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THE  TROPICAL  AGRICULTURIST 
[June  i,  1893. 
20  The  veteran  (air  in  chastity  grown  grey, 
Are  cruel,  crabb’d,  bitter,  base  and  wrong  : 
A'as  ! the  finest  wines  ns  well  as  they, 
Will  turn  to  vinegar  if  kept  too  long. 
21  Chance  can,  like  death,  the  fairest  forms  confound. 
Thus  sobb’d  th’  unhappy,  poor  unthinking  maid, 
As  from  her  hand  a saucer  slip'd  to  ground, 
Iu  many-colour’d  shining  fragments  laid. 
23  Thn’  sweetly  shows  the  snow-complexioned  toast, 
In  pearly  pride,  and  flow’ry  bloom  full  blown, 
T ■ 1 one  sad  moment  thus  her  beauty’s  lo,t, 
If  careless  crick'd,  or  traftily  o’erthrown. 
23  Be  warn’d  ye  fair,  around  ye  dangers  wait, 
Let  caution  guide  your  sleps  where  e’er  you  go, 
Like  China,  ladies’  charms  submit  to  fate, 
As  pure,  as  bright,  but  yet  as  brittle  too. 
24  Do  not,  ye  lovely,  love’s  fond  laws  despise, 
Mark  on  each  cheek  the  scars  of  time. 
Examples  fear— obey  him  and  be  wise, 
Accept  the  hint — be  happy  in  your  prime. 
25  See  the  bright  planet  of  the  new-born  day, 
Dart  on  the  virgin  rose-bud’s  leaves, 
Unfolding  fragrant  to  his  powerful  ray, 
His  genial  heat  white-spreading,  she  receives. 
(Cetera  desunt. — The  rest  is  wanting  ) 
Finis. 
INDIAN  PATENTS. 
Calcutta,  the  23rd  March  1S93. 
Applications  in  respect  of  the  undermentioned  in- 
ventions have  been  filed,  during  the  week  ending 
the  18th  March  1893,  under  the  provisions  of  Act  V. 
of  1888,  in  the  Office  of  the  Secretary  appointed  under 
the  Inventions  and  Designs  Act,  1888:  — 
No.  81  of  1893. — Thomas  CatUli  Jones,  m.R.C.s., 
Eng.,  l.rcp.  and  l.m.,  EJiu.,  and  George  Winter,  Tea 
Planter,  both  of  Sbumshernugger  Tea  Estate,  Shum- 
shernugger,  Syihet  in  Assam,  British  India,  for  a new 
or  improved  mixture  for  preserving  tea  bushes,  trees 
and  the  like  from  th9  attacks  of  insets,  to  be  culled 
“Bed  Spider  and  Bight  Destroyer.” 
No.  86  of  1893. — T.  Drewet,  Jr.,  and  Palouji  D. 
Chowna,  both  Engineers  and,  Contractors  of  17,  Elphin- 
stone  Circle, Bombay,  for  improvements  in  fibre  baling 
machinery. 
Specifications  of  the  undermentioned  invenlions  have 
been  filed,  under  tie  provisions  of  Aot  V of  1888,  iu 
the  Office  oi  the  Secretary  appointed  under  (he  In- 
ventions and  Designs  Act,  1888.  Copies  have  been 
sent  to  the  Governments  of  Port  St.  George  aud  Bom- 
bay, the  Chief  Commissioner  of  Burma,  and  the 
Dbuctor,  Department  of  Land  Records  and  Agricul- 
ture, North-  Wc  stem  Provinces  and  Oudh.  A copy  of 
every  specification  is  open  to  public  inspection  from 
II  a.m.  to  4 p.m.  at  the  Office  of  the  Secretary  ap- 
pointed under  t be  Inventions  and  Des  gns  Act,  1888, 
in  the  Imperial  Secretariat  Buildings,  Government 
Place,  West,  Calcutta,  upon  payment  of  a fee  of 
one  rupee.  A certified  copy  of  any  specification  will 
be  given  to  any  person  requiring  the  seine  on  pay- 
m nt  of  the  expense  of  copying  : — 
No.  89  of  1892 — David  Rowell,  Engineer,  of  5 Vic- 
u.ria  Street,  in  the  City  of  Westminster,  for  improve- 
ments in  apparatus  for  withering  or  drying  tee. 
(Filed  9th  March  1893  ) 
No.  152  nf  1892.— H wry  Thompson  of  Gainsborough 
in  t tie  County  of  Lincoln,  Eugineer,  but  now  residing 
at  Ipswich  in  thn  County  of  Suffolk,  for  improve- 
m nts  in  the  rmtbo  i of  and  apparatus  for  drying 
tea  leaf  and  the  like.  (Filed  10th  March  1893.) 
No.  208  .f  1892. — Beaumont  Ric'card  Harrington, 
Civu  Engineer,  of  No.  I,  Wood  Street,  Calcutta,  for 
an  Improve  I rel  use  and  exprement  incinerator.  (Filed 
25th  February  1893  ) 
The  29th  March  1893. 
No.  88  of  1893— Luis  Jose  Pinto,  Inrenti>ite  of 
Medicine  aid  SJ'g  ry,  r-  siding  in  Ravel,  Bombay, 
for  a m chine  tor  husking  and  pen-  i lg  rive  aud 
other  cereals. 
No.  100  of  1892, — Samuel  deism!  Davidson,  of 
Sir'  C'O  Works,  Belfast,  Irelaud,  Merchant,  for  im- 
provements in  apparatus  for  drying  tea  or  other  sub- 
B.uncer.  (Filed  7th  January  1893  ) 
No.  300  of  1892. — Samuel  Cleland  Davidson,  of 
Sirocco  Works,  Belfast,  Ireland.  Merchant,  for  im- 
p ovements  in  air-heating  stoves.  (Filed  25th  March 
1893.) 
No.  13  of  1893. — William  Bull,  Civil  Engiuoer.  nt 
present  residing  in  Calcutta,  for  an  improvement,  in 
the  burning  of  bricks  aud  tiles.  (Filed  13th  March 
1893.) 
Calcutta,  the  13th  April  1893. 
Applications  iu  respect  of  thn  undermentioned  in- 
ventions have  been  filed  during  the  w'ek  civlinv  the 
8fh  April  1893,  under  the  provisions  of  Act  Y.  of 
1888,  in  the  Office  of  the  Secretary  appointed  order 
the  Inventions  and  Designs  Act,  1888: — 
No.  101  of  1893. — Albert  Ancalo  Lscey,  of  1 16,  Rip^n 
Street,  Calcutta,  for  extrsclir.e  fibre  frrm  the  ag-.ve 
or  aloe,  pineapple,  and  other  fibrous  plants. 
Specifications  of  the  undermentioned  inventions  have 
been  filed,  under  the  provisions  of  Act  V.  of  1888, 
in  the  Office  of  the  Secretary  eppointed  under  the 
Inventions  and  Designs  Act,  1888. 
No.  105  of  1892. — Syed  An  ir  Ali,  Coffee  Planter, 
at  present  an  inhabitant  of  Has'an  in  the  Province 
of  Mysore,  in  the  Madras  Presidency,  for  certain 
improvements  aud  alterations  iu  his  invention 
called  the  “Hussaui  Coffee  Peeler.”  (Filed  30th  March 
1893.) 
No.  250  of  1892. — Humphry  Aram  Hole,  Tea  Planter, 
of  Atgram,  Sylhefc,  for  an  improved  tea-drying  machine 
which  can  also  be  used  for  withering  fre-h  tea  leaf. 
(Filed  4th  April  1S93 .)— Indian  Engineer,  April  22. 
TEA  AT  FOOCHOW  : NOTES. 
Heavy  rains  are  reported  to  have  fallen  upcountry 
at  the  end  of  last  week  and  the  commencement  of 
this,  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  the  farmers,  ss  they 
were  much  needed  by  the  land.  It  is  iruposible  to 
say  what  the  natives  have  to  go  on,  but  it  is  pre- 
dicted by  ihem  that  the  river  will  be  swollen  to  an 
extraordinary  extent  at  the  < ommeccment  of  the 
3rd  moon  (middle  of  April)  and  that  big  floods  may 
be  expected. 
A coming  war  with  Russia  is  freely  talked  about 
as  the  latest  news  at  the  tea-bouse  iu  the  city  and 
in  the  streets.  Without  any  known,  rial  founda- 
tion for  this,  we  can  only  account  for  its  having 
arisen  from  a paragraph  wilhh  appeared  lately  in 
the  SJienpao,  stating  that  a number  of  trained  officers, 
end  fifty  men  from  the  Viceregal  troops,  with  40  field 
guns,  and  2,000  rifles,  are  to  be  despatched  shortly  to 
the  frontier  province. — China  Mail,  April  13. 
— 
The  Future  of  Tea. — There  was  a great  gather- 
ing of  Ceylon  men  at  a residence  at  Guilford  a 
night  or  two  ago  at  which  were  present  Messrs. 
Sparkes,  Mr.  Forbes,  of  Inverv,  and  Mr.  Robertson, 
a former  planter  in  your  Island,  now  of  the  Minc- 
ing Lane  fraternity.  Ceylon  topics  were,  of  course, 
freely  discussed,  and  amongst  other  subjects  that  of 
tea  arid  its  future  was  to  the  fore.  The  opinion 
which  is  gaining  ground  on  all  sides,  and  which 
certainly  was  held  by  the  Guildford  gathering,  is 
that  the  days  of  high  priced  teas  are  numbered 
amongst  the  things  of  the  past.  At  the  same  time 
I incline  to  the  belief  that  there  will  always  be  a 
certain  demand  for  really  fine  grade  teas:  look,  for 
instance,  at  what  I am  writing  you  about  the  figure 
at  which  the  ImperialTnstitute  contractor  is  prepared 
to  take  Ceylon  Tea  for  use  in  the  Refreshment  de- 
artment  of  this  new  Exhibition,  which  promises  to 
e patronised  by  the  “Upper  Ten  ” on  South  Kensing- 
ton, especially  if,  as  reported,  the  Prince  of  Wales 
gives  the  tone  to  the  al  fresco  gatherings  in  the  open, 
brightened  as  they  will  be  by  good  music  and 
illuminations — a sort  of  West  End  Tivoli ! -London 
Cor.,  local  “ Times.” 
