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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 7

A bacteriologist recently found Ins little boy making mud pies in a. park at. Lyons where a playground is reserved for children. CunoMt.y Jod him to makp an examination of one <>l the pies. The. following is si id to he his estimate of the number n\ darigeroir* microbes in the few cubic of oh'-til with which his son had boon playj„o- • --Diphtheria. 1.800,000 wrras: measles •i.t.'iO.OflO: smallpox. flfKI.OOO; lor-kja-w. 3.fi0n.0(10; dyseuiery, fIOO.OOO ; pneumonia. ."tOo.OOO: and tuberculosis, tJSJO.OOO. "Walnuts hn.ro a curious connection v. ifli war. Most of t,l)p. okßst trees in England wore originally planted, not for" thp sake of the fruit, but, because the wood makes the best gun-stocks, being light- strong and not easily warped. The largest walnut grove, in land is at Kempston, near J It contained at first 385 trees, one for each da-y of the year, which were planted about, a. century ago by the then owner of the farm, who cynically remarked that wars would never cse-ase. and the timber would always bo wanted for guu-stocks. • - ••• »-■