142 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



Saving a Show. Window is well worth knowing. When a plate 

 glass window has had a stone thrown through it, even if the hole 

 is a small one, the cracks in the glass will creep, until they have 

 reached a considerable distance. To prevent this, as soon as the 

 hole has been made, take a glasscutter or a diamond and scratch a 

 circle around the hole on both sides of the glass ; or if the cracks 

 have already reached a considerable distance, using a radius greater 

 than that from the center of the hole to the outer extremity of each 

 crack, draw arcs a little beyond the extremities of each of the cracks 

 on both sides of the glass, This will prevent the cracks from creep- 

 ing. 



Using Drugs in Milk.— State Dairy and Food Inspector Dunlap, 

 of Columbus, assisted by Theodore D. Wetterstroem, chemist and 

 druggist, of Cincinnati, has been waging a relentless and successful 

 war against dairymen for selling impure milk in the state. A score 

 or more of arrests have been made, and convictions have been 

 secured in almost every case. Upon analysis by Assistant Wetter- 

 stroem the milk was found to contain formaldehyde and other 

 poisons in such large quantities as to starde the investigators. 

 A number of dairymen in Cincinnati fell before the onslaught. 

 The investigations were not confined to this city or county alone 

 but as far north as Greenfield, Eaton and Oxford, Ohio. The 

 prosecutions are having a very noticeable effect on the quality of 

 milk here.— M. B. Druggist. 



A Troublesome Prescription. — Correspondent writes: "How 

 would you compound the following: 



Strychninae sulphatis gr. i. 



Arsenii trioxidi gr. /i- 



Strontii bromidi. gr. H- 



Extracti gentianae q, s. to make a mass. 

 Make capsules No. XXX. 

 I would like some advice in your next issue as to how it should 

 best be compounded. I used very little extract of gentian and the 

 moisture, of course, caused the strontium bromide to liquefy and I 

 added enough powedered glycyrrhiza to make a workable mass too 

 large to go into convenient capsules. I next mixed the mass and 

 dried in on a water bath. I perhaps used too much heat, for the 



