Jack Plane
The Handy Cyclopedia of Common Things and Biographical Dictionary · 1901 · p. 11
A Carpenter’s cutting and surface yellow color, beautifully marked with dark ring-like spots, each ring enclosing several small black points. It resembles the leopard in color and general appearance, and, like it, can climb trees with great ease. The jaguar lives in thick forests near large rivers and lakes. Wild horses and mules are its favorite prey, and it feeds on turtles. South Americans hunt the jaguar various ways, but chiefly with the aid of dogs and the la o. Jaguar skins are very handsome, and are largely imported into Europe, and made into valuable robes, etc. It will not attack man unle impelled by hunger, or self-defense. Mexico.] (Rose-water.) The root of a plant of much used in medicine as a purgative. of leather, paper, etc., with a thick coating of colored varnish. It was first practised by the Japanese, hence the name. Tea-trays, tin can is¬ ters, cash-boxes, coal-boxes, etc., are japanned in iron and tin works in large cities. ing sweetly-scented flowers. various colors (usually red or brown), which, takes on a high polish, and is used for rings, seals, vases, and other ornaments, and also for It the decoration of costly buildings. It is one of the varieties of quartz, and is found in veins and embedded ma es in many rocks. the skin becomes yellow. of the Crow family. The jay frightens small birds with its cry, and robs nests of their eggs. The European jay is of a yellowish-brown color,
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