Railway Natural History In India

A correspondent of The Timos, India, who vouches forthhe truthof the story, tel Is how a lady traveling beween Kurrachee aud Multan with two tame squirrels was stopped at a station and told she must take a dog ticket for each squirrel, as squirrels were "dogs,"and was further oonipelled to put them in the dog box. Railway natural history in India wonld seem from the above to difïer from that tanght on English railway lines, where, accordins to the famous classiflcation, "cata is dogs, anc'. mbbits isdogs, and parrots likewise, but this yer tortis is a insec', and there ain't no charge. "