Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Adulterants. [ARTICLE]

Adulterants.

Glucose 'or corn-syrup lias proved itself a great find for adulterators of foods, etc. It lias found its way into beer, serves as a substitute for bottled honev and maple svrup, and is largely used as an adulterant in sugars and syrups. Tim Boston Popular Science News says a hew field for its use has been found by the adulterators of milk, who are evidently delighted to find that glucose enables them to add water to milk without decreasing its specific gravity—thus escaping detection by the lactometer test, which is the usual and most ready test employed by inspectors —Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. Of the 162 members of the Illinois Constitutional convention of 1847, or, in other words, of the convention which framed the constitution of 1848, there are only thirty-six still living, not counting the three members of whom no traces can be found. The association of survivors, formed the other day, ■will soon be without a survivor.