A Sugar Revolution.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1873

A Sugar Revolution.—

An invention which threatens to interfere greatly with our commerce is reported from Paris, and if it proves a success, it will probably have the effect of causing an entire revolution among the southern planters.

This new discovery is a method of making sugar by uniting into a compound its constituent atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The inventor, M. Jouglet, says that the cost of production will be 50 cents per cwt., and he has already so far succeeded in establishing the utility of his invention that a company of manufacturers have been persuaded to purchase it from him for the comparatively moderate sum of $40,000. What the sugar planters and refiners will do if this discovery turns out to be as important as it promises, remains to be seen; but there is no doubt that if it is only partially successful, strange developments may be expected. The invention is said to be very simple, and one easily explained, and endless quantities of saccharine substance can, it is claimed, be manufactured by this new process in so short a time and at so small a cost as to preclude the possibility of competition.—N. Y. World.