“They are all very good,” the vender tells you; he takes his plain, however. You see how much cheaper these are than the real fruit syrup itself; and as neither you nor I can tell the difference by taste, what inducement has the dealer in soda water to use the costlier articles?

I have a friend who sells the “pure syrups,” and I presume the reader has also; but I respectfully decline drinking soda water with “pure fruit syrups.”

POISONOUS HAIR TONICS AND COSMETICS.

Extract from the report of Professor C. F. Chandler, Ph. D., chemist to the Metropolitan Board of Health. This report, which presents the results of the examination of a few of the articles in general use, was printed in full in the Chemical News (American reprint) for May, 1870. We present the following list of dangerous preparations, which gives the number of grains of lead, etc., in one fluid ounce.

I. Hair Tonics, Washes, and Restoratives.

Grains of lead in
one fluid ounce.
1.Clark’s Distilled Restorative for the Hair, 0.11
2.Chevalier’s Life for the Hair, 1.02
3.Circassian Hair Rejuvenator, 2.71
4.Ayer’s Hair Vigor, 2.89
5.Professor Wood’s Hair Restorative, 3.08
6.Dr. J. J. O’Brien’s Hair Restorer, America, 3.28
7.Gray’s Celebrated Hair Restorative, 3.39
8.Phalon’s Vitalia, 4.69
9.Ring’s Vegetable Ambrosia, 5.00
10.Mrs. S. A. Allen’s World’s Hair Restorer, 5.57
11.L. Knittel’s Indian Hair Tonique, 6.29
12.Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer, 7.13
13.Dr. Tebbet’s Physiological Hair Regenerator, 7.44
14.Martha Washington Hair Restorative, 9.80
15.Singer’s Hair Restorative, 16.39

II. Lotions or Washes for the Complexion.

Perry’s Moth and Freckle Lotion.

Mercury in solution,2.67gr.}equiv. to{Corrosive Sub.,3.61gr.
Zinc in solution,0.99"Sulphate of Zinc,4.25"

The sediment contains mercury, lead, and bismuth.