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...scientists are developing the ancient Japanese industry, have built in California the only agar plant in the world outside of the Orient. Several years ago Japanese fishermen discovered some agar-bearing sea moss on the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. Realizing that nostalgic Orientals in the U. S. love bird's-nest soup and knowing that agar-agar is an ingredient, they built a small factory, which Occidentals have taken over, moved, modernized...
Aghast, the Bird of Freedom shrieks, "And shall Columbia miss the peaks, And fall from grace through wearing breeks...
...Supreme Court of the U. S., went to Boston, visited the chambers where he was onetime associate (1882-99), onetime chief justice (1899-1902) of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Declared he, standing before a portrait of Charles Jackson, state supreme court justice from 1813 to 1823: "That old bird was my grandfather...
...zone, where the highest mountains of Guatemala are located, by reason of the changes in fauna which occur, not only as one ascends or descends a mountain peak through various levels in its 13,000 or 14,000 feet. In this arid subtropical plateau there are peaks which have birds of the tropical desert at their base, of the arid subtropical plateau upon their slopes, and of the temperate regions on their summits. All this complicates the task of a cataloguer. It is necessary to state at what altitude on what mountain peak every bird is taken...
...further complication is found, particularly in the neighborhood of Lake Atitian, a mountain lake surrounded by peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher...