Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — An Elephant on a Spree. [ARTICLE]

An Elephant on a Spree.

I s*w little Betsy as drunk u a fiddler on§ time and she waa a funny sight. We were showing late in the fall in Indiana, in vety severe weather. Home monkeys and birds and snakes had already frozen, and Betsy showed shat she was suffering greatly from the oold. Long John went to Manager Odel and Mid to him: “You’d better get some whiaky'for Betsy or she’ll freeze.” “How much?” “Her ears are fust beginning to freeze; get three buckets/’ Well, they knew thjit was two for Betsy and one for Long John; but when it came to elephants he was boss and the whlskr was got, as he ordered. You should have pepn the taferukeeper’s eyes stand out when they ordered three buckets of whisky for fwo drinks. Betty drank all they gave her and got staving drunk. She’d stagger and roll over and pick herself up and pick Long John up and toes him bn her back and sort of laugh, and he'd laugh and it was nip and tack between them which was the drunker. Elephants are very fund of whisky or any sort of liquor, especially if it has lota of red pepper m it, and they are not only fond of getting drank' themselves but they are very considerate of drunken men. \ never yet kneir of m elephant hurting a drunken man. That (joag John, when he was staggering drunk, would go right up to Sultan or Canada, when nobody else dared to go near them, and would fool round them aad swing on their tusks and toes their trunks about and to to sleep right down by their feet, and they Would not only not do him any harm, but wouldn’t let anybody else go negr him until he chose to wake up. And any real drunken man eando pretty much what he pleases with an elephant.— From B*coU*ct&n, of a Menagerie Man. Mother Shipton’a famous prophecy bats thar the end df the world will take place in 188 L This can not but be a comforting thought to people who have mortgages to lift inlsß2.