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at steady prices— viz ?jd to iid per lb. for dull irregular 
to fair quill. The whole of these parcels waB sea-f amaged. 
For a lot of 55 larger bales of better quality, partly 
scund, a bid of 41 per lb. was refused. 
Cui'REA BARK.— Five hundred and twenty bal(» of old 
cup-ea bark (1S82 and 188^ import) were again offered. ' 
Various bids, ranging from |f d to IJd per lb were refused 
tor them, bnt at last 16 b;iles of common damaged burk 
found a buyer at Jd to Jd per lb. ' 
There has been a very considerable diminution in the ; 
stock of bark in Amsterdam during thejmoutb of Jany,, 
the 8up;ilies in first hand having leen reduced from 
aloul 1^,000 to about 8,0U0 bales. On tbc ether band, 
the exports from Java during the month of January 
were heavy, nearly 971,OCO balf-kilos, against abouo 
flSO.i'OO half-KilOi in January 1833. Tire total weight (f 
quinine in the bark at Tueslay's auctions was about 
4,700 kilos. 
I OCAISE. — The most interesting article of the week in 
the chemical trade bas been cjcainc, which has under- 
gone another sudden and important m"dilicatiou in price. 
The manufacture of this imp rtant drug, so far as our 
market 13 cuuccrnel, is in the hands of twj British and 
five German manufacturers. One of the latter quotes 
a price which 1 laces him outside active competiiiou ; an- | 
other of them has recently started busin ss, and has givea 
much annoyance to his collegues by uudersellinii tbcm, 
and thereby occasionally disturbing the market. The three 
remaining tierman imauers and the two Britishers have 
a Kinl of unders andiug, by viriue of which they quote 
the Ean;e rates, and mate simultaneous alterations. For 
some weei'B the price has gradually been advancing, and 
on January lUih the figure of 16s tor bulk was reached. TMe 
now manufacturer on Monday last, apparently quite unes- 
pected'y, 8 nt out a circular quoting 3d telow this pri"e, 
but he does not si em to have effected any sales, and is 
is questionable whether his price has ever been an ef- 
fective < ne ; at any rate, it was withdrawn almost im- 
meniately after It had been publi-het, but not until a 
good mjoy second-hand holders, more or less scared by 
the apparent drop, had parted with greater or smaller 
quantities at fr^m 16s i2d to Itn 6d per oz. This le- 
tnainfd the state if the market until yesterday, when j 
suddenly the comblnPd manufactavers announced an ad- 
vance of .'-'s per oz. all round, brii ging up their quotalious 
for luO oz. luts to I9s between 2.i and 100 oz. to 19i3d, 
and smaller quantl.ies l!ts61 ptr oz. The ontelder. if we 
tnay so call him.vdid not put in an appearance on Change 
yeoterday, where there Wfre many anxious iuqu ries for 
him, but today he announced that he h.id withdrawn 
his quotation aod expects a new one f morrow. The oau^o 
of the advance is generally atiribnted to the smaUness 
of the supply of crude co 'aiue, but it is questionable 
whether some arrangement ha< not b^eii arrived at where- 
by the outside firm has been admitted into thj combi- 
nation. During the last two years the alterations in the 
quotations have been as follows :— 
U92 :— 
Jan. 
March 
April 
May 
Aug. 
Nov. 
Per oz.. 
.23s 6d 
22s 
2l3 
193 6d 
lEs 6d 
19a 
1893 ;— 
Jau. 
May 
July 
Sept. 
Sept. 18 
Oct. 
Per oz,. 
. leg 
18b 
183 6d 
178 9d 
Per 
15s 6d 
Nov. 
oz... 14a 
. 1.18 
Dec. 
143 6d 
1P94 
Per oz.. 
Jan. 
les 
Feb. 
199 
QuiNLNE.— The excitement caused by the publication last 
week of the quinine stoc'is in the Londoo warehousis 
abated considerably on Friiay last. On that day is.ono 
oz. srcond-hand German bulk quinine soil tor spot dell- 
very at from lljd down to llgt pyr 0/.. From then until 
the middle of this week the marKft remaijoed completely 
fitagnant, and prices were tendiug slightly wiaker, but on 
Wednesday buyfrs came forward ooce iiure, and 20,OOj oz 
second-hand sold on the .siot at llgd per oz. There are 
now no sellers below lljd per < z. The following are the 
manu'acturers' quotations: Howard & Sons, bulk Is 21 
to Is 3d; vials la 3d to Is 4d per oz ; Pelbtior, vials Is .=)d 
to ]9 f>id p r cz. B & S, Auerbaeh, Zimmer. Jobst, and 
Brnnswicic, bulk Is Id per oz. Fabbrica Iiombarda, bulk 1 
Is Id ; vials Is 3d per oz. 
Vauietieb of Eucalyptus for Oil — The I 
diBtillBtion of the oil— sajs the Journal of tho [ 
American Medical AsEooiation — was first initiated 
by Bsron von RIuollcv. E. amygdalina yields moie ; 
oil than any of the other varieties and is therefore j 
almost eoltly employed for the purposes of distiila- I 
tion. It is alwo one of the best for subduing j 
malarious effluvia in fever regions, although it does 1 
ot grow abroad quite so well or quickly as Ij. 
lobiiluB. The roBpective hygienic value of the 
ftiioua Uqcs may to eome extent be jndged by 
the peroenlage of oil in their leaves, as stated 
below ; — 
Per cent of Oil. 
E. Amygdalina .. 3.313 
E Oleosa .. 1.250 
E. Leucoxylon '. . 1060 
E. Goniocalyx '.. 0.914 
E. Globulus . . 0.719 
The lesser quantity of oil in E. globulus is com- 
pensated for by the vigor of its rapid growth and 
early copiousness of its foliage. It readily adapts 
itself to other climates and hence abroad nearly 
all of the varieties of the oil are known as globulus. 
During the last twenty years the blue gum has 
come into high repute as a sanitary tree. A high 
authority states that the sewage Bystema of large 
towns in warm climes would be simplified if each 
house bad the evergreen gum tree in the back- 
yard. The disinfecting and deodorizing virtues of 
the tree are unquestionable. Flesh of any kind is 
as well preserved by eucalyptus as by creosote 
while beef sprinkled with eucalyptus will dry hard 
without putrefaction. It is fatal to bacteria and 
other mioro-organisms. It may be injected into the 
veins and arteries of cadavers for purposes of pre- 
servation. It is also a good admixture in dressing 
gangrene. 
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