Alice the cranky

After Jumbo died, Barnum sought a new elephant for his show. The English uproar over Jumbo's departure was not repeated when the Zoological Society sold Alice to Barnum four years later in early 1886 for 200 pounds. As the Daily News reported on April 24th, "There was no demonstration of public silliness over her emigration as there was with the removal of the renowned Jumbo, since defunct; and no one who in the establishment was acquainted with her temper, and the manner in which she had developed into a nuisance, mourned her departure.  It was, if all the truth must be told, a very good stroke of business to displose of the beast for so round a sum, since the last resource of shooting her would probably have been forced upon her owners before long."