Jessamine
Important: Safety Warning This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here. In addition, this page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional. This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon. a woody climber, native to the South. The Carolina jasmine grows in rich woods from Virginia to Texas. It has shining evergreen leaves, and a wealth of bright yellow, exquisitely fragrant, handsome flowers, opening in March and April while the north is yet frost bound. The blossoms are deeply funnel shaped, with wide lobed borders. A cottage with jessamine over the door is certainly a poetical conception. Like our American "robin" and many other names of plants and animals, jessamine is not strictly speaking a jessamine at all. A tincture of the root is used in medicine as a remedy for nervousness and spasms. An overdose produces paralysis.
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Jesse
in Scripture the son of Obed and father of David . He was a grandson of Ruth, the Moabitess , finding asylum in her land while David was in danger from the pursuit of Saul.
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Jesters
persons formerly kept in the households of princes and lesser dig-
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Jesuits' Bark
BARK, the bark of a certain species of PERUVIAN Cinchona, so called or a certain because it was first introduced into because Europe by the Jesuits. cus.
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Jesuits' Nut
a name sometimes to the fruit of given the Trapa natans. England institution founded by Alcock, Bishop of Ely, in 1496.
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Jesup
MORRIS KETCHUM, American banker; born in Westport, Conn., June 21, 1830; an born in engaged actively in banking in 1852-1884, JESUS COLLEGE retiring in the latter year. In 1881 he land, was founded by Queen Elizabeth in 1571. Many of the became president of the New 884, ret fellowships and scholarships are confined to persons born or educated in Wales. The college York City Mission and Tract Society, for which k City Mis he built the DeWitt Memorial is which be thus distinctively the Welsh one. was the first college Church in Rivington street as a memorial of the Rev. Doctor DeWitt, his father founded on Protes- This mrch in of the Rev tant principles. -in-law. He was made president of the Five Points House of Industry in 1872
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Jesus
SOCIETY OF. See JESUIT.
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Jesus
son of Sirach of Sirach, the author o book the apocryphal book called Ecclesiasti- , the author of called Ecclesiast
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Jesus (SOCIETY OF presented)
SOCIETY OF presented to the Metropolitan OF the Metrop te Museum of Art a a collection of woods valued at $100,000; to the Yale collection of native Divinity School, $ 00; to the 51,000; to the Woman's Hospital in New 1,000; to the York City, $100,- 000; to Yale York City, University the Landbery Arabic MSS and to Williams Colsity the ., for which he for which Williams lege, $35,000. In 1897 he provided! funds for he pro opological ploration of Northwestern North America and eastern Asia. anthropological ex- North A He died Jan. 22, 1908.
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Jesus College
in Cambridge, , an EGE, in Cambridge titution founded by Al Ely, in 1496. , in Oxford, Eng - ded by Queen Elizabeth LEGE, in Oxford, ford, Engof the followships and confined to persons born ales. The college is the Welsh one. This lege founded on Protesan island of Lower by the St. John and two branches of the it joins the St. Lawabout 1,200 square TY OF. See JESUIT.
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Jesus Island
an island of Lower , Pointn ; was a founder of the Young Men's Christian Canada s a founde Association, of which he was chosen president Prairie rivers, the two branches of the Ottawa river, before it joins surrounded by the St. John and an Associ in 1872; elected president of the St. Lawrence river; area, the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History in president about 1,200 square Metro 1881, and of the New York Chamber miles. of Commerce in
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Jethro
a king and priest of the Midianites, surnamed Raguel, who received Moses into his family when he fled from Egypt, and gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage. When Moses had delivered the Israelites from their bondage, Jethro met him, and delivered him his wife and children. JETSAM. See FLOTSAM.
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Jetsam
goods thrown overboard at sea to save the ship. When a portion of a cargo is cast overboard to save a ship from foundering, or to enable it to escape from the enemy, the loss is distributed among the various owners of the cargo in proportion to the value of their shipments. Those whose property is saved are required to make up a part of the loss of him whose property is sacrificed for the general good. This is an old law of the sea.
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Jettatura
The Italian name for the power of the "evil eye." In order to guard against it magicians say that horns must be worn on the body.
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Jettee
the fiber of Marsdenia tenacissima, a small climbing plant of the natural order Asclepiadaceæ, of which the Rajmahal mountaineers make bowstrings.
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Jevons
WILLIAM STANLEY, an English logician; born in Liverpool, in 1835; was educated at University College, London; held an appointment in the royal mint in Australia from 1854 to 1859; graduated at London University in 1862; was appointed Professor of Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Cobden lecturer on political economy in Owens College, Manchester, afterward Professor of Political Economy in University College, London, a post which he resigned in 1881. Among his works are "Elementary Treatise on Logic" (1870); "Theory of Political Economy" (1871); "Principles of Science" (1874); and many essays and addresses on economic questions. He was drowned in 1882.
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Jew
THE WANDERING, a mythical personage who forms the subject of many popular traditions. According to one account he was a carpenter and as our Saviour passed his workshop on his way to execution, the soldiers begged that He might be allowed to enter for a few moments and rest; but he not only refused, but ordered Him off. Jesus replied, "Thou shalt wander on the earth till I return." Driven by fear and remorse, he has since wandered, according to the command of our Lord, from place to place, and has in vain sought death. The legend first appears in the Chronicle of Matthew Paris, in the 13th century, where the Wandering Jew is called Cartaphilus, and is said to have been a servant of Pilate. His name in the later legends is Ahasuerus. This legend has formed the subject of long poems by Schubert and Mosen; of a tragedy by Klingmann; of a mystico-philosophical drama by Edgar Quinet; of prose romances by George Croly ("Salathiel"), Alexandre Dumas the elder, M. Elckers, and David Hoffman ("Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus"); "The Wandering Jew," by Eugene Sue; "The Prince of India," by Lew Wallace; and of numerous small lyrical pieces. tithy- Pedilanthus
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