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sociates, who have always been genial and cordial disposition.

attracted by his While we realize that nothing we can say can add to his reputation at his home, where he was so thoroughly respected and beloved; still, we desire to place on record our admiration for his integrity, energy and generosity. Through all the years of struggle and varied fortune which have befallen him as a business man, he has preserved a spotless reputation, and to-day leaves his grandest monument in the business institution that has made our city famous throughout the world. We testify most gladly to the noble qualities of his mind and heart, which have made him welcome and popular in our homes, as well as in our offices. His kindness of heart, his devotion to his friends, his public spirit, and his activity in all good works, have endeared him to us all. We recognize his signal business ability, in the successful conduct of a great enterprise, and commend the example of his life to the emulation of all business men. We shall miss his cheering greeting, and those only can appreciate his loss who have been numbered among his friends.

"Resolved, That we tender our sincere sympathy in this severe affliction to his family, his his business associates and his friends, who mourn his loss so deeply to-day, and that our members be requested to attend his funeral in token of respect for one who was so actively engaged with us, and whose life has been an inspiration to better things, and filled with the influence of charity and love."

BOOK REVIEW.

THE COMING. AGE.

This newly established magazine, the second number of which is on our table, presents an attractive table of contents. A list of the names of contributors is sufficient guarantee of excellence and merit. The name of B. O. Flower, its editor, is known to laborers in the field of social reform through the Arena, which he founded. In this issue he discusses co-operation in England. Hezekiah Butterworth discourses with the editor on the Andean Republics and their heroes. The picture of those little known South American Republics sketched by this interesting talker is fascinating and entertaining, conveying a fund of information to those who are students of the great problem of Imperial expansion just now engaging the attention of America's great thinkers.

The April issue will possess more than usual attraction for pharmacists and physicians. Professor John Uri Lloyd will contribute a paper entitled "Do physicians and pharmacists live on the misfortunes of humanity?" Those of us who have wandered with this versatile author through the wierd, fantastic world of "ETIDORHPA" will require no further commendation for the magazine. The price, 20 cents, or $2 a year, appears inadequate for such a collection of articles possessing high literary merit on topics of everyday importance, Published at St. Louis, Mo.

W. H. Butt is opening a business in Carbonear, Nfd.

C. A. Parr is opening a new business in Gretna, Man.

Hastings & Co., of St. Johns, N.B., are selling

out.

E. Jenner, Digby, N.S., was burnt out on Feb. 13th.

B. P. Porter, Bridgewater, N.S., was burnt out on Jan. 12th.

Cheval & Gauvereau, Montreal, have dissolved partnership.

Smith & Sons, Bathurst, N.S.. were burnt out on Feb. 14th.

The Farral Co., of Markham, Ont., have been granted incorporation.

A. C. Lochead, Thedford, Ont., has sold out his business to J. H. Grimby.

The wholesale drug firm of E. Giroux & Sons, Quebec, has been dissolved.

The New Century Toilet Requisite Co., Ltd., of Toronto, has been incorporated.

H. N. Packet, of Stratford, has taken a holiday and gone to California to enjoy it.

C. G. T. Taylor, of Bridgewater, N. S., is offering a compromise to his creditors.

S. E. Hicks, of Goderich, is laid up with a severe attack of inflammation of the lungs.

John Werner, of Rat Portage, Ont., was burned out on the 15th. Loss covered by insurance.

Goodeve Bros., of Rossland, report a visit from the gentry of the dark lantern brigade. Loss $400. Griffiths & McPherson have disposed of their Vancouver, B.C., business to Wallace & Eagleson.

The J. Hungerford Smith Co., Ltd., of Toronto, has been incorporated as Manufacturing Chemists. The Dr. Wilson Medicine Co., A. E. Emblem, owner, is a new patent medicine concern in Montreal.

W. Arkell was among the sufferers from a fire which destroyed a portion of McGregor, Man., on the 7th.

Mr. Ranson, at one time with Mr. Jeffrey of Toronto, is now managing Mr. Dyer's business, of Strathroy.

The estate of R. H. Tremaine, Amherst, N.S.. has been sold to W. L. Ormond, recently of Thornburn.

The T. B. Barker & Sons business of St. Johns, N. B., has been sold out to the T. B. Barker & Sons Co., Ltd.

TORONTO NEWS.

Mr. Moore Jackman, of F. Stearns & Co., was in the city for a day this week.

Capt. H. E. Rulow is at present in the city introducing the Munyon Inhaler, and reports rapid sales.

Mr. Arthur Lyman of Montreal was in the city

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during the month attending a meeting of the MIRRORS A SPECIALTY.

wholesale jobbers.

Irving H. Taylor, Canadian manager for Frederick Stearns & Co., paid the city a flying visit on business last week.

The Toronto Pharmacal Co. of Toronto has opened a branch in Montreal. Mr. Murchison is looking after it for the present.

We are pleased to know that Mr. Carmichael of Evans & Sons is nearing recovery. He is out of bed and expects to leave the hospital in a few days.

Mr. Wm. Soper is still confined to the house. The heart affection from which he is suffering, being of a persistent character, makes recovery slow.

Mr. Bert Smith, representative for Messrs F. Stearns & Co. in Western Ontario, has deserted the ranks of bachelorhood and become a family man. Mr. Smith will take up his abode in Toron

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Another pharmacy for the city. Mr. F. T. Carey, recently of Caswell Massey's, New York, is opening a store on Queen St. West, near the new City Hall, which will be known as the City Hall Pharmacy.

A quiet wedding was celebrated in St. Thomas Episcopal Church on March 4th, when Mary (Polly), only daughter of Wm. Soper, of Elliot & Co., was united in Hymen's bonds with Mr. A. E. Andrews, of Wyld, Grassett and Darling, Toronto. Congratulations.

MONTREAL NEWS.

T. E. Barbeau of Ontario St. has joined the ranks of the benedicts, and has just returned from a honeymoon trip.

Mayor Rogers, A. Lyman, W. S. Kerry, and F. Y. Lyman were in Quebec in connection with the grocers' amendment, and to help the retailers in the fight.

O. H. Tansey was the recipient of a handsome present consisting of a copy of the U. S. Dispensatory and Remington's Pharmacy by the employees of Lyman, Sons & Co. on the occasion of his leaving to prepare for his major examination.

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The St. Denis Pharmacy was the scene of a bold attempt at robbery which, however, was frustrated by the vigilance of Mr. Levesque. One of the thieves was caught in the act, the other two bolted but were caught later on. They will be boarders at the government's expense for some time to come.

The CANADIAN PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL is being commended for its article in the February issue on the Quebec Pharmacy Act, and every member of the Legislature was furnished with a copy as a complete statement of the pharmacists' position. The editor is being congratulated on the clear exposition of the case which he made before the Legislation Committee which had summoned him to testify as an expert.

The grocers and department stores are preparing for the harvest they imagine they will reap when their amendment to the Pharmacy Act becomes law. Several of them are already making arrangements for increasing their stocks of patents, and some druggists are preparing to put in stocks of package teas and canned goods, etc. Perhaps the grocers will be sorry before a year is over that they had not left the Pharmacy Act alone.

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Dr. Roux of the Pasteur Institute has been elected

a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.

The formation of a syndicate is reported from England with the object of supplying perfumes and various kinds of medicines by means of the "nickel in the slot" machines.

An English wholesale house has been fined £10 and costs £3 3s. for putting false labels on Seidlitz powders. The action was taken in the interest of small dealers who purchased from the house.

A London chemist was prosecuted for selling Gregory powder containing magnesia carbonate instead of oxide as ordered by the B. P. The case was dismissed, as the purchaser was informed that the powder was not standard.

A chemist of Edinburgh, Scotland, has been entirely cured of "acute phthisis" by taking the open air treatment in Baden Black forest, Germany. In a period of 31⁄2 months he gained 42 pounds in weight and 6 inches in chest measurement.

Ottoxeter, Eng., possesses the most inquisitive animal on record. A bull, while being driven to the auction market, visited in succession a newly fitted up pharmacy, two public houses, and a bank. What

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he secured at the former places is not chronicled, BRAYLEY SONS SONS & CO.,

but at the last he received a "check."

Some considerable excitement and alarm

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caused in the works of Messrs. Flockhart & Co., Edinburgh, on Jany. 13th, by an explosion in the boiler room. On investigation it was discovered to be a steam pipe connected with the boiler bursting at very high pressure. No lives were lost nor were the premises seriously damaged.

During an inquest at Heaton Norris, England, in the case of a death of a lady where morphine poisoning was declared by the medical men to be the cause, a dispenser told a very peculiar story regarding the manner in which the mistake had been made. From his own admission nothing but gross and criminal negligence could be charged. He freely acknowledged "not understanding the prescription" and yet dispensed an 8 oz. mixture containing 50 grains of morphia with directions of "Two Tablespoonfuls dose" A man who had been 12 years dispensing and guilty of such carelessness deserved more than the jury's finding of "death from misadventure."

AMERICAN NEWS NOTES.

St. Louis is to have a World's Fair in 1903. Irving McKesson, a son of John McKesson, was recently taken in as partner in the firm of McKesson & Robbins.

A New York doctor-druggist has been fined $150 for allowing unregistered clerks to compound prescriptions.

At the next New York city pharmacy examinations homœopathic druggists will be required to present themselves for examination and registration as other members do.

The Ohio state board propose enforcing the law regarding the sale of carbolic acid, which states that none but qualified pharmacists can dispense it.

A Buffalo mother poisoned her infant by following the advice of a friend "to send to the drug store and procure a bottle of a patent nostrum for soothing purposes." A teaspoonful killed the infant.

Hervey C. Parke, of Parke, Davis & Co., died at San Diego, Cal., on Feb. 8, of heart failure. Mr. Parke was born at Bloomfield, Mich., in 1827. In 1866 with Mr. Duffield he founded the firm of Duffield. Parke & Co., which in 1868 became Parke, Davis & Co.

The beauties of a strictly cash system do not appeal to all individuals with equal force. Recently a California druggist endeavored to establish it, but one of his customers resented the invitation to the extent of knocking him down and otherwise causing grievous bodily harm.

Amalgamation of wholesale drug interests goes on apace across the border. The last reported is the absorption of the Hopkins Wells Drug Co of St. Louis by the Meyers Brothers' Drug Co. of that city. The sale was completed on February 1st, and transfer of stock is going on at present. One member of the firm and four travellers have gone over to Meyers Brothers in the transfer.

Philadelphia boys have discovered a new device for having fun." A city druggist remarking the large amount of chlorate of potash being sold enquired the purpose for which they were used, and was told that one of the tablets was placed in the bowl of a pipe, which was then filled with tobacco and offered to somebody else. Imagination supplies the balance of the programme.

Representative Burnett has offered a bill in the New York Legislature concerning the labelling of poisonous medicines, by the terms of which any preparation containing any poisonous substance must be labelled poison in the usual manner with skull and crossbones, etc. For every violation of the act, a fine not less than one hundred dollars will be imposed. The patent medicine men will fight against the bill.

The pharmacists of Manhattan have formed an association for the protection of their commercial interests, to be known as the Manhattan Pharmaceutical Association. The following were elected to hold office: R. R. Smith, president; W. H. Ebbitt, vice-president; John R. Caswell, 2nd vice-president; Felix Hirseman 3rd vice-president; T. J. Keenan, secretary; John C. Denner, treasurer, with an executive committee of fifteen members.

Politics permeate the whole social fabric of the United States. From the president down to the scavenger it is politics-and politics only. At present the Governor of Illinois and the State Board of Pharmacy have locked horns, and politics is claimed to be the origin of the row. The governor ordered the board to elect a secretary of his own selection and stripe of politics. The board ignored the command and re-elected the old secretary, Mr. Frank Fleury. Now the governor demands the resignation of the board. The latter defy him, and so the merry dance goes on.

"I am looking for a man by the name of Isaac Bildergash," said the lawyer-looking man, who stepped off at the little Oklahoma station.

"They wuz a cuss by that name here," answered Rubberneck Bill, "but he got into a hoss trouble and died."

"Er-was his death violent ?"

"Violent? Naw; peaceful as could be. He never even wiggled from the time the boys hung 'im to the time they took 'im down an' planted 'im.'

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NEWS FROM ABROAD.

Under the new Pharmacy Act of Victoria, Australia, all proprietary medicines containing poisons. on the schedule such as Chlorodyne Tellows Syrup must be stripped and labeled, and all new goods sent out must be labelled by the maker.

A buyers' association has been organized in Wellington, New Zealand, by the pharmaceutical Society. Patents are bought in large quantities and distributed to members at cost, with only such amounts as may be agreed on for advertising when necessary.

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A valuable find has been made at Prado, off the cost of Balisce. An investigation has resulted in finding that the sand found there is almost pure oxides of didymium, corium and thorium. Analysis made in London, Paris and Berlin showed identical results. It is now used largely in making incandescent light mantles.

Pharmacy reform is in the air in Russia. Shorter hours for assistants and better conditions of work, as also abolition of monopoly conditions, are the It is principal planks in the platform of reform. proposed to allow every qualified pharmacist where and when he chooses and to allow private individuals to own drug stores provided a qualified man is in charge.

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quinine advanced 40 per cent. Opium and morphia are firmer at the clus.; camphor steadily advances it being said the Japanese government intends to make it a monopoly; mercury and mercurials are marked up, Spanish exchange being higher; balsam copaiba is lower; citric and tartaric acids with cream tartar cost more; Cod Liver Oil rather off, Newfoundland steadily gaining on the Norwegian in all markets; golden seal root has gone to famine prices; ergot weaker; the advance in white lead is firmly held; linseed oil strong; spirits of turpentine steady; a rumor that the Standard Oil Co. is working for control of it is a revival of an old story.

WANTS, FOR SALE, Etc.

WANTED.-Assistant wanted; graduate of Ontaric College of Pharmacy, to manage. Address Box 12, PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL, Toronto.

SODA FOUNTAIN WANTED.-In good running order and must be a bargain. High priced one preferred. Address J., CAN. PHARM. JOURNAL, Toronto.

STAMPS BOUGHT AND SOLD. 100 different, 20C; 200 different, 60; 1000 Price mixed, 27c; 35 mixed stamps, 60c.

FOUR PENCR lists free, also copy Canadian Philatelic Magazine, (25c a year), monthly. Stamps bought, and collections. 50c per 100 paid for 5c, 6c, 8c, and Ioc current issue. WM. K. ADAMS, 401 Yonge St., Toronto.

SODA FOUNTAINS AND OPTICAL CASE FOR SALE-One Tuft's latest improved, 10 syrup taps, three steel cylinders. One square Tufts older style, very cheap. Also one complete optical case and stock of optical goods.

PARKE & PARKE,

Hamilton.

ACTIVE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERY

WHERE for The Story of the Philippines," by Murat Halstead, commissioned by the Government as Official Historian to the War Department. The book was written in army camps at San Francisco, on the Pacific with General Merritt, in the hospitals at Honolulu, in Hong Kong, in the American trenches at Manilla, in the insurgent camps with Aguinaldo, on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battle at the fall of Manilla. Bonanza for agents. Brimful of original pictures taken by government photographers on the spot. Large book. Low prices. Big profits. Freight paid. Credit given. Drop all trashy unofficial war books. Outfit free. Address H. L. Barber. Gen. Manager, 356 Dearborn Street, Chicago.

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