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Show Trick Chimpanzee in Zoo. Mimi, the chimpanzee recently received re-ceived at the zoological gardens, is having a new home built, which it will be enabled to occupy with pomp and dignity in the near future, according to the Philadelphia North American. Mimi is a trick chimpanzee supposed to have been gifted with almost human intelligence. It was brought from Borneo nine years ago and for seven years was the property of Dr. William Furness, who tried to develope it in the faculty of talking. He gave up trying and not long ago presented Mimi to the zoo. As a trick performer Mimi has few equals, it has one human habit that it carries out to perfection, and that is smoking cigarettes, but it is different differ-ent from cigarette lieuds in that it does not inhale. Mimi can thread a needle, clap for a jig and tie knots in ropes. It also lias u violent temper. |