The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-11-18
NUTS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
The Demand Promises to Be Greater
Than Ever This Year.

Than Ever This Year.
"The demand for nuts promises to be
greater this year than ever before"
said a wholesale dealer in such prod
uce in New York to a writer for the
Star. "Sales are at present very Large,
and heavy shipments of from 10000 to
$4,000 bags or cases of nuts from all
parts of the world are arriving in this
city nearly every day. Nowadays nuts
constitute just as prominent a part il
the Christmas festivities in America as
most important item in the nut bus
ness is the walnut, and many claim they
are the sweetest nut grown. Formerly
these nuts came almost entirely from
Bordeaux, but the French nut is now
apt to be very poor article. When
opened the kernel is likely to be found
shrunken in the shell and the meat is
dry and of an inferior quality. The
finest walnuts come from Naples. They
are the cleanest, and the kernels are
full, fresh and of a fine flavor New
York imports from $4,000 to $4,000 bags
of French nuts and from 10000 to 12,-
600 cases of the italian product an
nually
''The California walnuts, particularly
those from the Los Nietas district, rank
next. They are reliable and have some
of the flavor of those imported from
Naples. They are brought to New York
IN sacks by the car load and are sold to
dealers who display them in stores or
on stands in every city of the union.
The Brazil nut, which greatly lyresem-
bles the meat of the cocoanut, but is
very much finer, is one of the most
popular and best selling nuts in the
market. All of these nuts come from
Rio Janeiro. The number consumed in
this country yearly is about 10000
sacks.
Years ago the Christmas dessert was
composed chiefly of almonds. raisins.
figs and filberts, which the French
called the farm beggars,' because no
adult would touch them.
"To young Americans, however.
almonds and raisins are dear as ever
and probably to young French people
ALSO
The greatrival of California is Spain.
and the almonds Of Tarragora are i'm
ported to New York in vast quantities.
Ihe common shelled almonds come di-
rect from Italy and through London
from the valley of the Jordan. The
exporters in Palestine, however. have
not acquired the art which the Califor-
mans have picked up from the Span
lards of making their boxes beautiful
with gaudily-colored Autographs, and
their boxes are merely plain, substan-
tlal receptacles-nothing more.
The hazel nuts, of which every boy
and girl is so fond, are grown large
ly throughout the United States. Not
withstanding the fact, most of these
nuts we eat are imported from BARGE
Iona and England During the past
year 100000 bushels were imported
from the former place.
Nearly all the dried figs that are
put up in small boxes and, displayed
everywhere for sale in the United States
and Great Britain are exported from
Turkey and Samaria. Fresh-ripened
hgs are now being sent to this country.
They are put up in tins and their sale
will be very large during the winter."-
Washington Star.
Cheap Fare and Always Open to Guests
of Every Description.
The impecunious bohemians OF Lon
don, when too poor to pay for nights
lodging, sleep in what they poetically
name the Hotel of the Beautiful Star,
or the Hotel de la Belle Etoile, as it is
called by those who speak French.
1t is large hotel, and the lodgers
can choose from among several cham
bers, such as the park and the Thames
embankment, and always find elbow
room and plenty of water.
Eight or ten years ago Mr.. Christie
Murray he tells the story in 'sThe
Making of Novelist was sitting in
the Savage club in company with four
distinguished men of letters.
One of them was the editor Of Lon
don daily, who said: II do not sup
pose that any man in my present po-
sition has experienced in London the
pri1ations / knew when first came,
here. went hungry for three days.