THE ALUMNI JOURNAL. 13 



UTILIZATION OF ALCOHOL. 



DENATURED PRODUCT FROM CURRANTS IN GREECE. 



Consul General- George Horton writes from Athens that the Greek 

 Wine and Spirits Company, organized for the purpose of utilizing 

 and consuming the Corinthian currants, the principal agricultural 

 product of Greece, is making satisfactory progress in its efforts to 

 dispose of the crude alcohol distilled from currants. 



They have opened a premanent exhibition in Athens where their 

 lamps, stoves, etc., may be seen and purchased, and they have estab- 

 lished depots of denatured alcohol at many convenient points in Athens 

 and other parts of Greece. The alcohol is sold in tins of 5 okes and 

 up, at 80 lepta the oke. (One oke equal to 0.3513 gallon; $1 equal to 

 5.5 drachmas; 100 leptas equal i drachma.) A portable heating stove 

 which they have on exhibition, which really throws out enough heat 

 to warm a room 12 by 24 feet, consumes about i^ okes in twelve 

 hours. Lamps of from 24 to 32 candlepower can be kept lighted at 

 an expense of from 4 to 6 lepta the hour. The company has in stock 

 lamps of from 12 to 1,500 candlepower. 



There has been no opportunity to put the portable stoves to a prac- 

 tical test as yet, as the supply has only recently been received and the 

 cold weather has not yet come on. The lamps are being sold, however, 

 and are giving great satisfaction. They are fitted with mantles and 

 give an extremely bright light. 



A recent editorial in "I'Economiste d'Orient" predicts that denatured 

 alcohol will take the place of petroleum for lighting purposes in 

 Greece, rather than gas, electricity, gasoline, or acetylene, the use of 

 which is confined to the principal cities. The same editorial calls at- 

 tention to the fact that the tax on petroleum constitutes one of the 

 principal sources of revenue for the payment of the public debt, and 

 it predicts that the international control will be compelled to put a 

 tax on denatured alcohol to reimburse itself in case the latter should 

 largely take the place of petroleum. 



RETORT COURTEOUS. 



Clerk — Mr. B., I have no clean towel to dust the display cases with. 

 Mr. B. (Manager) — I haven't any in my pocket, do you want my 

 handkerchief? 



Clerk — That won't do. I nmst have something clean.- — H: J. G. 



