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Show i AFRICAN LAKE GOEB DRY. Scientists Much Puzzled Over Peculiar Pe-culiar Happening. I.ako Sliirwa, which has covered a considerable area of country to tho south of I.ako Kyassa, In Africa, ever jlnco that region has been known to whlto men, has now dried up completely com-pletely and local opinion leads to tho theory that It has vanished for good. Still, It would scarcely he advlsablo for settlers to attempt tlio creation of any garden cities or other establishments establish-ments anywhere on tho bed of tho old lake, which might fill up again at any time. Men drive their buggies and rido their horses along tho soft, Bnndy bods of tho Australian rivers In times ot long drought, but when the rains come the river steamers resumo their old places on tho nowly Hushed streams. It Is very odd that this groat Shirwa lake should vanish so completely com-pletely without any assignable reason and apprehension is felt lost something some-thing of tho kind will happen to Njassa or Tanganyika. The Deadly Mosquito. Tho mosquito which Injects yellow fovcr with Its probtscls bites by day as wall as by night, and Is called tho day or striped mosquito. It Is found chiefly in cities, whero It breeds In any chanco receptaclo ot water. The eggs are laid In standing water, and, although tho receptacle may dry up, the eggs do not deslcato, but will hatch as soon as It again contains wator. Tho larvae resemble thoso of other mosquitoes, and aro readily killed by a kerosene film on tho surface sur-face of the water. |