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Show CRISP CONDENSATIONS. The American postage stamps are counted no less than thirteen times during dur-ing the process of manufacture. The doctors in tho French fleet have been forbidden to practice "hypnotism" on their patients. A similar prohibition was issued some months ago to the French army doctors. There are placed in the museum at Pompeii the plaster casts of the bodies of two men and a woman taken from impressions im-pressions made in a stratum of ashes outside the Stabian gate. There were so many accidents at the last regimental polo tournament in India In-dia that Sir Frederic Roberts, the commander-in-chief, is said to have issued an order prohibiting such tournaments. The Mahometans considered silk unclean, un-clean, from its being produced by a worm. Hence it was decided that a person per-son wearing a garment made entirely of silk could not lawfully offer up the daily prayers enjoined by the Koran. There is a craze in London for queer leather. Some shops are stocked with fancy articles made from the skins of all sorts of beasts, reptiles and fishes, including in-cluding pelican Bkins, lion and panther skins, fish skins, monkey skins and snake skins, etc. At least 25 per cent, more cigarettes are smoked in warm than in cold weather. This is probably due to the fact that cigarette smokers walk more in tho summer than in winter, and also bo-cause bo-cause they are in the open air for longer periods of time. The barbers of Bombay held a mass meeting on the subject of the share they are called upon to take in the indignities put upon Hindoo widows by the repeated shaving of their heads, and passed a reso- I lution against any barber shaving the ' head of a widow. The most prominent experts in dogs in the United States are firm in the belief that thoroughbred dog3 are less intelligent intelli-gent than mongrels. Nearly all the dogs exhibited on the stage are cross breeds and dogs of low lineage, if they can boast known parentage at all. The night refugees aro a notable feature of Parisian life. Ninety thousand inmates were received last year. Since 1878 the inmates havo numbered 564,000. Only 935 have been English. The Germans, Ger-mans, however, numbered 27,000, the Belgians 21,000, the Swiss 9.000 and the Italians 5,000. The index of The London Times back-to back-to 1844 has just been completed by Mr. Palmer, who ha3 conducted this' enormous enor-mous work, equivalent to indexing two huge volumes daily, for the whole period of forty-six years. He will continue his backward march until the index is completed com-pleted for the whole period of existence of the famous jouraul ' - i 1 |