The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-11-05
Candy and Poison.

A paper OF sColored Confectionaryo was
recently read before the British Association.
from which we condense some valuable and
novel information. We learn that for econo-
my's sake, confectioners, in coloring their can
dies, &C., have recourse for their greens to
Brunswick green, carbonate Of copper, or arr
semitic Of copper; for the yellows, to chrons.e
of lead or gamboge; for their reds, TO red lead,
vermillon or cinnabar; and for their whites, to
white lead. These are only few of the per-
nicious .colorng agents used, and they are
among the deadliest Of poisons. The way in
which the poisoas are laid or also deserves a
word Of passing remark. In some instances
very thin coating Of the colorins matter is uss
ed. so as to spread over very large surface
small portion of the material used; but in 9TH
er cases the very reverse is the fact, and in one
instance was procured from a piece Of orna-
mental table confectionery, not the size Of
sugar almond, and quantity of arsenite Of cop.
per sufficient to destroy the life of healthy
adult. Confectioners have no reason to use
these poisons, for there are harmless vegetable
eolors enough to answer their purposes.---
Among these are-for yellows, saffron, tumer-
c. French berries, Persian berries, quercitron
bark. fustic wood, and lakes Of the last four
colors. Beds-cochineal, lake ditto, includ-
ing csrmine, Brazil wood, madder, and iakes
Of the two last colors. Purples-madder pur-
pie, logwood and indigo, and lakes with indi-
go or litimus. Blues-litimus and indigo
Greens--sap green( rhamus catharticus,) y mix
lures of any Of the vegetable yellows or lakes
with indigo, including Persian berries and in-
digo. Nor would the products Of their art suf-
fer in their attractive appearance by the en-
ployment Of such colors. We most strongly
advise every one who values has health aud
perhaps his life, as matters are at present con-
stuted, sedulously to avoid partaking Of ar
ticles of confectionery, exhi biting either blue
or green, but especially of such as are green,
these latter being buttoo frequently Of . most
deadly poisonous nature. .3.s ,g ys.s,
cT"A happy childhood, . says Isaac Tsv-
lor, is precious inhsritence, with which, a 1
fund, to begin trading in..practicable wisdom
and active usefulness. It isa great thing only
to have known by experience that tranquil,
temperate happiness is actually attainable on
earth; and we should think so, il we knew
how many have pnrsuee reckless course be-
cause, or chiefly because, they early learned
to think Of happiness as chimera, and be-
iieved nomentary Qualifications to be the only
substitute placed within the reach Of man.
Practical happiness is much aoftener thrown
away than snatched from us but ii is the
most likely to be pursuei aid overtaken ana
husbanded by those who alFeady,i and during
some considerable period Of their lives. have
bean happy. To have known nothing but mis-
cry is the most portentious condition under
which human nature can start on its course.n
ssT The editor of a irin Democratic weak-
ly paper, in the rural dstricss of Michigan, re-
Gently addressed the following letter to Gov.
Bingham /. 3.a,. .,s IA .fs.t5 81. ..ss,..s
'sSir--l did my utmost % editor OF The
5000 Demaerat. to defeat you, but l an very
sorry did,t succeed. Please send me, by
reiurn mail, a Notary Public's Commission.
Yours, etc., 5 -.wg
The Commission was promptly ssnt.o 5as
@ Man is but little thing in the midst
of the objects Of Nature yet BY the moral
quality radiating from his countenance, he NAV
abolish all considerations of maSnit,,de. ana +,