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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. [Dec. i, 1893. 
Tka, Waggon (Nautical).— A name given to the 
old Eaat India Oompaay's ebipa on accoont of 
their cargo. 
Tea Fight (Society).— An evening party. 
Tka-Kettlb (Popolab;. — Tea-kettla grooms or 
ooaehaaaa are those who do geueral worli. Tea- 
kettle purgers are souUery maide. " A decent allo- 
tvanoe made to aeedy swells, tea-kettle purgers, hesd 
robberj and flunkeys out of collar." A tailor's ad- 
vert sem-snt. 
Tba-Pot ( AMBRIC4N). — A mispronuDciation of depot, 
i.e. a railway etiiioo. 
" Then outspolce a man unnoted 
Hitherto: I heard the fellow 
Say just now to the couJuotor 
Ere we reached the second tea-pot 
That he reckoned he must hook it 
This here time a litt e gojner 
If he hope I to get his portion." — In Nevada. 
Tka-Pot (Ceicketees) — A tea-pot stroke, hit up iu 
the air, giving an easy cutch the results of spooning. 
Tea-Pot (Phison). — Snaajhiog the tea-po', losing 
the privilege of tea from bad behaviour, a'ld return- 
ing to the thirJ-olasa. Having oje'n tea-pot mended, 
being restored to the higher oUat and its privileges 
aleo called " getting it down tbe spout.'' 
Tea-Pot Sneaking (Thieves).— Stealing plate, tea- 
pots. 
"Tea-pot sneaking yonr mark?" 
"Something better." — Sporting Times, 
Tea.Pot Soar (Thieves).— A thief who steals plate, 
tea-pote, &o. 
" Tea-pot BOiks will hnve the twitters, 
Garrotters oft will suffer pain." — Fun Almanacl. 
Tea-Spo n (Spout).— £5,000. 
The Db La Mebe Gibou (Feench).— Melange 
lDieuc6 de choses et de mots; oiscojis iucoh^reut ; 
pifeoe invtaiaemblable. Ar^iot ties ooalisne^. 
(Mother Gibon's Tba. — A senseless jumble of thir gg 
and words; inconhereut fpeuoh: improbable pitcj. 
Slang of the Green-room.) 
Here ia one of the most awful instauces of oalling 
' o«cao' cocoa that I ever met with. It appeirg at p. 
187 of a "Treatise on the Falsifioations of F. o J," by 
Jobn Mitchell, 1848. — "Dr. Ure states that cocoa- 
But ihella are also used ir> the adulterat on ot ci^ooc- 
late, and remarks that ' of cocoauot ehtlls 612,122 lb. 
were oonaumed in Ireland, and 1; ss than 4,000 lb. of 
cocoa. How scurvily are the psopieof Ireland treated 
by their own grocers Upwards of 60,000 lb. of 
worthless cocoa-husks served ont to them along with 
only 4.000 lb. of cocoa-beans." You will notice that 
there is a cipher wrong somewhere, but the point is 
that ' coconut shells' ought in all ciaes to bo 'cacao 
hueka.' 
In • Cupa and their Customs' (p. 47) I came across a 
drink called ' Regents Pdnch' which I copy for you as 
tea is one of the ingredients, and as a warLiog bow 
not to do it : — " To a pint of strongly made green tea 
add the tinds and juice of two lemons, one Seville 
orange, and one sweet orange with half a pound of 
loaf sugar, and a small »tick of cinnamon. After 
standing for half an hour strain the mixture, add a 
bottio of champagne, half a bottle of sherry, three wine- 
glasses of brandy, rum, (Juracoa ani Noyau, of each a 
wine glass, and a p ut of pine-apple sjrup, Ice the 
compound well, and immediately before drinking add 
ft bottle of soda-water." A. M. F. 
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PICE PACKETS OF QUININE FOR SALE 
AT INDIAN POrfT OJB'I ICES : 
AN EXAMPLE TO THE CEYLON GOVBBNMENT. 
We have received a copy of the last Cinchona 
Keport of the Government of Bengal with samples 
of the p:ce packets ot quinine which are now for 
sale at all Vost OfHced throaghoat the Lower 
ProTiDoes. The following extract from Dr. G. Kinj^'a 
Report shews what has been done : — Sale of Quinine 
ftt Post OfBoes.^The chief event of the year has 
been the organ'zation of the system by wbieb qoioioe, 
ma le up in dosea of five giaint, is offered for aale at 
moat of the Post Officfs witbio the Province of 
Bengal. Eich doe in cad:) up in a n at closed 
paper envelope, aod i8 8< l i lor one pice. Kacb packet 
carries the royal arms as a guarantee of genuiuetei^s, 
together with brief inetruction* in the vernaoular. To 
encourage the Po^t OffSoe ofti'-iaU to push the ciale 
of tbe:<e packets a smalt commi<fiioo is allowed, and 
considerable facility ia offered for repIeoiahiDg of 
stocks by poet-masterpi The quicioe ia made over 
from the tactorr to the Jtil Di-partmeot in bolk, 
and by prison labour it is aubdividel into pice packets, 
1,400 of which go to each avoirdupois pound. The 
Jail Deparlment di^tributiM these packets to the post- 
masters and collects the proceeds of the eales at 
the various Post Offices. A. dose of pure quinine 
is by tbi.s means putwitbin the reach ot anv person 
witbio the province who hai a pice to buy it with. 
Thus at last, after thirty year<t of effort, has the eud 
been attaioed which the GoverDrnf-nt set brfore 
itiielf when the growth of the mod cal cinchonas 
was begun iu British India. That end was thas ex- 
pressed iu an early Government resolution on the 
subject : — "To put the only medicine that is of auy 
use in the cure of the commonest and most fatal of 
Indian diseases witLin the reach of the poorest." Of 
ttie provinces usually euppiied with qunine from the 
MoQgpoo Factory, Beogal is tfae only ot;e into which 
this pice packet system bas as yet been in- 
troduced. It is believed that, should the 
V. rions provinces under the Govrrnmeot of India 
adopt the syatem, large demands will be made 
on the cinthoua plantation, and extended plantirg 
operations aay have to be undertaken. To meet 
sncb, Government h^ive, in addition to the land le- 
eerved in 'he neighbourhood of Mungpoo, a reserve 
on the Bliootao frjnlier in Kngo Valley, in which 
gronnd has not yet been broken. The Bengal Govetn- 
mei t express great aatisf<ction with the arran.tement 
and note that 476 lb ot quinine were thus made up 
into pickets for sile during the year. The papir 
pactets are small envelopes of strong paper about 
H by ^ inches and each contains 5 graii^s oi sulphate 
ot quinine. The price is so calculated as only just lo 
Ifavc t<^ Goveri mmt a very small profit on its planta- 
tiou. Thia is shewn by the fact that while Ihe 
gross revenue of the yfariraa Rl, 17,768 the net reveuue 
was only Ti'i, 171. —Jyidiaa Forester. 
NOTES ABOUT THE MANUFACTURE 
OV TEA. 
" Bed Sfidgb " kindly sends us the following notes 
of a recent correspondence with a neighbonriog 
planter. They willbe of interest to others: — 
Q, As the thermometer ot the Drier ia sffected by 
the radiation [conduction] of the heat from the iron 
through which it paB=ea [with which it ia in contact ?J 
have you ever tried putting a thermometer in the 
drawers of the Drier to arcertain the actual heat of 
the air in the drawers ? Just now I f oond with the 
sirocco, that wheo the therm, recorded 24<j°, a therm, 
kipta quarter of an hour in a drawi-r (with no wtt 
leaf to affect it) recorded only 125°«ctual heat. Will 
you kinrily let me know how you find it with your 
Kinmond ? 
Au9. Therm, in tea tray gauges same as on air 
chamber d lOr but must be read in situ. 
Did you read your therm, in situ ? 
Hemoval from tray causes instant drop of 20 
degrees. We need to know beat of ircn plate alone, 
f we go by this standard and if beat of sir be Iofs 
than the iron it heats so much the better, as it 
makes the ground safer. The difference you record 
is extraordinary. 
HEAVY YIELDS AND HIGH-PHICED NILQIEI TEA. 
Our correspondent " Red Spider " kindly writes 
as fol ows : — " I am plucking 3 leaf tea which will 
turn oat at the rate of 500 lb. made tea per acre. 
This is of coarse on manured field only, the average 
yield being only about 300 lb„ which is not at all 
bad for these Hills, A recent consignment to the 
