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liked. Even America is setting its face against the present-day fashions. The girl clerks employed by a Connecticut firm have been notified that the management disapproves of slashed, slit, and shadow skirts, and porous-plaster blouses. _ A.bout 500,0001b. of human hair is imported into England from Europe yearly, Mil 1 000,0001b. from China, at prices ranging from 30s. to .£SO per lb. for ordinary "colours. For pure white hair, for which thero is a great demand, as much as 1255. an ounce, or £100 a pound l is sometimes obtained. , A woman's request for an order against her husband, wlioso week's earnings has! amounted to only Bs. id., caused the Tower Bridgo (London) Magistrate to exclaim: "Sly dear woman, I am not Moses; I cannot perform a miracle." A prison van, laden with prisoners, jammed ia tho rate of Old Street Poliue Station (London) recently. Tho anon inside san" comic songs and chaffed tho police while the vehicle was being freed, and when it was started again they oheorcdi