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by many thousands of people. In this masterpiece the artist 
has so succeeded in projecting on canvas the truthfulness of 
natural prayerful posing that the entire freedom from affecta¬ 
tion of the two figures sketched in an open field of nature, 
holds all spellbound and wrapt in admiration. So faithfully 
is the central idea of the artist outlined in the painting, the 
effect is the same when one catches a glimpse of the picture 
after it is transferred to a cold engraving, in which it is robbed 
of color and warmth. Our lives should be so attuned to the 
grand centralizing idea of the golden rule, that the influence 
of our labors and aspirations, wherever our lines fall, shall not 
be unlike the spirit of truth expressed in Millet’s Angelus. 
It lies in the power of all to contribute something toward the 
betterment of the world. 
SARENA—ITS ANTISEPTIC AND DEODORIZING PROPERTIES. 
By Dr. R. Artmann, Buffalo, N. Y. 
It is with a hope that my bacteriological investigations 
concerning the germicide and antiseptic properties of the 
new compound, “sarena,” may prove of some interest to your 
readers that the present communication has been prepared 
for the Review. Having obtained some extraordinarily good 
results by the use of this new compound in the treatment of 
wounds, and especially of wounds of a suppurative and ulcer¬ 
ative nature, I became convinced of its active qualities as a 
disinfectant and deodorizing element, and in order to demon¬ 
strate the facts as they exist began a series of experiments, 
confining my researches to its action upon the virus of an. 
thrax of tuberculosis and of glanders. 
It is a well known fact that anthrax is the most resistant 
of infectious diseases, and that its germs are the most difficult 
of any to destroy, and I therefore began my work by giving 
my special attention to the effect that sarena might have 
upon the micro-organisms of that disease. With this object 
in view, I took a number of silk threads loaded with germs 
(sporen) of anthrax, and (Seidenfaden Nilzbrand) inoculated 
three guinea-pigs on the morning of 24th of March, at eight 
