Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-04-07

pacity for raising steam rapidly, while the
cost is much in its favor. The process to be
applied, when the machinery was invented,
was to use clay as cement, and the coal dust
was to be pressed into Jumps, which were
dried and then dipped mechanically into
water -proofing solution. The drying process
failed at the outset. The drying oven, into
which the Jumps were conveyed five times In
succession on wire-cloth belts, could not dry
one-ffth of the Jumps delivered by the press
Various notifications and experiments have
been made, and in the new buildings which
the company will use all the machinery will
be on one floor, the press producing Jumps
of the same shape, but varying in weight
from two ounces to two pounds each. Small
machines, capable of manufacturing twenty
five to sixty tons per day for coal operators
are proposed. Thus the coal dust hsaped
about the breakers at the mines will be
utilized For all kinds of heating appara-
tus, all kinds of coal dust can be used in the
manufacture of this fuel. Rejected ores can
be solicited. To utilize and solidify the
dust produced by the shaking of the brown
Goals of the West, this device, it is claimed,
will be of great value. The compressed fuel
does not deteriorate by exposure, and much
of the water which forms an objection to
Ignite is eVaporated, as in the process of Mr..
Loissau the slack is dried and heated to about
2OO0 Fahrenheit.
Professor S. A. baltimore has been exam
lining fruits, vegetables and spices with view
of reporting to the New York State Board of
Health the extent to which these articles of
food are adulterated. He has found that
canned peaches. plums, grapes, Strawberries
cherries, olives and blackberrles were free
from adulteration. Spices, however, were
subjected to extensive adulteration, as was
shown by tests which revealed that out of Is
samples of mustard u were adulterated to
the extent of sc per cent. OF Is specimens
of ginger, 8 we're adulterate 60 per cent; of
81 specimens of allspiee, 10 were adultsrated
70 per cent; of % specimens of cinnamon, 10
were adulterated 81 per cent, and 30 on through
cassia, cloves, red, white and black pepper, and
mace, the adulteration of each being from 80
to rs per cent. Nutmegs were even adulter-
ated to the extent of 40 per cent. Prof Lat
timore asserts, indeed, that the spices pre-
sent IAN inviting field for the fraudulent
art" They are sold in powdered form in
packages not susceptible of immediate ex-
animation by the purchaser, and any cheap
substance easily pulverized and possessing
no distinctive taste and odor can be en-
ployed as an aduIterant. In his tests, Prof
baltimore found that the integuments OF
grains or seeds, such as the bran of wheat
and buckwheat and the bulls of mustard
seeds and fax seeds, damaged corn meal,
stale ship bread, and peas and beans, had
been employed as adulterants and contrib
uted to dishonesty increase the profit of the
spice mixer. Shades of color in imitation of
the genuine article are secured by roasting
farinaceous and leguminous substances.
Turmeric will impart fine yellow hue to
weak mustard made of wheat -four and terra
alba, and by the introduction of powdered
charcoal the skilled adulterator makes his
worthless artificial black pepper pass, so far
as appearance goes, for the genuine article
so-called ginger is also obtained by mixing
salt and red pepper with finely ground corn
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