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Show A CHIMPANZEE TO BE PROUD OF. From tho Chicago Rocord-Herald. A special cablo dispatch from Berlin, conveys the oad news of tho domlso of Bostock's famous $123,000 chimpanzee, "Consul," who was so widely and favorably fa-vorably known In this country. The cause of his death was acute bronchl-tlB, bronchl-tlB, which, wo are told, defied the best medical skill that could bo found In tho German capital. "Bostock heard tho news with tears," says tho dispatch. And why shouldn't ho shed teara? "Consul" was earning $1000 a week, and was reputed to bo worth $125,000 not In real estate or tangible tan-gible property, but in earning value to his owner. That the valuation was conservative is shown by the fact that his life was Insured for $100,000. We havo been turning up our noses at the Darwinian theory of evolution. We havo regarded the author of that theory the-ory with mingled feelings of pity and contempt. And yet hero was a plain, low-born chimpanzee, who never went to college, but was actually earning $1000 a week. |