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opponent's counting stick, that is, the first stick occupying the space is 

 taken up and its owner must begin the game again. Two skilled players 

 will often throw each other back in this manner time after time. This 

 makes the game quite interesting. When a counting stick has completed 

 the entire circle, that is. when it has marked forty successive tallies its 

 owner has the game. A transfer of the staked property follows. Then 

 the betting begins for a new game. 



A iSToTE ON THE Radio-Activitv OF Strontium Salicylate. 



By J. F. Woot^sey. 

 (By title.) 



Cuban Notes. 



By C. H. Eigenmann. 

 (By title.) 



