The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01

Cattle, sheep and swine are often killed
when they have pleuro-pneumonia and
hog colera, and their carcasses are sold
for eating. Diseases which cause sup
puration affect meat more iniuriously
than those which do not. Bob veal is
the meat of a calf under four weeks old,
but most of the bob veal sold in New
York Is from a few hours 10 three DAYS
old. Immature meat is unhealthy be-
cause it contains no nourishing elements
and because it is extremely indigestible.
Indeed, the stomach of small child can
not cope with it. and in the struggle the
child is sometimes killed.
Children and delicate persons are those
most seriously affected by unwholesome
food and drink. Candy is adulterated
with terra alba, kaolin, starch, finely
ground marble dust and pulverized as
bestos. Candy has been seized in New
York colored with chrome yellow, Bruins
wick green, red lead, Paris green, arsen-
ical aniline, burnt lumber, Venetian red,
vermillion (bisulphuret of mercury and
Prussian blue.
For havors artificial essences are often
made by distilling certain chemical salts
with alcohol and sulphuric acid. A
very fragrant one is said to be made by
treatment of rotten cheese with sui
phuric acid and bichromate of potash.
s" Rock and rye drops" have been made
of sugar and fusel oil, the latter causing
headache, stupor and dizziness.
The acme of the art of adulteratipn is
reached in fruit jellies. Currant jelly
sold until year ago by nearly every
grocer was made of dried apples, glucose,
water, arsenical fuchsine, tartaric acid
and glue, all boiled, strained and kept
from spelling in hot weather by salicylic
acid. Most of the fruit jellies sold to-
day are a fraud on the consumer, and
are made principally of glucose, water,
dried apples, color flavor and gelatine.
Canned goods are perfectly healthy,
unless partly decomposed when canned
or allowed to become so after opening,
in which case rank poison is develop
ed. When the ends of the can bulge, |
The gases of decomposition are within.
If cans are made of template they will |
poisonous lead tothe contents. |
Whether vegetables and fruits colored |
With copper are poisonous there is dis
agreement. Many physicians say yes,
)ut Professor Gillipe and M. Pateur and
some other eminent authorities say no.
Damaged coffee beans are treated
With chromate of lead, Prussian blue,
burnt lumber and other chem
calls to restore the original appearance.
some painted" coffee was found to
lave one-fftieth of grain of copper ar
enite in a quantity needed to make a
up of the beverage. Mexican and
,ther cheap coffees are so treated as to
make them resemble Java coffee.
Teas are adulterated with colored
pent' leaves and willow leaves. Black
cas- are painted" commonly, with
lack lead; green teas are nearly all
olored with Prussian blue, tumeric and
oapstone.
Mustard is reduced with terra alba
nd wheat flour, and then colored with
umeric or poisonous coal tar color
allied Marsh's yellow. Vermicelli has
'een colored with chromate of lead in
tead of with eggs or saffron. Bread is
Vhitened with alum, and musty flour
las been sweetened and preserved with
ulphate of copper. German bakers
Use an " egg powder" made of our old
riend chrome yellow. Gelatine is put
n oleomargarine to make it absorb
more water. In short, says DIR. Edison,
very beverage we drink and nearly
very food we eat is liable to be made a
ource of danger to us by the ignorant
nd dishonest.-Good Housekeeping.