Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-01-10
locKe.s SUNDAY OUT.


 He Released the farrots ona Other osss
 tures and rIfere 1Nas Time.
 X sad-saced monkey with a fringe oi chin whislSers got out of his cage in bird store on Rfomfield street on re cent sunday afternoon, and, owing te the absence of everyone from the store, he vas not put back in it again until about i2 o'clock Ut night. When he did go st was nt the instance Of two DO. lieemen armed with long poles. whe had broken through the door in order t5 stop the devastation which he was scheme created by their release, seemed to Imprisonment with the proud con seriousness thnt he had done everything which monkey could do tn make fl iH- teresting for the other occupants of the store.
 His first net on escaping from his cage appears to have been to let out the parrots in the store, and the color scheme created by their release seemed 10 please the monkey immensely, for hr attempted | closer acquaintance with them. The parrots, however. were coy, and sought the cages Tt the top of the ltore, 50 that the monkey was only able 10 pull out the tail of one them. After this the artistically arranged cages ia the window caught his eye. a1d for awhile he amused himself by piling these ID In a hemp on the floor, but tsoon he longed again for the pleasures of the chase. There were several rabbits in the store, which he let out and chased round and round, finally ehols ing them to death. About this time he began to get hungry, and his eye chanc- ing to light on the goldfish which were swimming about in glass globes in the center Of the store, he thought that they would do for meal. He first tried to snatch them out. but this process was too slew. and he pushed one of the globes over. smashing it. and scattering the fish about on the floor,
 The monkey picked them up and ate them, and then pushed over another globe, perhaps just 10 see if it would nuke IS pretty q neise as the other. Then he chased the parrots some more, and pushed over more globes unti' there were none left. After this he seemed to have discovered the supplies Of diEferent kinds of bird food at the back of the shop. and began pulling these packages to pieces and throwing them at the par rots.
 It was this performance which at. traeted the attention of two policemen. Looking through the window, they saw what was wrong inside, and as the door was locked, and there was no time to 20 for the owner, they broke the glass in the door and gained an entrance in fhnt way It hardly seems credible that man of ordinary girth, to say nothing of policeman. could get through the narrow place, but it is on record that the two policemen did actually ge in this way, fer they chased the monkey at least an honr before they suceeeded in getting him back into his cage, He showed marked agility in avoiding them bounding from the floor to the cages al the side of the room. and from one side to the other. until their eyes stuck out of their heads in the attempt to follow his movements. Finally they determined that the monkey was hettera the game than they were, and, hunting around, they found two sticks about six or eight feet lang With these theN stirred up the monkey, when hs got upon the cages l at the side, but the trouble was that at the same time they stirred up the par l rots, and when they had done this the 1 neise and confusion were Sc great that i they could hardly tel which was non= kes.which were parrots, and which were ! policemen.
 Finally the monkey was eoraered | and then driven along the wal and into | his cage, and the policemen erawled out 1 agam through the hole in the glass, ! The store the next morning looked like | moving day, but the cause of il all was wholly uniniured, and in as good eondi- ton as ever. except that he was drink l ing a good aeal of water Boston Tran script.