tal operations to be performed without pain while the patient is in a conscious state. It seems that the trials have not as yet reached that point where great assurance can be offered.

Monument to M. Pasteur.-An effort is being made to collect funds for the erection of a monument in Paris to the memory of M. Pasteur. Statues or busts will also be located at his birthplace and in other cities. In this country the work is in the hands of the Cosmos Club at Washington, D. C. Contributions can be made to George M. Sternberg, Treasurer Pasteur Monument Committee, Washington, D. C., and from thence forwarded to the Paris committee.

Prof. Lloyd's Book, “Etidorpha," is to be translated into three other languages. Prof. J. U. Lloyd has closed a contract with G. G. Fleurot, a French scholar of wealth, and the famous romance of the Cincinnati scientist will be published in Paris next spring. Mons. Fleurot has already commenced his task, and he will finish it while enjoying a winter trip to the Bahamas and other isles of the tropical seas.

Wednesday morning Prof. Lloyd found in his mail the fourth request he has received from Germany for rights of publication there, and he is also considering a proposition from a publishinghouse in Spain for exclusive rights in that troubled land.

Gold is said to be abundant enough, if we did but know how to get it. Some billion of tons has been declared to exist in seawater, and tolerably easy to extract. Some months ago a meteor fell on a mountain in Upper Texas, rolling all the way down hill, containing nuggets of gold. Some miners assert positively that it grows in the mines, and many chemists believe that it can be made. It is hardly to be expected, however, that advantage will be taken of these facts to an extent that will cheapen the metal.

Who was "Charlotte Temple" of the story? That was not her name, but Charlotte Stanley of the famous Derby family of England. She came to New York in 1774 with Col. John Montresor. He abandoned her, and she died at the "Old Free House," at the corner of Pell and Doyer streets, at the age of nineteen. Her body was buried in Trinity churchyard, and the

arms of the Stanley family are engraved on her tombstone.

Mrs.

Susanna Rowson, the actress, wrought her story into a novel which has been many times reprinted.

THE FARMER'S RESOLVE.

BY JOSH GOTENOUGH.

Wife, I am tired of this rant, about silver and gold.
It doesn't stunt hunger, nor keep out the cold.
There is fusion, confusion, and delusion in turn,
Men looking for money they didn't have to earn.

Yes, I had the silver craze, and I had it bad;
I favored fiat money, and every other fad.
I sowed seeds of discord instead of sowing wheat,
And now we're concerned about something to eat.
Experience tells us it is now time to stop,
Figure up losses, and try some other crop;
The farm is neglected, the fences are down,
It has all gone to rack, while I've been in town.

Wife, I've been thinking and thinking of late,

I'd mow down the weeds, between the door and the gate.
Things have gone wrong, I now clearly see,

While they talked of the "crime of seventy-three."

They told us that wheat was selling too low,

I listened to the racket, and missed time to sow;

We are buying our flour, and the price going higher,

We are deep in the mud, and deeper in the mire.

Surely this lesson will do us no harm;

As we can't run the government, we'll try an' run the farm.
I find that prosperity isn't always in sight,

When I'm all day in town, and home only at night.

Don't talk of the chinch bugs, free silver nor gold,

They can't fool me now, the story's too old;
The lesson seems costly, yet I think it is cheap,
"Whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap."

Birch Branch, Mo., Nov. 23d, 1896.

With Compliments of A. Churchell, M. D., Nevada, Mo.

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The Mammoth, it has been affirmed, is not extinct. ernor Swineford, of Alaska, declared to a recent writer that herds of the huge animals were to be seen above the head waters of the Snake river. Tusks, it is said, have been brought in by the

natives, about which the flesh is still adhering. Meanwhile their congeners, the elephants, are said to be diminishing in numbers in India and Africa, and it is affirmed that if measures are not taken for preservation the whole race will follow the auroch of Europe and the bison of America to utter extermination.

"Yes," said the corn-fed philosopher, "the rule still holds. Even the high-towering theatre-hat has a woman at the bottom of it."

In France is a population of 38,000,000; but its population by the last census exhibited an increase of only about 124,000. In 55 out of 86 departments there was an actual diminution. The average of deaths is not high, but there is an undue mortality of infant children. The birth-rate is exceptionally low-about 22 in a thousand. In Germany the birth-rate is 38 to 39 per 1,000; in Italy, 35; in England, 33; in Switzerland, 30. The significance of the matter is that "it was done a purpose."

How can you present your bills for services rendered, and be successful, and at the same time create no ill feeling? This is one of the most important questions that can engage the mind of the physician; and it would be well for the successful man to give us an article on the subject. The human mind is so variable and sensitive on this point that it becomes the most difficult problem. Even doctors themselves, that are often astounded with their clientage resenting and taking offense, are reputed often to be the poorest to pay their bills. And the mere presentation of a bill seems often a just cause for taking offense. Let some one arise and tell us how we may be able to collect our debts and still retain the good will of all.

Instant Relief of After-pains.—In many cases a nice warm meal is better than any medicine; still, where the pains are exhaustingly severe, we may turn to Amyl Nitrate. This potent drug is a very efficient controller of after-pains, and used cautiously no harm need be apprehended from it. A neat way of using it is to saturate a small piece of tissue paper with five or six drops, stuff this into a two-drachm vial, and request the patient to draw the cork and inhale the odor when she feels the pain coming on. It acts with magical celerity.-American Journal of Obstetrics.

BY JOSEPH ADOLPHUS, M.D., ATLANTA, GA.

I am settled in conviction that drug treatment of kidney disease of the Bright's kind is of small avail, often is damaging to the patient, who will stand a far better chance to live much longer under a wisely-selected and well-regulated diet.

Physiologically considered, the kidneys are of equal importance with the liver as blood-depurating organs; through them is eliminated all or nearly all the nitrogenous wastes of the body-urea, uric acid-creatin, and all the remainder of like nature, which are, when not expelled from the organism with sufficient celerity, or when retained, virulent poisons, and to their retension are owing all the dire evils of uremic poisoning.

When the kidneys are congested from any cause they are functionally incapable of performing their duty. They eliminate large quantities of water as well as nitrogenous waste matter, besides much mineral salts during health.

Anatomically and physiologically the kidneys are double organs; part of their function is to separate water and mineral salts from the blood. The glomeruli, which consist of tufts of minute arterial loops packed away in Bowman's capsules-these arterial capillaries come from the renal artery; probably all the arterial blood of the body pass through these glomeruli in twenty-four hours.

However, as to this I am not quite sure yet; it must be very nearly so, for it is by passing through the kidneys and being purified that the blood is made fit to nourish the tissues and maintain life and the normal state.

Bright's disease, as all know, is manifested under several forms of pathological change in the uriniferous tubes and the various kinds of epithelia that line them. In all probability nearly all the changes begin in some change in the capillary vessels, the state of the circulation in them and the epithelia.

During the height of the function of the kidney, if the food has been rich in proteids, the venous capillary vessels that surround the convoluted tubules are very full of blood and the flow in them is rapid, much like the state of the circulation in the capillaries of the submaxillary gland when the chorda is stimulated; but in the kidneys the sodded epithelium that line the convoluted tubules are much enlarged, owing to the molecular excitement of their substance.

The pathological changes that occur in the kidneys under the conditions alluded to above, hardly any benefit is derived from drugs; however, there are a few medicaments, such as Buchu, that exercise a local soothing influence on the epithelium; but this medicament is of far greater benefit when administered in weak infusions and large potations; in this case, in all probability, the water has as much influence in bringing about the benefit as the drug.

In all cases of kidney disease I place a properly-selected and wisely-regulated diet far above all other means of treatment. This is more especially true when albumin is found in the urine, or when in recent cases the urine is smoky owing to dissolved hæmoglobin; this latter symptom is indicative that the red blood corpuscles have passed through the walls of the congested capillaries, or that the capillaries or some of them have suffered rupture owing to either over-distention or to some change in their walls having occurred and given free passage to blood.

In all such cases the epithelia is sure to suffer and be shed, which in itself is a sure permanent damage to the kidney; for after epithelia is shed they are never restored—at least, such is the case as far as I know with the kidneys.