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Show A Monkey's Weaknens for Sweats. One of the attractions at a church fair recently held in this city was a lottery conducted on a small scale. Ten persons per-sons contributed ten cents each. Each subscriber drew a slip of paper from a hat. The slips were numbered from one to ten. The papers were then placed in another hat, and a monkey was allowed to pick one out. Tho person who at the Bret drawing had obtained the slip selected select-ed by tho monkey was entitled to ninety cents, ten cents going to the fair fund, After each drawing by the monkey tho slips were destroyed. Ono night a young man won over $20 at this little game of chance. ' Nearly every time the monkey drew the slip this young man was selected select-ed at the first drawing. Those present marveled at the young man's luck, and but for an accident they never would have ascribed his winnings to any cause but good fortune. Every slip of paper the young man drew he rubbed with a piece of lump sugar. Of course the. monkey's weakness for sweets led him to pick out the sugared slip. The young man dropped the piece of sugar while he was rubbing it on a slip, and then his smart little game was discovered. New |