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...Jumbo" was the greatest and most sentimentalized of circus animals. Barnum succeeded in bribing away from England this "largest known" elephant. Jumbo's first six weeks at Madison Square Garden attracted $336,000. After he was killed by a train accident, he was stuffed and given to Tufts College, which still has Jumbo's head as its emblem...
...Werner's book is a record of American popular taste during the century of the nation's adolescence. The unsophiscated public loved to be fooled, and Barnum, more than Lincoln, " was typical of the time." Between the picture of his wife, Charity, and his elephant, Jumbo, was the America which Europe believed to be uncivilizable...
...private pride must yield to higher national ends, so must national pride. I utterly reject as mumbo-jumbo any conception of American honor as a mysterious something distinct from the aggregate honor of American citizens. National traditions, ideals and honor live in the minds of people and nowhere else. Now, as members of the American partnership, we feel sorely humiliated by the Germans. Somehow we feel less moved by the greater indignities practiced by American partners on each other. It is so much easier to hate the foreigner. But if we are to steer with open eyes toward the goal...
...Jumbos defeated the Rubbernecks with considerable ease, but the game was the best one played so far. The fielding and batting were both excellent. The Jumbo team is not so good as it was last year, when it won the series, although several of the old team are still playing...
...heart of Jumbo, Barnum's elephant, weighing 47 pounds, has been presented to the Cornell Museum; the skeleton will eventually be given to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington...