| Show HINT FOR TEA DRINKERS tiie tire london spee epee spectator fator has been giving some not ve very veny ry encouraging information to choso who indulge in tea as a beverage that paper asserts that the honest chinese have da covered that tea leaves mixed with dung tiling iron filing filings and other substances all powdered nine line suit the E english n lish market and are aie sending compounds othis sort over in hu huge hue t e masses 11 apart from tile tiie bad bid policy of depending P upon a foreign nation matton for tor an article which I 1 is s made I 1 a thing of st aple staple consumption in almost every household the abeba Inform information atlon will not 90 be very conducive to the peace ence enco of mind of inveterate tea kickers gin Kin drinkers kers here is another extract with a little more detail those who delt delf delight in tea and rancy fancy that they are aro getting a chelp and healthful bc beverage vili viii will vill bot not bo be pleased to learn learh that of twenty samples lately analyzed in london nineteen were found to be ad adulterated alberat they were faced with plum plumbago hago haxo i au and contained what the chinese may properly call jie jle tea that thai tha la is the leates leavea of other plants blants lants worked up so as to resemble tea phe the khe the iron filings discovered varied from to per cent of the tea the bind sand from to ig 12 83 and the tho ash oi of the UP lie tea lea from 1305 to no less than 52 02 per cent rent in place of about 5 per cent present in genuine green extractive matter of genuine tea la Is about 40 per cent that of the adulterated teas ranged from to the theine one of the principal constituents of tea present in green tea lea in th the e proportion of about 3 pere pefe percent per pen cent ent was id in nearly a all ail I 1 cases deficient and in one instance aa low as per cent pounds as thee these may be suited t to the stomachs of ostriches but they ard are are scarcely compatible with the good health of hum human consumers |
