1897 THE MICROSCOPE. al 
Lard Adulteration.—Purity is desirable in all things, 
but demanded in articles of food, and yet, in the one article 
lard, adulteration has been carried to an extent that is ap- 
palling. The following extracts clipped from daily papers 
will give some idea of the facts. 
New York Commercial Bulletin: 
‘““An expert examined and reported upon a sample of 
Western Refined Lard the other day, which he said did 
not contain a pound of hog fat, but consisted of tallow, 
grease, cotton seed oil and oleo stearine.”’ 
Also, same paper: 
‘“We havea law in this State against the sale of Oleo- 
margarine for Butter, yet that, and cheaper articles, are 
put in Refined Lard, as made in Chicago, and at other west- 
ern cities, and sold for pure Lard to and by the grocers of 
the city. How is it the Chicago mixers will sell the so- 
called Refined Lard a quarter of a cent under price of raw, 
crude Lard, when refiners will admit that it costs a half. 
cent per pound to refine it, thus showing undoubted adul- 
teration on a scale that should attract the attention of the 
health authorities ?”’ 
Gum Thus.—We are informed by Mr. Lewis Woolman 
that gum thus is nothing in the world but lumps of white 
turpentine which any druggist can pick out of his stock 
for you. Simply cull the white lumps. 
The subscribers of this magazine can obtain the Colum- 
bia Calendar for 1897 by addressing five two cent stamps 
to the Calendar department of the Pope Manufacturing 
Company of Hartford, Conn. 
The German Emperor has conferred a decoration on M, 
Roux, for his discoveries in relation to the antitoxin of 
diphtheria. M. Roux has accepted the honor. His mas- 
ter, Pasteur, refused the German order of merit, declar- 
ing that he could never forget 1870. 
Dr. Luys, of the Salpetriere Hospital Paris, has pre- 
sented the Faculty of Medicine with his collection of twenty- 
two-hundred brains, carefully prepared and catalogued. 
