Am.  Jour.  Phabm.  ") 
June  1, 1871.  J 
Varieties, 
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— the  oil  that  then  drips  from  the  cuttings  is  caught  in  considerable  quantity. 
It  is  seldom  brought  to  market,  because,  probably,  the  price,  considering  the 
trouble  of  carriage,  is  not  sufficiently  remunerative. 
When  the  oil  is  offered  for  sale  at  Baros,  the  usual  price  is  one  guilder  for  an 
ordinary  quart  wine-bottleful.  The  production  of  Baros  camphor  lessens 
yearly,  and  the  profitable  operations  of  former  times — say  in  the  year  1853, 
when  fully  1,250  pounds  were  sent  from  Padang  to  Batavia — will  never  return. 
Since  time  out  of  mind  the  beautiful  clumps  and  clusters  of  camphor  trees  have 
been  destroyed  in  a  ruthless  manner.  Young  and  old  have  been  felled,  and  as 
no  planting  or  means  of  renewal  has  taken  place,  but  the  growth  of  the  trees 
has  been  left  to  nature,  it  is  not  improbable  that  this  noble  species  will  ere  long 
wholly  disappear  from  Sumatra. —  Chem.  and  Drug.,  Lond.^  Jan.  14,  1871. 
Pharmacy  in  Paris  during  the  Insurrection. — The  advantages  possessed  by 
iron  revolving  shutters  have  generally  been  admitted,  but  few,  I  think,  ever 
found  them  more  useful  than  did  the  shopkeepers  and  pharmacists  in  the  neigh- 
borhood of  the  Place  Yendome  on  Wednesday  last.  Since  the  horrors  of  the 
siege,  Paris  had  been  gradually  sliding  into  the  old  grooves;  strangers  reap- 
peared, letters  and  telegrams  seemed  no  longer  a  strange  and  new  pleasure, 
and  commerce  had  reinstated  herself.  It  was  unfortunately  but  the  lull  before 
the  storm.  Three  days  before,  the  Place  Yendome  had  been  occupied  by  the 
insurgent  battalions  of  the  National  Guard,  the  pretending  friends  of  order, 
who,  at  the  approach  of  a  peaceful  unarmed  deputation  headed  by  the  journalist 
Henri  de  Pene,  discharged  more  than  500  shots  into  the  crowd,  killing  over 
twenty  and  wounding  about  sixty  persons.  In  an  instant  the  pavement  was 
red  with  blood,  and  the  dead  and  dying  were  carried  into  the  neighboring 
pharmacies,  to  receive  what  attention  could  be  given  to  them,  awaiting  the 
arrival  of  the  surgeons.  Ambulance  stretchers  were  soon  procured,  and 
mournful  processions,  headed  by  men  bearing  large  white  flags  with  the  Geneva 
cross,  traversed  the  streets  of  Paris,  exciting  the  hate  and  loathing  with  which 
all  orderly  citizens  regard  the  resumption  of  a  new  reign  of  terror  at  the  hands 
of  the  Belleville  insurgents.  All  business,  except  the  mournful  duty  of  stanch- 
ing  death-wounds,  is  over  for  the  present  in  this  usually  gay  quarter  of  Paris. 
Half  a  dozen  blood-stained  mattresses  piled  in  a  corner  of  nearly  every  phar- 
macy tell  their  own  sad  tale,  and  the  once  white  marble  floors  are  variegated 
and  slippery  as  the  pavement  of  the  Piazza  San  Marco,  at  Yenice,  on  a  rainy 
day.  All  the  shops  are  closed,  and  peremptory  commands  to  shut  all  windows 
fronting  the  street  are  issued  in  loud  tones,  accompanied  by  menaces  from 
loaded  chassepots.  In  comparison  with  this,  the  siege  was  quite  enviable  ; 
then,  at  all  events,  shops  were  open,  and  one  could  walk  about  the  central  parts 
of  the  city  in  perfect  safety. 
And  then  a  certain  amount  of  business  was  done — business  of  the  pathetic 
kind.  Wives,  sisters  and  sweethearts  came  and  bought  pocket  pharmacies, 
little  stocks  of  lint  and  plaster,  perchloride  of  iron,  etc.,  for  their  dear  friends 
about  to  start  for  the  fields  of  battle.  Many  a  tear  was  shed  over  the  purchase, 
many  a  wish  uttered  that  those  dear  to  them  should  never  require  the  sad 
appliances  of  modern  civilization  to  heal  the  wounds  caused  by  the  destructive 
