Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-13

from 20 to 22 candles each, or 100 candles tc
 11O candles in the aggregate. Twelve Edisor
 lamps produce 120 candles and the five gas
 burners produce 100 to no candles, with an
 equivalent expenditure of fuel. If each ap- paratus and system could be worked with
 equal facility and economy, this would of
 course show something in favor of the electric i light but when in fact everything in this
 regard is against the electric light, which de-
 mands vastly more machinery, and that of 8
 more delicate kind, requires more ski1lful
 management, shows more liability to diser-
 rangement and waste, and presents an utter
 lack of the storage capacity which secures
 such @ vast efficiency, convenience and econo.
 my in gas, then this relatively trifing economy
 disappears or ceases to have any controlling l importance in the practical relations of the 1 subject.
 Dr. Williams, of Chicago, has been looking
 for glucose in candy with striking results. One sample of molasses candy was aU glucose,
 some caranels had 80 per cent, and cream | candy, with 12 per ceat. glucose. was nearest l pure. There is, as we said the other day, high authority for saying that glucose may be both palatable and wholesome, and as iegiti- mate an article of manufacture and sale as any sweet that ever came from Cuba or Louiei- ana. Unfortunately that does not seem to be the kind of glucose made in this country. Dr. Kenzie, president of the Michigan Board of Health, and Professor of Chemistry in the Michigan State College. found glucose in syrup bought ct random, and in the glucose were, among other things, lime, sulphate of iron and copperas. Prof. Mariner found glucose to contain lead and free sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol. Dr. Williams endorses the state ments from his own analyses, and adds that a different result can scarcely be hoped for go long as the process of manufacture continues to be to boil corn-starch with oil of vitriol and mix it up with lime. These are facts which it very much concerns people to know, and which are more than sufficient basis for legis- lation. People should be protected against the possibility of even willfully putting sach unwholesome stuff in their stomachs, even If it is cheap and pleasant to the sand tongue.
 One of the most peculiar cauvasses of Pres identisl preferences thus far made is nov iu progress in the Cincinnati Enqn,rsr. It pro- cured list of 6,OO0 justices of the peace, county officers and notaries public in Illinois, and addressed them letters asking them to state who were the leading candidates for President in both the Republican aud Democratic parties Replies from a large number have been received. Of these 530 favor Blaine, 394 Grant, 279 TiIden, 147 Da- wis, IA Hendricks, and the remainder are scattered among the other candidates. The correspondent of tho Enquirer who has charge of the canvass sums up as follows some of the points made clear: '1. Tilden is reported as first choice by 251 Republicans and by twenty eight Democrats. 2. Grant is put down as first choice by over ons hundred Democrats-sn evidence that they regard him as the weakest man that the Republicans could nominate. 3. That in almost every in. stance where Washburne is put down as first choice of the Republicans Biains is reportod as the second choice, showing that he, like others, cannot transfer his following. 4. Hawley is running for Governor avowedly as Grant candidate, and yet nearly every Re- publican who reports him as first choice makes the same report as to Blaine." The canvass also shows that Culiom has long lead of every other candidate on the Republican side for the Governorship, aud will probably be renominated.