The mania for "collecting" is apt to take strange forms, but a craving te copy the various designs on the coaLhole plates in London streets is one that has surely never been heard of before. Yet such was the Inobby of a certain Dr, Taylor, now nonagenarian, jiving in Norfolk. At first he made sketches of the more simple devices and passed on to the more complicated patterns. He took no casts, but simply made notes of their characteristic features and before long he was able to notice the smallest difference between any two "opercula," as he called them. A booklet showing a selection of his sketches is now being published by "The Ironmonet
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