Manna Eaters

In some of tho hastern countne9, notably Arabia and Persia. a manna answering cloely to that mentioned, in the scripturos 13,81111 naturally produced in some considerable quantity, says Goorl Ilouokeeping'. It comes from the tender branches of the tamarisk, and is known to the Persiana by the name of ■tamarisk honey." It consists ot tear-liko drops, which exuda in consequonce of the puncture of an insect during the months of June and July. in the cool of the morning it is fcund solidified, and the congealed tears tnay be shaken from the limbs. That, in fact, is one of the methois of manna. Herodotus alludes to the aama nut.-it.iious product, so that there i; no doubt it has been known in thoso regions from the earliest ages. Jt is easy to see how it might be producod in wonderful quantities without any special manifestation of the sunernatural. It is a Bweetish substance, pleasant to the taste and higlily nutritiva. Some students of the bible have supposed the manna there meationed to have been a furieus growth; but while the explanation would be a natural one, the modieation which it would require is an unnecessary one. There are numerosa interesting things, nevertheiess. p-bout the various kinds of fung-i, which modern experimentation has decided to be edible; and not only that, but highly palatable and nutritivo. What country boy of an imaginative nature but has frolicked ! in mir.io wa 'f are with imag-inary foes, getting the smoke for his artillery and nf:intry from the numerous i "puffbails" which a convenient pasture óffGrded, while his own lung power furnished the "crash and roar and cLieor" íor tíie inspiring contest! I Yot soíenoi has demonstratad that those very pufi'balls were onca good to eat - in facr, capablo of furnishing the most dair.'y aourishment.