Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Arabs Still Eating Manna. [ARTICLE]

Arabs Still Eating Manna.

The manna with which the children of Israel were fed in the desert was the honey dew of tr species of mealy bug which lives on the tamarisk. These bugs secrete it in just the same w T ay that the aphids secrete the honey dew thatis the food of the ants. The Arabs still eat the “manna” and their name for it today is “man.”