The Philadelphia Trade Journal gives ist of misnomers applied to articles well known in trade, but while professing to set others right itis not uniformly correct in its own statements, as our parenthetical notes will make plain. The journal Why should trade not have a Johnson ora Webster to classify and correct the mass of inconeiste that go to make up its nomenclature? While we tax our brains to invent fantastic' names for every new fabric, varied perhaps only by a thread or a shade from what our grand-parents wore a century ago, there are in use positive misnomers jor any staple articles of merchandise. The following imperfect list, culled from sources ready at hand, Will give a faint idea of them Acid (sour), applied in chemistry toa class of bodies to which sourness is only accidental, and by no means a.universal characteristic. Thus rock crystal, quartz, flint, &c., are German Silver is not silver at all, nor was the metallic alloy called by that name invented by " German, but has' boon naed in China time out of mind, Honey Soap contains no honey, nor is hone} in any way employed in its manufacture, It is a mixture of palm oil sap and olive soap, each one part, with three parte of curd soap; or fellow soap scented. made from a kind of nut tree called: anacarjapan contains no Iao at all, but is Kid Gloves are not-made from kid skins, but of lamb or sheep ski of them are made of Meerschaum is not petri ea-foam," its name implies, but composition of silica, magnesia and water.
mosaic Gold has no connection with Moses or the metal gold. It is an alloy of copper zino, used in the ancient musivum, or toa Inted work.
Po as its name indicates, but in some cases th matrix of the pear.
A steel pen is not a very chai ion"
en means & feather (Latin, cuna, wing.) alen wil ro pratt pita" Tha but is the precipitate of the salt of protoxide
yellow prussiate employed in manufacture of Prustian blue, not the red.
Salad Oil is not oil for salads, but oil for cleaning sallets or salades, i.c., helmets, Salt is no salt at all,' and has long been excluded from the class of bodies denominated "salts." (Ju chemistry the term "salt" me cludes any definite solid chemical "substance, but more especially those which assume a crys~ ralline form. Common salt, or chloride of sodium, certainly comes under the category.)
Sealing Wax is not wax at all, nor does it contain a single particle of wax. It is made of shellac, Venice turpentine and vormillion, Vermillion gives it the deep red colour, and, brittle. turpentine renders the shel soft and lo
sperma, ced from the notion that it was Sperm Oil; erly means "seed oil" (Latin, spermaceti (the sperm or melt of a whale.) The sperm whale is the whale which gives this "seed oil," which is taken chiefly, but not wholly, from the head.
possess any of the properties of bone. It is onpeptr tes! bone at a nor Gre it wi and serves to strain water which substance attack to the upper jaw of the the creature takes up in large mouthfuls.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.