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THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST, 
[July i, 1897. 
‘‘ Now Thunder and turf ! ” 
Pope Gregory said 
And his hair raised his triple 
crown right off his head — 
“ Now Thunder and turf ! and 
out and alas ! 
A horrible thing has come to 
pass ! 
What 1— cut off the head of a 
reverend Prior. 
And say he was only (!!!) a 
bare-footed Priar ! — 
‘What Baron or Squire, 
Or Knight of the shire 
Is half so good as a holy 
Friar ? 
0 turpissime ! 
Vir ncquissime ! 
Sceleratissime ! — quissime ! — 
issinie ! 
Never, I trow, have the Servi 
servormn 
Had before ’em 
Such a breach of deco- 
How a Planter Terrifies a Crimp ! 
rum, 
Such a gross violation of 
morum honoruni. 
And won’t have again scccida 
smculorum ! — 
Come hither to me. 
My Cardinals three. 
My Bishops in partibus, 
Masters in Artibvs 
Hither to me, A, B. and 
D.D. 
CAve 
Doctors and Proctors of every degree ! 
Go fetch me a book ! — go fetch me a bell 
As big as a dustman’s ! — and a candle as well — 
I’ll send him — where good manners won’t let 
me tell 1 ’ 
TEA IN AMERICA. 
New York, April 7tli. 
Elsewhere we print from a copy of the otlieia 
report the recommendations of the Board of Ex- 
perts to the Secretary of the Treastiry, regarding 
tea standards to foreign importations. They 
practically exclude two thirds of the Pingsuey 
teas and many Ioav grade Oolongs. A protest 
has been filed with Secretary Gage by Mouri- 
lyan, Heimann & Co., cf Japan, through their 
local oliice as follows : — 
Dear Sir, — In the matter of the recent act “ to pre- 
vent the importation of impure and unwholesome 
teas,” we beg to protest against the adoption by the 
Department of the standards recently selected for 
Japan teas, for the following reasons : 
First. — That all Japan teas, being prepared from 
one and the same leaf, it is not necessary to establish 
more than one standard. 
Second — That the three standards, as selected by 
the Commissioners, represent three different qualities 
of this one leaf, the sundried tea being better in cup 
quality than the pan-fired tea, the basket-lired tea 
still better than the sundried. The effect of this 
confusion will be detrimental to the Western trade, 
where sundried teas are used and will favor New 
York, where the trade is almost entirely pan-fired tea. 
Third. — That the standard of pan-fired tea as 
selected, is apparently early second crop tea mixed 
with first crop leaf, the result being that in a number 
of successive drawings the cup quality , varies from 1 
to ;> cents per pound. 
Fourth. — As in tho preparation of Japan teas the 
same tea is frequently subjected to both the pan-fired 
and the basket-fired process it will be manifestly im- 
possible for the examiner to determine by which stan- 
dard such tea should be tested. 
We have for many years been importers of Japan 
teas, and under the old law never had a tea rojcc.ted 
at any port in the United States; consequently, wo 
have no interest in the “ importation of impure and 
unwholesome tea,” and we only ask that one fair 
and proper standard be selected in accordance with 
tho spirit and letter of the law. 
The present standards, although selected, no doubt, 
with care on the part of the Commission, are calcula- 
ted to seriously disorganize the trade in Japan tea, 
and will greatly curtail tho amount cf business that 
could legitimately be done under a proper standard. 
'The market is steady on low-priced teas, 
pjarticularly Pingsuey. Several lines have been 
•sold the past week, but the aggregate of transac- 
tions has been liglit. The distributive demand 
is slow . — American Grocer. 
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO; TRADE 
RETURN 1895-6. 
The total Exports amount to f2,-120,234‘39 against 
|1,962,350T9 for 1895 or an increase of §457, 884-20. 
Out of 38 headings 28 show an increase. Tobacco 
showing the largest, and accounting for one-third 
of the total increase on exports for the year , 8,700 
bales were shipped in 1895, §10,448 in 1896. and it 
is estimated that the 1896 crop shipped in 1897 will 
amount to 14,500 bales. 
Rattans, cutch, timber, guttah, coffee, dried fish, 
copra, live stock and gambier come next ; and the 
increase of export in each of the above over 1895, is. 
Tobacco 
. . §311,008 or about 
. . 32 per cent 
Coffee 
, . „ 11,295 „ 
..73 „ 
Gambier 
.. „ 2,609 „ 
..270 
Copra 
.. ,. 3,403 
..54 ,. 
Cutch 
. . „ 28 668 
. . 25 „ 
Timbor 
.. „ 20,6‘20 
..26 „ 
Driod fish 
.. „ 9,694 „ 
..136 
Rattan 
. . „ 83,852 
..87 „ 
Guttah 
.. „ 11,456 „ 
.. 27 „ 
The exports have fallen of principally in camphor, 
damar, sago and sundries, but the decrease in damar 
is partly accounted for by a decrease of the import 
from outlying islands more especially Palawan. The 
Gross volume of trade has risen from §3,626,2.56-83 
in 1895 to §4,302,423-03 in 1896 or a gross increase 
of §676,166-20 which is rather more than 18 per cent. — 
British North Borneo Beraltl, April 16. 
