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Show SCRAPS More than two-thirds of the fatal cases of measles occur in children under un-der three years of age. Paintings on rocks, discovered In South Africa, bear a resemblance to the art of far-away Egypt. Skeletons of about 80,000 horses were found near a settlement of ancient an-cient men at Solntre, France. In tracing the careers of 100 000 automobiles, It was found that 5,000 of them had lasted twelve years. A cow belonging to Thomas Me-Glone, Me-Glone, of Harrodsburg, Ky, died suddenly. sud-denly. A post-mortem examination revealed that the animal had eaten a quilt Footprints on bricks found during excavations at Belsan are said to be the prints of a child five years old who walked acroBs the soft, balf-drled brick 3,000 years ago. A method of treating seed corn with chemical dust, developed by government govern-ment scientists, results in Increased yield of one to twelve bushels an acre at a cost of five cents an acre. |