The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-04-28
Facts Not Generally Known.
Spinach is a Persian plant.

Filberts originally came from Greece.
Ounces originally came from Corinth.
The turnip came originally from Rome.
The peach originally came from Persia.
f Sage is a native of the South of Europe
Sweet marjoram is a native of Portugal
+ The bean is said to be native of Egypt
Damsons originally came from Damas-
Gus.
The nasturtium came originally from
Peru.
The pea is a native of the south of Eu-
rope.
Ginger is native Of the East and West
Indies.
Goriander seed came originally from the
East.
The gooseberry is indigenous to Great
Britain.
Apricots are indigenous to the plains OF
Armenia.
The cucumber was originally tropical
vegetable.
The Greeks called butter bouturos-
"cow cheese
Pears were originally brought from the
East by the Romans.
Capers originally grew wild in Greece
and Northern Africa.
The walnut is a native of Persia, the
Caucasus and China.
The Glove is native Of the Malacca Is
lands as is also the nutmeg.
Vinegar is derived from two French
words, vim aigre, ''sour wine"
Cherries were known in Asia as far back
as the seventeenth century.
Garlic came to Us first from Sicily and
the shores Of the Mediterranean.
h. Asparagus was originally wild sea coast
plant, and is native of Great Britain.
The tomato is anat1ve of South America,
and takes its name from Portuguese word.
Nectarine is said to have received its
name from nectar, the principal drink of
the gods.
Greengage is called after the Gage fami-
/ ly, who first took it into England from a
monastery in Paris.
Parsely is said to have come from Egypt.
and mythology tells us that it was used TO
| adorn the head of Hercules.
Apples were originally brought from the
east by the Romans. The crab apple is
indigenous to Great Britain.
When James Buchanan was Minister to
England he had ears of corn, Theoretically
sealed, sent to him from this country.
Ia r.. ~
of all our animals are Of Saxon origin,
Norman names are given to the flesh they
yield.
The onion was almost an object of wor-
ship with Egyptians two thousand years
before the Christian Era. It first came from
India
and da6 % Gca4sd HON fo name Of place near
Rome, where it was first cultivated in Eu-
rope.
Before the middle of the seventeenth
century tea was not used in England, and
was entirely unknown to the Greeks and
Romans.
Cloves come to us from the Indies, and
take their name from the Latin c1anvus or
French ekim, both meaning nail, to which
they have close resemblance.
Lemons were used by the Romans to
keep moths from their garments, and in
the time of Pliny they were considered an
excellent poison. They are natives of
Asia
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Things Which it is We'll to Know.
Irish stew is dish never seen in Ireland.
Cat-gut is not the gut of cats, but Of
sheep
Kid gloves are not kid, but are made of
lamb skin OF sheep skin.
Arabic figures were not invented by the
Arabs, but by the Indians.
Tube-rose is no rose, but the tuberous
palianth (Palianthes tu5erosa).
Salad oil is not oil for salads, but Oil for
cleaning eallets or salades-S. e., helmets.
Slave means noble, iliustIious; but the
term is now applied to the most ignoble and
debased.
Black lead does not contain u single par
ticle of lead, but is composed of carbon and 4
iron.
Turkish baths are not of Turkish origin;
nor ale they baths at all. They are hot air
rooms.
Salt is not salt at all, and has long been
wholly excluded from the class Of bodies
denominated salts.
Cleopatra's Needle was not erected by
Cleop ira nor in honor OF that queen, but
by Rameses the Great.
Prussian blue does not come from Prus
STA, hut is the preeipitate of the salt Of
protoxide of iron with the prussitte of po-
tassa.
Brazilian grass does not come from Bra
zil, or even grow ia Brazil; nor is it grass
at all. 1t consists of strips Of palm leaf,
and is chiefly imported from Cuba.
Whalebone is no bone at all; nor does it
possess any properties of bone. 1t is a
substance attached to the lower Jaw Of the
whale, and seems to strain the water,
which the creature takes up in large mouth
fuls.
Sealing wax is not wax at all; nor does it
contain q single particle of wsx. It is made
of shellac, venice turpentine, and einnabar.
.Cinnabar gives it the deep red color, and
turpentine renders the shellac soft and less
brittle
Burgundy pitch is not pitch, nor is it
manufactured or exported from Burgundy.
The best is a resinous substance, prepared
from common frankincense, and brought
from Hamburg; but BY far the largest
quantity is a mixture Of rosin and palm oil
THE DAY YoU WE'RE BoRN.-Here il
an infalhhle method Of discovering the day
Of the week on which any person was born