From THE "Nortu-Cutna Dairy News" or Ocroser 6, 1870
The natives in India, are always ainu: ing themselves with some queer stone: regarding the doings of the Government. The newspapers mention two, current just now, which rival the kidnapping and mutilation tales of China. "Report prevails in the village of Bagnapara, to the effect that Government is boring the ears of all child-Ten with a serpent's bone the consequence being a great panic, and the locking up of the little children." So. too. in Santipore and Hooghly. believed that "Government is causing the ears and noses of children to br bored with the bone of a cobra; and whet the child dies from a swelling in the cheeks, and throat, the body is taken, and an oil prepared from it." But in India these tales have no politico? significance. They rise no one knows, how, and die out as they
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.