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AIN FACTORS OF GAS ENGINE ARE EXPLAINED.
• YTrxd he hood of the modern auto- the end of the cylinder, another valve,
mobilex.� • a marvelous mechanism• called tho exhaust valve, is caused to
With 'spry little attention from the open and the burited,gas is allowed to
cer'et Amer this piece of machinery, escape Pram the oyliatdet: into the
pea on cbay after day performing the muffler. That muffler provides a chain-.
eervice for middle it was designed. leer in which thegas cools and silent:y
Without thisdependability the motor-' escapes to the air.
lays 'life would be beetle indeed. The action of the ert;;ine is divided
Thil is the gasoline engine now used into five points: First, the piston
in practically all automobiles in this' travels outward and draws gas from
country. It coneists in its simplest' the carburetor through the -open iltlet
form, et a single cylinder something valve into the cylinder. Second, the
like a stovepipe. Inside of this cylin inlet salve closes, the piston travels
compressed into
is este
the gas
shaped toand andp
1my
der slides a plug of metal, s pi
fit the interior of the cylinder snugly, a small space at the top of the ;:ylin-
i
This piston is. connected to a crank. by, der.: Third; a spark occurs igniting
his
Wane of -a connecting rod which' the gas and causing it to expand. T
transforms
s the hack -and -forth or re-! forces the piston outward and pro-
ciprocating motionof the pistoneinto' duces' the power which drives. the ma -
a rotary motion. In the automobile' chine. Fourth; the e, haust valve
this rotary motion in turn is transmit -1 opens and'the burned gas is forced out
ted to the rear wheels, ( as the piston goes inward. Fifth,
Engines in motor vehicles are now! when the piston has reached the fur -
made up of from four to twelve of Chest inward position the cylinder is
these cylinders coupled together. They ready to take in a new charge of gas
are most usually found in a combine- and repeat the cycle_
tion of six cylinders: However, there 011. surPLIED AUTOMATICALLY.
are ninny four -cylinder cars and some 1 br'cata system is embodied in
v eight and twelve cylinders. While A a ng y
have e g Y the -engine so as to' keep the •pistons
and other sliding parts from excessive
wear. This automatically supplies oil
to all the.bearings whenever the en-
gine is in operation.
To keep
the tremendous heat of the
burning gas from overheating theen-
gine, a cooling...sys'tem is provided.
This usually consists of jackets for
water, which are located around the
cylinders so as to absorb some of the
heat, a radiator on the front of the
ders do the same sort of work as the car for cooling the water and a pump
'single cylinder except that each, does to keep the water circulating through
it atcylinder jackets and the radiator.
a different time. the
By way of ceasing the engine to
Then there is an igniter for distri-.
iterate power a mixtureofasoline buting the sparks' to the different: cyl-
and
finders at the proper time; an electric'
and air in the form of a vapor is fed de liny
into r above the p to the c piston. To generator for' providing electricity to
provide 'this mixture a carburetor is cause the spark, a battery in which to
attached to the engine and a valve is store the.' current generated, and an
furnished which opens to Permit the 'electric motor operated by the battery
mixture to enter at the proper time, for "cranking the engine in starting.
This valve is opened by a earn which These are the main factors in . the
is driven by a suitable gearing at-
modern gasoline automobile engine.
With RTC -ordinary car .it will give de-
pendable service to the motorist over
a long period of time.
the original motor ear engine had but
one cylinder, a larger number of cyl-
inders were; added as •greater power
andy flexibility were desired. The tend-
ency now is to greater use of site' and
eight oyllnder machines,,
CYLINDERS ACT ALIKE,
To understand the operation of the
single cylinder is to appreciate the ac-
tion of the twelve -cylinder engine or
any other number. The twelve eylin-
tacbed to the crankshaft.
This mixture is compressed inthe
ceairider and then ignited by means of
a spark Which occurs at the spark.
plug. When the mixture is ignited it.
burns rapidly and produces•heat. This'
.end a small drop of ink,
in turn causes pressure _on the piston, Falling like dew upon a thought, pro -
forcing it to slide' in theacyander and duces
through means of the coltnecting rod That which makes thousands, perhaps
to turn the crank, millions think.
The piston having been_ forced to -Byron.
Commercial Fish. Production
in Western Canada.
The value of production of the com-
mercial fisheries of the three Prairie
Provinces and the Yukon Territory in
1925, as reported by the .Dominion
Bureau of Statistics; ;was $2,380,528, an
Increase over the preceding year of
$307,591. Manitoba and Alberta show
increases in value' while slight de-
creases are shown for Saskatchewan
and Yukon Territory. Pickerel, white-
fish and tullibee, in the ordernamed,
are the principal kinds of fish in Mani-
toba; whitefish and trout in.Saskatche-
wan; whitefish, pickerel and pike in
Alberta, and salmon in theYukon Ter-
ritory. The catch of whitefish in the
provinces and territoryunder review
amounted to 115,520 cwt., valued at
$1,044,852: This value • represents 44.
percent. of the total -value of the .coni
mercial fisheries of, the• provinces and..
territory:
Recipe for Sunnner.
Iaori ierfect stxawberrying wait tillthe
sun is high
And take' no basket Let the•fieids be -
warm.
Down to their roots. Then chocse:a
meadow -
Of sheeted daisies mixed with butter-
cups,
Sloping if possible to an expanse of
Be sure the clover is abundant there.
So that you breathe, its fragrance with
each breath.
If birds are singing, pause to listen to
thein, San tz y
"I, desire particular:y to express," ._._
Till sight and smell and sound are all «, Britoil, pu e�
commingled lie wrote in his will,.: n the most em-
g Allow $1 25•.Persheeted
;l1 ig; torq' Bird' Convention
Act,
A summary of Cbo Migratory Birder
, 'ortvention dot i given below, ,:,This .
is. 'thio' law vithlcla is based upon the
Treaty with the United States, Any
enguiriee concerning this law zee)! be
-44th -eased to the Commissioner of the
Canadian National, Parks, Dept. of the
Interior, Ottawa.
a QPi1N SEASONS. `-
Both Datea'Inelusive,•--Onteeio.
Duclst#, Geese, Brant and Rails, Sept,
1 -Dec, 11;
Wiison'e hr Jack Snipe, and Greater
end,' Lesser Yellowlegs, Sept, l-Deo,15,
Woodcock, Sept. 15 -Nov.
>,x.:•a:.,,,•:aa�ti4\ •�Ra • :. , ;Ftii.',tfi �cx .ca,., m'* `......>f�.Y3�. ,....4 a ., •>,, yr . ±5, •.�;\ S tin s \..,rir '.,•� t +,� ,..,'as.•, w•w.. < w�.t.
A a protest• French war ;veterans 'recently aracled past the George W sh.ngton statue in There is a elosethseason, throughout
As against the 111ellanilerzengei Debt Agreement, 20,000 ,v d i?
• 'h Fr oe' . debt •io 1 m zea be. ex ressed by the. the year in Ontario on Band -tailed
Paris. The•photograph was taken alter they had visited the Arc de Ttionlplre attci laid awreath t ere. err s P. b e y p Eider Duck (the latter may
fact that the franc at present is worth less than three cents instead of the normal twenty ,cents,` I'zgeons'
,.� - be taken during the open season in
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Cosr�+:etics of Tutankhamen
Exhibited to British Scientists
London. A tiny vial, contain-
ing cosmetics used by Tutankh-
amen 8,800 years ago, found"in the
alabaster coffer in his tomb, was pro-
duced at the British Association
meeting at Oxford. by Chanston
Black -Eyed Susans..
The sky was the bluest blue,
The clouds were the fluffiest white,'
2s over the hill we went, we two, .:
To loole for a new delight. -
And we. found it not far away
In a field near a singiug'brook;
A riot of color so ,gay •
That we Iingered a .while to look.
Chapman, an eninent chemist, to Then I lifted he aver tire fence
whom it has been entrusted for an For her age is -well, not -quite three,
clysis. • And we ,hardly knew where to corn-
., menoe
To harvest a treasure so• free.
Scientists of . both sexes smelled
eagerly at the vial, which gave off . a
strong odor' of cocoanut, but 'Mr.
Chapman said the analysis had pro- Oh, the Black-eyed ' guarani, pretty lit-
greased far enough to make it certain tie Susans, �,,:_
that there is no palm kernel or cocoa- Such a lot of, Susaus, in frocks of
nut fat in it, He hinted that what orange -geld:'
the Bible calls "spikenard" might be How my . little maiden loved their
found. The'body ofthe ointment ap- tawny brightness,
pears to be animal fat', " How• we kept on gathering all her
Should a formula be found for the hands would hold!'
manufacture of ` King' Tut's facial And her own frock was yellow, dark
cream --it may be put on. -the market. her eyes are, too„
t he---s-see _ tly dear Black-eyed Susan,` so- glad 1
Coal Strike Enables am she" grew.
Londoners toSee---Katharine Allison MacLean in Chris
zi theSull tiau Science -Monitor.
London.—Eng+ish industry' is suf-
fering from the continuance of the pa111i7I ds and gees.
coal strike, but' . E'ngl%sh =weather is In ;Spain, accord5ng to Eleanor Els-
coal
from the 'stoppage,` ' Noener, in `'Spanish Sunshine,." it isnot
since the last coal strike. has, the at- unusual xi find'signs like the following
mos here:been so clear and the visibil- (wlafch Miss• Einer saw near a fine
P tree in one of the
Sur-
ity so, goon, `On the longest day of parks in Seville):
the year Londoners could see the Sur- To 4he'Wayfarer,
rey•,Hills,,• forty,miles away—a:treat Ye who pass by °lied would raise seer"
rarely vouchsafed to thein. hand against me,
• i e ofthe fact that the normal Hearken ere you harm me!
Irisptt.
total of sunshine In June and . early I am the heat of yoiti hearth on the
July. was far below normal,.` Central cold winter nights,
L -bona had a considerable, excess. The friendly shade screening you
Westminster had about fourteen hours from the summer sun.
more sunshine than the June ayerage •My fruits are refreshing drafts,
—al•1• an. account of the: delightful ab-Que eking your „thirst as you journey
sence of -smoke, - •on. .. .•
�`' I am'the beam: that holds your house, .
•
The board of •yourt b1e
Germans Are. Rebuked - r
,: , The hed'on which you lie
B 1 will
in
vQll i g And the timber that. builds. your boat.
I am 'ths h dle of'youir hoe
is.will Baron '+
London; Aug. 8. In h The -door of your homestead,
Walter von Bissing; half-brother (If The wood of your cradle
the General von Bissing„ who, as Milt— And the shell of your collie
tary Governor of Belgium in the Great i 'am the bread
of kindness and the
War, allowed the death of Edith flower of beauty.
Cavell, reaffirmed his dislike for Ger-
Ye who pass by, listen to "my prayer
mans, often expressed during the con- Harm me not!`
filet. Born a German,` he became a The Spaniard has a great admiration.
naturalized Englishman, and a rest- --
Yor all' trees, and this is one of his
dent of Sussex. He'died recently in: ways of showing it. -17: A.
Remo, Italy.
oneunder
v Ger-
e t r is'a
- no circumstances who. e e • ny
Look for your berries near the reddenLondon.-Not more than 1,000 able:
ing leaves, man, Whether a relation of mine or bodied idle rich. in this country _draw
And having found ;them, pick -the otherwise, to have any voice or right
ripest ones; in or over the. guardianship' or bring incomes receding $50,000 a year from
investments, according to Sir Josiah
Von 'lasing visited Canada in 1921.
So you will find the recipe for summer.
And eat without delay, staining your ing up of my children
fingers—
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—Elizabeth J. Coatsworth. Gratitude.
Theft of a Hed e. Ones .in_ a long while some boy' or
fl
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TINY — that portion of: Ontario, north of ttae.
Quebec; Cochrane, Winnipeg line of
ITE .1
ST STANDARD PIANO PRESENTED Canadian National �a1 ova
• __. •:. the Gonad n Y),
Swans, Cranes, Curlew, Wi:lets, God-
lack -bellied and
TOQUEEN FOR HER DOLL'SHOUSE
wits, Upland Plover, B
Avocets Dowitcherd,:
Cxolden Plover ,
Knots,. Oyster' Phalaropes,
The Queen's collection of dell's this nstniin'ent, and when it was lin- Stilts Surf -birds, Turnston'es, and old-`
house furniture has been augmented fished there was considerably more dif. fire sore birds not provided with an
by a standard piano on a three iue, acuity in making reooree to fit'it, Buttt ,? en season in above schedule.
scale n the for of an inkstand•. It the realism had to' be .complete, and I p to ed season throughout
i m There is a •c s
is mado of satinwood and, while It at last the makeis managed to get a year on the" following non -game
cannot be played; it is:outwardly per- few bars of God Savefthe King on a birds:. Auks, Anklets, Bitterns, Ful -
feet and complete, even to the::pedais, tiny aiiek. Other pieeee. in its reties.-
a
Gannets,. Grebes, Guilten�rota,
The occasion, of the. presentation wee tetra aro "Rule Britannia" "Home, Gulls, Herons, Ja°geh's, Loons„1lf mots,
a visit of the:Bing and Queen to the Sweet Home,,' "Men -of %Isrleoh„: and ' =”
,, „ Petrels, ons, Ja r's, Lo iters, ri
Bnoatiwood lane factory,in East End the Blue Bens of Scotland. The , is a closed"season
P Terms, and _thele
London, They:.received .an enthusias- musical Instruments, like ev,eiything
throughout the year. on the following
on.
tic -demonstration in the decorated else in the miniature English mansi insectivorous birds;' Bobolinks Cat -
1 of one inch irds,hl ,.
Cat -
streets. Their...tour of the'factory are constructed on .a scale birds, Chickadees, Cuckoos, Flickers,
lasted an hour and a half, and in to the Poo Fly-Catchers,Gro.,beaks Humming
have
not been stintedt.
eluded i situ- The other arts vMeadow-lark,
d napecton of instruments. mbirds, Kinglets, ,Martiics; Meadow k,
factored by the firm since' 1790, he In the' doll's house, the library ofhawks or Bull Bats, Nuthatches,
l icontains thumbnail (*pies oP all Night.
eluding the•Broadwood used by Chopin. which oat s p Orioles R
obi
na, , Shrikes, Swallows,
Ten employees were introduced to the the standard authors, a• specially auto- Swifts Tana ars,. itmace, Thrushes,
King and Queen whose' collective nevered volume of Kipling, with conte. Vireos ^ Warblers; Waxwings, Whip-
terms of service totalled 528 years. before printed•poams and. con-. '
poorwills, Woodpeckers, and Wrens,
Queen Mary do -1's house also'"tributions, from the,,.foremost living and .• all other. perching birds • which
boasts a miniature.;ghonograph; which writers of England. .:Its. thirty-six x chiefly.on insets.'
beautiful feed entirely o
really: plays. It is a cabinet model rooms are decorated with be son shall kill, hunt, capture,
Your ditches high anda m -size tope tries and pictures: Sir , . No person ig plays records one eta • p p s injure; take,or molest migratory game
and five -sixteenths inches in turn. arc William Orpen painted the two-inch. birds Burin the closed season. Sale:
It took seventy persons to'.:.turn: out representatione.of th�e'King and CPteen. g
of these birds is forbidden • -
..--..• The 1cillinge capturing, . taking, ins(
German Workmen G increase in Reistration of
.$9.56- Weekly Average ' Silver Foxes in Canada.
Berlin.—The average skilled work-
man in the fifteen leaning Geripan in-
dtstries eArns the 'equivalent of $9.56
Close to 70,000 pedigreed -silver•
foxes have":been registered by the
Canadian Live Stock Records since the
a week of forty-eight hours, the Min- inauguration of the work in' 191'1. 'With
istry;of Industry, and Commerce`: re- the announcement during 1925 that be
ports: From this wage the employers ginning on January 1, 1926; only those
deduct for the Federal government: an, foxes- -which are by registered . sires
income tax averaging nine. per cent and ;out of registered dams are eligible.
for single persons and eight per cent. for registration, there was such a rush
for married: •for registration before, the books were
Thie,organized building' trades work- closed to foundation 'st'ock; resulting.
ers plutocrats of German labor,, drew in • a groat increase ' over previous
$13.15 a week: Miners. `rank second. Years. lit•1.919, the :firs year of record -
with 11.70: The average weekly` a ing foxes,.805 Pedig!'e.s and. 152 .trans_.
y trans-
fers were recorded; in 192• the. totals'
of unskilled ;Halo workers is. $7.75. The
_ t t
cost of living as shown by official. re- were 8,345• pedlgnees and 5,002. trans-
ports is almost as hagh'as that outside fors, while last year the,1t ores were
of metropolitan districts in the United- 36;297 pedigrees• and 10,747 transfers.
P In all 60,900 •pedigrees have beon re-
states: corded since the beginning.-
Strikes are few because join are,
scarce. Forty-eight adults out_ of
every 1,000 men, women and children Conscience Money: -.
are jobless in Berlin. The war office has received„ ids
anonymously from • a London man as
conscience money.
WIII-Not Blend. •
juring ,or molesting of -migratory in-
sectivorous and migratory non -Zaino
birds is prohibited.
•The possession of 1egally taken
migratory game birds 'is alloweduntil
March 81st, following the open season.
In, Ontario it. is an offence to kill or
attempt to kill any, migratory game.:
bird' between sunset and sunrise.
IiAG LIMITS:
Ducks 25 but not more than 200. in;
a. tseason; Geese 15; 'Brant 1.5; Rails'
25; -Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs 15;
Wilson's Snipe 25; Woodcock :10.
eTJNS.:?.NIi APPLIANCES: •-
The use of automatic (auto load -
Ing), swivel,. or, machine guns, or-rbat-
tery, or any ,gun larger than .number
10" gauge is :prohibited, and. the trs8
of ally aeroplane, power:goat, or night
light, and shooting from. any horse-
drawn or motor vehic:e is forbwidden.
I; , PENALTY. -
Every porson'}vho violates any pro-
vision
ro
vision of - this Act or any regulation
shall, for: each offence, be nab:e upon
summary /conviction• to �• fine of . not
more than three hundred dollars and
Romans Had Many Staves., not less than .rten dollars, or to tri
The' Fascast Government is trying:;to for a terns not excee inir
Siaverg was-coanmer•cialized' by the prisonment•
popularize the potato .in order to save Kbmans, conte of whom had.10,000 six months, or to both fine and im-
wheat by minimizing the consumption staves prisonment.
• o'maccaroni and spaghetti, but sortie.
a e bo
how an It an and potato s,e a ut.
a3i mHappiness , . .
Pn
t
rfum you carnet is a perfume
apart as an Irishman andsResources .Bulletin.
as far p t Peg. pour on others without getting a few' -natural
hettt. drops on yourself.. `
Stamp, eminent economist,: and: Dawes
Plan -expert, who addressed. the Brit-
ish Association. litany rich people,AIRMAN FINDS; AWE-INSPIRING
he said, do important work for which
DRAGONS .OSI. ISIS N AUSTRALIA
----11, 'The forest fire menace is- with us
again. - Each day the press contains a
fresh item as to the destruction. of
Canada's great forest heritage by fire -
-nany of then started through care-
lessness and -.ignorance. ` From .every
district: ofg he Dgmiriioza during, tiro
summer niorrths' theCe 'carnes, u ith
a ou ; ° parentlyare direct descendants of the ''- ' + F �. p et boil - the
London. Alan Cobham, the„f m s , _- eeasee a and a,arxriing•. ep t
•
airman, has slain. the dragon of 'dis- pxehistoric monsters .of, legen.d.. They old, cid story. Timber that has;ta.,en
tance the second time for Britain, Ar- are • about. tela feet' long, `possessing a ,century i.5
riving at Port Darwin, Australia, he huge.''olawe with which they ane able few
momen s. grow as wzpe<l; out, in
had Virtually completed the 'first half to kill and. devour animals; even:., as, a erall ” a reeiated jtt�t
Y P. It is .not g _n y AP
of his second 26,000=mile aur; journey. large a:s horses;,
When angered they "stow 'critical the timber sitdat'ton in
As on his first rest fli ht frontspew forth fumes not un:ike smoke::, nada h s become, `1'ho de••
g . , -flight, . Ea ten n Ca, a
England. to Capetown and • back, Cobs, When he arrives ..et` Melbourne, the partment'st -'forestry engineers vie
ham, saw on his journey over land and. .end of his outbound. journey, Cobham authorit :'4or the fol.o,v%n facts
sea to Australia, many strange: sights, will have ccmpleteei.. the first. half :oi' In the{ ;,Maritime .Provi ccs annual
Soniewhat off the beaten path, and so itis second great trip in his de Havi- use,;greatly exceeds growth,' and all
land •, plane Several months ""the
ever-
shunned, by .tourigts; on Bima ]:slan�d, ,p e.. nt s ago =lie, glosses from fire, :etc., add to
A
g, r
r Australia, he saw in ca ti it , flew' from England ta Capetown and
- nes a us p ,�' y b P a draft on ca itttl.
F �.
rages such as the one St, back' over iisi enetra ''-e raid-Afr"c annual tre•.
two lived dragons p b i an �. a< In :Ontario ant: Qnebec, ,
or second?" George,,Pngland's patron saint, slew. jun `,ea to prove the possibi:ity of , is • at: least eguax; to, and, probal5;y
"Oh," said the girl,,her,face flushing, These. monsters; which aro found only estehlishtng air routes even over the1 greater than the growth,, here; also,
"oh, dear, it's—it's not mine." • on -Komodo Island, near. Bima,• ap- most inaccessible countries.
they are; not paid.If,h11 the: incomes
A handsome privet hedge surround -
year we have tried -Co help returns eo in Great' Britain in excess of •$1;250 a
speak the golden word of ;gratitude, . t
Providence, R.I., but someone stole 15 whereat we „take. fresh courage: to do the present tax, distributed among .he
whole people, there would not be snore
feet of it. The hedge, deep rooted, pro-
of
Witte share toward the ,happiness 9
of another- Recently a girl of, twenty than $1.25 additional for each family:
vides a difficult and tiresome task of ..
removal; and it Was cbtaned only by Called, and in conversation' remarked:
M istake'n.
dint of great digging and pulling, but "I have your picture tit's locket and
apparently u ane saw the e gangway, of one of the large liners; and
he 'worked undisturbed ' until he had When doubt was jokingly expressed for the benefit of the arriving pasaen-
w h f she pulled up the locket frozii'soine
dug up enough to start a new edge o..gers kept shouting,,, First-class _pas-
" a much crum :ed news•,a r cut that sengere to' the right! Second-class to
..—..-. A p Pe rthe lefti „;
t
yearavere pooled, and,; after' dedu.^.t'
ed the home' of S. Foster 'Hunt at
no ',carry. it always close to my heart." The steward stood at the,head of the
h thi f and
his 'own hidden, recess and opening it revealed
Pacific's Great Size. had been printed years before, She .. A young woman stepped carefully
L.n, v In area:the Pacifiac ocean is geeater - seemed as proud of it as though it her, arms
aboard ivlth a baby in ms.
Expookinwere a two-hhundred-do:?ar miniature
" h are au looking for two sum= than that of all the :and in the world. , , , As she hesitated beside the steward
1Y y' _-p_-- . and.when presented with a better one
resorts? Isn't one enough for he bent toward her and asked: "First
mer The -secret of happiness is not doing still carried away the old one that
you?„ PP
likes, ' what one/ha done . good service .:for several
"Sure, but I want another one for what one butliking
„ a hes to do: i years.—J. J. Kelso,
mr wine.;
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ads 141.i.
al losses from fire, insects; etc., add
seriously to overdraft in •capital.
In the Prairie Provinces, zndtstrial
use probably doos::`not.,exie annual
growth, b ut,,the fire • losses are appal
ling, and if confirmed, Can one resu;t
in degeneration ;of forest industry, : In the Coast Distriete, the Province
of British Colutnbia.enjoys f:r.erab:e.
growth conclituo't•. The main'prob:em
tri this provircE is the rurteilnreP.t of :.
loss,es through`,fire and the :trlopi,ion
of more , conservative methods of
utilization.
Canada is dissipating upating itet for st•rte
sources• note rapidly than any ot'r,cr
-nation in the world,, and_unless dots
rite radical; and constructive steps in
forest cozieer scion are' talcen, the in-
dtzstries dependent,on Wood will, in the
near future be faced witinthe DebesS.
ity of durtai;ing production,
Seedless Bananas.
The belief .that the seedlass banana
carne from Asia, rather than from
America, has been expressed by a Bri-
tish botttniiit;
The average •.Wernate )low doge ell
much in one day as. alio "used tie der hi
throe or tour.