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Tea Is a germicide according to a Bos-
ton physician, who claims # Is an es-
pecially rank enemy Of the typhoid
bacillus
Missouri led IN the production Of
lead in the United States in 1907. push
Ing Idaho. the leader In 1906. back to
second place.
Although the house fly lays eggs. the
flesh fly. better known as the 'blue
bottle" produces living larvae. about
Fifty at tlme
A $4,000 plant for the production OF
ozone by elecrolysls. the largest In the
world, has been completed at a Pitts
burg hospital
a Norwegian factory receives power
for six turbines from water that falls
s.28T feet through tunnel from a lake
seven miles away.
Peru has officially adopted as It's
standard time that Of the seventy-ffth
meridian, the same as eastern time
in the United States.
The electrical equipment Of the Gu
nard liner Mauretania includes over
go miles Of cables. and more than
5000 16-candIe-p0wer lamps
Three parts By weight Of boracic acid
70 one Of powdered borax makes good
compound for Brazing steel 1t should
be applied as a paste with water.
On the west coast Of India IS found
a species Of oyster. Placuna placenta.
whose shell consists Of pair Of rough
" circular plates about six inches in
diameter, thin and white At present
these oysters are collected for the pearls
which they often contain. although few
are 1T for the use OF the jeweler But
in the early days OF English rule IN
India the shells were employed for
window-paras- Cut into little squares,
they produced a very pretty effect. adj
hitting light ike frosted glass. When
the Bombay cathedral was built. at the
OF the eighteenth century, Its
windows were paned with there oyster
shells. IN Goa they are still thus en-
ployed
Prof Arthur o. Lovejoy, as the re-
suit OF an inquiry into the origin and
Of lire cults" so common
among ancient nations and among mod
ern savage and 'barbarous tribes sug-
Zests that many races conceived the
sacred fire" not rs a practical con-
yenIence or an ancient custom or
means Of frightening demons. but as
a vehicle OF life. or magical energy.
the prosperity OF the household or tribe
depending in part on the perpetulty,
7ftalIty and purity Of the fire II was
thought Of az subject TO a tendency to
row old and weak. Ike all natural
the custom OF periodical
' renewing IT This conclusion Is based
1artly upon the statements made by the
-rOquois Indians and the Maoris-
Or. Robert Z. ecker. writing 10 Sci
nee from Lima. advocates the protec-
ion Of the guanO-producing bIrds-the
.guanae.' a species Of cormorant. and
he "aIea raz. a species Of peIiran-
Z order that the Peruvian deposits OF
his valuable manure may be in part,
enewed The great ancient deposits
e says, are now almost nou-existent-
,nly the lower grades OF guano are left
'ut the birds annually make fresh de
osits on their nesting grounds. and II
hey were property protected. he be
ewes that the annual supply OF fresh
eposits would be largely increased
he birds, he says. should no longer
e treated as wild animals. They should
? regarded as valuable domestic ami
ais. At present they are decreasing
number. but this decrease e0nlf Re
'ecked. They are also driven from
leir haunts during the season when
ley should be allowed To remain there
hen driven away By the presence Of
an during the nesting season. they
,eud a large part OF their time upou
Ie water, or on small islets and cliffs
here the deposits are either lost en-
rely or are rendered less available