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Show THINK MONKEYS HAVE 8PEECH. Eminent Men of Cclence Agree with Prof. Garner. It Is generally supposed that Prof. Garnor Is tho first man to study what has como to bo called tho speech of monkeys. As a matter of fact, tho honor belongs to Sir Richard Burton, tho famous orientalist who translated the "Thousand and Ono Nights." Lady Burton tells in her biography of her distinguished husband that Sir Richard Rich-ard believed firmly In monkey speech, that ho had forty apes continually with him for several years and that ho had written down a monkey vocabulary of sixty words. This vocabulary unfortunately un-fortunately was lost. Prof. Garner can make a strange monkey drink by saying say-ing a certain word, and with another word ho can make It eat and with another word ho can frighten It. But Sir Richard Burton could do all these things, too. His vocabulary, furthermore, further-more, was larger than Mr. Garner's. Ernst Haeckcl, tho great Gorman scientist, Is In hearty sympathy with tho study of the monkey language. He says he believes firmly that such a language exists. |