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Evening Star, Issue 15600, 17 September 1914, Page 4

News has been received at Bombay of the discovery of * female mowgli (the name given' by Kipling iu his * Jungle Books' to an Indian boy who was eupposed to have been reared by vrolvos) at Kami Tal, the summer headquarters of the Government of the. north-western provinces. That she is human is proved by the fact, that there are vacoination marks on both arms, but exposure to tb? elements has caused a thick growth «f hair down each side of the face and *pin«, which makes her appearance morp like that of 4 monkey than a human being. There is evidence (hat she has alway? wg,lkcd upright, but her sitting posture ir that of a monkey, as are all her actions. She was very frightened when £rst, ca«ght, and cried and whimpered. Her diet was grass and raw potatoes, but later she was induced to tyke bread and milk. She i«; of course, unable to talk, but there is no doubt that she can hear. Every indication points to the conclusion that monkey* were her foster-parent*. The natural' in the bazaar (non : Ew»pe*n trading garters) deelaro. however, that th« mowgh wa* reared by bea«. Th» siKowm W g caufdd F e,t ln^ssr * W At !»*■«* dates th* eMd W being est«l «w i» the Naini Tal Hospital. j. law iu M«?icc compels a Itorwon win to about to take, a sepemd wife to exhibit a certificate signed by the first wiw. wwounpn* her wiilinnnets. Ho inust also product rh» written content of tbo eecqpcl wife amd hat parentsA tramp who took refuge tma tfce intense cold in a bakery »ear Guadalajaw, Spain, vm scored vp dei<t\i by t&e heat of Un» ovens while his companion, who lay dowi; by the roadside, w*» frozen to deatfi.