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Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13644, 8 February 1913, Page 3

A Johannesburg . furrier . announces to ladies that "ha \vill.mako capes, jackets, etc., out of their own skins!"

Mr Henry Hayhoe' a Crimean veteran, who was severely •'wounded in the battle of Inker man, is still an active member of the Bury St. Edmunds fire brigade. ,■'■-.. .

In Baltimore, .Maryland, a now employment has just been found for' the blind. Very recently an experiment van miade with a- blind girl at a telephono operator at one. of the exchanges. Her work was so good,, and' she was so accurate and.'careful, that the telephone' company decided to secure other girls from the Maryland School for the Blind. There are now over twelve of these sightless operators b*"ing employed.-in Baltimore; and they5 not only &ivo satisfaction, Hut are declared to bo superior to girls possessed of their sight, i.»id the managers believe that the field or" work can be. opened to many otnei*>.