"All lyddite shells are equipped with percussion nose fuses only; hence their explosion takes place on impact in the following fashion: The percussion fuse ignites a picric powder exploder, which in turn ignites the bursting charge of lyddite, the detonation of the fuse and of the two explosives inside the shell being instantaneous. The picric powder exploder, we should add, is inserted in a recess left in the lyddite for that purpose. Lyddite shell is to some extent less barbarous than shrapnel exploded by powder, for, though widespread, its death-dealing effects are due more to air concussion than to the wounding effects of the flying fragments. In other words, in the case of a lyddite shell bursting in a group of men, the greater number will be killed, not by pieces of the shell but by the blow of the suddenly compressed air."

Drying and Non-Drying Oils (15).-Strictly speaking, there is no essential difference between the drying and non-drying oils, says the Oil and Colourman's Journal, for all fatty substances, when exposed to air, are attacked by oxygen and consequently "dry." A certain number of them, as we know, especially amongst the vegetable oils, become transformed during the process into a solid, dry, elastic substance, to which Mulder assigned the name of "linoxyn." And these are the oils to which are commonly given the name of "drying oil." Linseed oil is a typical oil of this class. A. Livache, who has recently been giving this matter some attention, finds that non-drying oils, such as colza and olive oil, exhibit the same properties when they are kept at a sufficiently high temperature (120 degrees-160 degrees Centigrade), even if they have not been treated previously with litharge or borate of manganese. Similar results are also obtained with solid animal fats, such as mixtures of stearin and margarine. It would seem, therefore, that the distinction between drying and non-drying oils is only admissible on the understanding that the oxidation is only carried on at the ordinary temperature. Livache's experiments show that all fatty substances, without exception, whether of vegetable or animal origin, can be transformed into an elastic product similar to that obtained from the so-called drying oils, provided that they are exposed to a suitable temperature. The transformation may be slow or rapid, according to the temperature used and the previous treatment to which the oils have been subjected; but the final product remains solid even at a high temperature, and in transparency, elasticity, and chemical properties it appears to be identical with Mulder's "linoxyn."

Hectograph Pads and Inks (16).—“How can I make a pad for duplicating writing, drawings, etc., and what kind of ink can be used?"

Hectograph copying pads should be made somewhat softer for winter use than for summer, which can be done by adding a little proportion of glycerin. Good glue.. 4 ounces avoirdupois.

Glycerin..

Water.....

.16 ounces avoirdupois.

8 fluid ounces.

hours, then heat by water both until melted, and add the glycerin and heat together for some time to evaporate part of the water; then strain into a shallow square tin to make the desired shape, and skin with a card to free from bubbles. This is improved by adding one ounce carbonate barium to the liquid while warm. The writing to be copied is done with hectograph ink, and transferred to the pad. Sheets of paper are then put on and copies made.

Cleaning Hectograph Pads.-Write on good paper, with a clean pen, allowing the hectograph ink to dry without using blotters; moisten the pad with clean water and dry well with newspaper, then place the writing face downward on the pad and rub gently to insure thorough contact at every point. Let it remain on the pad from two to five minutes, according to the number of impressions wanted, and then remove it carefully; copies are then taken by pressing dry sheets of paper on the pad over the reversed writing and removing them instantly. In this way from fifty to one hundred copies can be made. The operation should be carried out with as little interruption as possible. After using the pad in this manner, remove the ink from the surface immediately with a soft sponge and warm water, drying it well. It will then be ready for another operation. A hectograph pad may be used a great many times, if properly manipulated.

Hectographic Prints.-The New Idea states that the distinctness and sharpness of hectographic prints may be very materially heightened by wetting the paper upon which the prints are to be made with alcohol and removing the excess of the alcohol by blotting paper.

Hectograph Inks.-Fenner's Complete Formulary has the following to say on the subject:

Chromographor Hectograph Inks.-These inks are designed to be used on the hectograph or copying pad, by which a hundred or more copies or duplicates may be made from one writing.

Black, Blue, Red and Violet may be made in the same manner, but the violet is most used, because a much larger number of clear copies may be made from it. The formula is as follows: Violet (or other) anilin, one-half ounce avoirdupois; alcohol, one-half fluid ounce; white sugar, one-quarter ounce avoirdupois; glycerin, one ounce avoirdupois; water, six fluid ounces. Mix the anilin with the alcohol, add the glycerin, dissolve the sugar in the water and add. Of black anilin or negrosine, double the quantity is required.

Cloves. Two crops a year it yields-one in June, the other in December. Hot seasons with but little rain are prayed for by the natives who depend upon the clove crop, but the gift of a little fog each day is invoked by them, for fog is said to improve the flavor of cloves to a great degree.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

Any book reviewed in this Department may be obtained upon receipt of price at the office of the MEYER BROTHERS Druggist.

"Cacao in Samoa" is the title of a very interesting and instructive article appearing in the advance sheets of the Consular Reports. Free copies can be obtained by addressing the Bureau of Foreign Reports, Department of State, Washington, D. C.

A Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry.-By Elbert W. Rockwood, B. S., M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the University of Iowa. Illustrated with one colored

plate and three plates of microscopic preparations. 5%x7 inches. Pages viii-204. Extra cloth, $1.00, net. Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street. This is a useful volume for medical and pharmacy students.

Warner's Pocket Medical Dictionary of to-day, comprising pronunciation and definition of 10,000 essential words and terms used in medicine and associated sciences and tables of arteries, nerves, muscles, etc., arranged for convenient reference, by Wm. R. Warner; price, 75 cents. Copyright: Wm. R. Warner & Co., Philadelphia, 1898.

"Recent Foraminifera” is the title of a very interesting and profusely illustrated article on the subject from the pen of Dr. Flint. It is published by the Smithsonian Institute, and a limited number of copies are for public distribution. Those of our readers working in microscopy and interested in this subject should apply to Mr. F. W. True, executive curator, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C., for a copy. These limited editions of public documents are soon exhausted, so those who are tardy in making requests are likely to be disappointed.

A System of Instruction in Qualitative Analysis, by Arthur H. Elliott, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Physics in the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, and George A. Ferguson, Ph. B., Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Laboratory in the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. Third edition, revised and enlarged. New York City: Published by the authors, 117 Cham. bers Street, 1899. For sale by the authors at 115 West Sixtyeighth Street, New York City. Price, $1.50.

This practical book for both teachers and students meets with a demand justifying a third edition. We are pleased to note several improvements in the volume just at hand.

Progressive Medicine, Volume IV.-A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 398 pages, 51 engravings and 5 plates. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co.

This is a most excellent work for pharmacists to select when seeking a New Year's remembrance for a medical friend. The articles may be considered as original contributions of a very practical character, in which the chaff has been winnowed from the grain and the material prepared for easy assimilation and quick application.

EXAMINATION QUESTIONS.

North Dakota Board of Pharmacy.

1. What is meant by an Element?

2. Define Chemical Analysis; Synthesis.

3. What is the difference between a Physical and a Chemical change?

4. What do you understand by an Organic and an Inorganic substance?

5. How do you manufacture and collect Hydrogen, Oxygen and Chlorine?

6. From what is Cream of Tartar obtained? Give process and official name.

7. How do you obtain Blue Vitriol? Give official name and equation of reaction.

8. Give process for making Green Vitriol? Give official name and equation of reaction.

9. What chemical change takes place in making Liquor Potasii Arsenitis? What per cent of Arsenious Acid does it contain, and give dose?

10 Give source and process of obtaining Acetic Acid; Carbolic Acid.

Materia Medica and Botany.-1. Give habitat and medical properties of (a) Senna; (b) Buchu; (c) Uva Ursi; (d) Belladonna; (e) Valerian; (f) Colocynth; (g) Damiana; (h) Camphor. 2. What is Ergot? State its constituents and officinal preparations.

3. What alkaloids are obtained from the following drugs, and give dose of each: (a) Blood Root; (b) Golden Seal; (e) Ipecac; (d) Jaborandi; (e) Nux Vomica.

4. Give Latin or officinal names of the following: (a) Blue Ointment; (b) Wild Cherry; (c) Epsom Salts; (d) Blue Pill; (e) Seidlitz Powder; (f) Charcoal; (g) Cod Liver Oil; (h) Castor Oil; (i) Black Haw; (j) Lead Plaster.

5. What is the best menstruum for extracting the medicinal virtue of each of the following drugs: Capsicum, Cantharides, Cascara Sagrada, Aconite, Senna, Ginger, Nux Vomica, Cubebs, Ergot, Licorice.

6. Camphor.-What is it and how obtained? What plant yields Camphor? To what country is it indigenous?

7. Calabar Bean.-What is the botanical name? Name two principal alkaloids. What is the action on the pupil of the eye? What alkaloid has the opposite action on the pupil of the eye? 8. (a) What are Stamens? (b) What is Pollen? (c) What is a Rhizome? (d) What is a Petal?

9. Define Stigma and mention a drug that the Pharmacopoeia directs shall be composed of Stigmas.

10. Give dose and antidote: (a) Tr. Aconite; (b) Sulphate Morphia; (c) Acid Carbolic; (d) Silver Nitrate; (e) Fl. Ex. Ergot; (f) Corrosive Sublimate; (g) Iodine.

Pharmacy.-1. Give the official name for Seidlitz Powdersquantity of each ingredient required for one powder, and state what change takes place on mixing a solution of the two powders.

2. Give the percentage of Quinine in Cinchona Bark, and of Morphine in Opium, required by the U. S. P.

3. What is the official name of Prussic Acid? From what is it obtained and what is the percentage of absolute acid in the official preparation?

4. Give official name for (a) Brown Mixture; (b) Donovan's Solution; (c) Dover's Powder; (d) Basham's Mixtures; (e) Monsell's Solution; (f) Litharge; (g) Pyrogallic Acid.

5. Give English name for (a) Anthemis Nobilis; (b) Eupatorium Perfoliatum; (c) Euonymus; (d) Aqua Hydrogenii Dioxidi; (e) Mentha Viridis; (f) Myristica; (g) Physostigma.

6. From what is Pepsin obtained? How much Albumen must one part of Pepsin digest to comply with the U. S. P.?

7. How and of what strength are "Triturations" prepared? 8. What are the ingredients in (a) Collodion; (b) Syr Ferri Iodide; (c) Tinct, Gent. Comp.; (d) Syr. Pruni. Virg.; (e) Pulv. Ipecac Comp.; (f) Pil. Cath. Comp.

9. What is the dose of (a) Antipyrine; (b) Salol; (c) Sulfonal; (d) Strychnine; (e) Ammon. Valer.; (f) Potass. Carb.; (g) Hydrarg. Amm. Chlor.?

10. Give equivalent in Apothecaries' weight or measure of: One Litre, one Metre, 1 Cc., .5 15. 1.3

MISSOURI DEPARTMENT.

A Missouri Veteran Pharmacist.-Mr. W. H. Sloan, of Mt. Vernon, was born in Bloomfield, Davis

Co., Ia., in 1852. He came to Mt. Vernon thirty-three years ago, at which time his father opened a drug store in the place. Mr. Sloan was raised in the store, and bought his father out twenty-five years ago. He has been located in the same place all of these years, although he built a brick store 10 years ago. Mr. Sloan's son is a student in the Northwestern University, and went into the business with his father. A branch store at Stotts City, Mo., is also owned by Mr. Sloan, who is looked upon as one of the most substantial business men and worthy citizens of that section of Missouri.

W. H. SLOAN.

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Missouri Board of Pharmacy Correspondence.We have from time to time published some of the letters received by the Missouri Board, in order to give the pharmacists of the State a better idea of the Here is problem confronting that body in its work. one from a "dealer in drugs, paints, wall paper, oils, stationery, school supplies of all kinds, prescriptions a speciality.". It is only justice to state that the author of the communication crossed off the letterhead "all kinds of prescriptions a speciality" before mailing it to the board.

, Mo., 11-21-1899.

Mr A T fleischmann & Honerable Secy. Sedalia Mo Dear Sur your letter of 16 inst at Hand & contents Noted will say in Regard to saim that if I am Not complying with the law in Every Respect as near as a man could that is My Ententian to Do so I am positivly keeping No Liquors of No kind & am Not Doing No prescription Business in No way Nor Neither am I seling Enny Poisnous Drug or Medicin Nor I am Not Buying Enny of the above Drugs for Enny Body thair is one thing that I will say Before you as I Did My county atturney & that is I Have some poison & prescription goods that was Hear when I Discontinued the prescription Business that I am leaving just set on My shelves & am trying to close them out to sum one that Does Have A Rite to Handle them if this is A violation I am gilty But My Reasons for this is to keep them up whair those that Mite want the stock can see what the stock consists of & if you say for Me to gather them & Box them I will Do so at once I was over yesterday to see the county atturney yesterday & He sed for Me to Drop you few lines in Regard to this Matter & I will Refur you to Enny unpredugis purson Man or womin in this section as to whather I Hav Not Bin a Man that was willing to comply with the Laws of the state & conducted My Business this way as Near as Enny Man could you can Refur to county at urney as to His judgement as to what My History in Business H s Bin as to class of drugs I Hav Bin Buying & Handling H ping this will Be satisfactory to you for your information gi en you aganst Me as I cannot afford to get in to trouble with None & if Enny information you can give Me I will gladly ex ept thanking you for Notifying Me of this Matter & cincerely Hope that I Hav Dun Nothing to cause Me Enny trouble I remain as ever

PS My stock consists of jeneral Line of patent Medicins & undries jewelry jewelrs Bench & My wife also Runs A Line of

Milinery in part of store Building & Both of us working Hard to Make support for ourselves & 6 children & we Need our Dolars & cents

Hoping this letter will Not tier your patience

Respectfuly

Secretary A. T. Fleischmann says this is another specimen letter:

To the Secretary

of the State borde of Pharmacy

Mo 11-18-99

Dear Sir I beg Leaf To intend a few lines of enquiry for Your Attention.

As it is quite expensive to come to St Louis Mo I wish to enquire of Your honor if thire isent-Some proceedings that-y ou could addopt-to give me an examination here and save me somuch expense, which I'll very much appreciate. if your honor pleases I donot purpose to dictate to my superiours. However it semes as such could be. As I, have bin informed the exam enation is writen. I can give eny reference might be reasonably required, from Doctors and Leagal officials Both. I have bin in I tended 2 practice 23 years & Handled drugs all the time. courses of Lecturies in St Louis Medical in 18- and graduated at Jopplin in 18-I regeristard in 18- Allso I have my regeristard recipt-and diploma allso and have Bin in A. successful practice all the while. of which I can fourd you eny eviden ce you reasonably desire. and would Like to here from you as early as convient-for which I'll be ever somuch oblyge &

Hopinge to her soon

I. am your fraternal friend

Dr

I'll state all questions in Case I. regerestard in 18- for practice & pharmacy Both & some time in Last-Year have Lost my Drug Surtificet-But have my other

Substitute for Celluloid.-Consul Liefeld writes from Freiburg, September 23, 1899:

"In London, a new substance has been produced by the boiling of untanned leather in oil, which has first of all the property of being a good electrical insulator, but beside this can be used for manifold purposes.

"This new material, to which the inventor has given the name "marloid," can be polished on both sides, and in its structure resembles horn, and can be pressed or worked into any form whatsoever, either directly after the boiling process or later, after the hardened hide has been made soft and elastic, by being dipped into a salt or alum bath. The boiling process lasts from one to ten minutes, depending on the quality of the leather.

"By means of polishing, this material can be made almost transparent, and it can also be given different degrees of hardness, so that a substance is obtained which can be kneaded, embossed, stamped, pressed, drawn, and twisted into any desired shape, style, or design.

"From this description, it is evident that out of marloid any and all articles can be manufactured which up to this time have been made from celluloid, horn, or similar material."

Family Convenience. "My daughter was once engaged to a plumber."

"But she didn't marry him?"

"No; we broke it off. A druggist will do just as well, and it is so nice to have a soda fountain in the family."-[Detroit Free Press.

N. A. R. D. NOTES.

B. L. Stone, of Belpre, Ohio, contributed $1.00 to the N. A. R. D.

The Vermilion County (Danville, Ill.) Druggists' Association has paid its dues.

The Dentacura Co., of Newark, N. J., has reduced the price of its preparations to $2.00.

All Changes in the officers of associations should be reported to the national secretary without delay.

Oklahoma Pharmacists individually and collectively support the N. A. R. D.-so says F. M. Weaver, of Oklahoma City.

The Louisville druggists will individually and collectively stand behind the national executive committee-so says Gordon C. Curry.

The Internal Revenue tax on medicine is being considered by a committee of the national association, which will ask Congress to repeal same.

The Mahoning Valley (Ohio) Pharmaceutical AsThe sociation has donated $9.12 to the N. A. R. D. Bartholomew County (Ohio) Association sends $1.52. The New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association has paid dues for 332 members. John C. Gallagher, W. R. Laird and James Foulke, of Jersey City, represented the organization at Cincinnati.

The Pabst Brewing Co. send $79.04 to the national secretary for the benefit of the N. A. R. D. This was the amount due on the Best Tonic orders taken under the manufacturers' special offer for October.

The Anderson County (Garnett, Kan.) Association has affiliated with the N. A. R. D. N. H. Seiler is president, A. T. Holcomb, vice-president, W. J. Lane, secretary, and W. H. McGrew, treasurer.

The Philadelphia Association of Retail Druggists has the following new officers: President, Wm. McIntyre; first vice-president, W. H. Poley; second vice-president, A. Hock; treasurer, Dr. E. R. Smiley; secretary, W. A. Rumsey. The dues have been increased to $2.00, payable semi-annually in advance.

Warner Recognizes the N. A. R. D.-Among the prominent firms whose prices have lately been reduced is the Warner Safe Cure Co., of Rochester, N. Y., some of whose prices are now less than the St. Louis schedule adopted by the N. A. R. D., and all of them allow a profit of at least fifty per cent to the retailer. Hilton in Line.-By a very satisfactory arrangement between the Chicago Retail Druggists' Association and a firm of manufacturers who have long advocated active co-operation between manufacturers and retailers, the price of Dr. Hilton's Specific No. 3 is to be reduced to $4.00 a dozen. This brings a well-known concern in line with the national association, and all concerned are to be congratulated.

"Massachusetts Association joins unanimously. -F. E. Holliday." It will be remembered that this organization, at its annual meeting, referred the matter of affiliation with the N. A. R. D. to its member

ship, the preference of the members to be transmitted by postal card to the secretary. The number of answers received was so small that the executive committee of the association was in doubt as to the real attitude of the membership toward the project, and a called meeting of the organization has just been held in order to ascertian. The results are very gratifying to the officers and the national executive committee. The Evansville (Ind.) Pharmaceutical Association. This society was represented at the Cincinnati convention by Mr. F. H. Burton, whom many of the delegates will remember with pleasure. The organization represents about four-fifths of the drug trade of Evansville, and is in a prosperous condition.

F. H. BURTON.

The Chattanooga (Tenn.) branch of the N. A. R. D. is one of the last associa tions admitted to membership. Of this organization C. M. Greve is president, W. T. Plumb, secretary, and B. J. Miller, treasurer. Judging by the way the new society has gone to work, its members are likely to rid themselves within a short time of the obstacles in the way of their financial success. With the aid of the national organization there is little doubt that before long this task can be accomplished.

Good Results Require Money. The following extract from a letter of an officer of the N. A. R. D. to the secretary of a State association will be of interest to those members who are concerned about the important matter of providing funds for the prosecution of the work. It will be conceded that what is here written is characterized by good sense, and that the sooner the drug trade comes to look in a sensible way upon the question of financial support of the cause so vital to their welfare, the better for all concerned:

"The assessment for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1900, will be fifty cents per capita, in accordance with the wishes of the national association expressed at its recent Cincinnati convention. You will thus see that you have thirteen months in which to pay the fifty cents tax upon your membership for next year. It is regretted that the retail drug trade have been in the habit of contributing so small an amount to their associations that they are unable to see that this pittance is wholly inadequate to the needs of two organizations, one of which intends to do everything that human agency can do to remove the bad conditions that are pauperizing the members of a noble calling. The matter of contributing money to a deserving cause is a matter of education, and it seems to the writer that in your association you will be compelled to adopt the tactics we are employing in the West, namely, that of bringing the members of State and local societies to a full appreciation of the fact that, if they want thoroughly effective work done, it will be necessary for them to go down in their pockets and provide the funds. This will be a somewhat difficult task to accomplish, perhaps, but the salvation of the retail trade lies in their uniting not only their contributions of influence but their contributions of money to create a powerful agency for the righting of their wrongs and the prevention of the imposition of other wrongs in the future."

TRADE TOPICS.

Quinine.-The world's consumption of quinine is estimated at 12,000,000 ounces per annum.

Steel Wool is a new article on the market, which is used in the place of sand paper. The manufacturers claim it is cheaper and far superior to the old and popular sand paper.

Have Courage.-A trade paper says: "Lack of courage is one of the commonest reasons for failures in advertising." Probably that is true, but lack of "funds" is a stronger reason.

The Best Corks are those called "velvet corks," says a contributor to Barlow & Armitage's Circular; and of these the finest qualities are made, and probably grown, in France-yet, in France, the corks used for the best brands of champagne are obtained from Catalonia and Andalusia, and so much care is taken in their selection that they cost as much as two pence each. Before being used they are boiled in wine or soaked in tartar, or steamed by the cork merchants, so as to obviate the well-known bad flavor. They are handed warm to the corker, who dips them in a small vessel of wine before making use of them. This is a good practice, and might be profitably followed in the bottling of select spirits.

Artificial Indigo is replacing the natural product. A correspondent of the London Times says: “The stake for which the German chemical manufacturer is playing, is a very big one-far bigger than was offered by madder thirty years ago. Indigo is more difficult to make than is alizarin, but such is the persistence of the German attack upon the position, and so great is the improvement in our methods, that it is far from improbable that all difficulties will ere long be overcome. The manner in which the German factories are organized for such work is marvelous, and calculated to excite the admiration and envy of all who can understand it. I have been astonished at the progress made only in the course of two or three years since I was last in the Rhine district. Thus, one firm I find has a scientific staff of 110 skilled chemists, whilst that of another has risen to no fewer than 150, and the works are in proportion. Nature has no chance in the long run against such odds."

"Pharmacy Has Ceased to be a Science; it is a mere trade, and a poor one at that." W. C. Alpers, in an A. Ph. A. paper, says: "Such remarks, so often repeated with emphasis and bitterness, will naturally make a deep impression on one who has always been an earnest advocate of the profession of pharmacy, as distinct from the trade of pharmacy, and it is not a mere mockery, if to-day, in the opening address of the scientific section of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the question is put: 'Is there science in pharmacy?'

"Whosoever has looked behind the screens of our present pharmacies, and is familiar with the details of the pharmacist's daily toil; and whosoever has be

come the confidential friend of his brethren-to whom they unbosom themselves without reticence and disguises-knows that the commercial admixture to American pharmacy predominates over the scientific part to such an extent that the latter is nearly or entirely concealed.

"Science in pharmacy is to-day, like the Princess in the fairy tale, lying spellbound under noxious weeds and thorns, awaiting her delivery."

How to Meet Department Store Competition.The Universal Provider, of London, whose love for the drug trade is a very formal one, says, anent the department store nuisance :

'The remedy is close at hand as regards the stores, and not a few retailers in the chemists' and druggists' trade have had the wisdom to see it. Instead of in

sisting upon old-fashioned methods and pricing their goods to yield 200 to 300 per cent profit-which naturally limits their sales-they have sensibly reduced their prices to compete with their opponents in trade, and have taken on side lines to increase the attractiveness of their establishments and enlarge their scope of operations. This is real business tact, and a huge advance on prospective legislative protection, which may never come, and certainly never can come on the lines as foreshadowed by professors who seek to turn back the clock.

Legislation to safeguard the public in the sale of poisons and powerful drugs which need to be handled with skill and discrimination every sensible person will agree is necessary; but a proposal for protection by putting trade in ruts and grooves is simply out of the question. Class legislation of this kind in a land where free trade finds politicians of all grades and the best thinkers in the nation proclaiming right and left its advantages, will receive scant courtesy from the Parliament of to-day, and should the so-called independent press-which term, by the way, is a misnomer-seek to put trade in ruts to circumscribe the opportunities of traders, it will have to count on a public which is not likely to be led by the nose in that particular way."

Clay Eaters. It is not often that specimens in museums are destroyed by reason of being eaten, but it seems that in one of the Southern States a colored clay-eater who was employed as a scrub-woman devoured some of the finest specimens of kaolin on exhibition at the State geological museum. The State geologist found that five blocks of clay which were very highly valued on account of their purity were missing, and upon examining some of the other specimens he found on them the impression of teeth. Detectives were set to work on the case and the woman employed to scrub the marble floors was accused of taking the specimens. The woman appears to have a mania for eating clay and she had been indulging her strange appetite for some time.

More Miles can be made in one day by going steadily than by stopping.