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Show FRANCE'S SMALLEST CONSCRIPT. ".Jullen Touchard Do Mauves, 1 plus petit conacrit do France." Such was the announcement placarded upon the windows of a shop on a fete day In the town of Argentan. In France, during last summer. By paying a Email charge one might enter and look upon this extraordinary little man. By English calculations he Is thirty-four and a half Inchon In height and weighs forty-four pounds. Although be appears ap-pears like a child of four, yet he is over twenty years of age. On the latter lat-ter account ho has necessarily to respond re-spond to the call of his country; but . whether he will eventunlly Income a captain r generMl In the army remains re-mains to be seen. From the June Stroud. |