56 THE MICROSCOPE. 



A public laboratory has been established in Paris by the Prefect 

 of the Seine for the analysis of anything sold as food. The fees are 

 limited to from five to twenty francs, according to the difficulty of 

 the work to be done. — Provisioner. 



In order to distinguish genuine butter from so-called oleomar- 

 garine, Hagar advises saturating a cotton-wick with the melted sam- 

 ple, lights, and allows it to burn for two minutes or so, and judges 

 its quality by the smell. Artificial butter gives the well-known offen- 

 sive smell of an e.xtinguished tallow candle. — Provisioner. 



"May we hope for the pleasure of your company at our soiree 

 to-morrow, doctor! We shall have a little instrumental and vocal 

 music. My daughter Alice will sing, and afterward Beatrice will re- 

 cite her new poem. At 9 o'clock we shall sup." Doctor. "Many 

 thanks; you are very kind. I will be with be with you at 9 sharp." 



An ignorant candidate for medical honors having been thrown 

 almost into a fever from his incapability of answering the questions, 

 was asked by one of the censors how he would sweat a patient for 

 the rheumatism. " I would send him here to be examined," he 

 replied. 



Paralysis, which we all know is on the increase, and indeed is 

 increasing to an alarming extent, is considered by the best scientists 

 of the age to be mainly due to the poisons that we take in our food 

 and drink. Poisonous adulterations find their way now-a-days into 

 every article of food that passes through the hands of the manufac- 

 tures. — Ex. 



A yankee physician was lecturing lately on the ignorance of 

 people of their own complaints, and said that a young lady once 

 asked him what his next lecture would be upon, and being told the 

 "Circulation of the Blood," replied that she should certainly attend, 

 for she had been trouliled with the complaint fora longtime. — Advo- 

 cate. 



Street Scene in Philadelphia. — A crowd attracts Dr. Chap- 

 man's attention : he draws up and, recognizing one of his pupils, 

 hails him and enquires : " What's the matter ?" " .\h, doctor, I 



