THF TROP'CM AGRICULTURIST. 
[October i, 1891. 
brew a oonooction altog<'tiier poisonous it ou^bt 
to be On Suu»!ay moruiutf ihe lea-raakor 
starts with a elbau pot aud a oJenu recori. 
Tho pot is hong ov**r the tiro with a sufliciouoy 
of water in it for the day's brew, and when 
this has boiled, be pours into it enough of the 
fr grant herb to produce a deep coffee-oolout' d 
liquid. On Monday night removing ye'ttrday*8 tea 
leaves bn repexte tlie pri'Ct'S**, an t so on to the on«l of 
the wtek.’* It is quite tiov Indian and t’e.*u>n b ax, 
t g"th ‘r with prop r in«« ruuti >us hi»w *o b'**«v th* o» 
wereku. wuiu *‘up”couirry ♦•tatlouB. M* dur.ays 
opinion of Austra ia ot^mex to tnis : — '* l’h*’re la i o 
country in which so high a condition of .'’nor^l coin. 
fort, MO lofty a 0 andard of j»roved in clligeuoe, and 
such largo and vati*'*! means of int^ll'-otnil existonce 
exiMt sidt} by Mi '0 witU sj much turbulence,^ so i.ix a 
commercial iuor»ll»y, and such ovorcU rg* d s atiatics of 
druukenn ss and crimes of viulenoo.” 
Plantino IN Jam\ica.— Tbe pronp ct^ of Jaroaica 
are looking up, aoo<‘rdiiiff to he offl - aj reports ol sir 
He».ry Uiak *, the OovcTUor of tho aUnd. Althou.h 
the hU.,:ar crop, the n^aple "f th isl ud, haM under- 
gone a terrible* deul ue, ajid is still dncreaHiug, Sir 
Henry does not believe that it has cea-ed to be 
*• A safe aud prr»ft*Ai lo inv>^ atmeoi under al- 
tereti o.mditions. Ho den iue^ to accept the theory 
t^ at the abandonment, of sugar estHtus is attri* 
butable to the low price of sugAr, U’ d the diffi- 
onlty of obtaining labour. Th* Goveuior thinKf 
there has been improvidence m the system of culti- 
vating the canes, and a lack of science i < the ra th da 
of manufacturing sugar and ram. bir H. HlAka re- 
gro's, lor an oapeoiil reason, that uiigar plautiug 
should be given up. The cane, unliko the ba)>aua, 
cannot be do>troyed by a hnrticaut-’, aud thus i offered 
a Hieidy field for labour when sura caLmi i«8 
occurred. Nor does he see any reaion why the 
industry should be abaudoned, but tho busiacst of 
manufacture should bo separated from that of cult'- 
vati<'U, and the plnuter nhould cultivate soieut-flo 
methods. Fruit growing, which has iuken the place 
which Bugar-plauting used to occupy lu the com- 
morco of the islaud, is a profitable industry alike to 
the small ooUivatur aud tbe capitalists who havn 
engaged iu it on a large scale. Tho crop Gonai*<ta 
chitfiy of oranges and bananas, and a large quantity 
of tbe lattfr is sent to the United States. The culti- 
vation of rice, co»«m»'noed by the East ludian immi- 
grants a few years ago, has expanded considort^bly. 
Ooooa is being sedulously caltivA»ed. StimulatoJ by 
tho suooesa which has attended the B.ihainas experi- 
ment, planters are reeking auolber string to their 
bow in the fibre industry. 
The Quabtehly Sales of Cinnamon.— -The third 
senes of public 0 a'e« of oinuamo fO ‘ this year v us 
held laMt week, when of 1,400 bales. 10 parcel*, 12 boxen 
and 44 buUota Oeyluti was otfore<>; but tho market was 
so dull that ut ihe commeuocmtut of the auctions 
scarcely any bids weic Oja le, aud whole marks were 
withdrawn almost without a price being named. Ai er- 
wards, however, as importers manifested a disposition 
to mrtkecoiioessions, thee mpetiticn seom».*t ‘oimprovo 
a little, though it was still lur fiom uprightly, for, 
whilst tho commoner grades found buyers at somewhat 
easier rates, lb© finer sorts wt-re more dilBcnlt to 
realise, and were dispo'jed of about Id per lb. 
lower than in May, leaving tho general currency as 
follows Sup<*rior quality plsutaiiou at Is 4d to la 54 ; 
fine firsti at lO^u to U Id, ordinary to g.icd at 7id to 
9AJ ■ 8( conds at 61, to lOL finest at Is Id ; thirds and 
fourths at 6d to 8^6 j fifths at 5i'l to 5|d, with broken 
iu boxes at 6id to 7d, and m badots at Ifd to hjd per 
lb. Tht-so prices may be regarded as unpreoedently low. 
KAKI. 
The East Indian name lor all aorta of distilled 
spirituous liquors, but chiefly for that procured from 
toddy or the fermouted juioo of the cocoa and other 
palms, and from rice, Tho coconut-palm is a chief 
•ourco of toddy or palm-wine, and is obtained from 
trees rang! g from 12 to 16 years old, or, in fact, at 
thepcri< d when they begin to show tho first iudicalions 
of fi werin^. AUer the flowering shoot or spudix 
envtloued in its sputhe is pretty well advAUCed aud 
tie l»>ter is about to open, the toddy-man climbs tho 
t ee and cuts ofi tbe tip of tito fl' wer-shoot; he next 
ties a ligaLure around tlie stalk at the base of the 
spadix, and with a smsll oiidgel he l>eAts the flqwer- 
aboot and brui** a it. This h»- doi a daily tor a fo-'toight, 
and it th»' tr 0 s in gon ^ ronlti ^ a conHi.'erable 
qnanti .y . < ji aor’ ■ ino j i < Mo ^ t o n the cat apex 
of the fl IV, r--LO f 0 iui e ■» r ly forme ibj, and 
ii fur - si'* ns.-'liy .iOjr ; . vi-* • ' f-o that it ib a 
fuvont ' dti k, k o^vu iu Indm uy tho natives us collu, 
and 10 fiio Eii.npeans hm t ddy When turniug uuur 
It is distil el and ronverioi lutn aki, known bel ter 
to tbe Uin-ius ••a nurii, ami t 'h«^ O nguleve an pol, 
or na v«ai. It is probublH that the une of rnki is 
more wi irdy dilfam'd uiunt g thehum^n ru^'i* th u titber 
wine, brnudy, wbif-ky or be r. — American Grocer, 
EOHOKS OF SCIENCE, 
Mr. E-lis n is croditud with another “ idg id a*' 
in the r-bai'e ■»; a “ ro inicii i-e.epnon'*.” Some years 
ago, while exp rune ting with hia long «*istanoe 
telephoDa on a kng lino, h observoa singular iu- 
uuttioii noises ’'hiob did not ppn r to have an 
earthly origin, but to be iu© to ^oiar erupt ons. 
Pos^iCMAing t miiie of msgnetio iron ore at Ogd n, 
New Jersey, he is now aciauging 10 run a telepooue 
wire round and round ibe maMt of magt, t c ore f-o 
as to form a large coil with a mug e io cure. He 
inten ts to connect tolephuurs wi*h this wire, and 
hopex to hear a ’‘aiav rumour of ihecutas' ophes in 
tbe sun as oommunioato 1 by the modern II nnes 
“ induction ’* 
Mr. W. F. Stanley, th« well known opti^’iAO, has 
UoviM:.!! a “phonometer” chr nogr,.ph £ r enabling 
a pi*rsnu to measure distances by observing the time 
iiotwecu the report and fiasb of a gun. It ran also 
bo used for estimating ihu list nice of igbtniug by 
liming the flash with the clap of thunder, na 
avowing a quart r of a miln (333 m*t'es or over 
1,000 fcei^ t .r ey-rv second of the intcrvul, 
lu tJie riiUosopkical Meu/atiue for Jnly M. S. 
Tolver Preston propos'^a to make an aoonst'oal 
thermoiueter. It is well known that a toning fork 
of a certain yibraliug per d will at the normal 
U mperatiue vibratn iu rn 0 onan''e with a tube poAsestt* 
ing a ceitam Irngtli ; but the note of a resonance 
tab * varies acooedingi to tho em,*eraturfl of the 
fair or g*a it enolcSfea. H- uue if the tube is placed 
near a h<^a.ed body *0 as to cUauge its temperature, 
the same fork will no longer viurate iu r^e nance 
with it. There re two obvious wavs of utilising 
this idea. Either the resonanoo tube should be 
tobsoop’.o, so that it* h ugth .an ue v«^r ed d its 
temperature vari *, and it, tb*t cane tbe same tuning 
fdik >yi I servo Or, if the tube is un 1 ered, an 
adjns itie tuni g fork can be used to find the 
tomporataro. 
MAI. Fribourg Bud Hesse, of 23, Ki- des EooleB, 
Pari-*, have brought out a usofu liitl*- pyroscope for 
indicating when a certain high temperature is reached 
iu a furnace. The device can be used to tell different 
temperatare betwei*n l,160deg. and l,700dog. centigrade, 
it consists of a li'tle c>linder of refracto-y maierial 
which fuses at the temperaMuv in quo.ition. They 
have been carefully calUbrated aud are said to be 
very accurate. 
It i8 w ll-known that tbe bacillus of tuberculosis is 
often foH' d in plac« Utely occupied by oomumptive 
peraoDS. Horr Pr uisiiitz, of Berlin, iias lately collected 
the duHl from tlie rai way carriage h used to c.mvcy such 
patients to Meran, and inoculate I guinea pigs with it. 
Three out ' f four of tbe auxniaU became inf- cied with the 
diKease ; and wore k lied after ten or twelve weeks. The 
author suppusvyg the numb rof th« bacilli in the dust to 
have been small, but the fact novoriheless show the 
necessity of disinfecting such carriages. 
