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Japan – Jerusalem Cherry

Japan

to coat wood, metal, or paper

Japonica

a very handsome Japanese plant, a species of the camellia. It has become domesticated in the United States, and is notable for its large red or white flowers.

Japura

an important tributary of the Amazon, rises in Southern Colombia, on the E. side of the Andes, and enters the Amazon opposite Teffe by several arms.

Its upper course is broken by many falls, but in the lower part it is navigable for river steamers to nearly lon. 70° W. or almost 500 miles.

Jarrah

a timber tree of Australia, the Eucalyptus marginata (or rostrata), yielding a very durable wood, useful for railway sleepers, jetties, etc., not being liable to the attack of the white ant and the shipworm.

Javelin

a light spear thrown by foot in ancient warfare. Also a hunting about 5½ feet long, having a wooden shaft and an iron head. It is yet used in Europe in hunting the boar, and by many savage nations in ordinary hunting.

SYR-DARIA, a river of Western Asia,

Jebis

or JEBISU, the Neptune of Japanese mythology, specially revered by fishermen.

Jedda

the port of Mecca, Arabia.

Jefferson

a river in Montana, about 200 miles long. It is formed by the union of the Beaver Head and Wis- about 200 miles long. It is formed by dom (or Big Hole) rivers in Madison It unites with the Madison and Gallatin to form the Missouri. co.

Jefferson

JOSEPH, an American comedian; born in Philadelphia, Pa.,

Jehol

(ya'hol), or CHING-TE-FU (-fö), a city of inner Mongolia, contain- ), a city of inner Mongolia, containing a summer residence of the Emperor of China.

Jersey

the largest and most important of the Channel Islands, lying in JERUSALEM the English Channel, and belonging to Great Britain. It is about 12 miles long and 7 miles wide. Pop. about 52,000. of Hudson co., N. J., on the Hudson river,

Jerusalem Cherry

a name JESUIT See in the 8th century, and probably much earlier in India. The famous Calif Haroun al-Raschid had a jester named Bahalúl, some of whose sayings and doings have been preserved by Arabian writers . given to two shrubs of the genus Solanum (potato genus) cultivated as ornamental plants.