The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-09
TIPPOO TIB DETHRONED.
A Combating Billy Goat Usurps the
Royal Perch at the Zoo.
From the Chicago Inter Oeean.


From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Up to yesterday Tippo lib the big Su-
matra ape, was the acknowledged auto
crat Of the happy family at the Zoo.
He had whipped the smian subjects into
condition of servile subsection, and his
glance was sufficient 10 quiet even the
ring-tailed monkeys
Now lib has been deposed. Even the
marmosets look at him with contempt.
and there is none so poor to do him rev.
erence. The cause of Tippo Tbs fall
from imperial power was a goat, a com
mon, ostrich-stomached. can-eating Will
liam goat, Down a the Zoo the attaches
call him Bob. If Tippoo lib could speak
American he would call him Satan.
The coup d'etat came about in this way:
Tippo lib, returning from a punitive ex>
petition after a faced Brazilian mon
key who had invaded the privacy of his
royal perch, was startled TO see a new
and Strengthening individual thrust into
the cage. The newcomer walked on all
tours. like a common field beast: his hair
was long and white. his 'head was orna-
mented with a pair of pointed horns, and
under his chin was a flowing mass OF
whiskers. Tippoo lib looked down at the
intruder with resentment, and his eyes
said, palmer than words
ooh, won't do thing to you"
Bob slowly walked around the cage, as
though investigating his new quarters and
then, with a mild kind of wonder in his
. impassiVe face. stretched himself in a
corner and waited Before he was fairly
seated Tippoo lib was beside him. The
autocrat was followed by the entire happy
family. They wanted to see what the
monarch would do to the goat. Bob was
a little curious himself.
Tippo lib was diplomatic He reached
out and stroked Bob's whiskers. Bob
looked gratiaed and the monkeys chirped
with delight. But Tippo Ti5 was cum
ming. He was oH8y waiting for an oraQ
portunity to 'swipe" the goat. Bob turn
ed his head, and the autocrat iammed a
finger into his eye. Maddened by sudden
pain, Bob sprang to his feet, and the 81
mians scattered in every direction Even
Tippoo lib wasn't ashamed to get out
OF the way of the white foreign devil"
Then the sim.ans had circus They
jumped on Bob's back, they pulled his
ears, they hung by their tails tantalizng-
ly out of reach, and make faces at him
and one of the ring-tailed monkeys, Drawer
than the rest bit piece out of his nose.
Bob made frantic but useless resistance.
To defend himself in front was to be az
tackled in the rear. When he lowered his
head and tried 10 buck the dog-faced mon
key, a dozen simian imps caught by the
abbreviated tail and held him back Bob
had never been so near hades in his life
before
But Bob's revenge was near The perch
on which Tippo lib was resting after one
of his center rush onslaughts broke uu-
der the accumulated weight of twenty
monkeys and a coon, and the autocrat
and his chattering subjects tumbled peII-
nell into the arena. This was Bob's op-
portunity. Tippoo lib was in the foreground
and before he could scamper away the en-
ragged goat was upon him The murder
Gus horns pinned him down, and Bob's
forefeet played a tattoo on his autocratic
body. Tippo lib howled with fear. and
his frightened subjects sought the highest
corner of the cage. Even the dog-faced
monkey was afraid to come to the rescue
of his imperial highness. Bob was merci-
less. In another minute Tippo lib would
have been dead ape. keeper. attractee
by the unwonted commotion, saved his
life.
Crestfallen and thoroughly whipped. Tin
poo lib retired to a corner. One of the
ring-tailed monkeys sneaked down and
slapped his face. Tippo lib did not resent
il. His spirit was broken. His reign
was over. Not a monkey has since dared
TO assail the triumphant goat They ac-
knowledge his mastery by carefully keep
ing out of his way. Bob has become the
big chief Of the cage. He has succeeded
to the throne from which Tippoo lib was
so forcibly deposed.
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