NEW JERSEY. 



NEW TESTAMENT. 



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Constitution was in session during the year, 

 but its labors were not closed. The only State 

 officers voted for at the November election 

 were members of the Legislature. The Legis- 

 lature of 1882 is constituted as follows : Senate, 

 13 Republicans and 8 Democrats ; House, 29 

 Republicans, 29 Democrats, 1 Independent 

 Democrat, and 1 Independent Republican and 

 Anti- Monopolist. 



In 1880 Dr. Leeds was commissioned by the 

 State of New Jersey to investigate the subject 

 of adulteration, and report to the Legislature 

 for its guidance in framing laws against the 

 practice. In teas he found three forms of 

 adulteration in use. In one class of adulterated 

 samples, the smallest, there was an excess of 

 mineral substances which could not have been 

 introduced in facing or other processes of le- 

 gitimate preparation. The commonest class of 

 adulterants consisted of exhausted leaves, and 

 the next largest class of leaves of other plants. 

 Only 10 per cent of the teas examined were 

 found to be adulterated. The samples of coffee 

 testad, both whole and ground, were found to 

 be pure with few exceptions. The only adul- 

 terant was chiccory. Coffee-essence was found 

 to be composed of chiccory, with licorice and 

 caramel, and a slight proportion of coffee. Most 

 of the samples of sugar purchased at random 

 were found to be pure. The brown sugars 

 were those which most frequently contained 

 glucose. Sirups also, even the cheapest, were 

 found to be little adulterated with glucose. 

 Free sulphuric acid and lime in excess were 

 not observed in any samples. Flour was found 

 to be invariably pure. In bread the presence 

 of alum was occasionally detected. Cream of 

 tartar was extensively adulterated with sul- 

 phate of lime, acid phosphate of lime, and 

 starch. Bicarbonate of soda also contained, 

 oscasionally, sulphate of lime. Baking-pow- 

 ders are, in some factories, made only from 

 bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar, and starch ; 

 others of the manufacturers employ, partly or 

 entirely, in the place of cream of tartar, alum, 

 acid sulphate of lime, or a mixture of both these 

 salts. Condiments and spices were found to 

 be seldom pure. No injurious mineral sub- 

 stance, however, was detected in any of them. 

 Vinegar was found in many samples to contain 

 much less acetic acid than should have been 

 present. Samples sold as white- wine vinegar 

 appeared to be cider-vinegar filtered through 

 charcoal. Green pickles contained copper in 

 every instance, excepting brine-pickles and 

 those bearing the label of an English firm. 

 Canned vegetables showed traces of both tin 

 and lead derived from the cans. Skimmed and 

 watered milk was sold frequently in New Jer- 

 sey and New York, notwithstanding the strin- 

 gent enactments to prevent such practices. 

 Condensed milk was far from uniform in com- 

 position, the percentage of water varying from 

 25'5 to 59 per cent, and of fat from 3 to 11 per 

 cent. 



The following table gives the population of 



New Jersey, by counties, in the years 1880 

 and 1870 : 



NEW TESTAMENT, REVISION OF THE. 

 A revised version of the New Testament, 

 which had been prepared by committees of 

 English and American scholars acting in co- 

 operation under a resolution of the Convo- 

 cation of Canterbury, was published in May. 

 The efforts of which this work is the result 

 began in 1856, when several movements were 

 made in favor of a revision of the authorized 

 version of the Scriptures. Resolutions were 

 offered in the Convocation of Canterbury and 

 in the House of Commons, praying for the ap- 

 pointment of a royal commission for the pur- 

 pose, but no public action was taken in the 

 matter at that time. In the same year, how- 

 ever, five scholars the Rev. Henry Alford, 

 afterward Dean of Canterbury; the Rev. 

 John Barrow, D. D.; the Rev. C. J. Ellicott, 

 D. D., now Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol ; 

 the Rev. W. H. Humphry ; and the Rev. G- 

 Moberly, D. C. L., now Bishop of Salisbury 

 on the invitation of the Society for the Propa- 

 gation of the Gospel, undertook a revision of 

 the Gospel of St. John. That work was pub- 

 lished in the next year, and was followed in . 

 course by revisions of the Epistles to the 

 Romans, Corinthians, Galatian?, and Ephesians. 

 The work was favorably received, and the 

 hope was encouraged that a sober and conserv- 

 ative revision of the Scriptures might in due 

 time be undertaken, under the same principles 

 of the co-operation of independent minds and 

 corporate and collegiate discussion as had 

 directed its execution. The next movement 

 toward a revision was made in 1870, when, on 

 motion of the Bishop of Winchester, a com- 

 mittee was appointed in the Convocation of 

 Canterbury to confer with a committee of the 

 Convocation of York, and report upon the 

 desirableness of a revision of the authorized 

 version of the Old and New Testaments, 

 " whether by marginal notes or otherwise, in 

 all those passages where plain and clear errors, 

 whether in the Greek text originally adopted 



