BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-11-20

into money often have to sell at discount.
Thus "stamp tradev has sp-ung up which |
enables burglars to dispose OF stolen stamps
with little danger Of detection. The nert
Congress- will doubtless be called upon to
consider plans 70: relieving this stu ,tlon.
| Tue Post.ofice Department has q C con-
science fund" of its own. Not at all un.
usual 8 it Tor people to use poorly can
celled stamp, and then to rAgret cheating
the Government out of two cents. In order
to secure peace of mind the tWo.cent culprit
will send good stamp to the Department
with an anonymous explanation. This stamp
is turned over to Mr.. Evelyn Hall, Of the
Files and Mails Division, who pastes it on
large card, and draws couple of pen.
marks across it. The effect would be inst
as good If the repentant cancelled the stamp
himself, since any one who desires to present
the Government with two cents has only to
destroy stamp of that denomination. But
it is a certain formality in repentance which
is desired. Hardly day passes without
contribution of this s)rt. The sums have
ranged all TIE way from one cent to $S ,OOC.
just as regularly as the season for start
ing fires comes around, there arrive at the
Treasury packages of remnants of burnt
bills for redemption. For some unaccount.
able reason, the house stove seems to be
favorite place for hiding money, perhaps
because It's metallic character suggests
safe, or because burglars would credit their
victims with too much sense to keep money
IN such place and SO would not look theirs.
III Whatever the reason, The phrase "money to
burn" rests on well ascertained tendencies
of human action.
One of the latest examples in which q
] settlement was made by the Treasury was
: that of Mrs. Pauline Mueller of Indianapo.
lis. She had little faith in banks, and when
, she went to market one day she hid her
savings, roll of bills amounting to S179.
: in the false bottom of q gas stove. While
: she was away the children, feeling cold.
lighted the gas, and by the time she re
turned she bad only few charred remnants
] and strange odor to show for her thrift.
] She mourned her loss for three years. and
every German in Indianapolis know of her
misfortune. Finally friend to whom she
snowed tne fragments sent them to Judge
W. u. BynCm here he took them to tie
8 bureau OF Redemption, where, by the
r wonderful system OF Identification employed,
the money was recognized, and the Treasury
has issued new bills for the greater part of
those destroyed. There is rejoicing in the
a Mueller household.
christopher Columbus discovered the
pineapple as well as America, At least
. so it is related in a brochure Just issued
3 6y the Department Of Agriculture. The
t Spaulards exploited the new country and
a the new fruit, and by the seventeenth cen
tury the pineapple was growing under glass
, IN Holland and England. But at tbs tins
1t Uas delicacy of royalty only. For the
2 benefit OF American housekeepers the Sec
retary OF Agriculture has published the fol
lowing recipe for preparing the pineapple
for the table:
Select large pineapple. Gut the base
OH square and take the crown ont
Then, with a thin.bladed sharp knife
cut around just under the peel. 40
as to remove the entire meat and leave
the peel intact. Cat or shred tthe meat into
suitable shapes for use, and sprinkle thor.
oughly with sugar. Set the cylinder made
by ths peel in large plate, right end up.
ward. Put the prepared pineapple into
| Ss.H SJAHuOAi onu ploCo bu0 CIOWQ IN DO
sition until ready to serve This makes
very pretty ornament on the dinner table.
and it looks like whole pineapple. To
serve, the crown is taken off and the pre-.
pared pineapple taken out with a fruit
iadle or large fruit fork. Only large
fruits can be used in this way, and they
must be used soon after being prepared. or
else the sugar should be withheld until the
fruit is served.
The dragon.fy is the natural enemy of
the mosquito. The Department Of Agricnl.
ture has discovered that the English spar.
row, among its other offensive traits. ia
fond OF young dragon. flies, called "nymphs.0 y
When these emerge from the water and
come out with wings, the sparrows catch
them by the thousands and destroy them.
This, it is believed, results in greater |
prevalence Of mosquitoes, which carry ma. |
larla and SO infict great injury.
f. E. L.