Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — The Elephant. [ARTICLE]

The Elephant.

One day, children, when the menagerie had been qniet for a long time, the hyena was looking so lonesome and desolate that the elephant said he reminded him of “ the howl of the wilderness” every time he spoke. “ You can’t prove it,” said the hyena. “ You pel-i----can, said the elephant, which was neither good English, good grammar, nor good fun, and nobody laughed but the elephant, “ don’t you know it’s no consequence what you think in this 6how?” The bison interfered here, and said the ’possum might not be a very hart o beast, but he had a right to speak ” “ Well, well, old buffaloafer,” laughed the elephant, “ I reckon you’re here as a bisonification of justice, are you, you old bison of a gun? I’d like to see anybody puli the wool over your eye 3.” The bay mule down in the corner remarked that he’d like to see anybody pull the wool on the end of his tail, but nobody let on they heard him. Then, when the eagle tried to say something, the elephant asked him if he hadn’t just got off a Sixth Ward political transparency, and then said he thought he remembered seeing him on a barber’s pole. Then the bear spoke and said they’d had enough of that nonsense; and the elephant told him He d better haul himself inside the hatstore before it rained, and asked if soft felt would be much worn this winter. And then he finally got the monkey to crying by calling him Mr. Darwin, and telling him he looked enough like a a man to run for Congress. And in a little while he had the menagerie in such an uproar that the lights had to be put out and the people sent home. Land, yes, children, the trouble they used to have with the elephant no tongue can tell. He was always such a tease. —Bob Burdette. Secretary McCbary asks that army officers be punished for gambling. Apropos of the proposed reform some one brings up a case where the Captain of a cavalry company won every cent from twelve of his men and two of the officers of the company, all having just received their pay. In two days a professional gambler won all of the Captain’s winnings and the Captain’s entire salary as well. Four colored men in Georgia are worth over SIO,OOO each. The total value of property owned by colored men in that State is $£,182,898.