222 THE MICROSCOPE. 
NEWS AND NOTES. 
PROTOPLASM |! 
Take the microscope and look 
Down on any living tissues, 
Lo! before you, like a book, 
Lies the cell; and from it issues 
Others, and in all we trace 
Viscous globules, each one has ’em 
You're of life the very base, 
Protoplasm ! 
If I take a single drop, 
You’re in such a strange condition 
That your movements never stop, 
As if guided by volition. 
Ardently we watch your whirl, 
Science breeds enthusiasm ; 
You’re as giddy as a girl, 
Protoplasm ! 
Every blade of grass, each flower, 
All that owns a life organic, 
Every man that lives this hour, 
Boasting of his thews Titanic ; 
Looking backward, we can see 
Over life, as o’er a chasm, 
How all sprang at first from thee, 
Protoplasm ! 
Thus it seems to thee we owe, 
All we are and all we may be; 
Man, the microscope says so, 
Was a protoplastic baby. 
Here’s your health, then, since you bring 
Life, that physiologic spasm ; 
But for thee I could not sing, 
Protoplasm ! 
H. Savile Clarke, in St. James’ Gazette. 
Tue so-called black snow which fell at Aitken, Minn., on April 
2d, showed on microscopical examination to consist of fine particles 
of dirt, some of which had a metallic lustre. 
Messrs. QuEEN & Co., of Philadelphia, have issued a circular 
offering the services of their agents in Paris and other European 
cities, to all intending visitors to the exposition, and purchasers of 
scientific apparatus. 
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This work is a resumé of the experience of one who has 
devoted much attention to the subject and who has done not a little 
to the advancement of our knowledge of hernia. It contains many 
new data not hitherto published and is well worthy the peiusalof 
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