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75TH
YEAR.
THE
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CROIX
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E
SUGAR
NOTES.
l
-
The
latest
report
has it that the Danish
government
will
take
over
the
sugar
factories
for 22,540.000
kronen.
Rumours
have
been
aflot for some
time
that
the
government
would take
over
the
indus-
try
because
ilt has
exercised
a very
high
|
control
of the situation
for a number
of
|
years.
The
Danish
people
do
things,
however,
very
much
on
the
communal
order
and
have
the
finest
system
of
co-
|
operation
of any
Kuropean
country
and |
1t
is
believed
that
there will be distinet |
advan:ages
when
this. monopoly
so
to
speak’shall
come
into power.
—Loutstana
Planter.
|
The
leaders
in
the
beet
industry
in
|
(lzecho-Siovakia
are planning
to pay
30
kronen
per
quinial for
sugar
beets
of
|
which
4 kronen
shall
be
retained
to
be
|
used
as fertilizer
to
be
returned
to
the
|
soil.
This is
a rew wrinkle in the econo-
|
mic way of handling
a situation'and
has
|
not
come
to our
attention
before,
This
|
,
blan preven's robbing
the soil and
has
in
'
it
the old element
of the tithe
practiced
|
by the Hebrew peopie
who after a
given
|
period
of years
had
to fallow their
land
|
to insure
better crops.—lbid.
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|
PALM SUGAR IN BRAZIL.
%
—_———
|
In jcommon
with
many
other
palms,
|
writes
the United
States
Consul
at
Rio
|
de Janeiro,
Nipak fructificans
contains
|
sugar
in quantity
sufficient to .make
its
|
exlraction
a commercial
success.
It
is
|
estimated
that
at least
12 per cent of su-
|
gar could be recovered
from the
sap,
and
that
an
average
annual
yield
of
4,000
|
pallons of sap
per
acre
would yield
4,000
CHRISI'ANSERD.
V. LIB A..
THURSDAY,
10tH
JUNE
1920,
lbs
of
sugar.
This
palm
is
found
in
great
nuftbers
in
Borned.
In
Brazil,
in
the Amazon
basin,
the
Indians
prepare
for their feasts
and powwows
a beverage
from
the sap of a great
number
of palms
but it is not known to what species
these
palms belong,
or if any experiments
were
made
to determine
their sugar
content.
Rubber
cutters
and
travelers
agree
that
“palm wine’’ is very refreshing
as
long
as
too strons a fermentation
has
not
set
in.
-~
rom
The Journal
of the Royal
So-
ciety of Arts.e
g
NOBODY WANTS KAISER’S AUTO.
LONDON
THEATRICAL
PRODUCER
CAN’T
SELL
ORNATE ‘VEHICLE
ABROAD.
LLONDON. —DBallet girls of London’s big-
oest
musical
success
are riding home
on
cushions
mean.
for the ex-imperial limbs
of the ex-Kaiser.,
The
most
sumptuous
car in the
world,
seized
as
Hohenzollern
property
by
the British
Government
at
the outbreak
of the
war
is
now
owned
by Gladys
Dillon,
revue producer.
Miss
Dillon
has
owned
the
car for a
year,
but wouldn’t
hive
had
it a week
if she
could have
scld it.
It came
to her
trom
a
Norwegian,
together
with
a
yacht
once
raced
by the
Emperor
Wil-
heim.
Both
were
bought
by
the
Nor-
wegian
at public 'auction.
After
trying
to pay
their
unkeep
for
three
years
he
presented
them to
Miss
Dilion.
NOBODY WILL BUY IT
The
ear is
so
nfagnificent
that nobody
will buy
It.
it sgats
10 people
and
can
hold
15.
It has
combined
dinner
and
card
table
in
the
rear,
with
seats
for
seven
arranged
around
it.
In tae back
is a cellerette
and
an
installation
where-
by
lunches
ecan
be
cooked
at
a
short
order.
The carriage,
including
the dri-
ver’s
seat,
whiek
accommodates
three,
is in mahogany
four inches
thick,
inlaid
with silver
in oienta!
design.
Sunken
opaque
lights
supply
the
illumination.
The
floor
is
parquet
oak.
Silken
cur-
tains
conceal
the
windows,
which
are
protected
by sheit
glass
an inch
thick.
The
engine
of4tle
car
is
70
horse-
power.
IS
MOST
LUXURIOUS
On
armist:ce
aight
Miss
Dillon
ven-
tured
to appear
in the
car at the Criteri-
on restaurant.
- Hooligans
from the east
end surroanded
it and
made
such
a dis-
turbance
that
a
policeman
turned ina
riot
call,
and
an
armed
squad
had
to
escort
the car back
to
its garage.
Since
then the
onlv
use
to which
it
has been
NoO.
132,
put has
been
to convey
members
of Dil-
lon’s
theatre
to their
homes
at night.--
Barbados
Globe,
10th May.
xecutlvg
r Br
011
1.
Executive
Order
No.
14-1918
lis
hereby
revoked.
2.
In
the
future
all
prisoners
dis-
charged
irom
Richmond
Penitentary,
who
have
served
for
a
period
of
six
months
or more
shall
be furnished
with:
1 plain suit of clothes.
1 shirt and
one
ecap
or hat.
1 pair of socks
and
one pair of shoes.
3.
Prisoners
discharged
from
Rich-
mond
Penitentiary
who
have
served
therein
one
year
or
more
shall
hereafter
also
receive
twenty five francs
in cash
for
each
year
or portion
of a
year
over
six
months
that they
were
incarcerated
in
said
penitentiary.
4.
Prisoners
discharged
from
Rich-
mond
Pe
itentiary
who
have
served
therein
for a period of
less
than
one year
shall
hereafter
also
receive
such
sum
in
cash
as
may
be ordered
by the
Diector
of Police, but not
to exceed
francs
twenty
five.
5.
The
expenses
incurred
by virtue of
paragraphs
2,3,
and
4,
hereof
shall
be
paid
from
‘‘Maintenance
ot
Police
De-
partment’’.
6.
Such
cash
payment
shall
be
made
by
eheck
from
the
Despatching
Secre-
tary’s
office upon
voucher
signed Ly
the
prisoner
being discharged,
and approved
hy the Director
of
Polic:.
J.
W. OMAN,
Governor.
St Phomas
¥
1. L. 8 May 28,
1920
PART&ES
indebted
to
W.
L.
Hor-
ton
for
books
purchased
arc
requested
to
pay
the
instalments
due
to
the
undersizned
without
delay,
as
otherwise legal steps
will
be taken for enforcing
payment.
A. k. STAKEMANN,
Lawyer.
'
2B 1920).