A British county medical health officer condemns the present prevalent habit of headache powder' taking as dangerous, due to the fact that frequently the powders contain doses of drugs largely in excess of that authorized by the B. P.

Frederick Bayer, of E berfeld, Germany, has reduced the price of phenecetine from 14s. 3d. to 5s. 6d. in Eng'and. The former exhorbitantly high price has been maintained, it is claimed, to protect the American interests of the firm. Affairs have been arranged in the States so that such protection is no longer required.

A barrel of arsenical solution, for use as a weedkiller, was the cause of the death of a cveling clergyman in Scotland. The reverend gentleman being thirsty and exhausted, took a drink from the barrel, thinknig it pure water. We have heard of a number of cases of carelessness that come under the class of criminal, but the party or parties guilty of leaving a barrel of arsenic by the wayside, unprotected or without warning, should be indicted for murder.

AMERICAN NEWS NOTES.

A Boston druggist claims to be able to draw 127 kinds of drinks from his new fountain.

Among the attractions and entertainments provided for A. Ph. A. members at the Baltimore meeting is a trip to the famous battlefields of Gettysburg.

American bottle manufacturers are talking about forming a trust to control the output of flint glass ware, similar to that of the American Window Glass Company.

A new college of pharmacy is to be opened in Philadelphia in connection with the Medico-Chirurgical College. Henry C. Maisch, son of the late Prof. Jno. M. Maisch, is one of the staff.

John. M. Peters, who has for over two years been manager of the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter and The Druggists' Circular, has resigned his position and has become connected with the firm of Wm. J. Matheson & Co., of New York.

An Atlanta, Ga., grocer has had to pay damages and a bill of costs to a man whom he almost killed by selling him a preparation of morphia instead of quinine. This is an outrage, as any man who goes to the grocer for his medicine deserves to be poisoned.

Druggists' associations in all parts of the Union continue to protest against the action of patent medicine proprietors in shifting the burden of the war tax from their own to the shoulders of the retailer. The manufacturer may yet find that it were better and cheaper to have paid the tax.

Herman Hurwitz, who was recently arrested for smuggling phenacetine, was fined $1000 by Judge. Lacombe in the U. S. Circuit Court at New York,

for having disobeyed an injunction of the court restraining him from selling the drug. He will also have to stand his trial on the charge of smuggling.

A correspondent in the Pharmaceutical Era suggests, as a means of "getting back at the manufacturers who have raised their prices to meet the war tax, that the retailers affix a label in the form of a Spanish flag bearing the legend "The manufacturer of this article has failed to pay the revenue tax as contemplated by law."

Messrs Scott & Bowne have brought action against J. E. Blackburn, dairy and food commissioner of Ohio, for the sum of $200,000 damages. They claim to have sustained this loss through the action of Mr. Blackburn in publicly stating that an analysis showed their emulsion to contain morphia. Scott & Bowne claim that the prosecution against their emulsion was actuated by malice.

Dr. William Pepper, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, died at Pleasanton, California, on July 28th. Dr. Pepper was professor of pathology in the University and was a most indefatigable worker not only in the interests of the university, but in those of Philadelphia as well. The William Pepper Clinical Laboratory was founded and endowed by him, and in many other ways he has shown public spiritedness. Already there is talk of erecting a monument to his memory on the University grounds or the Philadelphia Commercial Museums, with which he was intimately connected.

NEWS FROM ABROAD.

Prof. Koch is out with a condemnation of the excessive use of quinine in tropical countries, claiming that the object for which it is taken is not attained, but that dangerous results often follow in the form of black-water fever. The professor quotes statistics in support of his contention.

Cape Colony, South Africa, is agitating for a law governing the sale of patent medicines. The Government propose introducing a bill providing that all patent medicines shall bear on the label the formula of the preparation. The penalty for violation of the law will be $50 or six months. Already hte proprietors of the Colony and Great Britain are organizing to fight the bill, and we imagine it will have poor chance of becoming law.

The French pharmacists have commenced to prepare for the Congress of 1900, a meeting having recently been held at which the officers were appointed and committees named to carry on the work. Mr. Planchon, director of the Paris School of Pharmacy, was elected president; Prof. Dufrey, of the Toulouse School of Pharmacy, and M. Petit, vice-presidents. The committees, which will be appointed later, will contain all the prominent pharmacists of France.

Messrs. Brunner, Mond & Co. recently celebrated the silver anniversary of the foundation of the firm by giving a dinner to the heads of departments and foremen, and a picnic to all the employees with their wives and families, at which, according to the Chemist and Druggist, 10,000 people were present. Sir John Brunner and Dr. Mond turned the first sods on the site of a new pavilion and club house which they are presenting to the employees.

The Medical Sentinel relates the case of a medical student who died recently in Vienna at the age of 70, just before his final examination; and also of another who graduated at Warsaw in his 75th year, who commenced the study of medicine in 1843, but on account of poverty was obliged to abandon it for twenty years and when he was able to take up the study again he was arrested and sent to Siberia as a political prisoner, where he remains till 1895, when he was pardoned and returned to the university where he graduated.

YET. OFFER.

Obituary.

DR. DE VRIJ, the famous quinologist, died at The Hague on July 30. He was born in 1813 at Rotterdam, and was educated as a pharmacist. He early became known for his writings on various pharmaceutical and chemical subjects, but it is principally in connection with cinchona and its alkaloids that his name is known. In 1850 he sold his pharmacy and devoted himself entirely to scientific work, and in 1857 he was sent to Java by the Dutch government, where he remained six years working on the question of cinchona cultivation. He afterwards visited India, and was of much service to the government, who eagerly sought his advice on the cultivation of cinchona. He was the recipient of many honors from the British government and learned societies in England and on the continent.

a bake-shop across the street noticed flames issuing from the cellar of Carter's drug store. The alarm was given, and the fire, which gave considerable evidence of incendiary origin, was quickly extinguished. Mr. Carter, with his wife and child, occupied compartments above the store, and the household was naturally thrown into much confusion by the midnight alarm. Mr. Carter was himself noticed on the street, however, after the fire had been extinguished, and seemed to be in the best of health.

Later in the morning he retired. Shortly before ten o'clock his wife was alarmed at finding him in a heavy stuper. Dr. Kidd and Dr. Philp were hastily summoned, but the young man was past recovery, and expired shortly after their arrival. The doctors found that death had probably resulted from an overdose of morphine, but considered an inquest unnecessary.

Deceased, who was only twenty-five years of age at the time of his death, was the second son of the late James North Carter, of this town. He leaves a widow and a child. The funeral took place at three o'clock on Thursday afternoon.

Market Report.

Drugs-August 31.-Trade is rather unsettled, the cessation of hostilities creating a feeling of uncertainty as to the future course of prices. Items which are higher or firmer are: Acid citric, cocoa butter, mentol, oil bergamot, pimento, saffron, canary seed, cocoa leaves, ipeca senega root, buchu. These are lower or easier: Gentian, new crop, henbane, caustic soda, sugar of milk, chamomiles, old crop, sulphur, brimstone, balsam copaiba, beeswax. Steady markets, but not active, are reported for: Opium, quinine, castor oil, oil peppermint, chlorates, potash and soda. Cocaine offered sparingly.

Phenazone is unchanged. Phenacetine bayer has all gone to smash and no one can tell how low it may go. Borax looking up at last. Glycerine is expected to be dearer. Camphor, refined, is lower and easier. Cod liver oil is quiet, but holders are confident that short stocks will create an advance when usual demand sets in. Oils essential-lemon is again firmer after the late decline. Bergamot is much dearer. Citronella rising. Cassis lower. Peppermint crop injured by frost July 10th. Mercury and mercurials are unchanged. Linseed oil has been reduced one cent. Spirits turpentine is advancing being now 12 1-2 per cent. above the lowest of this season. White lead is very firm and likely to advance.

YOUNG & SMYLIE.

This firm's name is a guarantee of excellency and quality in liquorice. Pure goods can be depended on when Y. & S. is specified by the purchaser. So much rubbish is on the market at present that one can only be safe in accepting that which comes with a good name, secured through years of reputable dealing.

THE J. STEVENS & SON CO., Limited.

It will pay to read what this firm have to announce to the trade on another page of this issue. Good goods at proper prices is their motto. The sundries branch of their trade is under the care of Mr. Ross, whose many years of experience enables him to meet the requirements of the druggists. A call at their warehouse on Wellington street will reveal the completeness of their stock and moderation of prices.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

Alkaloidal Estimation: A bibliographical index of chemical research prepared from original literature for the Committee of Revision by Paul L. Murrill, under the direction of Albert B. Prescott. Published by the Committee of Revision and Publication of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. Year Book, Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, 1898.

NOTICE.

The season is approaching when no druggist should be without a fresh stock of a reliable Diphtheria Antitoxin. The early autumn and winter always brings an increasing prevalence of diphtheria and membranous croup. To be ready for every emergency thus arising will mean increase in business for the wide-awake druggist. The value of Mulford's Concentrated Diphtheria Antitoxin, advertised elsewhere in this journal is well established. The product has won the enviable record of most extensive employment and largest percentage of recoveries. Seasonable literature is promptly supplied upon request.

A NEW AGENCY IN TORONTO.

Messrs. Saunders & Evans, sponge merchants, 30 Wellington street east, have secured the Toronto agency for Messrs. Davis & Lawrence Co., Montreal, and also of the Ottawa Truss and Surgical Co. It is the intention of the firm to stock all the Davis & Lawrence specialties, as well as all goods for which they are the Canadian agents, including the J. Wyeth & Bro. pharmaceutical preparations. This will be a convenience to city pharmacists and also those of the province, as it has been difficult to procure many of these preparations when prescribed by the physician.