Crazy Elephants

AVhen we present the elephant in possession of such intellectual gifts as may be his, there has to be considered the case of the elephant that, being "must," is for a time bereft of it? senses. It is only the male that suffers from this affliction of insanity; but every male is liable to it some time or other, and, unfortunately, may be attacked by it without warning of any kind. Some men of long experience of elephant keepingf say that the "must" condition is preceded by premonitory symptoms, and if taken in time may, by diet and treatment, be averted; but, without presuming to contradict those better-inf ormed people, I can aver that I have known some of them to be taken by surprise by the sudden "musting1" of elephants under their own immediate supervisión. Some elephants, says Blackwood's Magazine, become demons of cruelty when "must," as, íor example, a commissariat elephant that mj time in Oudh broke away from the liucknow lines and went over a considerable tract of country, men, women and children wherever it found an opportunity of doing so. I do not remember the total number killed by that beast, but it was sadly larg-e. And, of course, valuable as the animal was to the government, only one course could be pursued in regard to it. The sentence passed upon it was that of death, and the execution was carried out, not without dimculty and dang-er to the executioners, by severa! Europeans, who followed and shot it down.