Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — The Rosewood Tree. [ARTICLE]

The Rosewood Tree.

llosewood trees are found in South America and in the East Indies and neighboring isands. There are half a dozen kinds. The name is not taken from the color of thdwood, as is generally supposed, but by reason of a roselike fragrance which it possesses, when first cut: Some of the trees grow so large that planks four feet broad and ten feet in length can be cut from them. The broad planks are principally used to make tops for piano-fortes. The rosewood tree is remarkable for its beauty. Such is its value in manufactures as an oanamental wood that v some of the forests where it once grew abundantly have now scarcely a single specimen. New plantations have been set out, so that the supply will not be exhausted. ♦ - A minob incident of Kossuth's visit to this country in 1851 illustrates the way in which fashions in dress are sometimes originated. The eloquent Hungarian wore a soft felt hat, which became fashionable for young men. being reproduced in the shops under the name of the Kossuth hat. Until that time felt hats were almost unknown in this country, and in Europe, as Herbert Spencer has pointed out, they were worn only by a few political agitators. Science marches steadily forward with of progress, clearing up the mysteries 1 of yesterday, and bringing those of to-morrow dimly into view, but she stands palsied in all her efforts to make ont what it is that chews 08 the brim of a boy’s bat.— JSjt.