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Show An Attraotlr Kovelty. In a leading pipe and smokers' sundries house at Philadelphia is one of the most aitistio novelties of the year. It is in the ghape of a perfect imitation of the coli-bri, coli-bri, the smallest singing bird in the world, and found only in Africa. The imitation is the exact size of the real bird, even to the most minute details of the plumage and legs, but what is more marvelous still is the lust that the imitation imi-tation emits from its throat a song of wonderful beauty and sweetness, exactly exact-ly like the original " The little bird is placed in an exquisitely exqui-sitely colored tortoise shell box, 2 inches by 8J inches, and when a small spring is pressed a small silver lid on the top of the box springs open, the colibri jumps up like a thing of life, sings, swings, moves its tail and wing, and the beak works in a porfect manner with the harmony from its throat. After the song is finished the bird disappears within the box and the lid flies shut, leaving the box perfectly smooth. , This exquisite piece of mechanism is sold for $75. It is said that only one man in Switzerland can make these, and that each one takes him a month to perfect per-fect and finish it. It. is a wonderful piece of work, and crowds are being attracted at-tracted to the store. Tobacco. |