The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-12

In a fruit plantation on the Lower
Congo, the traveller Brehm Missed his dogs
en- half-grown chimpanzee whom ne
saw sampling a bunch of bananas, and
already Congratulated himself on the
prospects of a capture when the culprits
relatives came scrambling over the fence
like committee of Arkansas statesmen
Fastening to the assistance of an in
dicted Doodle politician.
The big-mane balloons, or Geladas, of
Upper Abyssinia do not hesitate to face
lion that should happen to cross the path
of their marauding trips. At the first
WhOOp of alarm the fisty old males fly to
the front, bristling like ogres of Dante s
Inferno" and slamming the ground with
an energy of action that rarely falls to
make their enemy reconsider his plan of
attack In an actual rough-and-tumble
fight they cooperate with the prOmptness
and skill of trained bOarhOunds. DIR. LiV-
ingston saw a Caffir hunter who had been
crippled IN an encounter OF that sort
though he had the reputation of being the
best spearman of hiss tribe, and who de-
scribed the simultaneous rush of the fierce
brutes as enough to beWilder the stoutest
fighter. Two or threw of them flew at
his legs, while an old devil, who appeared
to act as the centurion of the cohort, par
ried his thrusts again and again, and
finally seized the Shaft Of his spear, and
would have wrenched It out of the mans
hands If he had not been disabled by a
second jaVelin, flung from a considerable
distance by one of the hunters compan-
ions.
The Ceylonese wanderoo rarely scales a
weigh of more than fifty pounds, but new
er shirks from stand-up tight with one
of the charmed natives that invade his
presumption lungleS IN quest or tortoise
eggs Sir Emerson Tennent had cling
alese servant who could beat a photograph
in reproducing the squal of a baby wand
eroo, and thus often lured a posse Of the
reckless adults into the neighborhood of
bush where his master 8 visitors held the
forth with breech-lOading rifles. In re-
spouse to that repeated squel they would
continue TO advance, regardless of the
T,rvTI. chr n a. IL
ers had bitten the dust, when one Of the
survivors would utter coughing bark
that brought the forlorn hope to halt,
and, rising upon his hind hands, would
reconnoiter the bush with the keen scruti-
ny of q veteran scout and then order
retreat, as, on the whole. most conducive
10 the greatest happiness Of the greatest
The little, weak armed ring-tailers Of
our American tropics cannot match ia
guar at his own tricks but practice, con-
tinued perhaps for a million generations,
has perfected their vocal organs to an al
most miraculous degree. They can outyell
a panther, and the effect of their sympho-
mics is so startling that even in a quartet
performance it answers the purpose of
making their natural enemies give their
night roosts wide berth. Il have some
times tried to ascertain how far the cry
of the black bowler can be heard" said
Prof Calvin, but Ii generally took me an
hour or more to thread the underground
of the forest from the time the cry first
struck my ear to where, guided by the
wells above, l stood under the tree where
the animals were 1t would certainly not
be overestimating the distance TO say two
miles. When the sound came over the lake
of Yzabel unhindered by trees, a league
NEARLY three English miles, would be
more like the distance at which the Great
ures' scream can be heard"
Experience ought to have convinced the
eiant cats of those woods that the lungs
OF those marvellous vocalists have been
developed at the expense OF their arm
muscles. but even the iaguar and the puma
lee the scene Of the serenade fer the
same reason that bold burglars have been
routed by chorus of shrieking children.
The steaithy providers know that an actual