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Show Thirty Miles In the Earth. Rev. Osmond Fisher, in a very reliable reli-able work entitled "Physics of the Earth's Crust," says that "the rate of increase in temperature as the distance beneath the surface is augmented is, on the whole, an equable one and may be taken to average about a degree for each 51 feet " Figuring on this statement state-ment as the most reliable, we find that at a depth of 80 miles below the cur-face cur-face all known metals and rooks are in state of white hot fusion. iilliiiiiiiiMiiiim!ii'.'iiwnwmiiiiiwiiiii..iiiuwii,iiiw .1 wp .i mwww Minimi iuar'i ne wuroc meat procuraDia, with truffles molded out of earth. Vegetables--A salad acidulated with oil of vitriol and green peas verdant with copper. Dessert Chocolate cream, sweetened with glucose and colored with the ox-Ide ox-Ide of mercury and ocher. Coffee Roasted horse liver, with mahogany ma-hogany sawdust and caramel. Liquor -Kirsch," flavored with prosaic pros-aic acid. Perhaps you fancy that thia bill of fare is exaggerated All you have to do is to look at Chevalier and Beaudir-, mont's volume entitled "Falsification of Alimenatry Substances," and you will find the actual facts. San Francisco Fran-cisco Argonaut |