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238 Ghe Bhining and Seleutific
Java Corres anp Pepper.—In extent Java
is about 700 miles in length, and it varies from
80 to 140 miles in widtb. Its area is less
than 20,000 square miles. The face of the
country is more or less broken by mountains,
but the soil generally is rich and productive.
Tbe products are rice, sugar, coffee, pepper,
pices, and a profnsion of tbe finest tropical
fruit. Coffee is cultivated to’as great perfection as almost in any otber part of the world,
It grows upon large busbes, and the grains of
coffee are formed two in a berry about tbe size
and shape of our common plum. Tbe akin of
the berry is about as thick as that of the plum,
and the color, when ripe, is a pale scarlet.
The bush is very productive. Hvery branch
ig loaded witb the berries, whicb grow two in
a place on tbe opposite side of eacb other, and
about an inch and a half apart. When ripe,
the skin bursts open and the grains of coffee
fall out upou the ground; but a more general
way is to spread something under the busb and
sbake the coffee down. After the outer skin
is taken off there remains a kind of husk over
each kernel, which is broken off (after being well
dried in the sun) by heavy rollers. ‘be coffee
after this needs winnowing in order to be freed
from tbe broken particles of tbe bush. It has
been said by some writers tbat one bush with
anotber will not yield more than a pound of
coffee.
Black pepper is also raised to some extent
on the Island of Java; but-Sumatra, which
lies just across the straits, is by far the most
celebrated fur this commodity. Her pepper
is, perhaps, the finest and most abundant of
any one country in the world. Black pepper
grows on a vine very much like our grape vine.
The pepper grows and looks when grown very
much like our red currants. There is this
difference, however, the currant has each its
own distinct stem, but the pepper has not;
every grain grows hard on to one common
stem, just as each grain of Indian corn does on
the cob. The color of the pepper when first
ripe is almost a brigbt red, and changes‘to the
dead black by being exposed to tbe beat of the
sun.
The white pepper is nothing more tban the
common black witb the outer skin taken off.
It is first soaked until the skin bursts open,
whieb is then rubbed off and the graiu dried.
The white is not considered so pungent as the
black, though itis nicer and more expensive, a8
more laboris necessary iu order to prepare it.
City College Laboratories,
Southeast Cor. Stockton and Geary sts.
.
Practical and Analytical Chemistry
and Metallurgy.
THOMAS PRICH,
Professor of Chemistry,
(ormerly of the Normal College, Swansea.)
wit GIVE PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS IN QUALI, tatlve and Quantitative Analysisand Assaying. The
eourse qualifies stndents for the a ligation ot Chemistry
to METALLURGY, MANUFACTUR.
PURPOSES
G ARTS, and MINING
PHARMACEUTICAL and TECHNICAL CHEMISTRY,
such as is required by Medical aud Pharmaceutical Stndeuts, will be tanght tosueh students as may require it,
Course of General Chemistry.
Fventng Lectures wlll be delivered every Tnesday, at
halt: past seven o'clock, P. M., in the Philosophical Hall ot
a college, without extra charge te the students In the 1nstitution.
On aud after the lith of February, the Laboratories will
be open ¢very day, exeept Sundays, from 8 A. M. to5 P. M,
For further particulars, address
REV. P. V. VEEDER,
Prineipal of the Clty College.
Gv late 7 Or at 406 Californla Street.
SANTA CLARA COLLEGE, 8. J.,
SANTA CLARA, CAL,
Conducted by the Fathers of the Socicty of
Jesus.
The FIFTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION of this College will
commence on
Monday, August 28th, 1865.
TERMS—Tuition tn the Classical and Sclentlfic Department; Boarding and Lodglug; Washing and Mendjug of articles washed; School Stationery; Medieal
Attendance and Medicine; fuel, light, baths, ete.,
per session of ten MOnths...-.s000 -reeee $350
For further information and_eatalogues, apply to the
President ot the College, or to Rev. A Marasehi, St. Ignatlus College, Market street, San Franeiseo.
Sv11 REV. A. MASNATA, S.J., President.
SACRAMENTO SEMINARY,
BOARDING SOHOOL
EFOR YOUNG LADIES,
Yenth Street, between F and G.
Sesslon commenced January 8, 1866.
MH. AND MES. HERMON PERRY,
qv ilatt Principals.
Benicia College.
HE TWENTY-SECOND SESSION HAS JUST OPENED.
Pupils received at any time.
The Instruction ts divided into three parts—The Elementary course; the English, or Sejentitic Course; ana the or
dinary College Course.
Pupils generally, and especially those lu the Preparatory
epartmenuts, hoard at the Insfltution, uider the direct
charge of the Teachors.
For turther information, send tor Cireular.
©. J. FLATT, Principal.
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THE EXCELSIOR
GRINDER AND AMALGAMATOR,
Pan; B, Muller ; Legs; D, Cross-Frame; E, Geariug; F, Screw ;
G, Lever; H, Dash-Boards; I, Kéy; @, Dies; ¢, Shoes, and o,
Openings,
Tho relative grinding eapacities of “The Excelsior’ Grinder
and Amalgamator, of the Flat Bottomed Pan, und of the Conical
Pan when properly constructed, ave respectively 177, 98 and 110.
That is, the respective mullers being of the same diameter,
same weight, same hardness, and running at the same velocity
“The Excelsior Grinder and Amalgamutor” will reduce one hun:
dred and seventy-seven tons of ore, the Flat Bottomed Pan ninetys
eight tons, and the Conieal Pan one hundred and ten tons to the
same degree of fineness in the same time.
The wear to the Shoes and Dies at their grinding surfacesin the
Excelsior Grinder and Amalgamiatoy, is perfectly uniform, thug
seeuring evenness of reduction to the pulp, as well as steadinesg
of motion to the muller. Uniform wear of the grinding plates
has heen attained in no other than that of the Tractory form—nor
ean it be. ;
Another property of excellence in this machine is that tho metal
or stibstance to he amalgamated passes direct from thé grinding
surfaces into the quicksilver ; thus excluding the possihiliry of its
hecoming coated with any foreign substances, after having been
burnished. It is truthfully said “that the Tyactory-formed Pan
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As a whole, it is fir superior to any other pan in use.
MANUFACTURED AT THE
Union Iron Works and Golden State Iron Works,
WHEELER & RANDALL, Inventors,
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