Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — Adulterations. [ARTICLE]

Adulterations.

Tennyson says that chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread, and that the vitriol madness flashes up in the ruffian's brain till the filthy highway rings with the yell of a trampled wife, and he might have gone further and told of numerous adulterations both in food and drink. Mustard is adulterated wife sulphate of lime,. naphthaline yellow, and dark flour. Black pepper is reduced with charcoal, buckwheat chaff, mustard bean, ground cocoanut, and dried potatoes ; cayenne pepper with com meal colored with Venetian red; allspice or pimento with cocoa shells; cloves with clove stems -and cocoa shells; mace with com meal; cinnamon and cassia with ground crackers, stale bread, and biscuits naked and ground; ginger with com meal, cayenne pepper; and turmeric cream tar-

tar is adulterated with terra alba and corn floor. To know that cream tartar is pure take a half teaspoonful of it and put it in. a tumbler with hot water. If pure, it will all dissolve without sediment. ->