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Show FFLOM OTHER LANDS Facilities for' dancing are; provided by the railways of .India on some of their trains de luxe. The Hindus have a superstitious belief that In an eclipse the sun or moon Is swallowed by a dragon. A' bill Is before the British parliament parlia-ment to ' legalize .marriage - between a man and his niece by marriage. Temperance advocates In Japan are agitating for "a law to prohibit the drinking of Intoxicants by persons under 25 years "of age.- Several men In- England who have achieved . prominence In business or public life recently confessed they had never -usud. a telephone, . Ore-M interest has been aroused In Japan hy the announcement of a Japanese Jap-anese scientist,' who says he has discovered dis-covered a method of obtaining two crops of rice a year.' With the Japanese the year of 1928 ! is the year of. the dragon, which de-! de-! mauds that the first temple visited to pray for good fortune during the year should be in a southerly direction from the place of abode: On New Year's day the railway and truetion lines running north and south did a record business. |