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Scarlatina fuom Intected Milk. — At Halifax an epidemic of 

 scarlet fever has been traced to infected milk. Of the eighty-two 

 families supplied by a certain milkman, forty-five were attacked. It 

 was discovered that the milkman had five children ill of the disease 

 at the time. — Med. Times and Gazette. 



A doctor who had continued his visits on a wealthy lady for an 

 inordinate time after convalescence had set in, was somewhat sur- 

 prised one day, at being told by the servant that madame could not 

 see him that day as she was \\\.--Ex. 



Quite An.-ksthetical. — A famous surgeon advises one of iiis pa- 

 tients to undergo an operation. "Is it very severe?" asks the patient. 

 "Not for the patient," says the doctor; we put him to sleep; but very 

 hard on the operator." "How so?" "We suffer terribly from 

 anxiety. Just think, it only succeeds once in a himdred times." — 

 Paris Figaro. 



The Pennsylvania state microscopist, Prof. Lehman, in a lecture 

 at Philadelphia, declared that most of the liquor used is a humbug, 

 and to prove it, took the necessary ingredients, and in a few minutes 

 had concocted, in the presence of his audience, a firstrate article of 

 lo-year-old brandy. — Ex. 



Halcyon days for the bald-headed fraternity are come at last. 

 A London capillary surgeon announces that he will replant barren 

 fields and make them flourish like weeds in a turnip patch. First, 

 he administers a "bald bolus," which is taken to produce compos- 

 ure. Then the scalp is removed piece by piece, and a new one is 

 grafted on meanwhile. — Ex. 



The Cincinnati Gazette takes a gloomy view of the bibibles in 

 that city. It writes: But are liquors poisoned? Of course they are. 

 Four-fifths of all the liquor drank in Cincinnati, including wine, 

 beer and cider, are poisoned. And these poisons are not confined 

 to common drinks, such as whisky and beer; they extend to the 

 aristocratic drinks that are more costly. The French wines are 

 nearly all adulterated, and contain poison. They are not real M'ines, 

 but imitations. — Ex. 



