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The various kinds of cooking, however, are quite different in their effects on 
trichinous pork. Frying and broiling are most efficient, roasting coming next. 
Boiling coagulates the albumen on the outer surface, and allows the heat to pene- 
trate less readily ; it should be kept up, therefore, for at least two hours for large 
_ pieces of meat. Whether boiled, broiled or fried, pork should always be thor- 
oughly cooked. 
Practically speaking, the cooking, salting and hot smoking which pork in its. 
various forms receives in the United States, must be in the vast majority of cases 
sufficient to kill the trichinze and prevent infection of the persons consuming the 
meat. Epidemics like those reported in Germany are unknown here, and trichin- 
lasis in a fatal form is undoubtedly a rare disease. In the vicinity of the great 
pork packing establishments near Boston, the ‘‘spare.ribs,”’ containing the inter_ 
costal muscles, are very largely bought and eaten by the people near by ; and tri- 
chiniasis among them has not in a single case been reported, so far as I have been 
able to learn. The cus being thin and well cooked, any trichinze in them are quite 
certain to be killed. Even when trichine are introduced into the intestinal canals. 
too, they are sometimes expelled by diarrhcea, and the invasion of the system by 
a small number does no harm.—American Microscopical Journal. 
That predjudice against ‘‘ them litery fellers,” which in this country identi- 
fies statesmanship with ignorance, will be shocked to learn that one of the last 
performances of the author of Lothair before resigning office was to make Owen 
Meredith an Earl, under the title of Earl Lytton, of Lytton and Viscount Kneb- 
worth. The new fellows who come in are almost all of them literary. Gladstone 
is a voluminous writer, the Duke of Argyle is as proud of his literary record as he 
is of being the Macallum-More, Lord Selborne has condescended to edit a hymn 
book, and a very good hymn book it is, too, Vernon-Harcourt used to write for 
the Saturday Review, Foster has written a life of William Penn, Earl Granville is. 
a man of great linguistic attainments, and, taken altogether, the new Ministry, 
admittedly one of the strongest in point of statesmanship and political influence 
that England has known for years, is undoubtedly the strongest in point of liter- 
ary attainments and in the record of authorship among its members. 
SCIENCE IN THE SCHOOLS OF FRANCE. 
The modifications in the course of studies in the French public schools, re- 
cently decreed by the Superior Council, give to scientific teaching a more promi- 
nent place than has hitherto been allowed it, especially in the elementary classes. 
In the seventh class, the elements of the natural history of animals and plants. 
are added to the history of soils and stones, and take preference over it, as offer- 
ing more interest to children and being of more practical utility. In the sixth 
class an hour is deducted from the ten devoted to Latin and added to those given 
