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Show LOSING APPETITE FOR NUTS Writer Bemoans the Pstslng of the Ancient Fendntu That Made Winter Evenings a Joy. The old butternut, a very rich and fru grant nut of the olden time, has almost al-most disappeared. Very few people of the present generation have ever tasted tast-ed a butternut. The black walnut Is becoming fewer, and iu a gi-iuTatloti hence It will hardly be known. And yet it Ih a precious nut, full of goodness good-ness and rare tuste. Thoe old puns of cracked walnuts, In the long winter win-ter evenings, made up a family Joy that has never been surpassed. The hickory nuts, especially the good old shellburks, figured prominently In those nutty duys, and the cliestuuts, too, Including the hazel huts and beech nuts; but they are all growing scarcer, and have sadly strayed away from the huinau heart. The pecan is becoming the great American uut. There are thousands of trees cultivated In the south, and the uut bus become commercially important. im-portant. Trees are reported bearing $200 to $100 worth of nuts per acre, it Is a rich nut, but quite too hard for the novice to pick out the kernels. There are, however, machines that do the work perfectly. Uut, after all, for rich, well llavored and grand mouth-fuls mouth-fuls of nuts, give us the Kngllsli walnut. wal-nut. Ohio State Journal. Egyptalns Had 12 Hour Day. The early Kgypllana divided day and night each Into 12 hours, a custom cus-tom adopted by the Jews or Greeks probably from the Hubylonlans. The days Is sal. I to have been divided Into hours from 293 li. C, when L. I'aplrlus Cursor erected a sundial In the temple tem-ple of Cjulclnus at Homo. Ilefore water clocks were Invented In 1S8 It. C, time was called at Rome by public criers. In Kngland the measurement meas-urement of time was. In early days, uncertain; one expedient was by wax candles, three Inches burning an hour, and six wax caudles burning 24 hours ascribed to Alfred, fcH6. Unanswerable, Simeon Ford, New York's well-known well-known humorist, said whimsically the other duy, apropos of the death of J;' Plerpont Morgan: "We learn from Mr. Morgan's life that wealth does not bring happiness. We know already al-ready that poverty doesn't bring It, either. What on earth then Is a mail to do?" Argonaut. Alexandria. Alexandria Is Egypt's principal port and commercial center. According to statistics tsken In 10H, Alexandria occupies third place among Mediterranean Mediter-ranean ports. Twenty one ocean navigation navi-gation companies maintain a regular scheduled service at Alexandria. |