filter. Small glass filters for the table can now be obtained in every town for two or three shillings.
Good Ware Makes a Quick Market.
2759. Other Evils besides "Adulterations"
The butcher cannot adulterate the beef and the mutton, but he can send home
short weight;
and in casting up a bill, he can reckon the odd ounces at one penny each, instead of one halfpenny; and the baker, besides putting alum into the bread, to make it white and retain water, can send home deficient weight; the same with the grocer, the greengrocer, and the coal merchant; the publican can give short measure, and froth up the porter to fill the jug and disguise the shortness of quantity; and the draper can slip his scissors on the wrong side of his finger, and make a yard contain only thirty-three inches. We don't mean to say that they
do
this, nor do we mean to say that they
don't.