The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-25

The Sylvester sound Of the animal king
i dom Is with the Ringing Bros menagerie.
The fact became apparent a short time
ago, while the big show was en- transit
on 1t sixty long cars. This strange sleep.
walking animal Is a goat-not, however,
the common William goat that subsists
on tin cans, Single nails and other de-
lectable dishes Of his bewhiskered Ameri-
can cousin, but a genuine Napaulese goat,
brought many thousands of miles over
land and sea by the Ringing Bros for
eign agents. The discovery might have
led to a tragedy. One Of the bEakemen
Of the fourth section of the show trains,
while peering out of the cupola of the
caboose saw an object several cars ahead,
which, in the darkness, he could not
make out. He called the attention of tbs
conductor to it and the latter ordered him
to make an investigation. Accordingly,
the brakeman climbed over numerous
cages, bales of canvas, center pole ana
other paraphernalia, and finally upon tho
car where he had seen the object. Star.
ing over the brakeman was a face that
caused the mans hair to stand on end"
The moon, which had been behind a cloud,
at this moment shone through a rift and
cast its weird white light upon the APP
partition. The brakeman gasped and al
most fell from the car, but with nervous
energy clutched the iron ladder on the
side of the car and saved himself. Not
six feet from him was face surmounted
by horns and terminating i'm the most
misunderstanding goatee. He looked into
the staring eyes of the weird countenance
and then his gaze rested on Its feet
Great heavensl They are clovenr' he
exclaimed, and then he knew It was his
majesty from below. The brakeman felt
that all was up with him and instantly
his past life passed before him In pano-
ramic review. After three or four miles
of his sins had masqueraded by him in
as many seconds, the thought Of escaps
lent strength TO his trem bling limbs, and
he began scrimmaging back toward the
caboose, crying with all his lung power.
1.-The devil the devil! the devili' An Irish
employe polSed his head out Of the win
dow Of a sleeping car and asked: "Phwar
the divil?" Hes on that carl" cried tho
terror-stricken brakeman, as he bounded
into the caboose. A half dozen circus ems
ployes and several trainmen finally gath
cred sufficient courage to go to the scene.
As dozen lanterns were raised one OF
the men exclaimed, 'By thunder" and no
began laughing ITS the Nepaulese goat.
and he's taken to sleep-walking again. He
walked all around the IRON Blfders, eighty
feet above the ground, In Tattersalps,
Chicago, and now he's taking TO walk
ing over moving freight cars" The goat
was complacenty walking about on top
Of the car. one of the circus employees
cautioned the crowd TO be quiet. The
goat finally stepped from the car across
to the top OF "A cage on another car; from
this he walked to a lower cage and then
leaped upon a bale of canvas: from the
canvas to the floor OF the car and .hen
crawled into the door OF his cage, lay
down and apparently went to sleep. bur,
as a matter OF fact, he had been asleep
all the time, but in the somnambulistlc
state. Through the carelessness OF an at
tendant the door Of the goats cage had
not been securely fastened, and the re-
suit was the strange midnight perambu-
latlon
Brakemen on the .......... win prob
ably take warning at this incident, and
not go into Mysteries over any strange
actions Of the menagerie animals when
they are bringing the show into Savan-
nan for It's exhibition here. Friday. Nov g.