QUEBEC. 





in which the arm and all the hand but the middle 

 Jin.;, iy. To the free finger is 



attached a 4-pound weight." The experimenter 

 (lie subject to pull the weight up and down until he 

 can no lunger move the linger. The subject is in- 

 duced to make renewed ellort, and the result i- a 



' 



THE TEMPI.E ALGOMETER. 



measurement of the recuperative power of the mus- 

 cular system. 



The Bertillon system of measurements is in use 

 here, and there is a complete set of appliances to 

 measure human beings: but years of experimenta- 

 tion are essential to the formation of important con- 

 clusions. Dr. Mac-Donald has examined people of 

 every class and of many occupations, from the rich 

 unemployed to the poor unemployed. He presents 

 as the result certain facts and statistics as follow : 

 Middle-aged women of the educated classes are 

 much less acute in the sense of locality on the wrist, 



but much more acute to the influence of heat, than 

 young women of tin- wealth) clavcs. Young men 

 of the wealthy much IIP 



locality and pain than workingmen or men of the 

 army of unemployed. Young women of the wealthy 

 classes are nun .:ivi- to locality and heal. 



but much more sensitive to pain, than young 

 men of the wealthy \> to pain, it is 



Juffo true in general that women are more sensi- 

 tive than men, but it does not necessarily 

 follow that women can not endure more pain 

 than men. Colored boys are more sensitive 

 to locality and heat than white boys. Colored 

 girls are less sensitive to locality, but more sen- 

 sitive to heat, than white girls. Colored boys are 

 more sensitive to locality and heat than colored 

 girls. The left wrist is more sensitive to locality, 

 heat, and pain than the right wrist (there was only 

 one exception). These results were obtained from 

 an examination of several thousand people. 



The lines on the preceding page are transcribed 

 from the surface of the kymographon. as indi- 

 cating the movement of the larynx and the lips 

 respectively. 



Q 



QUEBEC, a province of the Dominion of Can- 

 ada : area. 228.900 square miles; population in 

 :.4*s.53o. 



Government. Owing to changes in the Domin- 

 ion Government and the acceptance of a place in 

 it by the Hon. L. 0. Taillon, Premier of Quebec, 

 Mr. E. J. Flynn, Commissioner of Crown Lands. 

 wa> summoned by Lieut.-Gov. Chapleau on May s. 

 to form a new ministry, which he did as follows: 

 Premier and Commissioner of Public Works. E. J. 

 Flynn : Commissioner of Agriculture and Coloniza- 

 tion. Louis Beaubien : Commissionerof Crown Lands, 

 (r. A. Xantel : Attorney-General, L. P. Pelletier: 

 President of Council. T. C. Chapais : Provincial Sec- 

 retary. M. F. Hackett : Provincial Treasurer. A. W. 

 Atwater. This was a continuation of the previous 

 - rvative ministry in policy, and mainly in its 

 personnel. Meanwhile the Legislature had opened 

 in Quebec, on April 10, with a speech from the 

 throne, of which the significant passages are : 



My Government has endeavored as far as pos- 

 sible to direct dairy operations, and. in order to 

 prevent overstocking of the cheese market, has 

 specially favored butter making and awarded boun- 

 ties for winter dairying. The quantity of butter 

 manufactured in winter has more than doubled 

 during the three years that these bounties have 

 been granted. 



" This question of equilibrium in production hav- 

 ing teen placed on a sound basis, my Government 

 has striven to restore the reputation of butter from 

 the province of Quebec in England, a reputation 

 which has greatly suffered from shipments made 

 under unsuitable circumstances. The results hith- 

 erto obtained have been most satisfactory : butter 

 from the province is now classed in England 

 among the best products of a similar nature of 

 the whole world. The exports of this article, which 

 fell off in 1894, have again increased. Last year 

 they were double those of the previous year. The 

 total production of our dairies, which did not 

 amount to s^.OOO.OOO in 1890. exceeded $7,000.000 

 in is; 14. 



Xew regions are being opened to agricultural 

 settlement. The fertile lands of the Metapedia. of 

 Lake St. John, Temiscamingue, and the section 



north of Montreal are being colonized by hardy 

 settlers from the old parishes and some of the cities 

 of Canada and the United States. This coloniza- 

 tion movement, which my Government has fostered 

 as much as possible, is chiefly explained by the suc- 

 cess of agriculture throughout the province and 

 by the attention and solicitude manifested for farm- 

 ing by the leading classes of our community. 



" The state of our finances will enable my Govern- 

 ment to propose to you the abolition of the manu- 

 facturing and trading licenses and the direct taxes 

 on certain persons. But the financial situation can 

 not be definitely settled until the railway enter- 

 prises now being carried out have been completed 

 or abandoned, nor until the commission appointed 

 to arbitrate upon the disputed accounts between 

 the Government of Canada and the governments 

 of Quebec and Ontario has completed its task. 

 . " The laws adopted by the Legislature of this 

 province twenty years ago for preserving purity in 

 elections certainly produced excellent results in the 

 first elections following their coming into force; 

 but the ardor of party strife, the facility with which 

 controverted elections are settled by compromise, 

 certain amendments adopted by the Legislature, 

 and perhaps also a less rigorous application of these 

 laws by the courts, have already lessened their 

 efficiency. You will therefore be called upon to 

 consider amendments to the election act and to the 

 controverted elections act.'' 



The most important legislation passed was em- 

 bodied in the following acts : 



Respecting taxes on commercial corporations and 

 companies. 



Respecting election of members of the Legisla- 

 tive Assembly. 



Respecting the tenure of lands in the Magdalen 

 Islands. 



Respecting benevolent and mutual-benefit asso- 

 ciations and mutual insurance companies. 



Respecting colonization in certain parts of the 

 province, and for promoting the mining industry 

 therein. 



To amend the game laws. 



To amend the law respecting agriculture, with 

 reference to the Good Roads Association. 



