Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-06
Bogus Butter Again.

IL IS bLdLeu Dy u New 1OIk Journal L0dL
sea captains in laying in supplies for
a voyage much prefer oleomargarine to
the best butter. The reason of this is said
to be that real butter viii not retain it's
sweetness, and that bogus butter is more
palatable than rancid butter. The result
Of recent investigations into the manner
of manufacturing oleomargarine and but
terine, and the ingredients contained in
these compounds, however, are not at all
reassuring to consumers. Probably even
an old salts strong appetite might fail
him were he fully posted on the subject.
The greatest objections to the artificial
butter is, perhaps, not that it is poison
GUS and unwhOlesome, but that the pro-
cess Of manufacture as well as many of
the materials used are very unclean.
So far very few States have followed the
example Of Georgia in providing penalty
for the practcing Of fraud on the public
in the sale and use Of oleomargarine, and
it is believed that the law IS not regarded
to any great extent either by merchants
or hotel proprietors in this State.
The health authorities of Washington
city have recently been giving a good deal
OF attention to this subject. Out Of
tWenty-fnrin -r~~s.---.-, futt-yI co $40
District Chemist fourteen were found e.
be butter, while ten Of them were wholly
or partially spurious. All of the bogus
compounds were sold as butter except one,
which was given its true name by the
dealer. One sample of so-caled New
York creamery butter proved to be but
terine in an Undisguised form.
"Under the polariscope," says the
Washington Post, 1.-The bogus butter pre-
sents a beautifully colored transparent
disc with numerous circles whose bisected
radii show yellow and purple greenish
colors invariably alternating, while the
entire disc seems streaked with alternat-
ing red and green cOlors in minute par
ticles. The red and green colors are of
course due to the plate of selenite under
the specimen, but the pretty spots are in
variably found in bu Uterine and oleomar-
garine. Pure butter in the instrument
shows a yellowisb disc, with a few puf-
plish spots, due to particles of salt"
1t is stated that some of the more honest
and conscientious dealers in Washington
are particular to send specimens OF all in
voices of butter received by them to the
District chemist for examination.
Provision ought to be made in every city
and town for the proper testing OF these
articles, and the law of Georgia on the
subject ought to be extended 50 as to in
clude not only oleOmargarine, but but
terine, and all other articles intended to
be used as substitutes for butter.
Some OF the Chicago papers indulge in
wild Western personalities just as though
Matthew Arnold, the ''apostle of sweet
ness and light" had never visited that
city. This from the Press in regard to
the Tribune: because a scoundrel named
Charley Reed-a scOundrel who had
robbed the children of his dead friend
had on the party collar, Joseph Medill
warmly supported him for Circuit Judge.
After the popular verdict had been rem
dered, Medill openly acknowledged in his
paper that Reeds character was so bad
that no honest man could eonscientiously
vote for him. With disreputables like
Medill in control of great journals, small
wonder is it that the appeals and opinions
Of newspapers are treated with con-
tempt" Joseph's attention is now so
much engrossed by the Chicago rebels
and ku-klux that his grip on the ensan-
guined undergarment Is perceptibly
weakening.
There Is not much prospect that this
Congress will do anything towards estab-
fishing a postal telegraph system. The