Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1884 — American Meats in Germany. [ARTICLE]

American Meats in Germany.

J. H. Saunders, agent of the Uniti States Department of Agriculture, to t tend the International Exhibition at Hai burg, in bis report recently submitted the Commissioner of Agriculture says: “S far as I could observe it was generally oo: ceded that whenever an inspection of O pork is made under careful governmen supervision, similar to that now made by t German authorities, thiefti will be n# objt tion to its sale in Germany. Indeed, strikes me that were such inspection ma there would be suoh strong preset brought to bear upon the G man Government by their o people that the embargo would be speed removed. Should further experiments c< firm what has been already partially shot that thorough curing in salt destroys I vitality of trichinm if not entirely, at lea to so great a degree as to reduce the dan from meats that have been thoroug cured by this process to almost nothing, will doubtless be a strong point in < favor, and proper presentation of the fa to the German Government, should this clearly proven, ought at once to be ma Until this fact is clearly established, h< ever, and in absence of any pretense inspection of American meats, either i der governmental or individual supen ion, the position of the German Gove ment is obviously sound npou this qn tion, and cannot” be assailod without t demonstrating that their own inspectioi useless.”

The Philadelphia directory shows sJ strange similarities in the names of pro! sions and their practitioners. Shanks 1 plays his ability as a teaoher of dancl Black is a coal merchant, one Saylor i] mariner, Painter is an artist. Law practl his name, Birch is a schoolteacher, | Lamb sells mutton. | A Chinese doctor, at Victoria, B. cl reported to have made some remark J cure# in eases where white physicians I given them up as incurable. It >is now known that Charlotte CoJ was descended from Corneille, the poet!