Walnuts contain 49 to 70, haze) nuts GO per cent, of oil. Walnuts orginally cnmo from Persia; cucumbers from the Bast Indies; garden cress, peas, and onions from Egypt; radishes from China and Japan; spinach from Arabia; parsley from Sardinia; celery from the north and horse-radish from the south ot Europe.
The skin of the men and women of some nations is much thicker than that of others. Particularly is this the case in hot countries. The Central African negro has a skin about half as thii ■■■ ngain as that of a European. That of a negro is thickest over the head and bock—evidently to form a protection from the burning rays of a tropical sun.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 42, 13 November 1917, Page 6
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