Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1899 — Natural Toothpicks. [ARTICLE]

Natural Toothpicks.

Toothpicks prepared by Nature are a product of Spain and Mexico. A comparatively small plant in Kew Gardens was estimated to have 17,600, and a large specimen in the same place could have had no less than 51,000.