Salt A Luxury In Africa

The greatest of all luxuries iu centra África is salt. To say that a man eat saltwith hisvictuals is the same as say ing that. he is a rioh man. Mungo Par] says, ' 'The long continued use of vegeta ble f opd creates so painf ui a longing f o salt that no words can sufficiently de scribe it. ' ' - Chicago Tribune. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps relates tha once, wiien Longfellow was visiting he at her Gloucester home, she pointed ou to him the reef of Norman's Woe anc was surprised to find that, although h had wrecked the schooner Hesperus on it, he had never before seen it. From Venice to Washington is a distance of 3,835 miles.