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Show FOREICN NOTES- Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, is no longer considered the hottest place on the earth. Scinde, an Indian proyinee, and Bushire, on the Persian gulf, are said to be places of "fiery heat," and the Russians claim that there are places in Central Asia where the heat is still more terrible. At Bushire, ur.der peculiar circumstances, of course, ISO degrees have been recorded. At times the coolest place ia Shikarpur shows a heat of 140 degrees. At Sukkur, India, the lowest temperature is 97 degrees, and when tho Sufc (a hot wind from the desert) Wows, "nil life withers." But the worst of all desert winds is the Bad-i-simoon, which not only kills everything in its path, but actually burns up tissue and cartilege, so tiiat the limbs can be torn asunder. According Ac-cording to one authority 120 may be regarded re-garded as the temperature of the hottest ciimatcs in the world when no wind blows. French science has to deal with a peculiar problem, how to prevent tho depopulation of the country, which is now going on so rapidly that the deaths exceed the births by uearly 40,000 in a single year. Increasing the birth rate having proved impracticable, the present hope is to diminish the death rate. At a recent meeting ofhe new society for the protection of children Dr. Rochard referred to the fact that only cisrht years asro he was laughed at for predicting that the population would become stationary before ihe end of the century, and stated that 250,000 infants die yearly, of whom at least i 100,000 could be saved "by intelligent care. I Stringent laws have been already passed to aid in preventing this great waste of life. It is now illegal for any person to give children chil-dren under 1 year of age any solid food except ex-cept on medical advice, and nurses are forbidden for-bidden to use nursing bottles having rubber tubes. Efforts are being made also to induce in-duce Parisian mothers to nurse their own infants. |