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Show VANITY OF GUINEA FOWLS. Stand for Hours Admiring Themselves Them-selves In Mirror. A pair of guinea fowls were introduced intro-duced as pets Into the garden of a young man up town the other week, says the Philadelphia Record. The wings of the birds were clipped, so that they might not fly away, ar.d thwy were quartered in an outhouso that happened to contain a mirror. TeelTeot of the mirror on the guineas 8(r-as hardly credible. They poet themselves before it, and there, studying their reflections intently, they stand perfectly motionless and silent for hours at a time. It is impossible im-possible to drive them away with shouts or hand-clappings. They must be can-led forth bodily, and then, as soon as thny can, they return. No matter how fine the weather may be, tho guineas remain in the outhouse, gazing at themselves In the mirror. To get them to lake exercise it is necessary to carry them forth, and then to shut up tho outhouse tight. The owner of the fowls thinks that psrhaps the mirror hvpnotlzea them. |