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Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 9

Some travellers were discussing the relative merits of large cities as places of interest "Paris is undoubtedly "the most remarkable city in the world," Baid a pompous Frenchman, "for its Zoological Gardens contain at least one specimen of every animal known to man." "Nonsense!" replied the Englishman. "The very strangest creature in the world' is not represented in the Paris Zoo." "And what is that?" asked the indignant Preuchniau. " A Chinaman," quoth the Briton. " Indeed! And how is he the queerest creature in the world?" "Because tie head and tail grow in the same place."

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