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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 7

In spile of the declaration of the Prussian Minister of tho Interior that tho Government as a whole was opposed to tho introduction of compulsory voting, the Franchise Comraitteo of tho Lower House of the Diet Las decided in favour of the principle. The Saracens were the first to use glass for mirrora. Formerly these had been composed of motals; .but at the time of the Crusades an improvement was effected by tinning the back of the glass as wo now silver it. The idea thjit every candidate for Parliamentary, municipal, and other State and public positions should be subjected to a phrenological examination hns been put boforo the British Phrenological Society by Mr. J. M. Severn. One pair of tomtits in tho nesting soaeon will catch and deliver to the brood between four and five thousand insects, chiefly grubs and caterpillars, but ante come in for a good deal of persecution, end even bees and wasps are accepted in liard times.