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Show FROM FIELDS AFAR. At Calcutta a society has been formed for tho protection of wild animals. ani-mals. Tho German department of roads and communities has ordered the attendants at-tendants on sleeping cars to wear gloves while on duty. Tho provincial legislature of British Brit-ish Columbia has passed a law abolishing abolish-ing tho wearing of wigs as an accompaniment ac-companiment of official attire. Tho struggles for efficiency In tho British army proceeds apace. The war office now proposes to alter tho pitch of tho bands of the guards. ' Tho two-year enlistment plan In France la likely to deprive tho French army of Its bands. An efficient bandsman bands-man Is not to bo made In two years. Thirty.sevcn rabbits which had been Inoculated with tho typhoid bacillus havo been stolen from tho bacteriological bacterio-logical instituto at Saarbruck, Prussia. Prus-sia. Tho youngest master of foxlmunds In tho world Is Lord Do Clifford, who Is 18, and has beon master of tho Dalgan pack, In County Galway, Ireland, Ire-land, for two years. A statue Is to bo orected in Tarls In honor of Philippe Lebon, who took out a patent In 1801 on the uso of gas for lighting purposes, of which ho was tho Inventor. Ho wss murdered in 1804. Rowland Ward, of London, has Just sold to a continental firm for 400 a mounted specimen of the great auk. There are 70 known specimens of tho " bird In existence. Most of them aro In state museums. Tho Toklo Street Railway company serves a population of 1,600,000. In Japan It Is known as the Toklo Shlgal Tedsudo. Its capital Is $7,600,000. , After 1932 the city of Toklo has tho , right to buy the property at Its then , valuo. |