The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-26

been unfasteu5d, and the beast had es-
 capped, causing a regular stampede, the
 blue jackets forward running up the
 rigging and the soldiers taking to the
 hammock nettIugs and the hurricane
 deck. The tiger ran aft; the men had not heard of its escape, and were throwing buckets of water about, The scene appeared to puzzle the tiger At any rate, an old quartermaster realized
 the situation, and, taking his lantern, flashed Ii full in the face of the tiger.
 He then took the animal by the scrutf of the neck, ran it forward to its cage, and slammed and fastened the door in d jirfy
 Here is anuther anecdote of a real pet this time in the same ship. There are several officers now &N%e who can you. h for the truth of this story, The first lieutenant had a very jolly little monkey quite a general favorite. One evening just before dinner, on a guest night, the ship being In harbor, the first lieutenant went into his cabin with the monkey, and, opening a box of very choice Havana cigars rather hastily, by accident smashed two of them, the parts of which he threw over- board out of his cabin port. Then fill ing his cigar case as dinner was al- ready un the table, he left the box on the table and hurried to mess, IL had
 been the custom for his monkey to fol- low him and wait by the table for a
 morsol 0i food now and again, This , evening, after some little time had elapsed, his owner, eXcusng himself for a minute, ran back to his cabin to
 see what his pet was doing, knowing
 that, besides having a strong initiative trait of character, it was generally up to some mischief or other, Alas! He was too late, The monkey had only too well initiated his master for as the first lieutenant entered the cabin he was just in time to see the last of his cher ished weeds taken out of the box and | thrown out of the port overheard! Do not some of your readers also recollect the captains tame bear in a sloop of war during the Crimean war | it's playful tricks and quaint ways when a baby and later on, the story of its l appropriation of the engineer officers | dinner? For such malfaisanca it was officially reported to the commander in-chief, The man was the engineers steward Gin those days there was a separate mess of engineers) who was the cause of all the trouble. He brought down for his officers dinner steaming hot leg of mutton, placed it on the table and went up to the galley 8 gain to bring down the potatoes. Young Bruin, who was always of an inquisitive disposition, sniffed the | toothsome joint, and darted down the Eatchway after it. Shortly afterward the captain heard a terrible uprcar in the stoerage-snarls, growls. blows and l strong language-and, hurrying from his cabin, he looked into the mess place and saw four hungry officers struggling with his pet for their dinner. Alasl
 that day they had Barmecide feast
 of potatoes only, for the bear came off victorius, bOlted up the hatchway with | the leg of mutton, and quickly with l tooth and nail made mince meat of | his prize. Next day the officers made | formal complaint on the quarterback. and when the captain, instead of fully | sympath2ing with them, recommended i that in the future they should give | their steward instructions to bring down the potatoes first and the leg of
 mutton afterward, they forwarded an
 official complaint of the "bare" suste-
 nance to Admiral Lord Lyon.-West-
 minister Gazette.