The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-13
The big fat alligator

up he puts his head to get nab
at them, but whack comes the club up
on his head from the big monkey at the
end of the chain. But the alligator
did not understand the business Of the
monkeys, and again and again he runs
up his head, only TO get whack, whack
from the club / know the man tells
me the truth, He stayed and watched
the fight, and before the monkeys were
done with that alligator both his eyes
were knocked out.
"You liked that story? Yes, that is a
truth, know the man who watched
the fight. Well, I'll tell you a monkey
story from New York; true one, too,
you see that baboon-faced little fell
low in the cage with the widow
know man who has two monkeys like
that. You know a monkey and a dog
are enemies, and the monkey always
gets the best of fight. One day into
my friends store comes a great bull
dog. That bulldog was a great fight
er and no other dog could stand before
him. The man with this dog says to
my friend, Here's a dog that can get
away with your two monkeys at once
my friend says, All right, you can
try them
"They put the dog against the mon
keys Out the dog made for them. Up
jumped the monkeys, and one of them
takes an iron bar off the counter and
down he comes on the side Of the dogs
head, and lays the big fellow dead on
the floor,
''You want to know what I think of
| monkeys? Seeing them, and studying
their ways made me believe In Darwin.
Some people say they have but instinct
i tell you they have Intelligence, and
| they reason and study and argue things
| out.
''Now, there are parrots. Scientists
will tell you that they don't under
stand what they say, and that they
don't know bad word from good
one. They do; and they like the bad
ones best, it seems, because they are
| bad.
There is that big green fellow up
there. You just make him mad and
youth see how he'll insult you. If he
| did not understand words how could
| he tell an insult from any other ar
| rangement of words? OF course, he
can't say anything bad or profane, be-
cause he never heard such talk, but I
don't know anybody who can give a
sharper INSULT
The bird spoken Of looked very sourly
at the speaker, and the feathers of his
neck ruff1ed.
IF you would like to have little
commercial gossip about birds and ami
mails the dealer said, Il can give you
some. Perhaps you don't know what
a great business this is, and how it has
increased in Chicago the last few years.
Until lately, New York entirely monop-
| o1ized the trade, being on the coast,
you know. Now much of the shipping
is done by rail up through Mexico.
This is carried to Chicago. Chicago
has become the distributing point to
eastern portions, and clear on to the
I Pacific coast. Orders come heavily.
There are very few people who realize
the enormous amount Of birds and ami
mails shipped to and from this city.
Since January alone $4,000 worth of
parrots have passed through our hands,
not to speak of all the other birds and
pets. Orders come as fast as they can
be filled. When I came to Chicago
eight years ago this business amounted
| to nothing. To-day can say Chicago
supplies the greater portion of this
country"
What I think Of monkeys" said a
4 dealer further. up Madison street. is
| that they are the most cowardly things
on earth They are great buffers.
Just watch me now with this cage.
4 When + act brave they COVERT act
1 timid, they try to scratch me-
| He put his hand very boldly into the
cage, and the monkeys shrank timidly
into one corner.
'See how brave they can act" he said,
and he withdrew his hand, and tren1b-
lingly put in the other. Immediately
| they came boldly out, their black little
| eyes glistening and with great bravado
| tried to pick the hand.
"Watch them again, he said, and he
laid his face against the cage and STAR
ed upon them with stern eyes. Off the
perches they jumped and crouched
again in corner. Their bead-like eyes
never left the dealers face. They saw
| the severity ule away, anu, when d.
fearful look came, up they Jumped, and
| tried to pull his moustache.
"That's the best exhibition I could
give you," he said, "of a monkeys ma
ture. Their best trait is their affec-
tionate disposition. A male monkey
is never unkind to his mate, and he car
/ ries the babies about in his arms much
more tenderly than some human faith
ers do. You see that pair in that fur
thest cage. Their baby died last win
ter You should have seen how kindly
that old fellow treated it-carried about
in his arms when the mother was tired,
/ and he lay his mead against it and show
such fondness. When 1t died you could
see him console the mother. But he's
a destructive old rascal. He escaped
from the cage1 asst fall and broke every
glass globe in the room. He ran along
the shelves, throwing them down. He
enjoyed to see them break and to hear
the noise. He's cost me many dollar,
but he's good natured."
A little boy came in and gave white
faced monkey a picture card. He sur
veyed it thoughtfully for minute, and
then seemed to realize that he held a
person in power. A comical grirnace
was made, and he ran his long fingers
through the ewes Of the pictured face