The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-14
Two ANIMAL SHOWS.

New York, oct 13-As long as the light
of youth burns in the heart of a human
being, that human being wants to go to the
circus. Just now, the circus is repre-
scented by an exhibition of animals, and
however low 1t may sound ! must CON
fess that l enjoyed the lion and the tiger
the boar and the bear, better than l have
any of the dramas or comedies written
by the omnipresent and very stupid Amer
lean playwright. Anybody can get up q
situation-anybody can get up the idle
chatter of the drawing-room, but 1t takes
somebody who is very accomplished to
teach lion how to ride horse or an ele-
plant to work bicycle. l never before
realized the use of the bicycle-but see
it now. It's intention is to make the ele-
phant look graceful. The lions reared at
us, especially when we hit them in he
eyes with peanuts, and the bear broke
the shell of a peanut and ate the inner
sweetness with the same grace that he
would hug you or me to death. Alto
gether the show was so far and away
ahead of an ordinary play that am go
ing to see 1t again.
There were the most beautiful glossy
tigers you ever saw; sleek, dainty, eX-
ouisite looking things, that seemed to
scorn a lion and to inquire with it's eyes
WHY such an ill-smelling, ungraceful
creature could be called the king of the
forest l really don understand 1t my
self The lion, to me, represents nothing
but size while the tiger is everything that
is beautiful, and one knows that when
he gains possession of a human being
that it will toy with 1t as a coquette might
with a piece of fruit, and not gobble IL
all down at once, like a glutton or lion.
The people who nominated the lion as
king of the desert evidently considered
hugeness before anything else, and yet
the biggest and worst of these loins was
cowed and shrank into a corner when
dog barked at 1t. Up at the park there
Is an immense elephant and when the
keeper can't make IL behave they send in
a fox terrier, who has loud, shrll bark,
and Mr.. Elephant soon goes into a cor
ner shrinks into nothingness, and looks
as IL he were going to cry.
A funny thing happened to me once
A friend had promised to bring a dog TO
see me. They came when I was mi.
heard the family saying, Don't let him
lump on the bed and frighten herr
Don't let him go in too suddenly and.
of course, / fully expected TO see a large
hound. When my friend entered l could
see nothing but a string, and there was
lifted up on to the bed a black something
about a quarter OF yard long and an
eighth of a yard wide! And his name
was Leo! / laughed so much over this
that the doctor thought / was getting
we'll How ridiculously people do name
dogs Here was this bit OF a beast called
Leo" and I saw dirty, miserable poodle
the other day who was named "Sweetie -
while a great big hound was called
"Bijou."
Stin when people are so silly about
their children's names, is Il not silrprie-
ing that they should be equally queer
about their petsl Who hasn't heard the
story OF the baby, whose mother was
very romantic. and who rejoiced I'm the
surname OF Rose? When a daughter ap-
peared, this sentimontalist thought II
would be very sweet to name her wild 4:
and so Ehe was known as wild Rose"