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THE BREADFRUIT TREE.

Something About This Strange and Useful Asiatic Plant.

The breadfruit tree

is a native o!

gouthern Asia, the south Pacific islands and the Indian arc] lago. In appear- ance it resembles sumewhat the wild chestnut. It grows to the height of 40 or 60 feet and has dark green leaves,

many of them two feet in length, which are deeply divided into pointed lobes.

Hidden among the great leaves the

preadfruit grows. It is a sorosis. ig pearly spherical, often weighs four or more pounds and has a thick, yellow rind. This fruit is the chief food of the south sea islanders. They

meal without it. The between the rind and the core and when fully ripe is yellow and juicy. It is better for food before it has matured, and the natives gather it while the pulp is white.

Before it is rcady for table use it mnst be roasted, when it looks like wheat bread, and is both palatable and nutri- tious. Usually the fruit is cut into three or four slices and roasted or baked im an oven.

Frequently the people of a villace join in making a huge oven, in which several hundred bresdfruits may be baked at one time. Thus they are all supplied with bread without its cost- ing any of them much labor. Prepared in this way, the bread will keep for weeks.

The breadfruit is in season eight months of the year. When the season finally draws to a close, the last fruits are gathered and made into a sour paste called ‘“‘mahei.’’ This paste will keep good for months and is made into balls, wrapped in leaves and baked, just as needed.

Bread is not the only product of the breadfruit tree. From it cement, cloth, tinder and Jumber are also obtained. A glutinous, milky juice oozes from the trunk of the tree, which makes an ex- cellent cement when boiled with cocoa- nut oil. From the fibrous inner bark a kind of coarse cloth is made, and the big leaves make good towels. The ium- ber is used for building houses and many other purposes. Besides all this

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the dried blossoms are used as tinder | when fires are kindled.—Philadelphia |

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Dystera served in every style Lunche and: iers with despatch. Asx usual, [ aim prepared to deliver Oysters in any quantity to customers to any part of tue city.

Tely».one Connection.

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OFFICE—Cans on B.ocx, Victoria Row. MOK. Y TO LOAN A. McDonau! G. S. INMAN.

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NOTICE

The property on the corner of King and Pownai Ste, belonging tothe estate of the late Catherine MeKenna, (subject to 4 3 years unexpired lease, from May ist, 1898), will be sola by Public Auction Ou Tuesday, Mey 3rd, 1898, at 12 o'clock, LC On.

This property is new keown aa the Finley House. Terme Cash.

M. P. HOGAN, PATRICK BLAKE, Executors

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The debtors of “Mckay Wool-t len Company” are hereby noti- fied to make immediate pay- ment of their respective debts at the office of tne Company,

in Charlottetown; at which place due acqvuitsances can be Debtors failing a oyct on this notice will be sued,

without resoect to persons, after the expiration of one week from Cate .

We are— Fully Equipped

For the Spring Season with a complete stock of all

lines of Footwear. | We have all kinds of Shoes; low Shoes, honest Shoes | dancing Shoes ana ‘Temperance Shoes (that don’t get tight). Slippers in great variety, Rubbers, Overshoes Gaiteis, ete.

Big Values, Ly Prices, Honest Goods, Bost Style

Will make almost any one Fappy. happy to think that we have pleased you in the past, and know that we can do so now better than ever.

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Will be at home toa limited number of pupils in physical culture and oratory.

Apply to Muss Lefurgey at L. J.

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Prowse Bros. . -

Have notified us to mov’ fom our oid stand, till they bnild me * new brick store:

We willon the lst of April move to Great George Street, opposite Job Joy’s Restaurant, und forthe ne.t thirty daye, we will givethe biggest bargains in the history of the Jewel- lery trade of Coarlotretown, to clear cut our stock ef Clocks, watches and Jewe lerv.

Repairing of Clocks, Watches and Jewellery, given specia! uttention.

C.5.IOURY

Bottled Joy,

Emptv boitles wanted, cheapest cash price paid for ali kiod of empty bottles, JOAN P, JOY,

Victoria Cal: Gt Geogre St.

TNERCOLONIAL COAL MINING CO. Ltd

(Drummond Colliery) Westville, N.S.

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The undersigned has been appointed agent of the above

Company for P. E. Islagd: | All orders for Coal will be issued and, payment therefoz |

received at my office.’ e beth ie Prices and further information furnished on application.

FRED. W. HYNDMAN

LEGAL CARD. WARBURTON & McKINNON

Barristers, Attorney’s, Notarys Public.

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CHARLOTTETOWN Business College

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Writing Academy

Let the search) ght of practice i/luminate the dark places of Theory. THOROUGHLY Progressive Institution, in which ,oung men and women are not only taught Book keeping Qn allits applicationsto commerce) both by #ngie and double entry, but are trained how todo business, %y actual business transact- ns. ‘She siudents act as buyers, sellers, traders, bankers, book-keepers and account- ants, in actual business operations, and the eurrency issued by the College Bank and the dse issued frcm the Emyorium, are used n bona fide business transactions, just the same asin mercantileand banking « oases, Book-keeping in itself may be learned at bome, but a knowledge of how to transact business, cannot be thus acquired. That our course system Of training is eminently pract- weal vite for testimoniais trom businers men, and from students who ale now hold- ing lucrative and responsible positions. SUBJECTS: Book-keeping by single and double entry | mesne wnagg and practical.) Actoal Business ractice, Business Penmanship, Business Correspondence, Commercial Arithmetic, Commercial Law, Rai.roading, Steamboat-

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FACULTY:

L. B Miller, Principal, Teacher of Bodk- keeping, Arithmetic, susiness Practice, Business Correspondence, ‘iypev-riting ard Navigation,

J. W. Coulson, (Vice Principal,) Teacher of Railroading, Steamvoating, sanling, Ac- eounting and Actual Business Practice.

J. Harry Williams, Teacher of Busines Penmanship.

wm. Moran (licensed), Teacher of Short- band. 4

George S. Inman Esq, (Law Firm Me- Donald & Inman) Lecturer on Commercial

w. For circulars and fyll information, write or

to wer L. B, MILLER; Principal, (ioeteens — cwmety gg ae An call ege al bepect cur system of , , ana work iu general. ”

{TAPPING ROCK FOR WATER.

Baron Nordenskjold'’s Theory Leads to an Important Discovery.

Baron Nordenskjold’s system of bor- ing for fresh water through the granite rocks of Sweden has now been in oper- ation for two years. The Geographical Journal says that 44 wells bave been bored. This is not alone a question of finding water, but of the discovery of a new and important principle,

The difficulty in obtain good | drinking water at many of the p and | light stations on the rocky islets off the, Swedish coasts first induced Norden-; skjold to consider the subject. He be- lieved from his researches in Spitzber- gen that a horizontal crack would gen- erally be found to exist inall solid rocks at an ipsignificant depth beneath the earth’s surface. Consequently in the Swedish rocks he concluded that water wouid be found by boring to this crack. The only places where there was any prospect of such borings being under- taken were on out of the way rocks and islets, where water was so much needed.

In order to solve the problem Baron Nordenskjold as early as 1885 inquired respecting the saltness of water in wells or mines near the seacoast and collect- ed some important information. He was told that several wells in sedimentary strata near the seacoast yielded water free from salt, although the springs are at depths of 100 to 250 feet below sea level. The information he collected, though far from conclusive, appeared to point to the fact that water obtained by boring on rocky islands would not be salt or brackish, but fresh drinking wa- ter.

Nordenskjold therefore proposed to the chief of the pilot stations that he should allow an attempt at boring to be made at some suitable station. The first boring took place in 1891 on the little island of Svangen, south of Kos- terfjorden. It was abandoned after reaching a sufficient depth, because a long crack was reached extending from the sea to the boring hofe. It wae next taken up in May, 1894, by Baron Ruuth, she general director for pilots, who, regardless of the unsuccessful bor- ing at Svangen, caused a second experi- ment to be tried at Arko. The site se- lected was a flat place near the pilot station, the rock being composed of hornblende, gueiss and diorite. The re- sults were very satisfactory.

As soon as a depth of about 100 feet was reached they came to excellent wa- ter, yielding 600 quarts an hour. At first the water was a little yellow, owing to clay in the cracks of the rock, the stone dust and oil from the boring, but it soon became perfectly clear. Water has al- ways been found at a depth of 90 to 125 feet, and similar borings have since been carried out successfully at 44 different places. At first the water ia mixed with the clay from the cracks, the stone dust and the oil from the ma- chine, and it is some time before all the dirty water is pumped away, but soon it becomes as clear as crystal. At Stock- holm it has a temperature of about 43 to 45 degrees F.

The boring in hard, close rock wonld probably have the same results in other countries. Baron Nordenskjold is con- vinced that wherever hard, close rock exists, with variations in temperature and not permeable, water will be found in the same way as in Sweden, and in the same quantity—-that is, from 600 to 2,000 quarts an hour—with moderate pumping. Sites for such borings coald be found, for example, on many parts of the north coast of Africa, in Abys- sinia, in South Africa, in Spain and other parts of the western Mediterrane- an, at the foot of Mount Sinai, in Greece and Asia Minor and in the dry water- sheds of the canyons of the Colorado. In the tropics, where there are dry sea- sons, such wells cannot supply water for extensive cultivation, but they will spring forth, free from all bacteria and impurities, and will suffice for house- hold purposes, for small villages and for gardens. The practical importance of Baron Nordenskjold’s discovery entitles it to special attention.

We have been ia thie etand for over 22 years, but now we are going to move. Before doing #0, we will offer our Jarge stock of crockery and gisesware et a bargain? wholesale and retail at the cheap crockery store, —W. P. Colwill.

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