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Show Buying Crimean Clothes. Tho weather, as an English military mili-tary correspondent points out, may hnvo n groat effect on the war. It Is necessary, therefore, that abundance of wurm clothing bo provided for the soldlors. Hut wo have not always thought of this. Tn th Crimean war tho British troops suffered terribly from the cold until somo clothing genius Invented a pilot Jacket of sheopskln. So many of those wore made thnt nftor tho war thero was a surplus of -somo thousands, which wero kept In stock for qulto thirty years, whon thoy wero sold by auction auc-tion nnd found their way Into city 'nllors' shops, where thoy wero engor-ly engor-ly sii ipped up nn novoltlos. London Chronicle. |