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coming" old in less than 3,000 years. Xot only do these trees 

 stand in a class by themselves because of their long life, but they 

 are classed among the wonders of the earth because of their giant 

 size. 



in the giant forest in Sequoia National i'ark, where the giants 

 are named for men who have been prominent in public life, the 

 General Sherman is 286 feet high and 36 feet in diameter, the 

 Abraham Lincoln 270 feet high, and 31 feet in diameter, and the 

 tallest is the William McKinley, 291 feet high and 2i:> feet in 

 diameter. 



In the General Grant Park the principal trees are the General 

 Grant, 264 feet high and 35 feet in diameter, and the George 

 Washington, 255 feet high and 29 feet in diameter. 



DIETIC J'ALUE OF SUGAR. 



Professor ]\Ietchnikoff, the famous savant, speaking before the 

 Academy of Sciences, stated that, as the result of long experi- 

 ments, he had discovered that senility was caused to a great ex- 

 tent by poisons which were set up by the intestinal bacteria. 

 These poisons, originating in the intestinal flora, were chiefly re- 

 sponsible for the production of lesions (injuries) in the liver, 

 brain and arteries, and produced an efifect which was practically 

 the same as old age. 



Experiments showed that vegetables which were rich in sugar, 

 such as dates, beetroot and carrots, produced none of these 

 poisons. Professor ]\Ietchnikofifs object, therefore, was to create 

 a sugar-producing centre in the large bowel, where the fight be- 

 tween the healthy and unhealthy microbes takes place. As sugar 

 consumed in the ordinary way is practically all absorbed before 

 reaching the large bowel, he decided to form it by means of a 

 microbe. 



The necessary microbe was discovered in the flora of a dog. 

 Experiments made on human beings with this microbe, which 

 Professor Metchnikoff calls the glyco bacter, have had most con- 

 clusive results. A diet of two meals a day, consisting of 4/4 oz. 

 of meat, 7^4 oz. of sour milk, and vegetables and fruit, to which 

 were added glyco bacteria, reduced these intestinal i)oisons to a 

 minimum which had never before been attained with any diet. — 

 Lniidou Prndiicc Markets' Rcviczv. 



DRIED MANGO. 



.An fjl)server in Xorth Queensland thus describes a method of 

 dr\ing mangoes that is carried out successfully in that i)art of 

 Australia. The descri])tion appears in the OnccusUuui .\;^ric}i}- 

 tiiral Journal for i'ebruary. 1912: 



The mango is ])icked just before turning color. It is then cut 

 U]j with a large knife in chi])s or small slices sduic 2 inches in 



