UNIVERSAL ADULTERATION.
Turn a total abstainer—drink water, tea, coffee, and gingcrbeer. j f ear ( a correspondent says), if I do so I only jump out of thefryingpan into the fire. Pure water is rare ; it is contaminated many ways : boys bathe in it, poodles are washed in it, cats terminate in it a too lively career, all that is horrible is drained into it, and then there are the lead pipes. Take milk : Of fifteen samples examined, only three were found to be perfectly genuine. Ah ! there's the cup that cheers but not inebriates. Well, I must own that there are times when nothing is pleasanter than a good cup of tea; but where am I to get it ? A writer in the "Food Journal" says, of thirtyfive samples of London tea submitted to him for examination, sixteen were highly adulterated, and many of them unfit for human consumption. Chocolate, which is described as meat and drink is adulterated with flour, potatostarch, sugar, coacoanut oil, lard, tallow, mutton suet, ochre, chalk, old sea biscuit, and bran. Beautiful drink it must be ! London Paper.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 938, 7 March 1872, Page 2
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183UNIVERSAL ADULTERATION. Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 938, 7 March 1872, Page 2
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