Bombay, Feb. 23.
Reports of fossil remains of a human race less than two feet in stature are now definitely established to have been @ hoax, which originated in a Tocal superstition that trouble could be Tighted by spreading any rumour which the world generally would beeve.
The reports, which first appeared in a usually reliable weekly paper, stated that fossil remains bad Been discovered in Vadnagar, in the State of Baroda, of a pygmy man who was nly 18 inches tal, and of a cow that was only 18 inches In height. A walking stick 10 inches in length was also stated to have been found—
Reuter.
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