140 Tae MIcROscoPE. 
AT THE DOCTOR’S EXPENSE. 
Even delirium tremens is now traced to a micrococcus: 
“the worm of the still.” 
“Tt’s no use to feel av me wrihst, doctor,” said Pat, when 
the doctor began taking his pulse; “the pain is not there, sure, 
it’s in me hid, entoirly.” 
A French joke: <A doctor having bought a lot in the cem- 
etery, consulted a marble-worker in reference to the erection of 
afamily monument. After the details of the bargain were ar- 
ranged, the artisan complimented the physician on his selection 
of that particular cemetery. “It is so quiet,” he said, “and 
then monsieur le doctuer must know a great many people 
there.” 
“Doctor,” said the grateful patient, seizing the physician’s 
hand, ‘I shall never forget that I owe you my life.” “You ex- 
aggerate,” mildly replied the disciple of A%sculapius, “it would 
be-exactly correct to say that you owe me for fifteen visits, and 
you will please not forget this fact.” 
—~4 o> 
THE JUDGE AND THE CONSUMPTIVE. 
“ Stop that coughing over there!” cried a New York judge. 
“ Such coughing disturbs the business of the court.” 
There was a short, painful silence, writes Eli Perkins, 
during which a pale, consumptive man struggled with himself, 
then coughed again, and continued it for several minutes. 
“T’m bound to stop that coughing?” exclaimed the judge. 
“T’]l fine you $10. I think that will stop it.” 
“ Jedge,” said the cadaverous man, “I'd be willin’ to pay $20 
to have that cough stopped. If you can stop it for $10, you’d 
better get down off that bench and go to practicing medicine. 
There’s money in it, jedge—money in it!” 
S06 > — 
We will give a prize of a hundred mounts to any one who 
will convince us that the Griffith self-centering turn-table is 
not the best ever offered to American microscopists. Bring 
your proof to Rochester, N. Y., August 19, 20, 21 and 22. 
