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PROCEEDINGS OP THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
the streets of Paris with only one garment on, his head and feet 
bare, small loaves hung round his neck, and a large lighted wax 
candle in his hand, and at each of the principal churches and 
public places had to ask mercy and pardon of God, the King, 
and of Justice for his fault. In 171S, a man who had caused 
the death of one person, and the illness of others by the use of 
some poisonous plant in wine, and his wife who sold the wine, 
were condemned to be led by two sergeants for one day through 
the streets of Berghein, carrying sandwich boards with the words 
“ frelateurs de vin ” printed thereon, to pay a fine of 130 livres, 
and 30 livres extra “ pour faire prier Dieu pour le repos de l ame 
du defunt.” 
One novel form of wine adulteration occurred in recent 
years and is worthy of mention. A particular brand of cham- 
pagne secured a high reputation at Wurtemburg on account of 
its unusual exhilarating effects. Suspicion was at length aroused, 
and Liebig, who analysed it, found it was charged with one 
volume of Carbonic acid gas, and two volumes of laughing gas. 
I mentioned above that Archimedes did not seem to be an 
expert analyst; but the method he adopted was a great discovery 
and is still used by us. Some other tests used (even as late as 
the 16th century) for detecting adulteration have not so 
secured the admiration of posterity. Here is Dr. Blyth’s 
description of the one adopted by the ale-tasters. The ale was 
spilt on a wooden seat, and on the wet place the tasters si 
attired m leathern breeches, then common enough If sugar had 
r*T b6Came JereZ tS 
considered that the f h l ad J nofe been added > it was then 
considered that the dried extract had no adhesive property.” 
merely Tadd thtt ^ lo W but will 
was passed in ^Engloncf genera! Food and Drugs Act 
we iS Trinidad^p^tT^S* I *Ti similar Acts, and 
in 1895. P ‘ fc n lbS0 ’ and further modified it 
question of our ow n '"f^^uDDl v^ 0 V° the COnsider;i,ion of 
judge of its importance In- n?, P> T°“ wil1 better be able 
quantities of the principal imn^T f# th ? Se Tables of values t 
1-t year. To eJ!Z7 t L toH l ^ PpUes oonsun 
annual food supply you must add trwl ° t | le consu mer, of < 
merchants’ profits and the value of tbls the import duties, I 
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