, 1876-02-02

an antique routine, OuG by the adoption
of approved principles, and following up
a proved success India, Japan and
Java grow largely and yearly more, and
the Southern States of the American
Union do not despair of adding tea to
their industrial conquests by accIimatisa-
ton. These remarks have been suggested
by the announcement of a new company
the Tarrapore Tea Company, capital
100000 for the purchase and working
of some tea properties in Cachar.
CUR LIEGE-A correspondent writing
from the Maritime Exhibition in Paris,
says That there is nothing like leather
has been an axiom from time immemorial.
Probably there is a ~fgurative meaning in
the adage, but SO far as it deals with plain
fact a competitor in the Exhibition here
distinctly falsifes it. In the left side aisle
something very much indeed like leather
is shown, but to be furnished at about
halt the cost. Visits from the Wa Minis
ter, from the Marshal himself, aud from
the Duke Of Cambridge, as he passed
through Paris sometime ago, have drawn
great notice OF this stall. The cur Z6gc il.
in fact, a preparation OF cork. Cut in fine
sheets, or in strips, and covered on either
side with skin of india rubber, it wholly
loses its triabiIity, whilst keeping every
advantage. Cork thus treated may be
Wrung out like a dishcloth, doubled into
any shape, and beaten with a maIlet, but
suffers actually no damage. It is, of
course, perfectly water-tight, and the in
ventor shows buckets OF every size which
fold like a handkerchief to put awav.
Some on view have been full of water
ever since the opening Of the Exhibition.
But the cul1-liege claims to be also heat
proof, a quality that should make it in
valuable tor ambulance tents, for awnings.
and tropical use. 1t may be shortly said
that every purpose served by leather pro-
fesses to be fulfilled in this new substance
with the further commentator offeatber-
lightnesS and lmpermeabiIity. Its strength
is such that a strap an inch and a half wide
has been holding a 1000 ID. weight for
the last SIX weeks. In thicker sheets,
yeneered with fancy woods, it is suggested
as a material for carriage building. Most
elegant boots made of it are shown you, as
we'll as portmanteaus, and hats.
Texas vigilance committees ride up to a
house and shout SIS Smith in q Mrs.
Smith come to the door and replies in the
negative, when the leader continues, II
knew he wasn't he's hanging to the black
jack over thar !'--Then Mrs. Smith goes
in, gathers her boys on her knee, and tells
them how hard it is to steal a horse in
Texas and escape punishment.
The reign Of shoddy in the book pub
fishing world is illustrated in the ~increas-
ing use Of "teItine,'' a superficial imita-
ton of book cloth made of colored paper,
and Of i" Ieatherette," also a paper imita-
ton of embossed leather. Both materi-
ais are pronounced worthless ia the Lon
don Bookseller, books bound in them soon
cracking in the joints and entirely want
ing the suppleness and elasticity Of leather.
The United States Minister at Stock
holm states, that 10000 pupils study
horticulture or forest culture in the com
mon schools of Sweden.
All honest men will bear watching.
1t is the rascal who cannot stand it.
When are wounds like ironclads p
When they heal over and Misrepresentation.
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