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Evening Star, Issue 7410, 4 January 1888, Page 1

The venomous snakes of India show no signs of becoming scarcer. Last year, opt of a total of 22,905 human beings killed by wild beasts, no less than 20,667 are known to have fallen victims to snake bites, A war of extermination is being carried on with some success in the Bombay Presidency, where rewards were paid for the death of nearly 300,000 serpents, and in the Punjab 50,000 were disposed of. The other divisions did not do so well, and the result is seen in an increased death-rate from snakfl-bifes to both Madras andJßengal. European* rarely sufferharm their feet,- ymoMm jie -priffijMj «*%ody most fretperitiVisJruck WwmbVb. , Still the orchid war lady in New York who rß&ea6ft*fiatfhfcs »|fe*dy 2,000 specimens, and is -jonstanay oh (he look-out for more varieties. Among them is a plant which sells for fifty gtuneas in London. The rage for orchids la nWatita height, and the rivalry amon£ &&hionable growers waxes, hbt. No more way of emptying one's parse could'b% 1 ddfwL than by investing in orobid Jjfaty ri -Mo§