The herald., 1895-07-14

bars Of their prisons at MIN. but they
knew the old man, and soon quieteu
down. For brief season several spec'.
mems were caught asleep. One family Of
three crouched upon shelf in corner,
the mother holding a nearly grown
chance; the fash light was touched of
and fairly good snap shot secured. Ihe
next instant pandemonium reigned. Inc
place was full OF gibbering. shriekins
monkeys. Little monkeys swarmed up
the sides Of the cages and suspe nded
themselves from the roof by their tails.
while big fellows oiutched the bars with
their hands and shook them with rage.
Bill, the big and savage mendrill,
jumped up and down with rage. He
showed every tooth in his jaws. while he
swore away In choice monkey uialecss
stopping now and then to emit hoarse
roars.
One old fellow, Joco. the Guinea
monkey. was more curious than fright
ened. He came to the front of the cage,
coughing and wheeling over the pungent
SIN oke LETT by the flash light. but upon
investi CATION, he held out black paw
as though expecting to be handed the
camera, while he ducked his funny old
head like a Chinese mandarin before the
emperor. When he found persuasion did
not go, he stood upon his head. turned
somersaults and cut up tricks that he
mad been taught. Although the keeper
walked around the cages and admonished
his charges to go to sleep and Keep qulet
it was long time before his commands
had any effect. One old money was SO
incensed at what lie no doubt xpresnmed
to be his keepers foolshness that ne
threw q handful of straw into Brol-
sohmidts face, much to the old mans
disgust.
The rounds of the monkeys house hav-
ing been m ade, The Enquirer's man was
turned over to the man who bosses the
lions and tigers and things in the car
nivora. Keeper Hostetter is good look.
ing Young man who for sixteen years
has ruled the beasts OF the jungle as rep
resented by the collection in the Zoo.
When told taht flashlight pictures OF his
charges were desired, Hostettern de-
INJURED.
II don't know about that he said.
"I am afraid that the experiment will
make the animals too nervous. They DO
not sleep very much at night. anyway.
They are wakeful, especially these hot
nights. The lion will wake up, and he
will begin to roar, and set all the others
to making a noise. Then we have to go
in and make them shut up. They do
most of their sleeping from the hrst
streak of dawn to the hour that the duors
are open for visitors. Then they have
maps through the day. But you might
try it.
gWhen Hostetter opened the door Brutus.
the handsome young lion. bounded to his
feet and let out roar that shook the
building, and caused his keeper to take
up persuasive iron bar and brandish 1t
at him. But the mischief had been done,
and the whole menagerie was disturbed.
The big cats moved about bit, but event.
ualIy lay down again. Tommy. the baby
elephant, lay upon his straw bed at one
end of The house, for here he sleeps as
vet. although he does the clown business
for admiring multitudes during the day
time perched upon a platform near the
restaurant. The little fellow only wrig-
gled an ear during the distuI bance and
remained upon his side, looking for all
the world like huge potato. Tommy lay
so still that photography was unneces.
sary in his case, the pencil and sketch
book filling the bill. One by one the
tigers and leopards quieted down anu as
sumed their favorite attitudes. But
Brutus refused to extend himself upon
the boards. Instead he leisurely paced
his narrow quarters, as though to say:
Il know what you fellows are up to, out
you don't get my picture
But in the course of an hour or so Dick,
the handsome tiger that has just been
brought here, was caught mapping. re-
clning comfortably in one corner OF his
cage. The camera was pointed and the
flash light set off. There was hzz"
and a roar; shrieks, walls and hisses.