Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-10

transaction. A party will be held to
his agreement unless he can show beyond
doubt that there was mistake in
drawing up the writing or the other par
ty was guilty of fraud. For this reason
parties should use extra care to have
their whole and entire agreement reduc-
ed to writing, if any part is written.
Get somebody to draw your papers who
can do it right and legally and it will
be the cheapest in the end.
WHAT STUFF PEOPLE EAT.
George 7. Angel read paper before
the American Social Science Association
in Boston, recently, on Public Health
Associations, in which he made some
startling assertions about the adultera-
tion of food. He said:
Cayenne pepper is adulterated with
red led, mustard with chromate of lead,
vinegar with sulphuric acid, arsenic and
corrosive sublimate. 1t is stated that
probably half the vinegar now sold in
our cities is rank poison. One of our
Boston chemists analysed twelve packag-
es of pickles, put up by twelve different
wholesale dealers, and found copper in
ten of them. Many havoring oils, syr-
ups, jellies and preserved fruits contain
poisons. The adulterations of tea are
too many to mention. Coffee is not only
adulterated, but patent has been taken
out for moulding chicory into the form
of coffee berries, and | am told clay is
now nodded, and perhaps favored with
an essence, to represent coffee. Cocoa
and chocolate are adulterated with va
rious mineral substances.
Several mills in New England, and
probably elsewhere, are now engaged in
grinding white stone into fine powder
for purposes of adulteration. At some
of these mills, they grind three grades
soda grade, sugar grade and flour
grade. 1t sells for about half cent
pound. Flour has been adulteratcd in
England, and probably here with plaster
of Paris, bone dust, sand, clay, chalk,
and other articles. | am told that large
quantities of damaged and unwholsome
grain are ground in with -four, partlcu-
larly that kind called Graham -four.
Certainly, hundreds, and probably
thousands of pounds of .'terra alba" or
white earth, are sold in our cities every
year and mixed with other white sub
stances. am told by an eminent ply
sician that this tends to produce stone,
kidney complaints, and various diseases
of the stomach. A Boston chemist tells
me that he has found rs per cent. Of
'sterra alba in what was sold as cream
of tartar used for cooking.
Poultry are fed upon material which
produces unwholesome, frequently pois-
onous, by careless and cruel methods of
killing. A california chemist recently
analyzed many samples of whisky. He
found them adulterated with creosote,
salts of copper, alum and other injurious
substances. He states it in his publish
ed report, as lis opinion that there is
hardly any pure whisky sold in San
Francisco. An eminent medical gentle
man said to me: The adulterations of
drugs in this country are perfectly
abominable - I say that laws should
Be enacted and enforced prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of these poisonous
and dangerous articles under severe
penalties, and compelling the manufac-
turers and sellers of adulterated articles
to tell buyers the precise character of
the adulterations.
A large New York house sells three
grades of cream of tartar. A Boston
chemist recently analyzed sample of
the best grade and found so per cent.
of ''terra alba" The coloring matter of
confectionery frequently contains 33 per
cent. or more of '.terra alba" Thee COL