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Northland Age, Volume V, Issue 23, 1 February 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

In view of the Anglo-French Kxhibition we have decided to get our French up. For instance, here's a sentence that runs quite naturally : “ Pas u’elle yeux Rhone que nous !” Goodness knows what it means, but if you pronounce it properly it amounts to the following good advice : “Paddle your own canoe !"

The pet monkey of a German professor having made his escape,■ climbed into a tree and defied all attempts to re-capture him. Well, knowing the imitative habits of the animal, the master conceivedlan admirable plan to regain his pet. He looked at the monkey through an opera glass, pointing the small end at him, for some time, and then re- ] tired a short distance, leaving the opena glass on the ground. The imitative monkey descended from the tree, and taking the opera glass, 1 gazed after a similar manner at his master, who seemed to the deluded ape to be half a mile distant. The monkey, still looking through the same end of the opera glass, supposed his master was several hundred yards distant, when the latter reaching out secured the chain, and led the victim of an optical illusion back to bis cause.