The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-10-22
THE MONKEY LANGUAGE.
Professor Garner's Discovery Sets . Hu.
DOrtst 70 Thinking and Guessinw.

Professor Garner's Discovery Sets . Hu.
D"rist 10 Thtnktng and Guessing.
no man'--hot even Macaulay, = DR..
johnson orr chauncey Depew-may longer
nohopoiize speech. Professor Garner has
discovered that monkeys have language.
The pbonOgraph. which preserves the
voice OF Gladstone and the song Of Patti.
has also recorded the words OF the Capu.
chin monkey and the Barbary ape. In the
Madison Square garden recently there were
presented two singular spectacles: In one
part OF the building two human beings be.
labored each other with boxing gloves.
while In another monkey spoke to the
Nineteenth Century club through Q pho
nograph. The exhibition Of muscle and
agility WAS given by the human beings. Il
was the monkey that did the thinking.
II monkeys have language is II not prob.
able that different nationalities and tribes
OF monkeys have different languagess Is
u hkely that a monkey from Dahomey
would he able to understand the .'iinpo''
Of a monkey from Timbuctoof All that
the monkey from Timbuctoo said would
be Greek TO the monkey from Eahomey.
On the other hand. the discourse Of the
monkey from Dahomey would be no more
than Chinese to the monkey from Timbuc>
too
Al what dim time on the banks of the
Nile or In the garden OF Timbuctoo or on
the slopes OF kiiima- n jaro did the monkey
language begini Was there ever any tres
OF Babel down which the monkeys trooped
In confusion,
Ii there any simian Sanscrit from which
are derived the multitude Of monkey Ian.
guages, Has any Of the various simian
tongues been enriched by the infusion OF
foreign monkey wordst Have the sirnian
languages had life and growth and
phonetic changer Does the speech OF the
monkeys whose pictures are in the temples
OF Egypt resemble the speech Of contem-
porary monkeys on the Congo, as Latin
resembles the modern Romance Ian
guages. Are there any dead monkey Ian
guagesi
lisa rude dialect spoken in the remote
back woods districts-the monkey Oshkosh
or the monkey kalamazoo-and a purer
speech in the monkey centers Of popula-
Il NJ DO the monkeys on the Congo speak
the more polished and elegant language
the Partisan and Tuscan Of the simian
speech-while the monkey In the back.
woods speaks "A patOist
Perhaps the more simple monkey Ian
guages are monosyllAbic like Chinese. and
the more highly developed are polysylla.
bic. like English. II Is possible that some
Of the more complex simian languages
have eight or ten lenses, including the
second pluperfeci. II may he that the
young monkeys parse and conjugate while
pursuing some complicated monkey Ian.
guage for mental drill
Can people learn the monkey languages
and thus draw nearer to their kin across
the seal We believe that they can Pro
less Garner already speak the Capuchin
monkey language with facility, though
bis vocabulary is not large. And IL must
lie pleasant surprise 10 a Central Park
monkey 10 find a solitary citizen of the
great republic learned enough to converse
with him.
Some day not few cultivated and re
lined people will know some simian Ian.
auage aud oe able to talk with monkeys.
In that happy day people can invite an ape
TO breakfast, ascertain his point of view,
his philosophy Of life. and duscuss with
bin has social. political and aesthetic
theories II. Topper In New York
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