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Show African Wit. Stanley told a friend a story which illustrates tho African's quickness of retort. re-tort. "I was talking with oue of the Ugangas," said Stanley "while a monkey the native had tamed was jumping from limb to limb of a tree near by. In a spirit of fun I said: 'You aro not so very much unlike monkeys. You Ugangas speak to each other after a fashion, and the monkeys make signs to each other. They understand each other, and that's all you can do when you talk. Neither you nor the monkeys know anything that is going on outside of these great forests.' I "The Uganga man thought for a irnv i ment, and then ran np to themctukey, that had perched on a low limb near ns. Bending over the monkey, the man bler ; on the monkey's back, separating the fur , as a furrier does in exhibiting a skin to a ; purchaser. Then he turned to me and i pointed with a triumphant gesture to ; tne monkey, saying. 'Monkey skin whiteji ' Uij-nga man's black.' " New York Sun I In the Crimea a small catacomb has been found at Kertsch, tlio walls covered with frescoes showing Greek gods and acenes from ancient Greek life. There it) . an inscription in antique Gretk letters. |