30 THE MICROSCOPE. 



3 terns. 



When is a doctor most annoyed ? When he is out of patients. 

 —Ex. 



"The first requisite for success in life is to be a good animal." — 

 Herbert Spencer. 



" Why should not ducks be allowed on doctors' premises ?" 

 "Because they make such personal remarks." — Ex. 



A medical student says he has never been able to discover 

 the bone of contention, and desires to know if it is not the jaw- 

 bone. — Ex. 



Dr. Neisser has discovered a peculiar form of micrococcus in 

 the gonorrhoeal discharges of both sexes, circular or oval in outline, 

 in colonies of ten, twenty or more, surrounded by a membrane — 

 Centrablatt fur Med. Wis. 



Mr. K. M.jCunningham suggests a quick way of getting marine 

 Diatomacese; by taking a peck of fresh oysters and brushing the 

 back of each into a basin of water, this process will give Pleurosigmse 

 and Coscinodisci in abundance. — Ex. 



Dr. Ephraim Cutter, having studied the central surface-waters 

 of several ponds and lakes in Massachusetts, has found, contrary to 

 the general opinion, that the waters in the middle of those bodies 

 contain large numbers of microscopic forms of both animal and vege- 

 table life. — Ex. 



" Have you given electricity a trial for your complaint, madam?" 

 asked the minister as he took tea with the old lady. " Electricity!" 

 said she. " Well, yes, I reckon I has. I was struck by lightning last 

 summer, and hove out the window, but it didn't seem to do me no 

 good." — Ex. 



The National Board of Trade having offered prizes for essays 

 on the adulteration of food, announces through its committee on the 

 examination of these essays that none of them produce any definite 

 or satisfactory evidence of dangerous adulteration of food. Confec- 

 tionery, milk, liquors and drugs are the articles most subject to 

 adulteration, — Health Monthly. 



