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Show , African Salt. Mons.. Laplcque informs the French Society of Biology 'that 25.000,000 hu-.man hu-.man beings In tho Congo region commonly com-monly employ salt of potassium in-' in-' stead of salt of sodium for seasoning their food. They obtain this salt from the ashes of certain plants. Recently, (1 since the opening up of the country, j ordinary 6alt has been, largely Im-i Im-i ported, but tho negroes regard it as in- Elpid. and abandon with regret tho I use of their familiar ashes. They take the imported salt only because it is chaap. Youth's Companion. 1 |