The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-04-25
The E:sss!:etiOzaS Of EINxssrlns :sssls
tkscEr DeleterlGES Effects.

He who does not see his coffee groun
FROM he bean or berry, may be almo;
positive that he is drinking form year +
year surrogate in liquid form. In Eng
land, as a rule, the grocers sell onl
ground coffee ; therefore one is not sur
prised to see in tie pantries Of the house
keeper, in tie windows of the victuallpr
or in the apartment Of the single mpchan
ic, where Il spirit lamp does the cooking
packages bearing inscriptions and visn
ettes on handsomely prepared envelope.
OF the article but the lord drinks clIic.
cory in his ''t'inest Mocha Coffee" a.
we'll as the humber citizen in his Fine
Java Coffee or the plain mechanic in
his "Deiicous Family Coffee" If only
! tLe cl.iccory We're genuine, the damage
would be considerable. though much less
than it now is. Chicco"y is now prepar-
ed, TO our certain knowledge, of oak bark,
Of old coffee grounds, Of finely sifted coal
ashes, or else with the sawdust falling
from mahogany and walnut woods, as
well as with iron black and ground horse
feathers these are a few Of the elegant
ly prepared articles sold under the name
Of ''coiIee."
German coffee very often consists of
roasted barley grounds, or rather malt,
after it has been exhausted at the brew
cries. In the same fortn with the coffee
in England, is the sugar purchased in
Germany. viz, finely ground, but "Heav.
ell save the mark; such sugar, In 0.
Yer ninety per cent Of all the shops, the
sugar, OF some grades Of it. is faI>ifed
and poisonous. The articles used are
sugar Of milk, starch, sand. plaster of
Paris, etc. An inferior article of beet
sugar is also used to impart the sweet
ness necessary to the materials used for
initiating loaf sugar, and the latter has
been nown to be prepared of associate
Of lead, sulphuric acid, old paper, wool,
flax, and even common tags, ground up,
and impregnated with white sugar and
thus has elegant lump sugar been estab-
lished by chemists as more ingenious
than genuine article of food. The So
called "pulverized sugar. is often i'm
pregnated with dried and ground mush-
r,oms, or even ground butte, flies cf the
miller and moth species, aud, in fact,
wAuc.
Wine is cheering balm to the hu-
man heart, but what is wine The man
Of wine is no simple process
Oh, no , it has become an industry with |
thousands Of "reci pes and formulas" )"
Ia England, wines are prepared of man
gel wurzel, plums and raspbrrries; and
rose leaves and rain water assist in the
preparation Of expensive, and therefore
Wine is now made in Germany, to,
WHICH contains not one drop
of grape juice. The potato has supplant-
ed the frnit OF the vine. The sirup (yl
or strength of the potato is distilled, and
by the assistance of other materials, COL
OF, consistency, and smell are impaired,
to form liquor riyaling the choicest
vintagCs. Such wine can Of course
have no tartaric acid in is composition,
sufficient cream of tarter lis added
to produce all the flavor of the genuine
article. This, of course, must be done
in the manufacture of clarets. other red
wines, and champagnes Wines called
are, to our certain knowl-
edge, prepared Of honey, chalk, pigeon
dung, and even worse materials, and
then drank by admiring bon rirants, at
extravagant prices. "....:
The world at large is flooded with al
vertisements of'quack doctors, who pro-
fess to cure anything and everything ;
and more medicine is taken into the sys-
tenn which is in itself pernicions, than
even the proportion of adulterated ar;i-
cles of diet sold by the grocer In ma
ny cases these so-called medicines are
of filthy and injurious ingre-
dients, which even in health are poison
Gus, and in sickness worse than useless.
This is particularly the case among the
middle and lower classes OF Europe, who,
from ignorance and poverty, readily fall
into the snare laid for them by these I'M
scrupulous scoundrels. II .'s@. .
! With all this before, u.s.. we are led to
The reflection that the attention bestow-
ed by governments to the food and health |
Of their respective populations, are alto
gether in the wrong direction. Stl&,t
inquiries are Instituted, and strict pehs
alties await the unfortunates who in
weight or measure fall below the stan
dard established by governments. In
fringement of trade marks on rostrlln@I
ETC., are protected, but when did an
thinks,abm establish
over the quality Of food sold T
to. its subjects, for which they are re-
CURED to pay the price of the genuine
article, receiving poison therefor, which
destroys health and shortens life, and |
rapidly enriches the unprincipled manu-
faeturef! Chemical analyses and in
vestigations should be instituted in all !
such instances, and the health and life
Of the people should be protected by the
government.-JousmaI Of Chemistry.