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Show Arsenic In Wall P 'ffc. It is generally known th Tlirsenic enters en-ters into the coloring of nf y kinds of Cheap wall papers, and some of the better bet-ter grades also, writes W. P. Pond in The Ladies' Home Journal. These are generally gen-erally but not always of hues in which green predominates and are very injurious injuri-ous to health. The first symptoms of arsenical poisoning are headache, pains in the eyes at the back of the pupil, itching itch-ing and generally nausea of the stomach, all of which are liable to be the result of living in a room with wall paper on the walls which is impregnated with arsenic. A simple but efficient test will immediately imme-diately locate the presence of the mineral, min-eral, and every housewife should have the necessary knowledge. Take a small piece of the suspected paper and lay it in a watch glass or in a porcelain spoon. Pour over it enough solution of household house-hold ammonia to cover it, let it stand a few minutes and then drop in a piece of nitrate of silver (lunar'ofTtick caustic), and if a yellow precipitate form3 as it dissolves there is arsenic present, and the paper should be rejected. If the nitrate of silver dissolves without yellow appearing, ap-pearing, there is no arsenic, and no trouble trou-ble need be apprehended. |