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North Otago Times, 22 May 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

A glass-cutting diamond lasts about three months. A resident of Marienbad is the possessor of a hat which he values at £2OO. Tho hat is woven of straws through which crowned heads, have at various times sucked cooling drinks dispensed at a fashionable cafe. A professor of Paris has been turning his attention to .monkeys, Ho presented them, it seems, with pencils and paint brushes, and straightway they "traced designs' in which an intention and an idea could be detected." He was a daring man, From casual observation of monkey psychology one would suspect them of a tendency to caricature. It is difficult to believe that a monkey's opinion ol a man would be either grateful or,comforting-at least v tq tin aumia gutyttit