WRONGLY NAMED SUBSTANCES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 189, 26 July 1913, Page 3 (Supplement)

WRONGLY NAMED SUBSTANCES.

Black lead not contain a single particle of black lead, being composed of graphite. Bnazihan grass does not come from Brazil, or even grow there, nor is it grass at all. It is manufactured from strips of palm leaf (Chctmaerops ar gentea.}, and is imported chiefly from Chiba. Burgundy pitch is not pitch, nor is it manufactured in, or imported from, Burgundy. The best is a resinous substance prepared from common frankincense and brought from Hamburg; But by far tho greater quantity is a mixture of palm oil and resin.

Cuttie bone is not bone, but a structure of pure chalk, once embodied loosely m all the substance of certain extinct species of cuttlefish. It Is enclosed in a membranous sac, with the body of the fish, and drops out when the sac is opened. but it hns no connection whatever with the sac of the cuttlefish.

Galvanised iron is not galvanised. It is simply coated with zinc; and this :s done by dipn’fig it in a zinc bath containing muriatic acid. German silver is not silver, but a metallic alloy, which was not even invented by a German. It has been used ir China for ages. Honey soap contains no honey, but is one part palm-oil soap and three parts yellow or crude soap, scented. Japan lacquer contains no lac, and is made from a kind of nut tree.

Meerschaum is a composition of silica, magnesia and water. Th? name implies petrified sea foam. Mosaic gold has no connection with Moses or the metallic gold. It is an alloy of copper and zinc, used in the ancient musivum or tesselat>*d work.

Mother of pearl is the inner of several aorta of shell*, but rot the real mother of pearl, rather being the matrix of pearl.

Pen means a feather (Latin penna). A steel pen then is a misnomer. Whalebone does not possess any of the properties of bone, but is a substance attached to the upper jaw of the whale and serves to strain the water which the creatures tak» up in large mouthfuls.

VACCINATIONS AT A DINNER. BUTLER WITH SMALL-POX. NEW YORK, .Tune 11. The sudden illness vesterday of Mr. William Walker, butler to Mr. Charlemagne Tower, tho former American Ambststndcr in Berlin, has had a sequel which ss unique in tho social annals of Philadelphia. The ex-Ambassador, with his wjfe and son. was entertaining fifteen ladies and gentlemen to dinner when he was rung up ea the telephone bv the official medi«»t department and informed that as the dtMWB from which the butler is suffering had been discovered to be ; t was nocessarv for the entire household fin be vaccinated. Mr. Tower was an novel and refused. Repeatedly tho telenbone heli rang. Finally Dr. A. A. Cairns sent Dr. Sterfrner. of his assistants, to the house with arderw to vaccinate all tho oeeple in it. Mr. Tower was exfrremelv distressed at tile demand made ow his guents. They, finding no escape from the •viLvtl. laughingly submitted to it. baring their arm* to the Board of Hmdtfc needle, which spared neither servant*. waster, nor gaeata.