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161 ODD TRICKS OF MONKEYS. They Keep Up the Interest or Those TThe Care for Them. ""We lose interest In nearly all the animals," said the keeper to a New York Tribune man, "after we have had them awhile, except in the moniceys. The oldest keeper in the show will stop now and then to laugh at their antics. They're always in tenting new tricks to play on one another. Their intelligence is won derful and thev show traces of con science now and then. That big ape by himself over there came to Mr. Iiarnum with a storv which I have no doubt is true. lie was trained when we cot him to do certain tricks by a wandering peddler who owned him in the east, This ape is an expert thief and one day he was going through his antics in a bazar where a fruit mer. chant had a bag of dates open on the ground. The ape wanted some of those dates. He was too sly to look at them, but in his tumblings worked over toward them. .Pretty soon he got into a position where the bag was between him and the merchant, who was squatting cross-legged on a mat upon the ground. With a leap the ape cleared ihe bag and came down between it and t ie merchant, close to the latter's face. Then he besran to mow and mouth and scream at the man, showing his formidable teeth, staring him out of countenance, and making as if to attack him. The merchant was so astonished that he did not notice the ape helping him self to dates with his hind hands; aprw are not four-footed, you know, they are quadrumana, four-handed. Having taken all he could hold, the ape quickly turned his back on the merchant, stuffed toe dates into his mouth, and was oft in a jiffy. The crowd saw the theft and enjoyed it, and when they told the merchant he was so struck with the brute's clever ness that he showed no resentment The ape, however, had got only a yard or so away in the crowd when a boy, out of pure mischief, struck him with a whip from behind. The ape turned about like a flash, dashed be tween the very legs of the boy who had struck him, passed two or three others without looking at them, and flew at the unoffending merchant, biting him two or three times be fore ho could be restrained. The old thief had conscience enough to know that he had done wrong, and as soon - as he felt the blow he took it for granted that the man he had robbed was beginning to give him the drub bing he knew he deserved. Some of our monkeys are very fond of being petted and admired and others are not," continued the keeper. "That little one over there is as vain as any woman, and a curious thing in con nection with her is that her vanity makes her a poor mother. fxhe last litter she had we took away from her: a former one she killed by neglect, after she had hurt two or three of them badly by holding them out to visitors to be stroked and petted also, and, In so doing, pressed them too hard against the bars of her cage. She thought her babies more lovely than all the rest, probably, and she wanted them to get some of the ad miration and attention which she en. Joyed herself." Capt. Cable's Crew ot Slaves. The death of Capt George W. Cable, one of the earliest of Missouri Elver steamboatraen, cuts the list of old-timers notably. He was 84 years old when he died. He had been master, mate, engineer, owner, and rjilofc. He was 23 when he began .his career. In live years he was a licensed engineer. Three years later he was commissioned as a pilot from New Orleans to the Rocky Mountains and on the Upper Mississippi to bt Panl. As those were the da? s of mag nlflceat aUrle in the steamboatlp; rf5uslres Capt Cable made a great deal of money by carefully invest ing the liberal pay that he received. It was not long until he became a steamboat owner in his own name. Of the famous boats of the forties and fifties that he owned the Edward Walsh, George Collier, Mary Mc Donald, and Luther Kennett were the largest and fastest Later he was master and part owner of the John Aull, probably the fastest boat that ever cut the muddy waters of the Missouri IUver. The crew of the Aull were negro slaves, the property of the boat man agement. When Capt Cable was most prosperous ho used to while away the evenings on the hurricane deck, throwing handt'uls of silver half-dollars into the air. letting them fall in the forecastle, where he could watch the crew scramble for them. 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The act that higher prteei are realized here than In the east is due to the location al these yards of eight packing housas, wlta an asrswrate dally capacity of 3,300 cattle and 87,200 hogs, and the regular attendaaceofj sharp, into AAQsas xjivj nave turoct 1 comixjUtlve buyers tor the dc New York and Boston. The dah with the yards. railroads ronnlnx ;eonneoOoa Cagvd Hog. urn. Oolal reoalpts for 1891 .. 1,347,487 2,599,109 889,760 81,740 91,439 Slaughtered lu Kansas City 670,781 1.90S.6B3 809,841 Boldto feeders 237.600 17,672 17,488 Sold to Shippers &!5,830 ,78l Total sold bKsnwsnty la 1881., l,i88.wd 1098,884 m,m I C.F.MORSE, B. I. R1CHAXS30N, H. P. CHILD, E. RUST, fljnsrsl Minsfof. Seerttary and Tretsirer. Asst. Osn. Mgr. tuaerlnUndanL Topaka, Ean The Leading Western ImporterC'ind Breeders of Clydosdalo, Porchoron, Olovoland Bay AV9 French Coach Horses. Alio Importer! and Breeder! of Registered Hereford.Cattla fi-'f f' w. mm- TERMS TO SUIT PUJXMASER3. wMu 8nd for Illustrated eatalotnis. Bta&les mtown. EMPORIA, - 8TJ0C2ES8OB TO AUSTIN & GRAY 0003., - KANSAS, Zxnportor and Droodor ot Suffolk Fid, Freicl Coacb Knir nsn shirfi nwMw, mmm in L&UMU IIILUUs WljUWMUWVj aarj Standard Bred Stallions and Hares M.kmii'.iM aiMtMi fl'rert from the breeders of Eorone. and are descendant! of Cm ffloct noted prize winner! of the eld world. I paid spot cash for atl my stock and got the beet at iuv uvwu yi " "1 .lm m ,.u v. r.n. AaM mt arArhltAnt flcmrea In order ti ODtaln Teredlt, thereby enabllnji me to U better animal! at better price!, longer time and a low rate of Inter than almost any other dealer to America. - ., I have also the most superior iyttn of organlzlnr companies and stock wpVln thlJ eoontryTand lnsnre satisfaction. I call especial attention to my referencje. By Uw; m ItwO lb seen ttatl am not banoJlnjr on eommlsslootherVfaae horsei of dealers in Korope. Wlta rflsyc-a K a souare transaction,! rood animal, ft rafld ruarantand win ojocete with acy Una la erica on prices and terms beside!. , MAmm KJWrlte me tor descriptive eatalofue and mention Thi Adtocat. Wssa Mrrnyondlni wKa aiisHlssrs -Jay uy pi m Uelr advirUMsiint In MTkf Umiii.'