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From the Cincinnati Commercially
~ one Of the sessions of the Social
science Association, which this year met
y - rac1ss, n. Y, Mr.. George T. An
gel Of Boston read an interesting pa
per on the Manufacture and Sale of
Poisonous and Dangerously Adulterated
Articles. These poisons, he SAID, are
tound nj oNr food, our drink, our cloth
ing, IN The cooking utensils used in our
kitchens. in the pipes that carry our
water, in the carpets and wall papers
that beauty our houses, and in the col
1reo papers and toys which are the play
-bia@s of cur children. These danger
oGs bat cheaper articles are gradually
driving the safer but more EXPENSIVE
ones out OF our markets As an evil
deure of how extensively groceries were
EdUlteratei he quoted from the report
OF the Canadian Commissioner of Inter-
EIal Revenue for 1877, in which it was
stated that 81 out of 10S articles ana
tyxed were found TO be adulterated.
Very lew groceries are wholly pure
The Groccr's Manual publishes some of
the authorizations. The cream Of tartar
sound on sale, it says, is seldom more
than 80 per cent. pure, the remainder
being terra ala, or white earth. and
other adElterants Cayenne pepper is
dcbaSed with red ocher, cinnabar, YER
million and sulphuret of mercury, and
She color preserved by red lead and-I
Venetian red. Coffee is adulterated
with pea h1w cOlored with Venetian
red- L,-yr> and wines are generally
made from cheap runs and WHISTLES.
Milk Is adulteratcd with water, flour,
starch, gum, turmeric, chalk, sugar,
carbonate Of soda, and cerebral matter;
and cream Is made by the use of gum
Mustard is seldom sold pure. Preserved
meats are colored with ocher and red
lead. Bottles labeled Worcestershire
sauce, etc, are often filled with stuff
favored with dangerous chemicals.
Soaps contain poisonous coloring mat
Ger that produces skin diseases. Teas
are c0iored and dOctored, largely in !
New York and Philadelphia, with arsen-
lstG of copper, yerdigris, mineral
green. FrusSian blue, tale, clay, soap
stone, and numerous other articles.
Much 81 The tobacco which men roll like
g. sweet morsel under their tongues is
made ou- of the leaves of other plants,
IN which are added chromate of lead,
oxide oil lead, etc. Half the vinegar
sold ia the large cities, it is asserted, is
Fsnk poison, made from preparations Of
lead. copper and oil of vitriol These'I
statements were made in the Manual in
lhe interest Of grocers.
air. AHgell says that 4 personal friend,
who Is a partner in one of the largest
importing tea houses in Boston, and was
for q time a resident in China, said to
him that ueither himself nor any MEM
Der OF nis FIRM would drink any thing
1ut the natural uncOlored teas: that
while The teas are usually adulterated
before they reach this country, they are
further adUlterate1 and poisoned after
they arrive here. The public taste
which demands colored teas should
know thar some of them contain prussic
scid Ehlahd has shut out these
spurious Ras. and they are now mostly
being sent to America. Not only Is
ground coffee adulterated, but machines
haEa been invented and are in use in
ehfs country that mold authorizations into
lhe form II coffee berries. Coffee is
often adulterated with chccory, which is J
Itself adulterated with articles more
dangerous.
2luch Of the sugar sold in stores con-
gaIus glucose sometimes called grape
su.ar'') and muriafe Of tin. Glucose, !
She Importation of which increased from |
&, 552 Ia 1875 to 1888, 1850 (and vast |
quantities are also manufactured in the |
Omitted NtaUes), is made by boiling corn
starch withsulp huric acid (oil Of viuiol), |
aH0 then. mixing it with lime. Ii Is
lSel irgelv 20 adulterate cane |
Sugars and sirups professor r.
c. kedzie, ,of the Michigan State
Board OF, Health, by analysis, found -
cut x ~ specimens OF common table
sii-ags 90 sge made of glucose, one of the
- caE-ai8;ng III grains of oil of vitriol
aEc - grains OF lime to the galiOn),
Ulaplo--ugar, candies, jelHes, honey,
exc il Is said to produce Bright's dis
Ssse OF The kidney Baking-powder
aften contains alum, terra alba, insolu-
bic phosphate of lime, etc. Mr.. Angel
SINS thar there are, in various parts of
tie United States, mills that are every
ve3r grinding thousands of tons of
white stone into fine powder, which sells
for half a cent a pound, and that in /
some OF these mills are ground three
grades, called soda grade, sugar grade
and flour grade.
4 Boston sanitary commission, few
Years ago, estimated that in that city
S5O0. 900 q year was paid for water
--TxeJ with milk: and this wears re- I