But what are they compared with Astral Bodies?
Of Useless Knowledge I have almost had enough,
I really envy uninquiring noddies,
I would not be a Chela if I could.
I have a horror of the Esoterical.
BESANT and OLCOTT _may_ be wise and good,
They seem to me pursuing the chimerical.
Maddened by mysteries of "Precipitation,"
The Occult Dream and the Bacillus-Dance;
We need Societies for the propagation
Of Useful--_Ignorance_!

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DWARFS IN AND ABOUT LONDON.

Sir,--We need not go so far afield as Messrs. HALIBURTON & CO. in
search of dwarfs. In the suburbs of London, and even in the more
densely-populated districts of this vast Metropolis, there are
numbers of people who are uncommonly short. About quarter-day these
extraordinary individuals may be heard of, but are rarely seen; which
fact, however, affords no proof of their non-existence.

Yours, TAXOS GATHEROS.

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LATEST PUBLICATION (OF THE POLITICAL NATURAL HISTORY
SERIES).--_Curious Development of French Froggies into Toadies of
Russia_.