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The sun equals in size a pile of more than a million worlds like ours. Every square yard of surface of this enormous sphere, has enough heat to push a great liner across the sea, as much power as in many tons of coal. The amount of heat in the surface of the sun, consisting of more than 2,284,000,000,000 sq. mi., can hardly be imagined. The heat of one sq. mi.

Massachusetts social workers succeeded in 1917 in securing the passage of a law which permits the ordinary non-support law to be invoked in case of the man's failure to pay the amount ordered after a legal separation. See p. 13 sq. Colcord, J.C.: Article on "Desertion and Non-support." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, May, 1918, p. 95.

A similar story of the shoeing of a woman in the shape of a horse is reported from Silesia. Compare id., iii. pp. 28 sq., No. 1381. The belief in such things is said to be universal among the ignorant and superstitious in Germany. For Welsh stories of this sort, see J. Ceredig Davies, l.c.; Rev. L. Strackerjan, op. cit. i. p. 360, § 238e.

Father Julius Jetté, "On the Superstitions of the Ten'a Indians," Anthropos, vi. pp. 703 sq., who tells us that Tinneh women at these times may not lift their own nets, may not step over other people's nets, and may not pass in a boat or canoe near a place where nets are being set. A.G. Morice, in Transactions of the Canadian Institute, iv. See above, p. 53.

The Zend-Avesta, translated by J. Darmesteter, i. See id., pp. 9, 181-185, Fargard, i. 18 and 19, xvi. 1-18. Pliny, Nat. Hist. vii. 64 sq., xxviii. 77 sqq. Compare Geoponica, xii. 20. 5 and 25. 2; Columella, De re rustica, xi. 357 sqq.

I think it equal to that occasioned by the sting of the black scorpion." He gives the name of the Indians as Mahues, but I assume that they are the same as the Mauhes described by Spix and Martius. Série, iii. pp. 21 sq. The writer says that the candidate has to keep his arms plunged up to the shoulders in vessels full of ants, "as in a bath of vitriol," for hours.

Each wing was 23 ft. in length, giving a total supporting surface of nearly 220 sq. ft.; the weight of the whole apparatus was only 92 pounds. For steering, both vertical and horizontal, a hinged tail was provided, and the leading edge of each wing was made flexible. In construction throughout, and especially in that of the wings, Le Bris adhered as closely as possible to the original albatross.

Frederick Starr, "Holy Week in Mexico," The Journal of American Folk-lore, xii. pp. 164 sq.; C. Boyson Taylor, "Easter in Many Lands," Everybody's Magazine, New York, 1903, p. 293. I have to thank Mr. S.S. Cohen, of 1525 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, for sending me a cutting from the latter magazine.

"Working People and their Employers," Washington Gladden. "Problem of the Unemployed," Hobson. "The Unemployed," Geoffrey Drage. "Korbey's Fortune," William T. Elsing in "Scribner's," Vol. XVI, pp. 590 sq. "Rich and Poor," p. 211. pp. 141 sq. "Charities Record," Baltimore, Vol. I, No. 6. "Rich and Poor," pp. 138 sq. pp. 242 sq. See Warner's "American Charities," pp. 177 sq.

The failure of philanthropy to make any adequate provision for this critical period accounts, in part, for the large number of married vagabonds in our great cities. Collateral Readings: On care of infants see leaflets of local Boards of Health. "The Working Child," Florence Kelley in Proceedings of Twenty-third National Conference of Charities, pp. 161 sq.

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