The morning times., 1896-02-09

clew and enabled them to sho " that themys
terious stuff was old cigar boxes, dried and
ground up ard favored with a few drops of
essential oil. The authorities not only pub
lished the discovery forthwith, but attacked
the brand so vigorously that in the next
month allin the market had been confiseated
or destroyed
IN Boston a man has a machine which
takes the favorite food of that city. splits
each bean into two grains, channels and
finishes these so much ike coffee that when
roasted they deceive the average grocer In
Chicago another commercial crook has a
machine which makes roast coffee bean
out Of coarse and damaged wheat flour. The
dies which cut the grains are so well
contriyed that out OF 200 no two are alike
Sophisticated wines and liquors We're for
merly very common. One house in HAM
burg and one in Bremen not very long ago
did large business with the United States
They were quite honest in their dishonesty,
and spared the government by announcing
in their bills of lading that their champa gne
was ''carbonated gooseberry. >" their old
cognac flavore dwith potato spirit" or
industrial alcohol" and their medicinal
cordial They left the lying to the Ameri-
can customers, knowing probably that the
New World is far superior in this regard to
the Old Worm.
In spite of the cheapneSs and wholesome
ness of American wines, the officials run
down people who make a scant livelihood
by compounding poor limitations. The New
York Board of Health, for example, found
the vineyard in the cellar of an old ware
house i'll the heart of the business center
1t consisted of lot of old hogsheads. in
which the proprietor was fermenting dam
aged raisins and decayed currants. The
resulting wine, after being filtered and for
titled, was then altogether vile. The Of
ficers threw several gallons into the sewer
and arrested the vintner. His defense was
novel il not ludicrous. He said: II am
gentleman and a Christian. That wine
may not seem good, but it is splendid. And
/ wish it distinctly understood that il is re-
spectacle. because I sell it to a thousand
churches for communion wine."
In the Manufacture OF iellies, confec-
tjuueyy and hDnilons The soul OF aduitera-
ton runs riot. a cheap crab apple jelly
made in New York, but sold by the trade,
generally consists of water, glucose, burned
sugar, cider, vinegar, oil of vitriol and
vegetable geiatine. 1t was sold as cheap
as cents glass, and is said to c,iSt less
than 3 cents, the tumbler included Or
the Turkish fig paste, Arabian delight
and juiubs paste, much OF which was once
and all OF which is still believed to be i'm
ported, nearly every oance is made In the
great manufacturing cities of the country
Cftwo hundred brands of chocolate, plan;
or confectionery, examined officially. no.
twenty are pure. Sugar, starch. glucose,
terra alba, barytes, brown ochre, clay, We
netan brown and other authorizations arc
added to 1t, until in some cases there is nc.
more than 8 per cent or the genuine ar
tlcle in what is offered under 1t nam
Some years ago, in the factory OF one of live
largest makers in the country, the boar,
of health found n ton OF Venetian Brow
In the workroom, with the workmen bus
mixin In The machines with the chocolate