The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-10-11
Editorial Notes.


A TACOMA young lady has captured
an English lord. 1t is reported that
Seattle is thinking hard on scheme
to kidnap the Prince of Wales.
The quickest and the best vinegar
| ever have made, writes Jennie Kale
in House keeper, was from some over
ripe fruit. 1t was not in any way rot
ted, of course, but it was too ripe to be
of any use to put up. I dropped each
piece into crock and poured warm
soft water over them, till the crock
was filled This was set in warm
place and in less than a week it had
begun to form the "mother-"-North-
west Horticulturist
AMONG the exhibits at the New
Whatcom fair was cabbage, weighing
sixty pounds. From point to point OF
the leaves it measures four feet; the
solid part of the head measures twenty
two inches across. There are many
potatoes weighing three pounds and
over, rutabagas weighing twenty-five
pounds and over, sugar beets Of twenty
pounds and over, and many other
splendid exhibits in similar proportion,
and their fair q success.
49,
THE spirit of adventure, coupled
with the need of continual develop
ment, always keeps some explorer lost
in every season of the year. A few
years ago some fellow theOrized about
hole to the center of the earth, a
beautiful and restful retreat to be lost
in, to do hard and penitential think
ing in. If this hole is in repair-it
certainly will be we'll heated-the
Democratic party can't be too quick
about taking a ninety-nine year lease
of it, with privilege Of renewal. Doubt
less the discoyerer will permit the new
tenant to pull most of the hole in
after him.-Inter Ocean.
Xxx
IT is gratifying to learn that produc-
ers in at least portion of this state
have learned that success in cultivat-
ing an eastern market for their fruit
depends to great extent upon the
pursuit of an intelligent course in
picking and packing. Such lessons
usually take long time and heavy
losses to become thoroughly inculcated
but it appears that about Walla Walla
and to certain extent in other Sec
tons of the state the methods of pack
ing are becoming reduced to science
In consequence the value of the fruit
yield is increased with even greater
rapidity than is production itself, and
Washington fruit is gaining reputa-
ton that will be of value in the fu-
ture.-Trade.
Xxx
The canneries operating on Puget
Sound have about closed their sea-
sons operations, and George T. Meyers,
Seattle's wellknown canneryman, in
forms the Post-Intelligencer that his
catch will reach about 10000 cases.
valued at $4,000, and would have
been 10000 more, but for the poor run
earlier in the season. He estimates
the Puget Sound pack this season at
10000 cases, but from advices thus
far given out it will not reach that
amount. The Alaska Packers asocia-
ton states that their Point Roberts
canneries put up $4,000 cases; an
estimate on the Island Packing com
pany's output at Friday Harbor places
it at L. 900 cases and the National
Packing company at Port Angeles
10000, which, with Mr.. Meyers 49,
600 cases, would equal lis, ZOO cases.
The Village Point Packing company
near New Whatcom, also put up a
quantity of canned salmon, but the
output was not large.-Trade.