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Show Musical Canaries. In this country a few experiment ers have been successful in training their canaries to carry simple tunes,, and in soma instances even to articu- late one or more intelligible words. Shortly after the battle of Manila bay! a Philadelphia woman succeded In! making her canary say "Dewey! 1 Dewey! Dewey!" so unmistakably that everybody marveled at it. The admiral himself was much impressed and wrote her a letter expressing hi appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. Besides this little yellow phenomenon she had two other canaries, cana-ries, one of which could sing the first line of "Yankee Doodle," and the other a small part of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." Her method was-extrears: ly simply, requiring an.eblstic store of patience for everybody concerned Including; In-cluding; the canary. She played the melody several hours a day on the parlor par-lor organ. ...,-.-,.i..'- . a.., |