RULE

BRITANNIA. ‘This as tirr in national song is one of tho lyric a fror & masque written by Thomson and Mal in 1740 for Frederick, Prince of Wale Which of the two actually wrote the word we do not know; the music is by Dr. Ara the composer of so many favourite song RUM, a liquor obtained by distillatio from the “scum” that arises when can juice is boiled to obtain sugar, and fro: mola es. Jamaica and Demerara are ot chief sources of supply, but the cor sumption has gone down from nearly nin million gallons in 1875 to about half ths quantity. tinguished fr all other z feet b ¢ om all other animals by fact that they “* chew tho cud,” or in othe words, that their food is brought bac from the stomach to the mouth to b masticated. Camols, deer, giraffes, oxer ee and antelopes are the chic ts. The stomach is divided int four a fis which a first | practically a place of storage; the sec on Soran tan tae Sako thaicecruceel Saree consistency to pa back up the gullet and the third and fourth complete the pre ce of digestion when it returns. [s. 265] Jack's Reference Book — A Dictionary of General Information bÖLÜM I: A Dictionary of General Information