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Show GATHERED HERE AND THERE Eighteen thousand bricks can be manufactured by the steam process in ten hours. Funanas can be best ripened in a room kept at 110 degrees. .A campaign has been started in Philadelphia to train 40,000 citizen soldiers sol-diers in that city. The tuberculosis death rate of New York, Philadelphia and Boston combined com-bined has. declined from 3S0.6 per 100,000 of population in 18S2 to 164.6 In 1914. The 1914 death rate was, therefore, only 43.2 per cent of that of 18S2, or, to put it the other way, the death rate of 1.8S2 had by 1914 fallen 56. S per cent. No other plant gives such a quantity quan-tity of food to the acre as the banana, ba-nana, which is 40 times more than the potato and 133 times more than wheat. Granite is the bottom of the earth's crust. The man who discovered Pike's peak said that it would never be climbed Today the topmost point is accessible to automobiles. The United States public health service believes that the common towel spreads trachoma, a disease of the eyes. An Alaskan buieau in Seattle, aiming aim-ing to advance their propaganda for making Alaskan waters more safe is Bending to every congressman a map and data showing the recent loss i; the Alaskan trade of 402 bottoms, with 449 lives, and $13,S67,CSS value if hulls and cargoes |