Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1884 — A Grease Tree. [ARTICLE]

A Grease Tree.

They have in China what is known as the grease tree. Large forests grow there, and the oleaginous product has become an article of traffic. The grease forms an excellent tallow, burning with a clear, brilliant white light, and at the same time emitting not a trace of any unpleasant odor, or of the ordinary disagreeable acoompaniment of combustion. smoke.