Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — Cooked Under Water. [ARTICLE]

Cooked Under Water.

An Englishman' made a wager that be could cook a plum pudding ten feet beneath the surface of the Thames and won the bet by placing the pudding in a tin case and putting the whole in a sack of lime. The beat of the lime, slaking when It came in contact with the water, was sufficient to cook the pudding In two hours. Untll 1G27 the Chinese wore tbelr hair long and colled on tbe top of tbs bead, where It was fastened with an ornamental pin. Tbe Mantcboo edict making the pigtail a sign of loyalty changed this style. There aw no big words In the ser» mon on tbe ”**