Some Names That Mislead
The tuberose is no rose, but a species of olyanth. Pompey's Pillar had no historical connection with fompey in any way, Cleopatra's Needle was not erected by tbe Egyptian Queen, nor in her honor. Whalebone is not bone, and is said not to possess a single property of bone. Turkish baths did not orginate in Turkey; they are not baths at all, only heated chambers. German silver ' was not invented in Germany, and does not contain a particle of silver. Black lead is not lead at all, but a compound of carbon and a small quantity of iron. Brazilian grass never grew in Brazil, and is not grass; it is nothing but strips of palmleaf. Burgundy pitch is not pitch, and does not come from Burgundy ; tbe greater part of it is rosin and palm oil. Seal* ing wax doe* not contain a particle of wax, but is composed of Venice turpentine, shellac, and.cinabar. Catgut is made from the entrails of sheep. Cuttle-bone is not bone, but. a kind of chalk once enclosed in the fossil remains of extinct specimens of cuttle, fish. — Sunday Herald.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 87, 29 January 1889, Page 3
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189Some Names That Mislead Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 87, 29 January 1889, Page 3
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