Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Fleeced by Monkeys. [ARTICLE]

Fleeced by Monkeys.

A very pretty girl had an experience with three of tho monkeys in Schmidt’s bird store in Washington, I). C., the other day that has given her a better’Jnslght Into monkey nature than she pftssossod before. In her left hand she wus holding q 50 cent bunch of violets and her pocketbook, and on her head she wore a dashing Gainsborough hat with ostrich plumes. Two of the monkeys were in a cage on a line with the top of the hat and the third was in a cage by himself below where she had only to reach out her right hand to touch him. This girl loves monkeys, and all three of the monkeys seemed to take to her as naturally as though thoy had known her a long time. Just as the monkey in the cage by himself clutched the bunch of violets and the pocketbook the couple in the upper story snatched the hat. It camo off, hatpins, vail and all, and came with such remarkable suddenness that she grabbed her jacket, for fear that would go the same way. When the monkeys surrendered the mlllinory the hatpins were bent double and the Inside of the cage was so strewn with feathers that it looked as though the inmates had been molting. And now the young lady declares a monkey is a nasty beast.