Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — A Monkey’s Rights at Issue. [ARTICLE]

A Monkey’s Rights at Issue.

A Washington police court had occasion recently to pass upon the momentous question whether the proprietor of a monkey can be compelled to furnish it with shoes. On the complaint of some benevolent idiot Pietro Florello; by profession a hand organist, was hauled into the temple of justice to answer a charge of cruelty to animals, In that he was utilizing a barefooted monkey in the collection of his precarious income. After a careful research into the law of domestic relations the court reached the conclusion that Signor Florello was under no legal obligations to furnish his friend with footgear, and the case was accordingly dismissed.