, 1872-12-24
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER

| impunity, or, at least, ne have no evidence to
| show that their lives we're shortened thereby.
But, says the Adulteration Fiend, 81 the science
Of chemistry has materially advanced since those
! days, and the adulterator can employ it with
more skill and subtlety." Yes, but has not the
| knowledge Of analysis advanced with even pace,
| and is it not easier to detect the incongru-
ous elements with which the adulterator
| mixes our food and drink As far
back IS 1888, q Committee Of the
| English House Of Commons stated that no less
than ,000, 900 pounds Of tea alone we're annually
manufactured from sloe and ash leaves in differ
| ent parts Of England, end this at D time when
| the whole quantity of genuine tea sold by the
East India Company, which then had the mon
opo1y Of selling it, did not amount to more than
100000 pounds annually. There is no rea-
son to believe that the sloe and ash tea, how
| ever, did any more harm than the real tea. II
the consumers thought they we're drinking gen.
uine Hyson or souchong, it probably did them
no harm at al, as most sickness arising from eat
ing and drinking is a metaphysical result Of 3
diseased fancy. Poe once said that he
would never die if it were not for the feebleness
Of his will in Like manner, many people would
never be- rich were it not for feebleness Of will,
which let's the imagination prevail in it's place.
It is the chief delight Of the Adulteration
| Fiend to taunt US with regard to our coffee, IS
that is universal luxury, and the "vithout
which not" OF our breakfast tables. Hitherto,
the taunt has been mainly confined to chicory.
but he has been always answered with the reply
that it is dull, harmless root and, even it it is
insipid, it is at least innocuous to the nervous
system, and is even corrective for the posi-
lively wilful influence Of genuine coffee. Foiled
in this direction, we are now informed by the
NATURALIZATION Society OF England that
chicory is not the only adu1teration,
but that Paterfamiias, Us he prepares
to enjoy his cup OF Mocha or roasted Java, is
imbibing compound into which enter roasted
wheat, ground acorns, roasted carrots, scorched
beans, roasted parsnips, mangelwurzel, lupin
seeds, burnt sugar, red earth, roasted horse
chestnuts, mahogany dust, and horror horror
t1na baked horses and bu11ockA' lvers The
authority for the last diabolical preparation OF
pate de joie gras is derived from q recent work
on ''Conee as 1t Is and Oughtto Be-" written by
one Mr. Simmons, in which he says: In vari-
GUS parts Of the metropolis, but more especially
in the East, are to be found liver bakers.'
These men take the iyers Of oxen and horses,
bake them, and grind them into q powder,
which they will sell to the 1ow-priced coffee
shop-keepers at from fourpence to si1pence per
pound horses liver coffee being tho highest
price. 1t may be known by allowing the
coffee to stand until cold, when thick pe1liclo
skin will be found upon the top. It goes farther
than coffee, and is generally neired acih chicory
and Interchangeable limitations Of Coffee" "But,"
says Paterfami1ias, as he sets down his cup OF
Mocha g this does not concern me. buy my
coffee in the berry and grind it myself" The
Adulteration Fiend thereupon dashes away the
last ray OF hope, and knocks Paterfamilias' seat
out from under him, by declaring that ali this il
q delusion and snare, for an extensive trade
exists in manufacturing coffee in the berry form
tho berries, like sweetmeat 1ozenges, being
cast in mou1ds. Paterfami1ias drops his cup.
His breakfast is spoiled He has no longer
faith in anything. His chops msy have been
made at the joiner's; his eggs may have
been turned out by an ivory worker
and his sugar may be but the aweepinss Of q
p1aster-of-Paris shop. II the Aduiteration Fiend,
however, had only stayed away, he would have
had good cup Of coffee, and would not have
made such ill-natured remarks to 11aterfamilias,
and snubbed the olive branches as he did, be-
fore he vent down to the Office. II these Paul
Prys who hover about our breakfasts and din
ners would only supplement their alarming an
nouncements by telling US how, when. and where
to get the genuine articles, there might be some
excuse for their conduct. Until they can do
that, would it not be better for them to let us go
on imaging that we are eating and drinking the
real article, and get what comfort we from it.
PROFESSOR TYNDALL AND BIS LECTURES