Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — Chestnut Harvesting in China. [ARTICLE]

Chestnut Harvesting in China.

“Water chestnuts,” too (eaten by the" old lake-dwellers in Switzerland), are largely grown. Every canal is full of floating islands of them; and the gathering must look like that picture in this year's Grosvenor of “Athelney in Flood,” where young and old are going about after the apples in boats. Instead of boats; put tubs, each pushed with bamboo poles by a yellow man or woman, and paint two or three upsets, for John Chinaman is full of fun, and* those who have seen a water-chestnut harvesting say that everybody is on tho broad grin, and accepts a ducking with the same good humor with which be gives one.— All the Year Bound. A good thing to oil —Sardines. .