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Show MAGNA TIMES J Chinese Widely Spoken Plants Used as Narcotics Chine is the most widely spoken Two Interesting plants used ss language, and it has been estimated narcotics or stimulants the popthat at least 400,000.000 speak it in py and tobacco. Chineseart originated its various dialects. English is next, opium smoking and the Indians towith 200.000.000, followed by bacco smoking. Tea was supposed to prevent dropsy, to overcome rawHindustani, 100,' 000,000; German. 80,000,000; French ness, to vanquish superfluous sleep, and Spanish, 70.000,000 each; Japato purify a persons humor and a nese, 65,000,000; Portuguese, 60,000-00bot liver. A Japanese tea room Is Italian, 50,000,000; Polish, generally kept bare and simple. One Greek. 9,000,000; poet describes drinking tea as fol6,000,000, and Bohemian, lows: the first cup moistens the 7,000,000. Although there are about throat, the second relieves loneliness, 6,000 languages spoken in the world, the third revives memories of books no other language has 7,000,000 and stimulates him to write new speaking it ones, the fourth causes sweating, the fifth completes purificationT six The Original Uncle Sam summons him to the gods, and the There was an original Uncle Sam. seventh welcomes him into their His name was Samuel Wilson, and presence. he lived in Troy, N. Y., where he was in charge of inspecting and stampAsh From Crematioa ing goods purchased for the governCremation destroys everything ment. He was nicknamed Uncle that is combustible and leaves beSam, because of his own name and hind a small amount of ash. only the fact that he stamped all governIn the case of a human body, this ment goods U. S. Instead of be- amounts to about four pounds of ing the long and lanky symbolic fig compounds of calcium, potassium, ire known as Uncle Sam, he iron, etc., with was short and stocky. Uncle Sam sodium, magnesium, oxygen. The composition and prodied in 1854. portions of these will vary with the composition of the original vege"Who Was David s Mother? table or animal matter. The question. Who was David's mother? is often quotedas unanClouds Not Water Vapor swerable as Sam Lloyds puzzle The weather bureau says that How old was Ann? King David, clouds are not made of water vapor. who reigned over Israel about 1000 Water vapor Is an Invisible gas. B. C., was the son of Jesse of Bethlehem. He had several brothers When air which contains water vaand sisters, but the name of his por is cooled sufficiently some of the vapor condenses into tiny water mother is not recorded in the Bible. droplets or, at temperatures below freezing, ice crystals. Fog and Earliest Codification of Roman Law clouds are composed of such waThe earliest codification of the ter or ice crystals. droplets Roman law was engraved or painted on tables of wood. These were Saint Johns Wert originally ten in number, but two Saint Johns Wort (Hypericum) Is others were afterward added, conto show red spots on Augtaining supplemental matter, and supposed ust 29, the day St. John was bethe whole code was termed the Lex a writer in the Rural XU Tabularum (Law of the Twelve headed, says It is supposed to keep Tables!. away evil spirits, ghosts or thunderbolts, and if hung in the bedroom of Flowers Mark Burled Villages a young maid she can dream of her Flowers of Alaska are Indicators future husband. of prehistoric buried villages. Village garbage and refuse bones, Weapons Displayed by Museum shells, rotted wood constitute part Guns, pistols, revolvers, cutlasses, of the soil, and this soil is difTerent from that of other areas. Hence swords, and bayonets, graphic evidences of the increased murderousthe growths that thrive in it are ness of man from days up to the World war, are conin the notable collection of tained Music la Vienna Library small firearms on exhibition at tho The music department of VienFort McHenry National museum, na's national library contains some Baltimore, Md. 20.000 books of printed music, some 12.000 volumes of M. S. S.. and Dixie Brought Small Fay more than 8,000 books of musical Daniel D. Emmett, who wrote literature for reference. that peppy favorite of the Southland, Dixie," which Lincoln asked Brick Used in Longfellow House of the war, The brick used in building the to be played at the end got only $500 in the sale of the Henry W. Longfellow house at Portland, Maine, was brought by boat from Philadelphia. A mansion of Rivers Flow Into Oceans the formal type, it was built in 1785 Atlantic and Pacific creeks, two by Gen. Peleg Wadsworth. streams in Yellowstone National Old park, flow into each other in such Legend Oyster r way at Two Ocean pass that The belief that oysters should not from each finds its way into be eaten in any month of v. hich uie both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. name does not contain the letter r dates from the Seventeenth Discovery of Magnetism Discovery of the simple princiWide Range in Color ples of magnetism possessed by No other tropical hardwood has magnetite, or loadstone, was made the wide range of color variants of by the Chinese in 1400 B. C., or ,500 years before magnetism was Philippine mahogany, which runs from deep cream to deep, rich known in Europe. brown. ' Serbo-Croatia- r OF LIFE THESUNNY J25S! VS UJrSrt" 0; IV Ry Friday, February MAGNA, UTAH Clean Comics That Will Amuse Both Old and Young n, THE FEATHERHEADS Off the Sound . ppobablv Because HAS HAD SO it MUCH EXERCIS- E- OUCH T "to (So To T J TV wux I -- Vou DD SBE" HIM ? 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