SKIN-DISEASE IN FOWLS.Skin-disease is, nine times out of ten, caused by the feathers being swarmed by parasites.

Most are covered with skin-disease, so we push on ahead, but are caught up, for the loathsome creatures get over the ground with extraordinary speed.

Everything else is a sort of skin-disease which has appeared on the surface of Nature, a disease which we call civilization.'

Young men leap over the flames, but girls and women content themselves with going round them, while they pray to be preserved from the itch and other skin-diseases.

KISSINGEN (4), Bavarian watering-place on the Saale, 65 m. E. of Frankfort-on-the-Main, visited for its saline springs by 14,000 people annually; its waters are used both internally and externally, and are good for dyspepsia, gout, and skin-diseases.