Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — Butter Without Cows. [ARTICLE]

Butter Without Cows.

The Paris correspondent of the Loudon Stondar'd refers as follows to a new article of food in the French capital: “I must briefly allude to the new butter, called Margarine Mouries. If eve—theworld in general, that is—rightly understand the process by which this substance is made—approv ed by analysis, adopted by tlie Council of Hygiene, authorized by the Government for army use, and taxed at one rate M’ith the genuine article —the end of all things must be at hand. This butter is composed of cream which never dwelt in cow. As I understand. it is neither lard, nor oil, nor grease of any sort, whether animal, vegetable or mineral. It is made of ‘things' in a chemist’s shop. Studying the process by which green grass is transformed to milk, M. Mouries-Mege has pursued the feask of simplification until he can.dispense witlr the ccrtfs unscientific processes. Was it not Lord Brougham who looked forward to the time when chemists would be our only butchers, when, with the help of a few powders, a furnace,; a spectroscope, and elementary education, one would turn a truss of hay into a beefsteak in the back parlor? That is what M. Mege professes to have done, or something like it, foY butter, and his brother savants *all declare the result perfection. Though the process is but a year old, it employs 400 men in seven manufactories. The butter —to which that name is not given by the inventor, but by the octroi officials—is sold at about half the price’ of the real substance in which the cow is not avowedly ignored.”

A Clerk’s Joke.— One of the clerks in a Woodward avenue store yesterday raised a third-story window and balanced a stf-aw man on the sill in such a position that people across the way were certain that some one was hanging to the casing for dear life. In one hour fifty people entered the store to say that some one was about to fall from the window, and most of them passed out of the side door looking down-hearted in taking their leave. —Detroit Free Press. —Awsingular. accident befell Capt Drdty! , agent Jof the James River line of steamers, at (Zity Point. Ya. While, the ; Captaih.was sitting in his chair in, a state j of profound sleep "some rascal stole out j of his mouth a fine set of artificial teeth.