Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — Things to Eat and Brink. [ARTICLE]

Things to Eat and Brink.

Two merchants of Bakersville, Pa., have purchased 35,000 pounds of dried apples this season. The 1,600 convicts in Sing Sing prison eat twenty-one barrels of flour daily. Herring from Eastport, Me., go all over the United States as the genuine imported sardines. A bottle of purple ink was mistakenly opened for port wine at a Detroit supper, and fourteen guests filled their mouths with the liquid in pledging the host. A habit of chewing tea-leaves brought on attacks resembling delirium tremens in a girl whose case is reported in the London Lancet. There were 20,000 bushels of onions raised on the great meadown in Warren County, New Jersey, last season. The crop has already been disposed of. Next season 250 acres will be devoted to onion-raising. The sweetest and best-flavored pork in the world is produced on ihe island of Madeira. The hogs there subsist mainly on fruits, nuts, grass, and roots. Tennessee’s peanut crop this year is worth $700,000. The average yield per aoro ia forty-two bushels. A farmer in New Hope, Cal., who planted 500 acres in potatoes, has had such an abundant crop that he calculates it will yield him $50,000. A single sale of wheat was recently made in Tehama County, California, the money payment involved being $225,000. ’ Native raisins from. California are said to be successfully competing with the Spanish product, to which the former is preferred in many parts of this country. “Sat, why is everything Eithor at sixes or at sevens,?” Probably, myalear'norvotts sister, because you are suffering from some of the diseases peculiar to your sex. You have a “draggingclown” feeling, the back-ache, you are debilitated, you have pains of various kinds. Take Dr. It. V. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” and bo cured. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists.