IN'OSIT (from Gk.'Is, t.c, fibre), 21lt). A compound of carbon, hydrogen. and oxygen, extensively- fond in vegetables and spar ingly in tine muscles, lungs, kidneys. spleen, liver, and brain of nnan. It may he prepared by ex tracting unripe beans with water, boiling the extract with some acetic acid, filtering, adding normal lead acetate to time filtruto. again filtering, adding some ammonia and has it' had acetate to this second filtrate, separating the precipitate thus produced and dissolving it im uqueous sul phuretcd hydrogen, and tinally mixing the sul pinnreted-hydrogen solution with alcohol and ether: the inosit is then obtained in crystalline form. viz. in the form of large rhombic tables. The eonpositiau (C,II„O,) and the sweet taste of inosit led chemists to mistake it for a form of sugar: it has, however. lit-en shown to he a derivative of benzene. C„ I-1,. The presence of iuosit in a substance suhmit ted for exa miuuat ion may be detected by mixing a small amount of the given substance with a little nitric acid. evapo rating to dryness in a platimun erneible. and treating the residue with ammonia and a little strontium acetate. The presentee of inosit is thus revealed by the formation of a Violet pre cipitate amtd a m:reenish coloration. Unlike the sugars, inosit does not undergo alcoholic fer mentation, no' is it probably enpable of under going lactic fermentation in the presence of de caying cheese.
INOUYE, y:i', KAORr (1 R3f1—) . A Japanese ctatesnnan, horn in ('hilshiu. \\'ith his friend ito (qx.) he went to Europe, and studied two years in London. He returned in time to prevent his clansmen from lighting the allied squadrons at Shimonoseki oi.v.) in 18134. Ills progressive spirit and loyalty to the Emperor (drew upon him the wrath of reactionary assas sins, N‘lio wounded him with their swords and left him for dead on the snow. Ile recovered, however, and subsequently was made viee•minis ter of the Treasury in Tokio, in which position he Was inlillential ill having the chi•f thoroughfare of the city rebuilt in brick after the great lire of 1s72. Ile was a member of the council of State, Minister of Public Works. and for seven years Minister of Foreign Affairs. State papers hate hail great weight and influence. In ISS5 he was made count. and in 1A92 Minister of the Interior. Atter the war with China he was sent to Korea to inaugurate reforms, lint his splendid programme Was marred during his tem porary absence by the riotous iliVaS1011 of the pal ace by Japanese ruffians, in which the Korean Queen Min was assassinated.