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Show Truth About Lie-Tea. Nothing of tea leaves is wasted by the Chinese, the Scientific American tells us. They may be dried and pressed into bricks to be used as fuel in curing pork. The ashes of the fuel are used as fertilizers. At other times the spent leaves are stewed, or allowed allow-ed to stand fi. long time in water to extract ex-tract the tannin, which is used in making leather aud for dye. Sometimes Some-times the old leaves are used for foe: der. or (hey may be mixed with new leaves to .Icrm wba; is known as "i.e. j ten." |