Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1881 — Weaning The Baby Elephant. [ARTICLE]

Weaning The Baby Elephant.

[BHldgeport Farmer.) The baby elephant o.‘ the BarnumLondon shows is now 19 months old and is fast growirig out ol the estate of babyhood, although along way remo - ed from that of an adult- Ofl Tuesday la.->t there was commenced at the show quarters :n Bridgeport the interesting process of weaning him from the moth er. He was not removed from the elephant room, nut simply takeu from the opposite side of the apartment and chained to a stoke the same as «• the grown animals. Both mother and oil-, spring showed their diapproval pf the proceedings very strongly, hot neither made any serious trouble. Ttwas feared Hebe might get into %, furious rage over the estrangement, but she contented her self with merely utteriDg vigorous protests at frequent iutervais and . then falling into a state of mild melancholy*. The baby takes kindly to bis new diet, which is mostly crackers and milk, and probably in a rew days more wifi not feel speciallyaggrived aL bdi g obliged to sufr-Lt upon a regular elephant diet of hay ands grain. The milk taken from Hebe eioce the weauing began ri freely drank by tbe show employes. Prof. ArstingstolL who has charge of the elephants, saya. he has grown quite fond of it It is thicker and ricuer than cow’s milk, he says, and has a consistency and flavor sugges iug the milk of the ooooanu*. About a gallon of it is drank daily bv tbe attaches of the establishment. There was nothing in the demeanor., of Miss Masgrove. a bride at Lebanon .. Ohio, to Indicate that she was not ov.r. ” joyed at getting Fraz-r 'e- a hn<-ba d, yet within a week ») e eloped wiih Thompeon.