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Show GATHERED HERE AND THERE Eighteen thousand bricks can be manufactured by the steam process u ten hours. Bananas can be best ripened in a oom kept at 110 degrees. A campaign has been started in Philadelphia to train 40,000 citizen sol-Hers sol-Hers in that city. The tuberculosis death rate of New Fork, Philadelphia and Boston combined com-bined has declined from 380.6 per 100.000 of population in 18E2 to 161.6 n 191 i. The 1914 death rate was. :herrfore, only 43.2 per cent of that Df 1SS2, or, to put It the other way, :he death rate of 1 882 had by 1914 fallen CO. 8 per cent. No olh'-r plant gives such a quan-ity quan-ity of food to the acre as the banana, ba-nana, which Is 40 times more than '.he potato s:id 133 times more than wheat. Oranile is the bottom of the earth's crUBt |