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Show Interesting' Bits, Raisins are the dried fruit of the grapevine and aro produced cbleliy in Spain, although vines are cultivated in many other countries Italy, California, Australia, Greece. They arc usually partially dried on the vines, the stalk being twisted or broken to prevent moisture from reaching them, and the drying Is completed in a. warm room. They are packed for exportation either In bunches, like tho muscatel raisins from Malaga, or loose, as In the case of tho Valencia raisins. Sultanas are a small, seedless variety of grape, exported ex-ported from Smyrna, and currants a Gtill smaller variety, exported from tho Islands of the Grecian archipelago. It was recently discovered that the bulkheads In nomc of England's modern mod-ern warships are useless to resist sea-water sea-water pressure. By order of the Admiral Ad-miral of tho channel licet the steel walls of all the splritrooms were shored up and water was pumped In. Long before the compartments In several of the ships were full the water-tight doors and walls began to give and buckled several Inches. Had tho rooms been filled with water, ns they might have been in the event of collision, and had there been no shores, the walls would inevitably have burst and the other bulkheads gone In turn, with disastrous dis-astrous results In summer time the air used for ventilating ven-tilating the House of Commons In London Lon-don passes through blocks of Ice. In winter it is heated. In fog the outer air passes through layers of cotton wool six inches thick. During forty-eight forty-eight hours of fog. the cotton wool on one occasion was as black as the back of a chimney. Thanks to these precautions, pre-cautions, tho house has been absolutely absolute-ly free from mist and the atmosphere Is in normal condition while a dense fog prevails outside. The normal temperature tempera-ture of the House of Commons is kept at the level of 62. except In sultry weather, when it is raised to C5 degrees. A sea pie, weighing 210 pounds, was the chief feature of a recent dinner at Gorleston, England. The cook was an old North sea skipper, who built the pie with three decks and cooked It for nine hours. On each deck met and vegetables were placed Chicago News. |