New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-16
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

A curious and interesting peach has turned up
among the collections of fruit trees growing on
the grounds of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College at Amherst. This is the fruit known to
oIoosoo, exnerts as the Peen-to peach. The
fruit &c about the size of tangerine orange, but
much more oblate In fact 1t is almost as nat as
the proverbial pancake Good specimens measured
three and a half inches in diameter, but were fiat
tened endwise TO a thickness OF less than three
ovor+are IF an inch. The Peen-tO peach comes to
this country from Southern China and In its
former home has been Known to grow as rar north
as Picking which would naturally give it climatic
ranqe about as far north as Massachusetts Until
this snecimen turned up in the horticultural
grounds at Amherst the Peen-to peach had never
been known % bear fruit in America north OF
Florida and the trees had been grown only pre-
cariously and as a curiosity as far north as Della
ware.
Don't you feel sorry for the Car? ,,, +,ar...
no telling how he might turn out He might grow
marry mp ao comic opera chorus girl The Gar should
look upon the subject in sensible light -(Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
1,.,,nt,an cotton is being introduced in Texas
ond PROMISES TO revolutionze the cotton industry
90 +ba south II is said that it is much more de-
sirable than the cotton raised in the United States
now and even better than the Sea Island cotton.
The Egyptian cotton has much longer fibre than
other cations and it's seed can be removed so easily
that it is not necessary to cut up the cotton In
ginning it.
az tell view" declared the agrculturist with long
vrbiskers IF Thomas jefferson wuz alive he'd be
.!C r. think of it, there is something in COM
mon between Jefferson and the Popuist party
.. En: 1efSersons philadelphia Press
Kansas has adopted the uniform textbook plan.
d oon+racted with a certain book company to
furnish books to the school children The Compel
i,, conopanies aggrieved at the award being given
- +ba,r rival il is believed. induced a labor union
to secure an Injunction against the successful COM
nanv alleging some fracture OF an agreement be-
tween the latter company and the union The en-
ioirers waited for opportune moment; as soon
- 49, hooks ordered TO equip the schools of the
Stota had arrived In Topeka, the depot of the
o,ncarn the Injunction served. Not book
can no distributed until the injunction is dissolved.
and waiting upon the usual processes of the court.
# will be three weeks after the time appointed
for the schools to begin before the matter can be
settled.
MI. ,,i D % oner and call on the Hobsons.
Mrs Dodson-Oh. John. you kno" wei enough
how GetesI caS'le know That's the reason
want YOU to go now; JUST saw tLsti IeatNe their
house and go down the observation-disclosures Times.
a, rho state Fair in Syracuse there was a
htueen two aocks OF geese. driven by women.
~ ~ rran,ad BIZ James r. Hyde. A writer In
IT. Rochester Post Express" that the
,aaa ~ a goose race is not new. In one of Maria
,dg.uorths novels-"Helen," the kochesterian
t,trLs ir ts-there is description of contest of
tb,s nature between two young men of fashion
who have undertaken 10 uli'e RoeSe ioi wager
along country roac-
sbe-women haven't bit more curiosity than
He-No but il is manifested in different lines
For Instance a woman might own a sewing ma
chine without finding out how IL Is made but she
day without knowing all about Decentralization
Times.