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two feet. It had two bodies joined at the one neck, which sup l 
ported one head, which had two mouths, one under the otf,” 
After a few hours the mother cat deliberately killed the kitten by | 
biting it through the neck. Surely this was the exercise of fie | 
t.— S. Lod 
to me many years ago by an old physician, of which the 
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two cats, each with a litter of kittens but a few days old. One 
the cats was very young, it was her first litter, and t 
was her mother. It was noticed that the younger cat =~ 
seem well. Each one had her litter by herself, although | 
were in the same room. As the old cat lay suckling her own 
ter, the young cat came to her mother and made a low me 
then went to her own litter. The old cat followed her and 1mm p 
diately began removing the grand-kittens, adding them fo ©) 
own. The truth was she had adopted them, and seeminey aE 
the request of their mother, for not many minutes more 
elapsed before they were orphaned by their mother's death: 
Lockwood. 
Porrry in DREAMS.—lIt is not unusual for persons adat 
dreaming to compose verses, blank or rhyming, but it 15 
On a few occasions he remembered a few lines of these p 
tions. We append them as curiosities. The first is sim 
“ The copest leaves do hum exasperated horrors round!” 
The second: 
“ The ship of the desert is vanished forever, 
F Like music dried up in the bed of a river.” 
Another : 
; “ Emaciated swallows floating through the air, 
Two legs flung out behind, and two before.”’ 
ANTHROPOLOGY.’ 
Columbia, thirty Chinese coins in the auriferous sand, tW® g 
feet below the surface. They appeared to have been strung 
on taking them up the miner let them drop apart. = 
above and around them was as compact as any in the n 
hood. One of these coins I examined at the store of 
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