Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — Oak Tees in America. [ARTICLE]

Oak Tees in America.

The geographical disposition of the oaks of America is between 20 and 50 degrees northern latitude—i. e., from the southern parts of Mexico to the southern parts of Canada. 1 read some time ago a reference to the Virginia oak. bv Parkinson, printed in 1640, as follows: “They have in Virginia a goodly tall oke, which they cull the white oke, because the bark is whiter than others, the aekorne is not only sweeter than others, but by boyling it long it giveth out an oyle, with which they keep supple their joyuts.” k " ; for ii .SniMlt Family. Muldoou—l'll make Maginnis sick this thHp, whin I hang up me turkey for a Tattle. I'm goin' to bate the wurruld wid the burrud I have. Lanigan—Aro ye, uow? Where the divil did ye get ’im? Muldoou—l gave tin dollars to a busted circus for it. It's a rale African turkey, called an ostrich, and be Jabers, he: "weighs one hundred and twinty-five pounds.