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ing forming a good background for bringing out tbe delicate color 

 change. I believe that iodeosin used in this way ranks far above all 

 other indicators for general use in drug assay w^ork, and results such 

 as this are extremely useful in the assay, for instance, of henbane leaf, 

 where 1-20 Cc. of N — 100 alkali may be equivalent to more than 3 per 

 cent, of the total alkaloid present in the solution being titrated. — Penna. 

 State Pliarin. Ass'n. 



TALES OF A SAMPLING MAN. 



On a cupboard shelf stood a bottle of olive oil ; it had been there for 

 weeks. So long had the oil stood there unnoticed, of apparently no 

 value, it was with a qualm of emotion that it was obliged to move 

 wallward one morning as things in front were pushed back to make 

 room for a bottle of — olive oil. 



Regularly, three times a day, a young man came with a spoon to 

 the cupboard and took from the new bottle of oil. Patiently the old 

 bottle watched the attentions to the new one, until the contents of the 

 latter were but half its capacity, then, over the china and glass things 

 in front of it, to the remarkable oil it cried : 



"Do you know I am here ? Does the one who brought you know I 

 am here?" 



"Both your impetuous queries might be answered in the affirmative," 

 said the one addressed, with a pompous air, "and further discourse may 

 be obviated by me telling you that I am an exceptional olive oil. and my 

 patron knows it from the sample and the circulars he received from the 

 druggist." 



"You are not a bit better than I am !" cried the indignant oil in the 

 rear, "and I don't care by how many samples and circulars you were 

 represented to be, for you're not." 



"Why, sir," sneered the advertised oil, "I was imported from 

 Southern France." 



"So was I!" 



"But." continued the sampled oil in a tone meant to silence the 

 other, "I was expressed from the variety longifolia." 



"Memories of a far-famed olive ! So was I !" 



Moral: What a thing is does not count, unless you make people 

 realize what it is. — Reprinted from Western Druggist. 



