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Show Ctr.ift Oat's Tail on Donkey. It Ir not often that a police station is Transformed into a temporary hospital, but such was the enso yesterdav. when (he Twenty-llrst district station was the iccne of one of the most difficult skin-, grafting operation! recorded In the an-naln an-naln of modern surgery. In tills pn--tlcular case, however, tho patient happened hap-pened lo be a monkey, the hlghly-prbM POt of Lieutenant Uoston, which had lost Its caudal appendage in a slreot ear accident ac-cident hi the morning and which a few hourn later found lis-elf in possession if another I'll! equally as long nnd ecrtalnlv more fluffy than its original append. igc Several weeks ago Liculenniifi Itostou was nrcEeutcd by a professor at the Cnl-v.rslty Cnl-v.rslty of 1'ennsi'Kaula with a tamei i ; monkey. Tho animal had become cjiiil" a pel among the oflleers at the new Thlrtv-second street nnd Woodland. a vo-tmo vo-tmo :iiiiUon. lint it roeiJntly devolnjHMl a facnltv of breaking Us elialn and wan-jler):ig wan-jler):ig about the stroolB. Veslerday :noriung when Lieutenant Boston found t!ial hie jiet vas inlaslng and was about to Hfiid out a "missing" call to all noar-bv noar-bv oftleera. tlic monlcey. named Hrownlc, after IIowko Sorgoant Drown, cnino limning limn-ing Into tho station, erylng pltconsly. Ono elanoc was unfliclent lo toll tho atory. iu had evidently gotten the worse, of an ; argument v.ith a street car. ills tali was missing- Captain Thompson, arriving at the sta-1 sta-1 lion about the same time nK tho monkoy, xiiggcsled to Lieutenant Uonton that a veU'viniiry surgoon br aunt for. Tho sur-ijeon sur-ijeon suggested that a tall from, ono of the house, cats bo carefully removed and started on the monkey. A large, gray torn eat was caught and carefully "bob-bud." "bob-bud." Tho monkoy screamed from pain while tho grafting procow.s was going on. but. last night it was tnld that tho operation was a success. The bob-tailed eat yfHtenlay evening wax making Itself pur f felly at home, none Uio worse, apparently, ap-parently, for the operation, while the monkey remained on 1 1 Its perch, with the fident intention of being ulet and rail ing no more break for liberty until ll.c Injured member rhall become fully ru-palr ru-palr i. In tho meantime Lieutenant B03- lo:: has informed the ofllcials a I the son tr.at ar soon as Die. "part cat. jmrl monkey" mon-key" shall recover sufliciently lo be r-noved r-noved ho vIII present It to that ltibliU:-llon. ltibliU:-llon. Philadelphia lleconl. ' |