Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — MONKEY HAD A SPREE. [ARTICLE]

MONKEY HAD A SPREE.

Performed gome Acta That Were Not on the Circus Programme. An incident not on the bills occurred during Ringling Brothers’ circus performance the other day. During a number on the program in which the several rings and stages of the show are used by a series of trained animal acts, a troupe of monkeys were performing in the ring, when a tall young Vermonter, with'just enough of mountain dew under his belt to make him rather numerous, threw a halfpint bottle of liquor into the arena. Paddy-Rooski, one of the performing monkeys, no sooner saw the bottle than he ran away from his trainer, snatched it from the ground, and, with the quick instinct of the “eaters of everything,” or the “bandarlog,” as Rudyard Kipling calls them, pulled the cork, and, before he could be prevented, poured the fiery liquid down his throat. , The liquor took an almost Immediate effect, and Paddy-Rooski had a high old time and performed some pranks that were even more amusing than those on the program. He leered cunningly at his companions, tottered about the ring, and refused to take his position among the other monkeys, at the same time jibbering and chattering in a way that only needed words to make an intelligent drunk. Professor Andres tried every means known to the monkey trainers’ art to subdue the hilarious Padddy-Rooski, but to no purpose. From his gleeful state he soon merged into one of anger and, proceeded to do up the other members of the monkey tribe in regular pugilistic style. One of the attendants secured a small net, and throwing it over the Intoxicated monkey secured him and carried him into the dressingroom. As Paddy-Rooski vanished behind the dressing-room he let out a yell that would have done credit to a Kansas farmer full of “boot-leg whisky.”— Boston Herald.