Show Twin Monkeys A prettyfaced and inteHigentlcofc lug little monkey called Minnie be longing to the Barnum show + pre ss ert a diminutive image of herself to her breast yesterday and cast halfat frighted glance through the bara at the crowds Minnie presented Jock the father with twins yesterday ex plains Keeper Sara Hodges Both were females One never drew the breath of life but the other safe and well in in Join mothers arms will doubtless grow up fc3 b ° the pride of both parents pa-rents When Mr Hodges arrived ar-rived at the garden Sunday morning he found Minnie with a baby in either I arm One was limp and motionless but the other was applying itself industriously I in-dustriously to the task of extracting nourishment from the maternal breast Mr Hodges mounted the stepladder step-ladder to take away the dead babeand r Jook the father who was in the next apartment in murderers row became came greatly excited He almost succeeded in wrenching open the door and he did succeed in grabbing Mr Hodges by the hair of the head i He pulled unmercifully and only by vigorous action in compelling him toI P I release his bold did Mr Hodges save himself from premature baldness j l When he had caused Jock to relax his graep Mr Hodges reached into Minnis oompartmaDt and took her lifeless infant from her She cried like a child at the JOBS while the teara coursed down her cheek She was nearly distracted and with her live offspring in her right hand ex ended at arms length ran into the far corner of the cage She moaned and wailed for a while but finally dried her eyes when she saw thAt she was safe from further interference inter-ference and gave her undivided attention to her young one All day yesterday she held her babe tightly in I her arms and was as solicitous for its welfare as any mother could be Mr Hodges said it was the first time twin monkeys were ever born in captivity cap-tivity The surviving twin is about five inches in iengthwith a tail about an inch longer than itself an abnormally I abnorm-ally developed head and a perfect picture of Ha mother Minnie is 4 years old and weighs about fifteen pounds She was brought from Africa when a year old Jook the father has reached the age of 10 and weighs twenty pounds He was captured cap-tured when 4 years oldNezo York Times |