Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-08-14

from 200 900 tons of seed. In its crude state
the oil is used as an adulterant for hnseed,
with good results. In it's refined state it is
worth GO and IS cents per gallon. There are
less than dozen concerns in the country
in tho cotton seed oil refining business.
The export trade is important. The oil
returns to this country as the best olive
or sweet oil, being put up in fancy bottles
and packages, perfumed and changed
in taste by extracts. 1t is asserted that
more than one-h half of the salad and fancy
oils in the market are really a product of
cotton seed. 1t can be refined till it is a pure
and tasteless vegetable Oil, in which state it
can be made by havoring anything desired.
The French have been using it for some time
instead of olive oil for the packing of sar-
dimes, and of course the sardine packers at
PASSPORT, Me-, do not use olive oil at $4 per
gallon when cotton seed oil can be had for 65
cents. Cotton seed oil is used by some bak-
ers as substitute for lard and cheap butter,
and believer in this use asks those who are
inclined to shudder at it: (Which do you
prefer Your cooking done in oleomargarine
butter, made of tallow churned through
chopped cows udders to make it taste like
butter your doughnuts fried in lard which
is rendered by putting whole hog-a dozen
of them-into an immense revolving steam
vat, still hot, and nothing is left in the vat
except teeth and bristles-which do you pre-
fer, butter and lard, or refined cotton seed
oil ?"
Near one of the hotels in Saratoga there is
an old graveyard in which many distinguish
ed men and women have courted. The VEN
cradle sexton has been giving some pleasant
"reminiscences to reporter. Why, he said,
there was Winston, of the Mutual Life. He
used to walk around here, 80 years ago, with
beautiful blonde girl 1 can see him now,
kissing that girl-but I'm not going to
tell all 1 know. Andrew H. Green,
he married girl he courted in my grave
yard. Fernando Wood used to have seat
here, and Charles A. Dana, he used to know,
forty years ago, all about flirting in grave
yard Old General James Watson Webb used
to walk the young ladies up here fifty years
ago, and his son, the doctor, why he could
never get along at all counting Miss Van.
derbilt until he got her away from the stuck.
up States Hotel, and found himself one day
in one of my seats. I knew Vanderbilt would
lose a daughter that night. / tell you these
graveyard seats mean business every time
Did ever have any senators or governors or
my seats ? Why, of course. Senator Ksr
nan courted two girls at once in this grave
yard, and President Arthur knows where al
the best seats arc. They needn't be ashamed
of it, either, fer Hamilton and Dewitt Gin
ton used to do the same thing when they
| were boys. Boys will be boys, continued
the old man as he jumped out of grave
and girls will be girls. Girls with big hearts
| like to be loved and fellows with big hearts
| will kiss and love them. I don't carr
how straight their parents make then
sit up and down at the States, the,
will occasionally get away and conn
| up here in the graveyard to act natural
and I'm the last man to hinder 'em. Why,
often keep these graveyard gates open till
o'clock when there are genuine lovers enough
around to warrant it. I don't mean fiirters
I mean real, genuine lovers" The old phil
osopher was asked But how do the lover
manage down at Long Branch and over a
Newport, where they have no graveyard
handy" He replied: 81 don't know, bu
they have mating places somewhere.
'spect they sit out in the sand under tn
bluffs, or sit around under umbrellas in tn
pavilions, or get in dismal corners in the bal
comics. They've got TOBY gosh, they'v
| got tor