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Show Snow an Effective Substitute for Ice In, some foreign countries, where natural, difficulties have stimulated human Inventiveness, It Is quite usual for snow to be collected during the coldest part of the winter and burled well-pressed down to specially dag pita. So Intensely cold do these blocks of compressed snow become un-- un-- der this treatment that after a few hours they freeze into solid lumps of Ice, which keep almost Indefinitely and can be dug up when required, suys the Detroit News. . Especially in very hot countries these pits are frequently situated on mountains. Macedonia is one of the . ' countries which adopted this method of Insuring an adequate supply of let during the summer. It Is a remark-. able fact that an Ice supply laid down In this way at the beginning of the winter will lust right up to the end , of a summer consisting of many months of almost unbearable heat |