The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

COMFORT FOR TEA-DRINKERS.

The tea-drinking public had good reason to ba
alarmed and indignant at the news of the importa-
tion of large quantities of tea which was declared by
the best authorities to be of the vilest description.
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which the matter was brought forward, and further
comfort is now contained in certain state'
ments of the Produce Markets' .Review. In the
first place, it is nearly certain that not only has in
respectable dealer dealt in this rubbish, but mall °'
the leading wholesale tea houses immediately on its.
arrival forwarded samples to Dr. Letheby, and did all
in their power to prevent its being sold. Few
retail
dealers,according to the Revie,v,have ever seen asainplo
of the "Maloo mixture," much less bought any of it.
Lastly, it gladdens one's heart to learn that the im-
portation of this Maloo mixture has entailed enor-
mous loss 'on the importers. It cost them about
ninepence per pound, and, as events have turned out
it could hardly be disposed of at any price here, s°
that the gratifying experiment is scarcely likely to
be again repeated.

DUTTER FROM TITA3IES MUD.
A Frenchman alleges that he has discovered a
process by which butter may be made from Thames
mud. The South London Press has received from
the discoverer specimens of the fat which he
states
was derived from mud taken at four different poi El
of the river, and submitted it for analysis to Dr. Muter.
The doctor describes the grease as of a very dark
colour, colour, offensive in odour, and containing about co
per cent. of pure fatty matter. It bore, be says
a resemblance to some fat extracted from the mud,
tets
but was not identical in composition. On the whole
he doubts very much if the trifling proportion
of grease existing in the mud alone could ever
be profitably extracted without adding some other,
source of fatty refuse. He suspects the informal'
of the South London Press kept back part of the
truth as to its origin. It is satisfactory to lin°ll
that Dr. Muter feels quite certain that it is entirely
unsuitable for the adulteration of butter, as it Is se
different from that substance.

THE SHRIEKING SISTERHOOD.
"A Brooding, Hen" writes to the Pall life
Gazette in the hope that parents and families who
have hitherto been free from the very ideas now
forced upon them by the Snrieking Sisterhood, inq,
yet be saved from the pollution. The " Brooding Tien
is a maternal character, who was brought UP) as.,
she says, a modest woman, though a shrieking PO
ton of the female fraternity is now fain to drive her
and
modesty from her. They try to entrap her .I),h
her daughters into their net. They deluge her
letters demanding sympathy, papers to sign!
and pamphlets to read on subjects hitherto un.,
heard of in domestic life. Not only is she bothered'
to give her name to a petition for the "Repeal
of
the Contagious Diseases Acts," but her husband is Illso
canvassed by unshrinking women. Indecent paper:
are now dragging the innocence from you%
girls in English homes, into which these papers are
thrust by these agitating " ladies." Alluding tog
Jacob Bright's remark that the " best women in the
land" will refuse to meet in their drawing-I°e
those surgeons who take duty under the Act, the
"Brooding Hen" thinks that the surgeon who bas
grown-up daughters may object to their meeting
class of women evidently alluded to as " the best,.4
namely, those who publicly discuss these matter'
with so little reticence.