88 • THE MICROSCOPE. 



"This is a sad commentary on our boasted civilization." A 

 tramp despondingly observed when he discovered that the ham he 

 had taken from the front of a shop was a wooden one. — Ex. 



When some one said inadvertently that a certain person had 

 died "without the aid of a physician," ht' knew at once that he had 

 done injustice to a noble profession, and added, "hut such instances 

 are of very rare occurrence." — Ex. 



An editor apologized to his readers after this fashion: "We ex- 

 pected to have a death and a marriage to publish this week, but a 

 violent storm prevented the wedding, and the doctor being sick him- 

 self, the patient recovered, and we are accordingly cheated out of 

 both." — Ex. 



Various kinds of smoke have recently been examined micro- 

 scopically, and found to consist of particles having a diameter of 

 about the fifty-thousandth part of an inch. — Ex. We have had 

 smoke in our eyes consisting of particles having a diameter of about 

 fifty-thousand inches. — Ed. 



Prince Tortonia of Rome keeps two doctors employed in at- 

 tendance upon the indigent poor of that city, provides for 300 chil- 

 dren and educates 350 others, has established an asylum for the aged 

 and a hospital for the blind, gives 120 meals daily to the poor, and^ 

 as Mr. Swiveller observed of the earth, comes various games of that 

 sort. — Ex. 



"How flagrant it is!" said Mrs. Mixer, as she sniffed the odor 

 of a bottte of Jamaica ginger. "It is as pleasant to the oil factories 

 as it is warming to the diagram, and so accelerating to the cistern 

 that it makes one forget all pain, like the ox-hiile gas that people 

 take for the toothache. It should have a place in every home where 

 people are subject to bucolics and such like melodies. — Ex 



The Parasite Theory in Oi*h 1 hai.moi.ogv. — Dr. Seely puts 

 himself on record in regard to this theory as follows: 



"The danger in all conjunctival inflammations is corneal com- 

 plication, and that that complication comes from infection, I believe^ 

 will hardly be denied; and, furthermore, that the infection arises 

 from loses of corneal epithelium allowing entrance to the germs; 

 and, furthermore still, that in a vast number of cases the erosions 



