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Show A uiibatltoto Tor Steel. An o.ld Cargo of Afrle on vegetable fllMT, tough as sU-i'l itself. ! belny lauded lu Philadelphia fioin tho Italian bark Nuovu Mindo. Tho vtstwl brought two thousand two hundred and thirty-six thirty-six hales of it from Orait, nn Algerian oenport hi tlie Mediterranean boa. The liber bus been found to lie so elastic Hint it can lw uud as n substitute for spring nnd the llteo In the manufue-turo manufue-turo of ftirnlturo back wind bents. It Is expanslvo nnd so enslly nITeetod by higher tonipernturwi lu It dry statu that the bales uro lield in placo by hands of lienvy steel. Tlio pocullurlty of tho grass Is that. It thrives only around tlio voleanlo moimtlan slopes of Orun nnd flourishes up to within n short distiineo of tlio ernters themselves. them-selves. Tlio lattor nro always lu n scral-netlvo slate, and the earth urouiid Is so warm thnt not u plant of nny kind can thrive or ia ever seen to grow except tbU stenl-llko plant. When dry uml llullcncd out It will plerco a body jiku un urrovy, . ttT" |