All sorts of statements have been made respecting the very general adulteration of this article in England, and we fear that many of them are too true.

This is the age of fraud, imposture, substitution, transmutation, adulteration, abomination, contamination, and many others of the same sinister ending, always excepting purification.

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The most fashionable adulteration, and one even openly vaunted as economical and increasing the richness of the beverage, is with the root of the wild endive, or chicory.

Unfortunately the prime necessaries of life are the very things which lend themselves most easily to successful adulteration.

The greater complexity of trade, the larger variety of commodities, the increased specialization in production and distribution, the growth of "a science of adulteration" have immensely increased the advantage which the professional salesman possesses over the amateur customer.

But we have recently seen a work on the adulteration of tobacco, whose microscopic plates brought back our former misgivings.

Where soup is to be strained, whole pepper, mace, &c., is much preferable to ground, both as being free from adulteration, and giving all the flavour without the grit.

Read the articles in the "Edinburgh Review" on Accum's work on the adulteration of food, and Curran's Life by his Son.

When thus, by the depreciation in consequence of the quantity of paper in circulation, wages as well as prices become exorbitant, it is soon found that the whole effect of the adulteration is a tariff on our home industry for the benefit of the countries where gold and silver circulate and maintain uniformity and moderation in prices.

It is carefully tested for quality and purity and attempts at adulteration are severely punished.

Violation of the Word is adulteration of good, and falsification of truth, 517.

first, the adulteration of liquor; second, the love of drink; and third, the desire for more."

And to Adulteration round and round.

Spectrum analysis detected the adulteration of valuable compounds; the photographer recorded the exact action of the trotting horse; the telephone might convey orders from one end of an estate to the other; and thus you might go through the whole alphabet, the whole cyclopaedia of science, and apply every single branch to agriculture.

The spirit of ragtime is not confined to music: graft is the ragtime of business, the spoils system the ragtime of politics, adulteration the ragtime of manufacture.

at Metz; but, at his departure, he committed exactly the fault which was likely to do him the most harm at Paris: being in want of money for his costly trip, he subjected the coinage to a fresh adulteration, which took effect five days after his departure.

All adulteration of the coinage was stopped; the Jews were recalled for twenty years, and some securities were accorded to their industry and interests; and an edict renewed the prohibition of private wars.

Laws should be made to prohibit all adulteration of foods.

In these days of fraud and adulteration, nearly all the cheaper grades of tinware contain a greater or less amount of lead in their composition, which owing to its greater abundance and less price, is used as an adulterant of tin.

A writer in the Anti-Adulteration Journal, a short time since, speaking of the use of gelatine, says: "The nutritive value of pure gelatine has been shown to be very low in the scale of foods.

As this article is become of considerable importance from the demand, it has occasioned persons to speculate in its adulteration, which is now I believe often practised.

The action of the Government would have been independent of all corporations, and the same eye which rests unceasingly on the specie currency and guards it against adulteration would also have rested on the paper currency, to control and regulate its issues and protect it against depreciation.

Paper when substituted for specie constitutes a standard of value by which the operations of society are regulated, and whatsoever causes its depreciation affects society to an extent nearly, if not quite, equal to the adulteration of the coin.