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Stimulus to bodily cleanliness and purity incited by itsloathsome presenco on those who are dirty and vicious.Lice, say thcse writers, are eaten by thc Hottontots, andnatives of thc Western Coast of Africa, who, from theirlove of such game, which they not only collect themselvesfrom head quarters, but likewise employ their wives inthe chase, have bcen sometimes called Phthirophagi."

In thc Lancet, October 2nd, 1880, was related (heinstance of a soldier who came as an out-patient to ono ofthe hospitals because of much buzzing in the ear, andvertigo, which made him turn round and round dis-tressingly. One syringeful of lukewarm water broughtout the offending cause, a louse of ratber large size, anddark. The soldier left the hospital intensely grateful.

In Beaumont and Fletcher's Thierry, oecurs the pass-age : " Die of the jaundice, yethave the eure about you :lice, large lice, begot of your own dust, and the heat ofthe brick-kilns."

Wurtzung, says Southey, has notieed concerning lice,and persona afflicted with them : "yet have they thiscommodity thereby that they who have most lice hewholly freed from the headachc." " Forty years longhave I bcen grieved with this generation," read theparson, whilst inadvertently scratching Ins head.

MAGPIE.A.CTTJALLY the Magpie is a simple l'ie, with a prefix tothis of the abbreviated familiär name " Margaret,"" Madge," or " Mag.'' It is the Pica major, or greaterTic, as distinguished from l'ica minor, the lesser Pie ;and " Magot " ; being also called " Melanoleuca," blackand white. The bird, says the Encyclopedia Britannica,"is no longer the merry, saucy hanger-on of the home-stead, but has become a suspicious thief which shuns the