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Show Curio Collector's Queer. Fads. No ono knows qulto so well as a curio, collector how many qucor fads occupy tho minds of peoplo who havo both leisure and monoy. Ono woman who 1 an adopt In tho art of llndlng things In out of tho way places and gottlng thorn at low prices 13 now working on no less than 50 different collections, many of which aro do-cldedly do-cldedly freakish. Hore aro a fow of thorn: Stuffed toads for a woman who already has various specimens of tho genus toad In his various shapes and sizes, fossilized vegetation, vegeta-tion, odd bottles, teeth of famous peoplo, peo-plo, photographs of particularly vl-, clous animals, paper wolghts, door koys, oxact miniature copies of inventions in-ventions for tho punishment of criminals,, crim-inals,, and skins of cats of lofty lino-ago. lino-ago. Tho foregoing fads aro soloctod at random, hut sorvo to 'show tho scopo of tho work undertaken by a porson who adopts curio collecting ns a profession. |