advantages than those which you have been assured of in the 

 learned gentlemen who represent the " distinguished defendant," 

 as the prisoner has been generally called. I confess that to un- 

 derstand the language with which your ears have grown familiar, 

 I have had to take recourse to the dictionary. Yesterday, you 

 will observe, it was necessary to seek a translation of the word 

 glutinous, which was termed viscosity. Last night I looked up 

 the term viscosity, and found that it means glutinousness. I 

 also, pursuing the same studies and considering the subject 

 which has interested you for these ten days, have found it a 

 long- road now coming to its turn, indeed a milky way, and 

 I sought Loomis' Astronomy to find that a milky way is a 

 galaxy. This definition may properly refer to the scientific 

 stars whom you have heard and who have made so distinguished 

 an appearance. Prof. Loomis, speaking of the " Milky Way," 

 says : " To the naked eye it presents merely a diffused milky 

 light, stronger in some parts than in others." Gentlemen, I 

 shall endeavor to show you where the strong parts lie. Now it 

 has been a matter of interest to me, in the discussion which we 

 have had this morning, to discover what the issue, what the case 

 was which the learned counsel for the defendant was propos- 

 ing. Is it the Board of Health that is on trial ? Is the ques- 

 tion that of skimmed milk, or is the question that of the suc- 

 cess of the distinguished family of the learned professor on the 

 side of the defence in seeking for " samples of pure, healthy 

 cow's milk " which he can compel the witnesses for the prosecu- 

 tion to taste ? You know whether it is or not. I think not. We 

 proceed under this ordinance : " No milk which has been 

 watered, adulterated, reduced, or changed in any respect by the 

 addition of water or other substance, or by the removal of cream, 

 shall be brought into, held, kept, or offered for sale at any place 

 in the City of New York, nor shall any one keep, have, or offer 

 for sale in said city any such milk." Now the learned counsel 

 in closing for the defence said that the Court had settled the 

 question that there was no moral guilt in this case, that the de- 

 fendant was morally innocent. I ask you, gentlemen, to wait 

 until you receive the charge of the Court, for, unless I am 



