The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-06-15
THE ODD GIRAFFE.
A Very Uncouth and th-Provol<in.
Creature.

Very Uncouth and Mirth -ProVokin
Creature.
"Any man who can train TO do trick
a kind OF animal which has not been S
trained before seems to be in fair wa,
to get rich, said Il visitor to Barnum'
circus the other day. Look at thos
cats, for instance. How the crowd en-
joys their antics, though in themselve
they are not nearly so wonderful
those Of the monkeys But people ar,
used to monkeys tricks and the cat
are novelty. I've good mind to bu,
a giraffe and train him TO run at ful
speed around the amphitheater. There
a fortune in it,"
That's not very difficult trick /
teach, certainly" said n reporter, 'bu
| don't think the public would car
much just TO see that"
We'll, that's where differ wit
you" replied the other. 81 think the
would almost split their sides wit
laughter. To see giraffe run at fui
speed is, think, one Of the funnies
sights in the world.
There are possibilities for fun-mak
ing in the old cameleopard or 'savag
sheep, rs Pliny called him, that yo
wot not Of. In the first place, he has &.
gait between canter and pacing. On
foreleg and one hindleg are shifted q
the same time, but he does not e
evenly; he manages to get the jump Q
canter into the PAGERS stride. The.
again the hindlegs fly out from the side
like those Of a COW, and at the sam
time come very far forward in the
stride. The long neck is stretched IA
out ahead, and the head swings fro,
side to side like u pendulum with ever
jump. The tail is thrown up upon th
back, and there sopS from one side o
the spine 10 the other, In opposite tim
with the swinging of the head Tn
nostrils and eyes are wildly dilated, an
every motion is exaggerated, awlwar
and grotcsquc; yet the giraffe covers tn
ground like race-horsc, and altogethe
presents picture OF motion whlci
seems like caricature of nature an,
would furnish the snapshot photog
rapher with an inestimablc opportunity
"As you look at him mere In his Gag,
he seems like an only slightly animatet
hat-racl, but he is lively beast in tn.
open. Here comes his lSecp,r with ha,
and carrots and few big onions
Watch the giraffc's mouth fairly slobbe"
at sight of the onions. Graifes seen.
to bc Guided more by sight than smel
in the choice OF their food. I've seer
them pick the green leaves from the ha
Of II woman and only spit them on
after chewing them. In winter quar-
ters, where they have more room thar
in the cages while on the road, saw
peacock once strut proudly past tn,
giraifes' pen and one of the long.neclIe.
fellows reached over and winding his
wonderfully prehcnsilc tonvuc about
dozen gay tail feathers, lifted the aston.
ished bird Off his feet and gave him
shake which took out abost one-dfth ol
his gaudy nppcndage. When tho giraff,
tasted the feathers he gave them back.
DuL lnc pcl'ocN nau no longer any use
for them.
I'm up on the history Of girafres and
you will br amused 10 hear, no iu1ht
that the first live giraffe brn1ght d
England died bs;au,e King Gep'r. ~.
insisted that il shoald be fed wholly on
mil; When IL got 40 weak that /,
could not stand he had sort OF rack
buitt5 hold it mp AMI ;alsc the weigh;
ot It's body OF It's loag legs."-N. Y.
Tribune.
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tion % this sermon, fear, this morn.
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what did the minister say?' "He sal
.hp pi.n.c would start ut ten o'clocl,
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