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Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 13 November 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

FEATS OF CLEVER CHEMISTS.

Two remarkable instances in which; the chomi.-t's laboratory has rupplanteil the farmer and the field are worth mentioning. Tliere. was a time when India produced large quantities of indigo every year 011 plantations. The planters were warned that over in Germany chemists were at work making indigo, but they only laughed. Then the announcement camo that synthetic indigo, made in the laboratory, was a commercial success. It was absolutely thesame as the natural indigo, only, if anything, a little bit purer. Now India 110 longer supplies the world with indigo. A German laboratory makes the whole supply, and even India buys in Germany. There wag a time when large areas hi France were devote;! to the cultivation of in adder root, from which the red dyo alizarine was made. Again a German chemist improved upon Nature and made artificial alizarine at a cost of less thai! one-third that of the natural product. It wasn't an inferior imitation; it was the roa! thing. Now Germany .supplies the world with alizarine The only red cloth you will see- to-day that is dyed with tho natural dye is in the trousers of the French gendarme. And this is purely tor, sentimental reasons. Tho French Government maintains a farm and grows a few acres of madder, that the French army need not be dependent upon its old enemy, Germany, for anything it uses. "PERSPIRE" DIDN'T EXPRESS IT. They have been telling this story in the Grenadiers so long that it is regarded now as a classic. "Majah," announced tho colonel, "I'll bet I've sweat no fewer than seventeen gallons" ''Begging your pardon, kunnel," returned the major, desisting from a long libation, "gentlemen don't sweat; they perspire. Hosses sweat." ''Well, then," returned the now irritated colonel, glaring at the calm and contented critic of his diction, "by gad, snh 3 I'm a boss!"