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Show MONOPOLY LOST BY GERMANY American Chemists Are Now Producing Produc-ing the Rare Sugars Required for Scientific Purposes. Not least among the triumphs of the new American chemical Industry has been lhepiodurtlou of the rare sugars, so long a Uciimin monopoly. The sugars were culled for by the sniull hospitals, as they are rcqulicd tn small amount In bacteriological laboratories one of them, ror In-stiinre, In-stiinre, being the most sensitive stlm-nleat stlm-nleat of l.vphold growth, while others oth-ers Mrvo In the detection or cholera germ. The lullnlte care necessary to piepiire them In a state or absolute purlt) makes their cost seemingly enormous. Tl mst expensive lure sugar i-alalogued Is .tnted by Drug and I'lieinlcnl Slaikets io he dnlcltol, at S.'!7.i a pound, while manuose Is worth $110 a pound. Tills Is a delicate deli-cate and delicious sweet derived from manna, which Is seeieled hi thin scales from certain iiees and shrubs, nnd wlib wliMi the children or Isuu-I were pilruculmislv fed during their wander jn; In the wilderness. Xjlose, quoted if t.$rj(i n pound. Is miide from tho corn qoh; Inullu Is obtained from the bulb-or bulb-or lho dahlia nt certain seasons of tho year. Other rare sugars are nrlbl-pose, nrlbl-pose, nt 5100 nt pound; levulose. HgO a pound, and ralllnose. y.7." n pound. |