a very high opinion Of
elephants.
Elephants are the kings of beasts" he
says why. there's no other member of
the animal kingdom that can stand beside
them. They call the lion the king of
beasts, but an elephant can get away with
q lion any day. A few years ago In an
Eastern show o lion-tamer went into q
lone cage to do little training. but the
old fellow was ugly and the trainer
thought he would get out. He backed ont
through . aiding door. and they tried to
close it quickly. but 1t didn't work
/ smoothly and the. lion sprang out. He
was near some elephants and he sprang on
90 the back of one and began to try to chew
his neck. You know an elephants skin Is
plant just shook himself aud shook the
lion of IN less than q minute. The lion
jumped mp again. but the elephant shook
him right OF again. and then grabbed him
feet into the air. When the lion came
down the elephant hit him blow with his
trunk and then stepped him before
he could get up. The elephant Just kept
treading the lion with his fore feet and
smashed him until there wasn't anything
but the hide left. Yes, SIT, the elephant is
the king of beasts. There il only one ami
NAL that the elephant need be afraid of,
and that Is the horned rhlDoceros. Ii the
rhlnoceros can give the elephant rip up
the ride before the elephant is on his guard
that would end him. but if the elephant IL
looking out for trouble and knows there's
fight on hand. he'll be the winner"
Professor Petit says that Queen Jumbo 10
twenty-four years old. and that she will
grow until she Is thirty-fve. She is now
eleven feet two inches high. and Petit says
i've hundred pounds In weight since April
last. Jumbo was eleven feet SIX inches
high. and since his death Queen Jumbo is
the biggest elephant in America. Petit as
ing she will be bigger than Jumbo W as.
AS an elephant NAV live to be over one
hundred years old Queen jumbo Is ct only
giddy girl. Badly is hardly old enough
plant style. de is twenty-five years old.
and 10 ten feet six inches high. The pair
are said to be worth $4,000.
THEIR FEET NOT ANGELIC.
Everything about those elepha ants seems
interesting to people who stand by the
chain fence at the park and look at them
until they are tired. Every body has
noticed their legs and feet. that are simply
big posts with joints in them. Talk about
big feeti Ii the average observer would
bet on the size Of Queen Jumbos feet he
WOuiu not come Wit0ln h mile OF III
Is said by some of the books" that the cir
conference of sn elephants foot when il is
resting on the ground Is ole-half the ele-
plants height. and that In India this is q
common way of estimating an elephants
height. Ii this rule holds good. Queen
Jumbo's foot ought to be five feet nine
inches in circumference. or O very little
over two feet in diameter.
Ii people will observe the park elephants
they will notice q regularity in the way
IN which an elephant kneels. 1T is the only
animal that in kneeling extends its front
legs forward and its hind legs back ard.
Elephants are said to sometimes sleep
standing up and leaning over against q
tree or q wall, but Badly and Queen Jumbo
always lie down and take 1t easy Prof.
PETIT says that they lie down about
10 O'clock at night and lie hat on
their sides with their feet sticking out
They are always chained side by side. and
Queen generally puts one leg over Baldy's
neck and then they lie and snore together
like two little puppies. They always snore,
and they snore like six foghorns on an
awful night along the shore. While this is
going on their trunks are curled up in a
coil so that ants. mice and such small
creatures walk not be apt TO crawl inside.
An insect ur an elephants trunk Ia like q
gnat mp ones nose.
This sleeping is done in O cheap looking
barn across the south drive and down in a
little gully. lt looks Dig enough for o
ranch. but when the elephants are inside
there is Just room for them and one tier of
hay bales ont of their reach. long tim
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