The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-27

spoken sincerity. The cubs We're given,
as fitting their tender age, the lullaby,
"Sleep, My Pretty One, Sleep" The
great, watchful mother passed her
paws through the bars and listened,
mutely attentive The two male cubs,
Brutus and Pompey, stood at her side,
their heads stretched forward and their
eyes fairly starting. Their ears were
cooked forward and their forepaws
were planted well beyond the line of
their bodies Diana was a bit timid,
but no whit less curious or attentive
than her brothers. She sought the pro-
tecting flank of her mother, and, plac-
ing her forepaws upon the maternal
launches, she reared her head we'll
aloft and looked along the line of her
dams body and head at the musician
outside
Keep it up" whispered Keeper
Sweeney, II never saw anything finer
than that in my life"
The bow passed and repassed over
the strings. For three full minutes the
grooming notes of the cradle song were
heard. and during that time not one of
that lion family moved so much as a
muscle. Then the player stopped for
moment, but began the tune again as
he walked backward moving further
and further away from the Gagged cubs.
As he stepped back they crept forward
by degrees, loath to think apparently
that the pleasing tones We're to be lost.
Diana left the protection of her moth
er's body and joined her brothers at the
bars of the den. There they went to
rt;1
listened, motionless.
Give them the tune of the Washer
woman" said Mr. Sweeney.
! The bow which had been passing
backward and forward half drowsily
took up gait that would have dis
tanced one of the deer in the pen by the
buffaloes' yard. Then there was a
transformation scene in the home of
the lioness as rapid and as complete as
| that of the tune The cubs went into
ecstacies. They rolled about jumped,
| fell over one another raced over their
mothers recumbent body, and danced
unrebuked on her head They ceased
| their tantrums only with the ceasing of
the music. Then they gathered at the
| front bars of the cage again and silent
| ~ anu pdillttiIillt pitrutd Iol lllclr
| Their plea was successful, and in re-
Spouse to the delicate flattery conveyed
| by their manner the player gave them
| the lullaby once more. They simply
sat and listened to it as silently as they
| had at the first The transition to the
| Jig music was once more made speedily
| The first note of the lively air had bare
| ly left the violin before its riotous con-
tagion had once more caught the cubs
They rollicked and rolled about and
| stopped only when the professor, fear
| ing to tire their little limbs, took his
| bow from his fiddle and told them they
! had danced enough for debutantes
| The hyena Is an uneanny brute. His
very appearance goes a great way to-
ward bearing out charges of graveyard
robbery brought against him. He has
| no music in his soul nor room for any
| Sweet sounds are to him so antipodai to
everything in his nature that they in
spire him with nothing but fear, and
| the most abject fear at that When
| Professor Baker tried to interest the
| two skulking hyenas in his perfor-
nance on the violin they began trem-
/, bling visibly at the first notes utter
! ance, and then as the music swelled
they sought the furthermost side of
their prison and tried their best to
squeeze their ungainly bodies throug h
| the bars to escape their melody
They are afraid, said the professor.
Maybe" said the scientist II have
not played before for a month" and
then he started quickstep in trent Of
l the lair. of 40 bicy v,bn
| ly jumped to her shelf, hung both paws
| out through the bars, and lay down to
| listen. There was something in the
| tone Of the quickstep which seemed to
please the lioness in the next cage to
| her striped cat cousin. She took to her
| shelf, also, assumed position which
was the counterpart of that of her
| neighbor, and there the two huge
| beasts lay quiet, though with their
eyes frightened with something of the
spirit which animated the music.
| Beyond was the tiger. He Is a mag
| niiicent fellow, comparatively recent
| capture in the jungles of India He
snarled at the lively music, but at
something more gentle in its nature he
| crawled forward. smoothed out his Wis
age, and purred with delight.
| If any Snowman on earth can turn
out more irresistibly comical exhibi-
ton than the monkeys in the big glass
case in the animal house at Lincoln
| Park gave during the concert hour the
other night he has fortune within his
grasp. The fact that they were almost
| preternaturally grave heightened rath-
err than diminished the humor of the
| experiment At one end of the cage.
| partitioned off so that he occupies an
| apartment by himself, is a monkey of
| the kind known as the South American
| Sooty Mangabey. He is called Black
Jack for short He is isolated because
! he was always spelling for fight, and
a daily thrashing did not always agree
with the health of his monkey compan-
| ions Jack never moved from the posi-
ton which he had taken against the
plate glass when the playing began
until after the cages of all the other an
| imaIs had been passed and his own
was approached by the musician
There are no bars to Jacks cage. 1t is
| inclosed with glass throughout. AS
soon as Professor Baker with his fiddle
/ and bow took his place in front of the
| black monkeys apartment and began
| to play "Suwanee River" Jack threw
| himself forward on his face and put his
| ear close to the crack of the door, the
| better TO hear the strains.