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Show ORANG-OUTANG IS HIS OWX DENTIST (By International Neys Service.) LONDON. For somo days the orang-outang at tho Zoo has boon restive. Usually he tolls tho keopcr his ncedB by-si&ns or Guttural noises. Nobody could discover what was the matter until ho was observed by two witnesses to havo discovered and great was his Joy a stout picco of string in his bedding. Ono of his dog toeth had evidently bocomo loosoned and was giving him pain. Ho tied tho string round tho tooth and mado several efforts to dislodge dis-lodge it. Finding tho task a hard one, he entwined tho loose- end of tho string round the bars of his cage, and by dint of jorklng his head back successfully extracted tho tooth. It was qulto two inches long. and the orang-outang was so pleased with the feat that he rcfusod to allow cither of tho keepers to touch it. Tho tooth has slnco disappeared, and it is believed that ho has hiddon It on a ledgo at tho top of the cage some fifteen feet high. rtrk . |