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Show HERE'S ATOUGH ONE. In the Maiiuf tctttres building at the Lewi and Clark IJx-povtion IJx-povtion is a biscuit of marvel on t'Mighne., tougher than the him 11 1 described in 'the funny t pipers and a thousand times at large and heavy, Thl alscuit is of rubber, and it Weighs 70 poundi. It ik worth about $too. The big biscuit is of Para rubber, rub-ber, the most valuable kind, and was made by natives in the juugles of South America, tlire thousand miles from the nioufjt; of the Amazon river. Para rubber, rub-ber, named from Para, a town near the mouth of the Amazon, originally was gathered near that place, but the ravages of of the rubber gatlicrers destroyed destroy-ed the industry, and now rub- aj j- beiti is grow only in the fat iu-Irot iu-Irot alleys. Under scientific irmlup U now in vogue the limit ofmililcr taken from each trie islbotit thr-e pounds. ffiHi lubber as it comes from iijDtut 11 about as thick as mo-ltK. mo-ltK. The nitiviH coagulate it M'Miiok.?, using a slick as the Cefftr. The big biscuit now at Utwortland World.s Fair was mjflt in that .iv. Rubber fiCT South Africa is not so VftHiMc King Icopold of Ilel- M U0W C0nl,'o, t,,e wtpnt. iwMp ''l hiv the natives used USjfcktiilate the rubber about a ttijK u 1 sell it by weight, rock Atulall. but this practice has befflLsiopped Xhe onlv rubber prMUcid iu Uncle SnitlVdoinaiii C6ifs from the southern islands offlie Philippine group. |