The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-04-23
nANY TRAINED ANIMALS
They Viii be Seen in the Merchants
Carnival in Nay.

The ammusement committee OF
the Retail Merchants Association
succeeded in securing one of the
most interesting, instructive and
novel collections OF animals. fero-
cious and tame. get seen at any
street fair. The name of this aggre-
cation is Geological Eden" of the
New Parker Amusement company.
While not containing as many ami
mails as the famous Hagenbeck show.
II is stated that Geological Eden"
has proven more popular wherever
| it has appeared. because every ami
NAL in the large collection affords not
only an interesting object to look
at, but is also trained and educated
to perform intelligent feats. There
are trained lions, bears. jaguars,
leopards, monkeys. apes, goats. po-
nies. etc
There is a famous riding lion,
called Nero, which mounts and
dismounts from the back of a galop-
ing pony with the greatest zest and
| delight. In the collection there is
a bear that does likewise It can
readily be seen what patience and
/ persistent effort must have been
| taken in the training of these ami
mails 10 teach them to engage in such
! . performance and the time it must
have taken to accustom the pony to
! allow this savage brute such liber-
/ ties can be surmised.
! There are four Arabian stallion
| ponies, said to be the finest marked
in the world, which go through polka
steps, mazurkas, marches and other
evolutions with the precision and
| regularity of trained soldiers To
see these ponies waltz is alone worth
going miles to see. The collection of
ponies includes the famous Romeo"
who has been all over the world
performing his stunts before the
| greatest celebrities Romeo is
called the talking pony" for al
though he cannot make his trainer
understand his horse language, yet
he fully understands every word his
trainer says to him. He adds. sub
tracts, multiplies and divides num-
bers with ready quickness that will
astound many boys who are think
ing of entering the grammar school
Romeo is a comedian in his way
On his trainer asking him the ques-
ton How many days would you
like to work If you had your own
wav?" He invariab bly, replies none. ="
In ID 10 10 l.
this word his manner of speaking
is by means of tapping the floor with
his left foot If his trainer should
ask him How many days in the
week would YOU like TO make me
work if YOU had you will?" Romeo
instantly taps the ground seven
times. looking very serious and sol
emn as he does so.
He is a great favorite with ladies
and CHILDREN, OF whom he is very
found With a large crowd in front
of him. many of whom have chill
dren in arms. he can tell his trainer
almost instantly Just how many ha-
bies are so held He has often made
IL very embarrassing for some lady
I'm the throng. who conspicuously
wears Haunting red feather or rib
bon. for ON being asked How many
ladies have such color on their
hats or dress he Immediately taps
/. or the number
I The school of dogs and goats 80 be-
seen with geological Eden has
been commended as not oulv emit
ncutlyi entertaining but very lnstruc-
tive Their performance alone lasts
half am hour and consists of tricks
both eomDal and difficult 90 is
sometime unusual tu uud goats CON
sorting with ios in such ammhle
fashion aa ous fnds iu rhH pleasant
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