CHLORAL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 110, 15 February 1872, Page 3

CHLORAL.

The great chloral mystery is solved at last, and we know why and how it is tlial hundreds of tons of this deadly drug are sold every year, it does not—as we in our ignorance suggested—find its way into our beer ; nor is it—as the Hpcckitor suggested—used by ladies as a secret I stimulant. It is—tluj Spectator will be shocked and grieved to bear—largely used ; for secret-poisoning, for which purpose it | is especially adapted, as il can be easily administered. produces no suspicious symptoms, and defies nmdy.-is. 'The correspondent who forwards e- this strolling information addr, that “ Wi by the aid of the drug, rid themselves of obnoxious husbands, girls of ilie period of faithless lovers, and maid-servants of oppressive masters and mistresses. The horrible poison is to be found in thousands i of feminine pockets and riticules, ready : for use at- a minute’s notice, and chloral is likely soon to win as evil a fame as in times gone by did ‘aqua tofl’ana’” Our , correspondent Iras made a mistake in sendi ing this sensational discovery to us. lie j might, with perfect assurance that bis j satire would not have been detected, have

forwarded it directly to the journal which lately discovered that the conflagration of Chicago \?as caused by fire from heaven, assisted by an aerial current. This ingenious hypothesis altogether upsets the gravity of the New York Herald, which pertinently, if profanely, asks why Chicago, of all cities, should have been singled out to share (he fate of Sodom.— Echo.