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"Lawyers can get more things out of my office — when I'm not look- 

 ing- — than any other class of people. 



"Chicago people will tell you what a fine city Chicago is, and the 

 people of other cities tell what fine cities they belong to. New Yorkers 

 knock their city and let their papers knock it for them. I do not feel 

 that way. We are just at the inception of the improvements that are 

 to be given this city, and in ten years you will not know New York. 

 The system of rapid transit has just begun." 



The favorite chant of the evening was : 



Give me a spoon of saccharine, ma, 



And a bottle of alkali. 

 For I am going to make a pie, mamma, 



I'm going to make a pie ; 

 For John will be hungry and tired, ma. 



And his tissues will decompose — 

 So give me a gram of bitartrate, 

 And the carbon and cellulose. 

 Prof. A. A. Breneman was chairman and Dr. William Jay Schieffelin 

 was toastmaster. Among the well known chemists among the speakers 

 were Dr. Walker Bowman, Dr. Gustav Drobegg, C. M. Joyce, Dr. 

 Parker Mcllheny, Dr. C. S. Palmer, Dr. Hugo Schweitzer and Maxi- 

 milian Toch. 



The import of saccharine into Japan, in anticipation of the new 

 tariff, from January to July last was 72,830 kin (kin — 1}^ pounds), 

 of which 38,326 kin was imported in July, and the total import up to 

 September 30 is estimated at 400,000 kin. Vernacular contemporaries 

 remark that the sweetening power of saccharine is 600 times that of 

 sugar, so that 400,000 kin of saccharine will represent 240,000,000 

 kin of sugar, and if 400,000 kin of saccharine is substituted for sugar 

 the government may lose from the sugar-consumption tax something 

 like $7,500,000. An opinion that saccharine is injurious to health 

 remains to be confirmed. Meanwhile the demand for the article is 

 rapidly increasing. 



Quite a lucrative business, it seems, is done in Japan in the expor- 

 tation of frog skins for purses. The works controlled by a Tokyo 

 merchant have exported as many as 130,000 skins in less than a year. 



