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SHERMAN LAW, TERRA COTTA AND COAL
Now that the terra cotta manufacturers have pleaded
guilty to one of the indictments brought against them for
violation of the Sherman anti-trust law and the other four
indictments found have been dismissed, a few remarks on
this Sheriman law and the terra cotta business as compared
with the coal business, for instance, might not be amiss.
In the first place, the Sherman law is about thirty years
old. What might have seemed like a crimft in business
methods thirty years ago may be looked upon in an altogether
different light at the present time. It is a notorious fact that
there is hardly any line of business where the Sherman act is
not now being violated. The old cut-throat policy which drove
so many industries and business houses into bankruptcy no
longer exists. These are days of big business. A business to
compete in a large way has got to be big. It was Theodore
Nlioosevelt who tried to-distinguish between the good and the
bad trusts. He was ridiculed when he did it, but time has
vindicated the stand he took.
But the Sherman law does not discriminate between
good and bad combinations. All are classed alike and should
the law be strictly enforced, as there seems to be an effort to
do now, the jails would be filled with our prominent business
men and manufacturers.
The Sherman law, if it is to be enforced, should be
amended so as to be brought up to date. To allow unre
stricted combinations in any line of business would be dan
gerous, of course. There must be some regulation. But
modern business methods must not be impeded by any act of
thirty years ago.
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ground that they were partly responsible for the present
house shortage. They were charged with forming a combi
nation to restrain trade and boost prices. Perth Amboy being
one of the centers of the terra cotta industry, will be sur
prised at such a charge’as this.
It is well known in this vicinity that the terra cotta
business has not been very prosperous in recent years. It is
well known that the attempt made eight or ten wears ago to
form a terra cotta trust utterly failed. While several of the
plants entered into the proposed combine, enough refused
to do so to upset the plan and. incidentally, those who stayed
out came near ruining those who went in The trade had
hardly recovered from the tight that developed in the busi
'Sqess as a result of that effort to combine when the war broke
Du*lsind the terra cottajiidustry was shot to pieces.
AM through the war when other industries were making
Iheir millions by manufacturing war materials many of the
terra cotta plants in this vicinity were shut down completely.
One or two managed to maintain a semblance of operation
through a contract with the government to manufacture
clay “bombs” used for training purposes, but this was a mere
bagatelle compared with the legitimate terra cotta business
that had been utterly ruined.
The thousands of terra cotta workers in this vicinity
can testify to the slack times and lack of work in this line of
industry all through the war and since the armistice was
signed, as well. If there has been any agreement between
the different terra cotta concerns it certainly- has not profited
they very much for the terra cotta business hereabouts has
been considered anything but prosperous for some time
past. In fact, that is about the last industry that would have
been thought of here as being the object of an attack by the
government.
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cotta men with the way the coal operators have been allowed
to have everything their own way so long. The terra cotta
men are accused of being one of the hindrances in the way
ftf home building and therefore, it is claimed, they should
be punished. But how few people there are affected by the
price of terra cotta as compared with the number of people
affected by the price of coal?
Investigation after investigation—which is about as far
as the government ever gets in the matter of coal—has
show'n the rankest kind of dealings with the public. The
Maekay Commission, which is now once more investigating
he coal situation in New Jersey, has again exposed the work
ings of this nefario'us combine. It is only a repetition of the
testimony of previous investigations yet there is no district
attorney willing, apparently, to take up the cause of the
public in this regarch The poor who buy their coal by the
bucket are paying in some nearby cities at the rate of f?30
a ton for coal. Yet the government will go after an industry
like the terra cotta business, struggling to get on its feet once
more after the blight of the war when it was shut down
completely, while the coal barons keep up their brazen de
fiance.
It is not denied mat mere is an organization oi terra j
cotta manufacturers—what line of business does not have
its organization these days? But knowing the heads of these
industries and being more or less acquainted with some of
the problems that they have had to contend with in recent
years, the people here cannot believe that any organization
that may have been formed has existed for any other purpose
than to advance the industry in every legitimate way, work
ing in friendly competition rather than using the old cut
throat methods that once was so disastrous to all lines of
business.
Government officials are to he commended in their ef
forts to protect the public in every way, but why should they
concentrate their activities on the comparatively small and
inoffensive industry with its lack of great wealth and influ
ence, and continue to ignore the rich and powerful coal bar
ons whose product goes into every man’s home and who,
numerous investigations have shown, are deliberately rob
IjH the people in one of the mo9t essentials of life?
The Portly Porter and the New Tangled Dust-Pan—By Fontaine Fox. *
I HASKIN TELLS OF MAIL IS LOST
Daily Letter by Frederic J. Haskln
NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 10.—If
you fail to receive a letter when you
know one is due, don't give up hope.
You are apt to get it in the long run.
A letter written in New York nine
teen years and five months ago was
delivered in Philadelphia just the
other day, while in another case re
cently reported a letter was deliver
ed nearly half a century after it was
mailed.
Such instances, of course, are not
common. The majority of mail that is
lost is lost forever because it is stolen
and destroyed by thieves, the post
office authorities rarely recovering
letters and valuables disappearing in
this way. But letters are often de
layed and lost through other, some
times curious, means.
"For example, letters occassional
ly get stuck in the mail boxes,” says
a post office worker, ' but the fre
quent jarring of the lid gSherally
dislodges these without great delays.
There is also a chance of a letter
falling through a crack or getting
behind a partition in the wall, to
remain there unmolested until the
wall is torn down and to be found
occasionally. But the most extensive
cache is in old mail taiga. Negligent
clerks fail to shake out all the let
ters the last time the bags are used,
the sacks may remain for months
in a storage house and the mail lie
undiscovered until the bags are sent
to a repair shop.”
iiuaintance knows of at least one
case In which such an accident had
very serious results. A young girl
who was in New York attending Co
lumbia was engaged to a college
youth whose father was a prosperous
business man in a New England city.
The couple were to be married and
the young man taken into his fath
ers business as soon as he graduated
from college. A few months before
that event, however, the father sud
denly went into bankruptcy under
most distressing circumstances.
Iioro la-tter I amt.
The boy immediately wrote to the
girl-in New York, releasing her from
the engagement. His letter was not
precisely gentle, for he had been un
prepared for the castroplie and his
pride was hurt. Among other things
he pointed out that he would not
be able to support a wife for some
tune to come, because he would have
his father’s debts to pay off. The
girl wrote back, refusing to give him
up and explaining that she could, if
necessary, support herself. This let
ter somehow got lost in a local i^wJt
office (the post office worker blames
a mail bag) und was not delivered
until r»o years later—two years too
late. In the meantime, the girl, who
also had her pride, had married
someone else.
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to reach its destination each year, of
course, because it is misdirected. Ap
proximately 325,000 pieces of mail
are received daily in the New York
post office which are insufficiently
addressed—a total of 118.625,000
a year. All of this carelessly ad
dressed matter is handed over to
searchers who give it what is called
directory service—that is, they look
the addresses up in various city di
rectories.
This misdirected mail costs the
government a great deal of money,
which eventually comes out of the
taxpayers' pocketbooks. The direc
tory service in the New York post
office alone necessitates the employ
ment of 125 clerks at an annual ex
pense of $225,000 for salaries. Sim
ilar conditions prevail in all large
cities and it is estimated that the
annual cost of such service through
out the entire country is $5,000,000.
Hence, the postmark publicity
campaign last year, which urged us
to direct our mail to street and num
ber! The necessity for this precau
tion is still being emphasized by local
postmasters. It is suggested by the
postal authorities that all firm let
terheads should bear the street ad
dress, and that in every case the full
name of the addressee tie given in
stead of merely the initials. In ad
dressing a letter to a building, it is
also advisable to include the name
of the street upon which the build
ing is located; because in every city
there are many buildings bearing
names with which the distributors in
the post office are unfamiliar.
As a further precaution, the Post
Office Department suggests that the
address of the writer should be
placed at the top of every letter and
a return address should be written
or printed in the upper left-hand
corner of every envelope placed in
the mails.
Address Cleurly.
It would also be a great boon to
the post otfices of every city if peo
ple would take the trouble to write
clearly and correctly instead of
treating envelopes as if they were
scratch pads. One letter a day for
each family of five persons is the
postal record of the United States,
and it ts estimated that one family
in every ten puts a badly addressed
letter in the mails every day. The
time required by experts to decipher
the nation's weird penmanship nat
urally causes delay.
Now. during the Christmas season
espeeilly, the co-operation of the
public is requested in facilitating the
rapid handling and movement of the
postal matter. Most people have
been considerate enough to do their
Christmas shopping early this year,
thus relieving the strain on depart
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ment store employes and Incidental
ly on themselves, but they are not
likely to be so thoughtful of the over
worked postal clerks, who are al
ways buried in packages during the
last few days before the twenty-llfth.
In this Anal period, delays and losses
are bound to occur.
The Post OfAce Department has
taken laborious precautions to in
sure the safe handling and delivery
of the malls. In addition to main
taining a large staff for interpreting
the mistaken directions of the pub
lic, it haB lately adopted elaborate
measures to combat theft. Among
these is the requirement that all pos
tal employes be Anger-printed. It is
constantly establishing new regula
lations, new systems and new rec
ords for cutting down losses of mail
from all causes. Accidents, of course,
are inevitable. Bandits are still nu
merous. But a much higher state of
efficiency could be reached, if the
public would only do its part.
Learn One New, Thing Every Day
BULLETINS BY THE
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCLE TV
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BAALBEK: CITY OF THE SUN
fiOD
Baalbek, in Syria, which In the
days of Augustus Caesar would have
been given a rail column on the
front page of a newspaper, had
there been such a medium for the
transmission of news, now presents
a plea to the public in a small stick
in newspaper dispatches to note that
it prefers attachment to the Grand
Lebanon rather than annexation by
Damascus.
"This namesake city of the sun
god once enjoyed a position of great
commercial importance, as it was
on the direct route to Syria from
Egypt and the lted Sea, as well as
from Tyre to Syria, Asia Minor and
thence to Europe,” says a bulletin
of the National Geographic Society
from its Washington, D. C„ head
quarters.
"Though its earliest history is
shrouded in darkness, it is certain
that at a very early date it was a
chief seat of sun worship. Lying in
the plain of Buka'a about forty miles
from Damascus in a well watered
area which forms a watershed for
the Orontes river, along whose val
ley the armies and traffic of all ages
have passed to and from Egypt, it
attained a position of prominence in
the early Christian era.
• Cleopatra's Needles
“The Greeks, during the Seleucid
ian dynasty, changed the name of
Baalbek into the Greek equivalent
for 'city of the sun-god.’ Heliopolis,
and this was subsequently adopted
by the Romans. The city, however,
is not to be confused with the cele
brated Heliopolis of Lower Egypt,
which was the seat of the Egyptian
worship of the sun. In the latter
the two obelisks, known as Cleopa
tra's Needles, which now mark the
skyline in London and in Central
Bark, New York City, originally
stood.
Aoove me neierogeneous collec
tion of low tlat-roofed mud cottages
that constitute the present city of
2.000 Inhabitants, the stately ruins
of what must have been one of the
most magnificent of Syrian cities
now stand out as a tribute to the
energy and culture of a people, the
long arm of whose power was felt
throughout the then-known world.
“Most of the known history of the
plaea dates from the time when
Augustus planted a Homan colony
there, as tire coins of Heliopolis in
the first century show. The temple,
which ligends among the inhabi
tants say was built by Solomon, was
in reality founded by Antoninus Pius
that adopted, son of the Emperor
Hadrian whose reign is almost a
blank in history because during it
practically all wars, violence and
crimes ceased, his thoughts and en
ergies being dedicated to the happi
ness of his people.
Imposing Huln a We ld Wonder
"The Imposing ruin well might be
classed among the wonders of the
world. Upon a base which still
shows the names of Antoninus Plus
and Julia Domna, the architects
reared the Temple of the Sun, a rec
tangular building. 290 feet long and
160 feet wide, whose roof was sup
| ported by fifty-four Corinthian col
umns, the circumference of which
was 22 feet and height 80 feet—
giants in comparison to those on the
United States capital in Washington.
It stands upon a platform on the
Acropolis which measures 1,000 feet
by 450 feet, and was originally en
tered by a broad flight of steps, but
when Kaiser Wilhelm was engaged
in restoring the ruins In 1905 he put
in the place of this stately ancient
approach a narrow modern stair
case.
"With the exception of six of the
columns, little of the temple is now
standing. Perhaps the-most remark
able feature of the structure, not
withstanding its size and the beauty
of its conception, is the fact that
such enormous blocks of stone were
used in its construction* Some of
them measure 60 feet in length.
"The god, Baal, whom the Greeks
identlfled with their sun-god Helios
and the Romans with their Jupiter
of Heliopolis, to whom the temple
was erected, is usually represented
as a beardless youth wearing a long
drapery of scales and carrying a
whip in his right hand and thunder
bolts and ears of corn in his left.
“Constantine used the temple as a
Christian church. Theodosius the
Great wrought havoc in- it, using
portions for another church which
he built nearby; earthquakes have
done their deadly work to its walls
and columns; the Arabs used it as a
fortress, when they sacked Baalbek
in 748 A. D.; Timur the Lame pil
laged it in 1400; and the Turks took
possession of it in 1517, the pashas
of Damascus tearing down the mag
nificent pillars for the iron with
which the.stones were bound togeth
er. In spite of the misery and mis
rule which the city has experienced
since, it stands as one of the most
stately ruins of the ages.”
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CHURCH HEAD BLAMES LOW
) WAGES FOR LOW MORALS
By WORTH M. TIPPY
Secretary. Federal Connell of the
Churches of Christ In America
"If a man gets low wages, he
ean’t lead a moral life," said recent
ly an official or •> railway brother
hood. a former engineer of a west
ern road.
"When a man’s wages are low, he
can’t live well, his clothes are not
respectable his food Is poor, his
homo is unattractive, he dodges the
rent in a pinch.
“His pleasures are necessarily
cheap since Jje cannot pay his way
to the better forms of amusement
and he therefore tends to the en
joyment of bodily appetites.
“His wife and children are drag
ged down with him. They live in
poverty and wretchedness, and are
humiliated, and unhappy.
"There has been 100 per cent Im
provement In the morals of railway
men in th- SO years since I began
railroading, and itvhas been due
mainly to increased wages and short
ened hours, making home life pos
sible to single men and a better home
life to all.
"We now have music In our homes
and ca. go to good shows. We dress
respectably, educate our children,
lay by for a rainy day, and many of
us own our own homes.”
He was right. It Is with morals as
with the death rate. Theoretically
a man and his family can got along
on a scant income, but A a matter
of fact, investigations by the chil
dren’s bureau of the Department of
Laftior have revealed that the death
rate of children in home* "where the
wages'of the father are low aver
ages one out of three while in homes
of workmen who are well paid it
la one out of twelve!
America Is not Independent of for
eign competition, and cannot finally
escape the lew of supply and demand
at home When wages are too hU,h,
commodities are too costly, deiland
falls off, foreign goods appear In the
home market and an unemployment
sets in which is as deadly in its ef
fect upon toe workers as low wages.
• What is needed is, first an ef
fort on the part of employers to con
sider their business as a social trust,
to keep the wages of all as high as
possible and to 3ee to it that the
wage of unskilled workers do not
fall below a level of reasonable sub
sistence.
This demands the use of research
to determine what arp the needs of
such workers in a given community,
not what is a bare subsistence for
their families. It is a simple matter.
Family budgets have been worked
out by federal officials and charity
organization societies. The employer
has but to check these up with rents
and prices in his own community.
I do not hesitate to say that until
men receive wages sufficient to main
tain their families decently, employ
ers should conscientiously restrict
salaries, profits and dividends.
In the second place, every ef
fort should be made to maintain a
relatively high level of wages by
lowering operating costs through ef
ficient management and by elimina
tion of Industrial waste.
In this effort tho workers are mor
ally bound when a given firm is do
ing its best to maintain wages to co
operate by careful workmanship,
ca-eful handling of tools and ma
chines. economy of materials and
honest production.
YOUR WORTH
BY DR. W. E. BARTON
Before the war England esti
mated that every pauper cost the
government or the community sup
porting the pauper $6,000. On the
present scale of living that cost
would be greatly Increased.
Paupers are rather long-lived.
When a man goes to the poor house
and accepts the situation without
further mental protest, he eats as
much as is good for him and has
clothing ana shelter sufficient for
his simple comfort,
P/obably the average American
of 40 or 50 has cost ten times as
mucr as the British pauper. Be
tween the payment of the doctor
and the nurse at one end of life
and the doctor and the undertaker
at the other end lies for the aver
age American I judge not less
than $100,000 which somebody has
to pay.
The average man must be worth
this sum to the community, or the
community w'ould long ago have
gone bankrupt. The average man
produces more than he consumes;
he is an asset instead of a liability
to the community.
But that is not true of every
man, nor is It true of any man who
merely balances his own account
during the years of his productivity.
The man who, during the years
when he is earning money, con
sumes his earnings for himself, is
a pauper. He owes the community
for his care during the first 20
years of his lire and he will be still
further In debt for his care in his
last years.
You have cost society up to date,
let us say, about $100,000. Have
you put back into the assets of hu
man life $100,000 over and above
your keep? Has your constructive
labor added that amount to the
tangible assets of the human race?
If not, you certainly do not de
serve to be buried in a metallic cof
fin; the world ought to have at least
the fertilizing value of what will be
left after you have wasted so much
of what you really owed humanity.
The man who merely pays as he
goes may deceive himself; but he
is not really paying the expense of
his own board. He owes more
than that.'
Ary man is a grafter whose in
come is larger than his.service to
tlje community.
BY I>R. R. H. BISIIOP
Since prohibition there has been
more poison, masked under the
name of whiskey, swallowed luck
lessly than we should attempt to
reckon.
Many people have learned to
drink since it has become prohibited
in the same spirit that the small boy
goes behind the barn or garage to
indulge in a cornsilk cigaret. Were
they drlking ante-prohibition liquor,
the harm to theij systems and es
pecially to their livers would not be
■so gre«.t.
The liver will bear up under con
tinued Btrain for an amazing length
of time. But when it does break
down it is difficult ever to repair it.
The quickest way to wear out the
liver is by making it continually
fight against poisons thrown into the
body. One of the liver’s greatest du
ties is to protect the body from tox
ins or poisons. It will do this ef
fectively for along time.
For instance, a man drinks a little
too much whisky or some other alco
holic beverage. Even if it is good
| whisky he throws a strain on the
liver. The liver does its work and
the man either feels no effects or ho
finds the need for a purge after
which he feels better. He keeps up
this habit for years and then sud
denly he finds he has developed cir
rhosis of the liver.
Poisons against which the live!
protects us are not always poisons
when they are swallowed. The bac
teria in the laj-ge intestines make
poisons or toxins out of certain parts
of the food substances. They are ab
sorbed into the blood streams of the
intestines, and the liver, when work
ing properly, can convert them into
harmless chemicals.
Some organs like the lungs are li- *
able to infection, but the liver is very
seldom crippled except from over
work. Bad habits, again we see, are
the forerunners of much illness.
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Priced from 50c to $25.00 at the. .
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60 Days of Thrift
Dec. 1, 1921 to Feb. 1, 1922
To Encourage Thrift—To Teach Economy
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Questions-Answers ^
Any rCMer can get the ansffui u»
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Keening Newe Information
Bureau. Frederlo J. Hack in. Director.
Washington. D. C. This offer ap
plies etrlcily to Information. The
bureau cannot giro advice on legal,
medicinal and unanoial troubles, it
does not attempt to eeitle domestic
troubles, nor to undertake elhaus
;lr« research on any subject. Writs
Sour question plainly and briefly.
iva full asms and address and en
close two cents in atanmps for return j
postage. All repllss are sent direct
to the inquirer. I
W- now many years nu u oeen
possible no talk from New York to
San Francisco by long distance?—
r. L.
A. The Chesapeake and Ohio'
Telephone Company s^ys the long
distance line between New York
and San Francisco was first opened
on January 25, 1915.
Q. What division in the United
States Army advanced the farthest
during the var?—L. O. B.
A. The War Department says that
the 77th Division advanced tjie
greatest distance against the en
emy. This division Tnade an ad
vance of 71% kilometers or 44 mites
Q. How long are the rails used
by railroads?—J. O. R.
A. The Bureau of Railway Eco
nomics says that the standard
length of a steel rail is 33 feet.
However, there are many rails owed
that vary from 30 to 60 feet in t
length. Rails vary according to '
location, longer ones being used in
tunnels, shorter ones on moun
tains.
Q. Is it true that frogs and toads
have been found in freshly broken
margle 05 granite?—R. R.
A. Such tales are not credited by
scientists. They originate in delib
erate misrepresenattion or misap
prehension on the part of tro orig
inal observer.
<J. What is the story of Barry, a
St. Bernard dog?—M, A. P. .
A. According tio legend Barry was
shot by a traveler, whom he was
about to rescue, in mistake for a
wolf. His body was stuffed .and is
to be found in the Natural History
Museum at Berne, Switzerland.
Q. Who was the original of (Jains'
Borough's "Blue Boy?”—A. D; 1».
A. Jonathan Butthal, the son of
a wealthy ironmonger of London,
was the original "Blue Boy" in the
portrait by Gainsborough which
bears that name.
Q. What is picric acid?—W.
IV.
A. Picric is the acid obtained by
the action of nitric acid or phenol
or allied! compounds. It is bitter,
poisonous and unstable when heat
ed.. It is used as a dye and in the
manufacture of 'explosives.
Q. VVhat« was the meaning ol
“Oom" Paul?—**M. C.
A. The word ■’Dorn" as applied
to Paul Kruger, President of the
rransvaal is ,a! Dutch word mean
ing ‘•uncle.” »
Q. Why was Maiden Lane, Lon
don. so called?—C. C. H.
A. The name is said to have been
given from an image of the Virgin
which stood pn this street.
Q. How is the length of a stop
determined ?—M. W. i
A. tfo ascertain the distance cov-1
sred in a step or stride .measure
from heel to toe or toe to toe. Or
dinarily the pace is estimated at 2.5
feet; but in measuring distances by
stepping the .pace is extended to
three feet (one yard) or to 3.3 feet
(one-fifth of a rod.))
Q. What was the original A-no.
me?”—K. L.
A. Thq term “A-no. one” origi
nated as a symbol in the classlflea
lion of wooden ships by Lloyd's
Maritime Insurance Association. It
denoted that the hull equipment
at the ship in question were in good
condition.
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Two can give cheaper than one.
One more trial and Fatty Arbuckle
frill be Skinny Arbuckle.
Way of the trespasser is Vosted.
Money talks in all languages. Italy
mils it a lire; so do we! j
If Christmas does bring peace in '
[reland Lloyd George will claim he
s Santa Claus.
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Charity may cover a multitude ot
ilns—but it covers more backs.
Every third farm has an auto.
Dther two-thirda must raise com.
Wonder if the Bolsheviks will
nake a lot of good revolutions for
Jew Year?
Babe Ruth needs a big salary be
muse of the high price of fines.
A dentist may tell you to take care
>f your teeth and hope you don't.
Under the proper trariff we can sll
in the coast and "Watch the rest of
he world come buy."
And now India wants the same
ifter as Ireland. The sun never sets
in the British troubles.
Films may come and films may
to. but they'll be called "flllums"
orever. • j
About 105,000.000 people think ^
hey had packages in four mail
acks burned on a New York Central
rain.
Fast as the world gets better
omebody invents something.
G<jod times or bad times, there's
•ne old thing we always hang on to
nd that's street car straps.
They call them quark doctors be
ause they are all bill.
The Louisiana couple married at
:,000 feet in an airplane came to
arth quicker than most couples.
Professor Roubaud figures a fly,
las 3.985.969,389,755,100 deseend
mts in five months. Suppose she
ackled every time she laid an egg?
Cheer up! Only 300 more years
intil 2222.
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