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NEWS AND NOTES. 
Por has said, “Not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acqut- 
sition of knowledge. -In forever knowing we are forever blessed.” 
Tue specific micro-organism of croupous pneumonia is found in 
the buccal secretion of healthy individuals. 
The British Medical Journal says that the King of Greece has 
conferred on M. Pasteur the Grand Cross of the Savior, which is the 
highest Greek order. D. Graucher, the director of the Pasteur In- 
stitute, and Drs. Roux and J. Guyon, assistants, are made com- 
manders of the same order. 
Tue age of the late Dr. Carl Zeiss is stated as seventy. 
Tue bacterial hemoglobinuria of the ox has been confounded 
with the bovine pest. It is a contagious disease, and very fatal in 
the ox; cows nearly always resist it, and calves are refractory. 
M. Babés describes the bacterium as brilliant, round, and measuring 
about ‘5; it is divided into two by a transverse mark, and often into 
four by another septum. The microbe resembles the gonococcus, 
because it forms diplococci ; it has been cultivated on nutritive media 
at the temperature of the body.—The British Medical Journal. 
TRANSVERSE section of Sarsaparilla officinalis forms an excellent 
object for displaying starch-granules. i 
Nerrer concludes that pneumonia is a contagious disease of 
parasitic origin, and is transmitted either directly or by the interven- 
tion of a third person, or by inanimate objects, such as wearing 
apparel, ete. 
AMERICAN science works not for the glory of a monarch, as 
Alexandrine science for the fame of Ptolemy Soter. Neither does 
it strive to promote the interests of an aristocracy, nor to fill the 
pockets of a plutocracy. Some such consequence may now and then 
follow its advance, but only as a by-result of its general contribution 
to the national welfare. It exists by the people and for the people. 
To make human life longer, and healthier, and happier is the result, 
as it is the aim, of modern science; to discover truths and apply 
them to the welfare of mankind.— Vartin. 
Pasteur has shown that of seventeen varieties of organisms 
found in the buccal secretions of healthy individuals, ten of these, 
when added to fibrin, dissolve it completely. 
Pror. W. L. Porzar, of Wake Forest College, North Carolina, 
has identified 81 species of desmids in that vicinity. The list is 
