The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-11
ANIMALS CAN TALK
PROF. NORRIS INVESTIGATIONS
SATISFY HIM THAT THEYs
HAVE A LANGUAGE
APES THAT LIVE IN VILLAGES.
Come Into Town for Food on Ger
tain Days and Receive White
Men in Their Own
Towns.

one OF the most curious Investigations
that mas been undertaken during the
present year is that of Prof c. l. Norris
or Norris & Rowe's Big Trained Animal
SHOWS, whose efforts to study the
monkey language mas attracted the at
'tehtlon OF the scientific world. Prof
Ncrris' efforts are not confined to the
monkey tribe. He studies all animals
from the dog to the elephant.
Prof. Norris has already developed
some interesting facts in regard to the
language of animals. He has found that
In proportion as animals have the habit
or walking or standing erect, the vocal
organs are more perfectly developed and
constituted, capable of uttering sounds,
and that animals of this kind seem TO
have more specific language That the
monkey has language of its own, Prof.
Norris has proved to his entire satisfac-
ton, and ne is now able to converse
With many of them, of course to a very
limited extent. One of the most inter
est1ng discoveries which he has made Is
that several simple words used by the
Chimpanzee are Identical with native
words for the same thing. This certain
ly opens up an investigating field for
new speculation and investigation in re-.
gard to the derivation of species.
Those who deride the idea that the
human race is descended from the apes
are generally those who have not given
the subject any investigation.sIt is a
fact, says Prof. Norris, that in Hindoo-
stan there are tribes of apes-regardeds
sacred by the natives-who live in viii
lagos, building rough huts- of branches
and leaves, having their leaders and APP
parently their laws of some kind. They
come In regularly to the native. towns on
certain days to collect allowances of food
which are made to them by the natives
When a white man visits one Of these
monkey villages he is politely received
by the chief of the apes, SHOWN around,
and given an 1ntimatfon when. itais' time
to leave. s4e
On the other hand, in the interior OF
the islands ofsiCeylon, sthere isua tribe,
of human beings who. live in rude huts
made OF branches and leaves, very much
after the style of those built by the In-z
dian apes. The men and women of this.
tribe are thickly covered with hair and
go entirely naked. In the way of speech.
they only have q few cultural notes.
They live mostly in the reoesses of the
forest, only going IN occasionally at night
to the villages, when they leave a few
products which they wish to exchange at
the door of the house,, returning the
next night for anything that may have
been placed there for them.
Who shall say where man begins and
monkeys end between these two races
Of living beings? AT any rate, VINO shall
say that during thousands and hundreds
of thousands of years the one race may
not have been derived from the other.
The investigations of Prof. Norris, which
he considers as just beginning. are
certainly most interesting and promise
to open up to us a new world which up
to tine present time has been shrouded
in darkness and mystery.
TOday's Programmes at Como.
Afternoon and evening concerts will
be given today at Como park by the