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The person who eats oleomargarine is sure to get fat — of 

 course. — Ex. 



It was a doubting patient who said, ''Doctor, are these pills 

 square ?" — Ex. 



And now they are talking of making an excellent substitute for 

 butter out of cotton-seed oil. — Ex. 



From the prices that some physicians charge one can readily 

 imagine that high heals are fashionable. — Ex. 



A Washington chemist finds that sour milk, thickened with 

 melted tallow and lard, was used in samples of ice cream submitted 

 to him. — Ex. 



A man advertises for competent persons to undertake the sale 

 of a new medicine, and adds that "it will be profitable to the under- 

 faker." No doubt of it: most of them are. — Ex. 



Out of 3,216 tubs of butter recently arrived at Glasgow from 

 the United States only 1,467 were pure; 1,750 containing oleomar- 

 garine and butterine. — Ex. 



"Do you know where I can get room to store a load of salt?" 

 asked a countryman of a Boston clerk. "Perhaps my father can 

 accommodate you," was the reply; "he has plenty of saltrheum on 

 his hands." — Ex. 



The Illinois legislature has aimed a blow at the manufacture of 

 oleomargarine by the passage of a law making the sale of impure or 

 adulterated butter a finable offense. — Ex. 



The 20,000,000 cinchona trees planted in Ceylon in 1880 are 

 expected to yield in six years 10,000,000 pounds each year, but it is 

 believed the demand will fully keep up with the supply, so that prices 

 will not decline. — Ex. 



The Best Medicines. — Longfellow says : 

 "Joy, temperance, and repose 

 Slam the door on the doctor's nose." — Ex. 



