Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     There are now on exhibtion in New York two peculiar elephants brought from the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, about 800 miles from Singapore. They are remarkable for their small size, being respectively twenty-eight and thirty-six inches tall; and for being covered with a thick coat of bristly hair or wool. They are supposed to be from 5 to 7 years old. In size they resemble the extinct elephants of Malta, and in covering those of Siberia. Their woolly coat is attributed to the circumstance that they live high upon the mountains where the climate is cold. The species appear to be all but unknown to naturalists, this pair being the first that have survived the passage through the heated low country to the coast and the subsequent journey by sea. The sailors on the steamer which brought them-the Oxfordshire, Captain C. P. Jones-named them Prince and Sidney. They  are described as playful and harmless, and they keep their trunks stretched out to strangers to be petted. They love to be scratched on the under side of the trunk close to the mouth, and they hold their trunks curled back over their heads as long as anyone scratches them. Like elephants of large growth, they keep up a swaying motion, either sideways or forward and backward. When a visitor lets one of the little fellows take his hand he delicately curls his proboseis around it and carries it gently to his mouth. Then he trumpets his satisfaction.