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Agriculture and Insectology. It will include (1) useful insects; 

 (2) their products, raw, and in the first transformations; (3) appara- 

 tus and instruments used in the preparation of these products; 



(4) injurious insects and the various processes for destroying them; 



(5) everything relating to insectology. — Scientific American. 



"How long will it take you to cure me, doctor?" "Well, Mr. 

 Blank, I think you may be able to get back to your desk in about a 

 month, but it will be necessary for you to remain under treatment 

 for several years." "But you evidently mistake; I am not Blank, the 

 banker, but Blank, the letter carrier." "Ah, that alters the case. 

 There is nothing the matter with vou but a little biliousness. You 

 will be all right in a few days." 



The Future of Pasteur's Germ Theory. — Customer. — "My 

 nephew is just starting for Sierra Leone, and I thought I could not 

 make him a more useful present than a dose of your best yellow 

 fever. Would you tell me the price, please?" 



Chemist. — "Well ma'am, the germs are so difficult to cultivate 

 in Europe that I would advise your waiting for the next West India 

 mail, when I am expecting a nice, fresh supply from St. Thomas. 

 Meanwhile we would advise our half-guinea traveling assortment of 

 the six commonest zymotics, and could add most of the tropical dis- 

 eases from stock, at five shillings each. We have some nice Asiatic 

 cholera just ripe, but they are more expensive." — Punch. 



A death is just reported in Philadelphia, of a child, from eating 

 candy loaded with "Georgia Clay." There seems no use of longer 

 warning parents against candies. They are made of clay, arsenic 

 and glucose. There is nothing but death in the cheap candies now 

 in the American market. Glucose, or corn sugar, gives them sweet- 

 ness; clay and white earths form the body of the candy, while 

 arsenic and other deadly poisons are used to give color. These are 

 known facts. Not one of the ingredients named but is injurous to 

 adults. What are they to children? — Science and Health. 



The Little Busy Bee. — The bee has long been a type of the. 

 industrious worker, but there are few people who know how much 

 labor the sweet hoard of the hive represents. Each head of clover 

 contains about sixty distinct flower tubes, each of which contains 

 a portion of sugar not exceeding the five-hundredth part of a grain. 



