Show WISE MONKEYS how they are tauche t to P act it IK 6 S kill fit I 1 workmen detective ot of bad noney money and good water in the island of sumatra the coin common monkey is tha brub or pig pigtailed tailed monkey anil and lie ho becomes a docile and int intelligent ellig c nt servant what he has haa to do is to gather cocoanuts coco cocoa nuts of course bothin nothing is easier for a four handed fellow than to climb tall trees and throw down clown nuts nuta but the bruh does docs bettor better than that lie he selects the nuts gathering n none one but the ripe ones and and what 13 is more lie he picks only as many as his hir master wishes so usef useful ill is this animal that gathering in nuts n ats lias has become one may say sit his trade in that part of the world A man having captured and trained a gang an of them marches them around the country to 0 get in the harvest birin hiring 0 them out on different irant plantations then when the nuts are all picked or the laborers too loo numerous gangs of them are taken to the en englich lish colonies at cape town and hired out like any adv workmen or coolies as they are cal culled lei A siamese apolian anpo has reached astep a step hiher higher hi 0 her it is if said the story is told by an austrian who who lived in slam siam that this apo ape ii able to tell by tile taste whether coin is gool or bail bad and merchants employ him for the purpose c of detecting counterfeits within a 1 fen months a 1 gentleman n of 0 f I 1 india n dia lias has tried kis his land hand at braining monkeys ind and lie reports to the alic asiatic P i society of bengal his success in teaching 0 them to pull A perhaps yon you know is an immense f fan an bun hung from the cailin ceiling r and moved lack and forth by means of a rope outside the room it keep a room cool and in that climate is i necessary for fora i white man to eat or sleep with any A monkey who can pull one then is as useful Is 13 a man and is a true worker another viI val nab 0 o monkey is the i chacma of africa when young this baboon is very teachable andia and is often often kept by the kaffits firs as a domestic doi animal lie ile takes the place of a dog 0 growling ferow lin when a stran stranger er comes near and if it becomes necessary necea sary to defend his ma masters stets property lie he is much stronger stroner stron 0 er than any dog do 9 the chacma easily learns to blow the bellows of a smith and to drive horses or oxen but lis his greatest liser usein ill that country is to find water in the hot season when the earth is i parched and springs and streams are dry the owner of a tame chacma takes him out to hunt for the water they all I 1 must have i the intelligent monkey seems to know what is wanted or perhaps ae knows by his own fealin feelings gs what hat to jf 10 tor for and lie goes c carefully over ovel tile the ground looking earnestly at every evcic tuft of grass and ca eagerly fly sniffling ling the breeze on every side whether lie he scents wor ifor not is no not t known but if there is water in the neighborhood lie he is sure to find it it inay may bo be a i deep spring lit in which case lie he sets to work digging down to it aud and it may be ii a certain wry vry juicy root which often serves in intent inte acid nl of ho he gets that out also and lot let ui ua hope lie he ca has his full share of it to pay for hi his work vork st Xi nicholas cholas |