Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — A Gymnastic Calf. [ARTICLE]

A Gymnastic Calf.

Mr, Tlromas M. Linton, of the firm of Clark & Linton, is the owner of ?m active and promising calf, which will certainly amouut to something in time, if his neck is not broken by accident. This calf, when ho finds his Stable doors open, amuses himself by climbing the stairs to the second floor, and views the surrounding neighborhood from an open door. When surfeited with landscape he jumps from the door to the roof of an adjoining shed at Alio great risk of his spine (but thus far without injury), and then cavorts around until lie jumps, or falls, to the ground, while his anxious maternal parent watches his movements with an expression of solemn anxiety.' His owner has repeatedly tried to hold the animal to the ground floor, but the word “Excelsior” has been pinned to his budding horns, and he is bound to go up or die. In order to check his gymnastic tendencies, Mr. Linton will be forced to anchor him down to the stable floor, or feed him on shot until his jumping capacity is destroyed. This rampant veal is the only juvenile Ham Patch of his kind in Minneapolis," and deserves respectful consideration from Mr. Bamum or any other man partial to living curiosities.— St. Paul Pioneer-Press.