The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-08-06
EheA rmorraf-S Star
The Inventor Of saccharinc.


Analyst called upon DIR. Constan
time Fahlberg, the inventor or dis
cover of saccbdrine, The c Goa
tar sugar, and had a long talk Will
him about the new discovery. Th,
Doctor is tail, well built. haudsom,
German-AmeTican OF about thirty
eight years Of age. He speaks the
modern languages duently, and
despite the celebrity that has So
suddenly fallen upon him, is quite
difideDt and reserved.
allow did | discover saccllarine -
he said. "Well, it was partly by
accident and partly by study. |
had worked a long time upon the
compound radicals aud substitution
products of coal tar, and had made
Il number of scientific discoveries
that are, so far as I know, of no
commercial value. One evening |
was so interested in my laboratory
that | forgot about supper until
quite late, aud tbeu rushed off Tor
a meal without stopping to wash
my hands. | a down, broke a
piece OF bread, and put it to my
lips. 1t tasted u~nspeakably sweet.
l did not ask why it was 50, proba.
bly, because l thought it was some
CAKE or Sweetmeat. 1 rinsed ny
mouth with water, and dried my
mustacbe with my napkin, when, to
my surprise, the napkin tasted
sweeter than the bread. Then |
was puzzled. | again raised my
goblet, and, as fortune would have
IL, applied my mouth where my
fingers had touched it before. The
water seemed sirup. 1t flashed upon
me that l was the cause of the
singular universal sweetness, and |
accordingly tasted the end of my
thumb, and found that it surpassed
any confectionery | had ever eaten.
l saw the whole thing at a glance.
l had discovered or made some coal
tar substance which out-sugared
sugar. l dropped my dinner, aud
ran back to the laboratory. There,
in my excitement, l tasted the con.
tents of every beaker and evapor.
ating dish on the table. Luckily !
for me, none contained any zorro
sive or poisonous liquid. f,
"One of them contained an im. |
pure solution of s%accharine. On j,
this L worked then for weeks aud :
mouths until | had determined it's {
chemical composition, its chaTac. :
teristics aud reactions, and the best )
modes of making it scientifically |
and commercially. Z
"When l first published my re. :
searches, some people laughed as it /
it were a scientific JOKE, others, OF :
a more skeptical turn, doubted the n
discovery aud the discover, and \
still Others proclaimed the work as n
being of no practical value. q
"When the public first saw sac. o
charine, hOwever,everything chang.
ed. The entire press, European O
aud American, described me aud Q
my sugar IN a way that may have n
been edifying, but was simply anu. h
sing to me. And then came letters. 81
My mail has run as high as sixty a ii
day. People wanting samples of Q,
saccharine, my autograph, or my d,
opinion gu chemical problems, de. nj
slllng TO become my partner, to buy b,
my discovery, to be my agent, to d
enter my laboratory, and the like. "
"What have l doneP | have 70
started a company in Germany to
manufacture saccharine, with a IL
OF 1000, 900 marks. They n,
are already at work, aud are now te
the new sugar. 1t costs, n
or rather VIC sell it, between $40 en-
and S12 per pound, but will reduce HI
these figures considerably before a tr
year has gone past. / would rather of
started in this country, which on
Is my home, but the high price of of
skilled labor, and the high tariff on on
the crude materials fine c~hemicalsl tn
OF which saccharine is made, de. wr
me and my friends from so pr
l will say, however, that if th.
applied chemistry continues pro Tia.
crossing as it has done in the past bl,
decade, we shall open branch works or
here within the next five years. to
Saccharlne is proving a wonder Ma
Inl success. IL Is used already in snl
many ways. Prot. Leyden, of Der. hir
lin, recommended it to sweeten fne cor
Taiers and other foods for invalids,
and wrote a formula for it in such ST.
Eases. This is used by bakers and Gel
;ontectioners, and more especially pec
~ MaDnl & Co., the great wafer kin
manufacturers of Carlsbad, Bohen. ear
a. 1t is also employed by the wa
makers of glucose and beet sugar. no,
These r inferior in sweetness to Rn
ane sugar, but superior in digesti. of
,lllty and healthfulness. The adj the
lltion of a triting fraction of sac we
marine makes them the equals of nh,
he finest cane sugar ia the market. der
'accharine is 10 sweet that a tea. arr
p0onfal converts a barrel of water nor
lto strip. A small wafer of It of
Onverts the bitterest quinine solu. pet
lon or acid drink into a regular sue
.lolasses. Ii will, therefore, be In. in
aluable in Disgusting and destroy. DOS
lg all the bitter aud sOur tastes in in {
ledicine without changing the /
haracter or action of the drugs. est
Saccharine Goes not decay, mould Jon
ferment, neither is it attacked by par
acterla. 1t has no injurious effect of
poo the human system. What rem
dect has been noticed is rather doe
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