Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1915 — The Intoxicating Strawberry. [ARTICLE]

The Intoxicating Strawberry.

It seems difficult to believe there can be any connection between the strawberries now coming to market and poison gases, but the association PTista The steamships bringing fruit from Brittany to Plymouth refuse to carry passengers when conveying a cargo of strawberries because of the intoxicating fumes given off by the berries when packed in bulk. Even the seamen have orders to keep on deck as much as possible. As strawberries, even tons of tnem, give off no very pungent smell, the theory has been advanced that the intoxicating effect of a cargo of the fruit is due to the fermentation of the sugar In berries. —London Chronicle.