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the stable, jumped over the board and lay down, when the rats 
at once ran under her and commenced sucking. What makes 
the matter more singular is, the coachman told me the cat was a 
particularly good ratter, and was kept in the stable for the pur- 
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pose of keeping down rats. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.* 
Tue ARCHÆOLOGICAL InstituTe.—The fourth annual report of 
the executive committee, just issued, has its cheering and its 
gloomy side. Three separate narratives are included in the same 
pamphlet. 1. Mr. Bandelier has continued his researches in New 
z ~ eges in our country. This institution has passed through ko 
ntical period of its first year, and gives every evidence of a 
Permanent success. 
; Tne Caarway Cottection.—The Lorillard expedition enna 
co and Central America has produced its fruit. According to 
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