Mr. P. T. Barnum, the noted American showman, purchased him for $10,000. With difficulty he was placed aboard a steamer and brought to America. For three years he formed one of the chief attractions of Mr. Barnum's great show. He was killed September 15, 1885, by a locomotive at a railroad crossing at St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada-another case of a notable fallen in tragic disaster. (See story on page 269.)

Jumbo was eleven feet and six inches tall, and weighed six tons. He had not ceased growing, it was said, at the time of his death, being then over twenty-four years old. He was the largest elephant ever brought to America.

His skeleton is preserved in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and his skin is mounted and stands in the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, near Boston.

THE DISHONEST KEEPER DETECTED

THE sagacity and intelligence of the elephant is well illustrated in the following incident related in Pettit's work on the Tinnevelly Missions:

While the large chapel at Nagercoil was building, the missionaries obtained the loan of a trained elephant for drawing the larger timber

used in its erection. A Mrs. Mault kindly saw that the animal was regularly fed, lest the food should be stolen by the attendant. One day the allowance of rice seemed very deficient in quantity, and the good lady expostulated on the subject with the keeper. Raising his hands to heaven, the man loudly, and with great apparent earnestness and sincerity, repudiated the idea of his having taken any of the rice. "Do you think, madam, that I would rob my child? No, never! no more than I would deprive my own children of their daily food."

While he was speaking and gesticulating, the intelligent creature slyly extended his trunk, unfastened the man's waist-cloth, spilling the missing rice, which had been concealed in a corner of the cloth, and exposing the dishonesty of the attendant.

This man committed two offenses: First he stole, and then he lied in order to hide his theft. The elephant exposed both his theft and lying.

AN ELEPHANT'S REVENGE

IN the city of Delhi, India, a tailor was in the habit of giving some fruit to an elephant that daily passed the place where he sat at work. So well used to this had the animal become, that it

never failed to put its trunk in at the window to receive the usual gift.

One day, however, the tailor, being out of humor, thrust his needle into the elephant's trunk, telling it to be gone, as he had nothing to give it.

The elephant passed quietly on; but on coming to a pool of dirty water near by, it filled its trunk there and returned. Thrusting its huge head in at the window, it half drowned the poor tailor by pouring a flood of dirty water over him, to the great amusement of those who saw the performance.

ELEPHANTS AS BABY TENDERS

You may have heard how careful the great elephants are, even when angry, not to hurt babies that come in their way; also of what good baby tenders they make.

The wife of an elephant driver was in the habit of leaving her baby in its cradle beside an elephant, and it is said that the huge animal learned to rock the cradle with its trunk until the child fell asleep.

When the child grew older it used to play about on the ground near the elephant. It would sometimes go up to the elephant's huge legs, but it was never hurt.

If the child got caught among the branches of the trees or shrubs near which the elephant was chained, the wise creature would gently lift it out with its trunk and put it again on the smooth, soft ground.

Another elephant in India, called Ishta, sometimes minded a little brown baby while its mother did her work.

Thou art hungry, no doubt, big mother," said the woman, coming out of the hut with her baby in her arms. Ishta, beautiful elephant, take care of baby; I am going to see to your dinner."

She put the restless little bundle down on the ground between Ishta's two forefeet. Then she brought a large earthen jar, and filled it with live charcoal, setting it down to get heated through while she mixed coarse flour and water into dough. When the jar was heated enough, she skilfully spread the dough three or four inches thick all over it.

While it was being baked from the heat from the fire inside the jar, Ishta, patient and obedient as she always was, cared for the baby, gently keeping him in his place. Now and then, when its movements carried it away a few steps, Ishta's trunk would carefully wind around the little body, and lift it back to safety between the huge barriers of her feet, and gently fondle it.

THE ELEPHANT IN A WELL

WHILE the British troops were besieging Bhurtpore in India, the supply of water in the ponds and tanks in the neighborhood failed. Water could be obtained only from deep wells, or from large open wells or reservoirs filled with water brought from a distance. In this service. elephants were very useful.

One day two of these animals, one large and strong, the other much smaller, came to one of these wells. The smaller elephant carried with his trunk a bucket, which the larger elephant, not having one, stole from him. The smaller animal knew that he could not take it from the other; but he eyed him, and watched his opportunity to punish him.

The larger elephant now came near the edge of the well, when the smaller one, rushing forward with all his might, pushed him into the

water.

Laughable as was the scene, it required quite an effort to get the huge animal out of the well. He seemed in no way put about, but kept floating leisurely about, enjoying the cool water, and showed no desire to come out of it.

At length a number of bundles of sticks used in the siege were brought, and being lowered into