Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — A Useful Tree. [ARTICLE]

A Useful Tree.

The cocoa palm is the meat useful tree on earth. Fresh water is procured from the nut before it is ripe, a single sample often containing three or four pounds of clear water, almost pure, save for a little sugar; the nut, when ripe, is very nutritious; the milk from the ripe nut is a good substitute for that of the cow; the young buds make good cabbage and greens; wine is made from the sap and flower stalks, and it« fermentation and distillation produces vinegar and brandy: the nutshells furnish utensils; ana from the fibers are made all sorts of clothing, textile fabrics, and even the sails, ropes, and other cordage of ships; its juices furnish ink, and its leaves pens and paper. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ibsen dines every day at the Grand Hotel, Christiania. He sits in solitary grandeur at a little table, seldom speaking to any one except the waiter, but very often taking notes of those around him. Ibsen’s wife is alive, but they are never seen together.