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if ever, accepted as a bar to conviction in the courts, though it 
may have weight when sentence is pronounced. Our citizens 
must be protected from the ignorance and carelessness as well 
as from the dishonesty of dealers in articles of food and drink. 
The law rightly assumes that dealers have sufficient acquaintance 
with articles in their line to be able to distinguish between what 
is good and what is bad. 
From an article by Edwin Waller, in the December Cen- 
tury. 
THE TELESCOPE AND MICROSCOPE. 
Dr. Chalmers said, as he viewed the telescope in connection 
with the microscope: ‘The one led me to see a system in every 
star; the other leads me to see a world in every atom. The one 
taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of its 
people and its countries, is but a grain of sand on the high field 
of immensity; the other teaches me that every grain of sand 
may harbor within it the tribes and families of a busy popula- 
tion. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread 
upon; the other redeems it of all its insignificance ; for it tells 
me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every 
garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds 
teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firm- 
ament. The one has suggested to me that beyond and above all 
that is visible to man there thay be fields of creation which 
sweep immeasurably along, and carry the impress of the Al. 
mighty’s hand to the remotest scenes of the universe ; the other 
suggests to me that, without and beyond all that minuteness 
which the aided eye of man has been able to explore, there may 
be a region of invisibles; and that, could we draw aside the 
mysterious curtain which shrouds it from our senses, we might 
there see a theatre of as many wonders as astronomy has un- 
folded—a universe within the compass of a point, so small as to 
elude all the powers of the microscope, but where the wonder- 
working God finds room for the exercise of all his attributes; 
where he can raise another mechanism of words, and fill and 
animate them all with the evidence of his glory.”,— Tidings from 
Nature. 
