WANT WAXED PAPER-BAGS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 451, 8 December 1904, Page 3

WANT WAXED PAPER-BAGS.

Customer* of the Grocer imMmt Upon Havlm« Their VmabiimtM VuA y J O,VO ia Them. J "I should like to get my hands on the man who began to line the ordinary paper bag of commerce with waxed paper," said ah up-town gmcor, reports the New York Times. "Women will not have their orders :•:■nt home in anything else now. The coarse brown paper bags that our pothers used to get are almost out ■i: business. If a woman wants to keep a thing dry she asks to have it sent in a waxed paper bag. If she wants to keep it moist she also wants a waxed paper bag. Tea and coffee g<i into waxed paper to keep them dry and fresh. A nice head of lettuce calls for waxed paper to keep it moist. Cakes, candies and confectionery of all sorts must be put in wax paper bags. Sugar and flour are about the only things for which we can use the old-fashioned bags. It was once only a fad in the trade, •nlculated to please somewhat fas- ■ lious customers who wanted to carry a small parcel home without soiling their gloves. Now it is a demand in the business, sven lor dalivery orders." The '*Ve*» Tr»fle. '" Until a comparatively few years ago Fez, the capital of Morocco, had practically a monopoly in the man- > future of the Turkish national address named after it—the "fez" -?t ii was supposed that the pecudull crimson color of the tasRkull cap could only be ob- ;-•■ by using the dye made from berry largely grown in the ■i- . rhood of the city,' which is ~,, r . ~,1, in the dyeing of tnn* .>•-."■ Vsithsr. Now, however, France ■ ! T -key,' and to.a certain-extent -stria, actively compete with Fez ■nr what is a very lucrative. ' rade. ,/ Dollar for «■»««««• BSA«. Senator Pettus, of Alabama, the '■•! her day disprovedthepreVailing.the- '•• that all seats in thW.Utlited States ■/Suite are expensive a-nd that that lv is altogether a millionaire's club, ;= » sent to the secretary of state of 'lnhama the sum of one dollar in a :'-tal note to cover-the entire ex■ises for his recent unanimous eleci'uj'ri. This sum represents the fee of the secretary of sta>te=f or his servicesi . far as known this is' a record v in ",e minimum price* fotf- seats in the nate. '• ■:■ Growth' of Wtre&eam Tele«tra»*iy.-Seventy-one patents.coveipagjappa-/^ ■tii? for wireless telegraphy, were sued in the United States 'last jaarjV making the total number 'lQjil^ > '■,.■':' .'■.:.:■■&■>*■; ' • M