EVICTION POWDER.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3846, 27 April 1881, Page 2

EVICTION POWDER.

According to St. James.Gazette, • French chemist asserts that he has concocted a substance by means of which tenants, in Ireland or elsewhere, who will not pay their rents may be evicted without the expenses attendant on legal proceed* ings. The mixture is in the form of a powder. A small quantity of it sprinkled before .sunrise on parts of the land adjacent to the tenant's dwelling will render it absolutely impossible for any human being to remain within half a mile of the spot where the sprinkling has taken place, foe at least seven days, when the processy should, if necessary, be repeated. 'Th* effect of the powder is to produce vioktiju.;, nausea and other feelings oflO uncomfortable a kind as to be quite unbearable. It is, however, not dangerous" / , to life, and produces no injurious effects ' on cattle* Under arrangements the - • inventor is making, Irish landlords will scon be able to buy the powder at any respectable chemist's shop in Dublin at a reasonable price. Land Leaguers will, he thinks, also find it useful for the purpose of getting rid of obnoxious agents. If used impartially and in sufficient quantities it might, indeed, secure some very striking and unexpected results. • ■