Iodide is quoted at $3.50 per lb.-an advance in sympathy with Iodine.

Salicylate has been marked up to 77c.

Sugar of Milk, Powdered, 15c to 20c is now asked. Turpentine continues firm. 6oc in bbls. is now

asked.

New and Seasonable Sundries.

Bag, Paige's Odorless, Moth and Dust Proof. For the storage of clothing, furs, blankets, hats, etc., air-tight. Made in 3 sizes. Just in season for storing winter clothing. 30x50, each 50c; 24x48, each 40c; 22x30,each 35c.

Braces, Knickerbocker Shoulder, prices reduced. Ist quality, doz. $8.50; 2nd quality, doz. $6.50; 3rd quality, doz. $4.50.

Brushes, Bailey's Rubber, have advanced as per list herewith:

Bailey's Rubber Bath Brush, doz. $13.20; Bailey's Rubber Shampoo Brush, doz. $6.60; Bailey's Rubber Complexion Brush, dez. $4.40; Bailey's Rubber Hand Brush, doz. $4.40; Bailey's Rubber Toilet Brush, doz. $2.20; Bailey's Rubber Tooth Brush, No. 1, doz. $2.20; Bailey's Rubber Tooth Brush, No. 2, doz. $2.75; Bailey's Rubber Blacking Dauber, doz. $2.20. Soap, Bailey's Complexion, doz. Soc.

Crutch Tip, Bailey's "Won't-Slip," doz. $1.20. Cleaners, Wall Paper, will soon be in demand for Spring house cleaning.

Wall Paper Cleaner, "Diamond," gro. $15.00, doz. $1.50; Wall Paper Cleaner, "Absorine," gro. $18.00, doz. $1.75; Wall Paper Cleaner, "Sulphur Carbon," small, doz. $1.80; Wall Paper Cleaner, "Sulphur Carbon," large, doz. $3.60.

Cotton, Crown Absorbent.-Latest prices.

1-lb. cartons, 1b. 25c; %1⁄2-lb. cartons, lb. 30c; 4-lb. cartons, lb. 35c; 2-oz. cartons, lb. 40c; 1-oz. cartons, lb. 45c; -oz. cartons, lb. 65c; 1-lb. rolls, lb. 20c.

Dyes, Easter Egg.-White Rabbit Egg Dyes, 40 5c packages in box, box $1.00; White Rabbit Paper Dye, 40 5c packages in box, box $1.00; Fleck's German Egg Dyes-No. 1 Outfit $1.00; No. 2 Outfit $1.00; No. 3 Outfit $2.75.

No. 1 Outfit contains 31⁄2 dozen 5c packages; each 5c package contains 6 colors: Red, Purple, Green, Orange, Scarlet and Yellow, and 6 Sheets Paper Dyes, assorted colors and designs -enough to color and decorate more than 100 eggs, and each egg different.

No. 2 Outfit contains 31⁄2 dozen 5c packages Fleck's Paper Dyes, for decorating Easter Eggs; each 5c package contains 24 sheets assorted colors and new designs. 48 eggs can be decorated with a 5c package, as the Dye Papers can be used a second time.

Above Outfits are packed in handsome display boxes, with attractive colored labels, showing colors and decoration of Eggs. Each Outfit also contains two kinds original six-color window hangers, etc.

No. 3 Outfit is to introduce Fleck's 10c goods; contents are as follows: 2 dozen Jim Crow Corn Salve; 1 dozen Crow Toothache Remedy; 1 dozen Fleck's Toothache Gum; 1-12 dozen Anti-Bacco-Chew Gum; 4 gross 5c packages Dyes. (Outfit No. 1, as above.)

Paas Egg Dyes-Contains 40 5c packages Union Package Tablets, in envelopes containing 12 colors (Tablets), eight pictures (Dewey, etc.,) and brush. Per package, $1.00.

Paas' Calico Picture Paper-Contains 36 5c packages, large white envelopes with 12 sheets Calico Picture Paper, every one capable of being used several times; Transfer Pictures of Rabbits and other Animais, Flags, Flowers, etc., in a number of colors, all in one operation. Per package, $1.00.

Easter Novelty Assortment. These goods will soon be in season and orders should be placed at once.

The assortment affords the dealer a liberal profit at retail prices usually obtained for such goods; at $5.00 This assortment contains toy rabbits, chickens, etc., for Easter gifts.

net.

Extract Narcissus Buds, Imperial Crown.-This grand new odor is now ready for the market. This perfume is unlike any other odor ever put out; it is strictly up-to-date, is very strong and lasting. Bear in mind that one drop of Narcissus is equal in value to twenty drops of the regular run of perfumes. Narcissus Buds, Imperial Crown, No. 151, trial size. Put up one dozen on a card, at 75c per dozen. Flower Seed "Box G."-A seasonable bargain at $3.00 per box. Retails for $12.00. If the dealer disposes of but half the box the profit afforded him will be over 100 per cent. These boxes contain a full assortment of the choicest seeds.

Glazier's Points, further advanced. In cases of 100-lb. packs, per case $7.50; dozen $1 00.

Gum, Chewing, Van Cullen Bros.' Grape Fruit.— 5 boxes or more at 50c per box; box at 55c. Harmonicas have advanced.

34 B, Hohner, doz. $1.85; 3C, N, D, Hohner, doz. $4 50; 70 Hohner, doz. $3.25; 1896 Hohner, doz. $2.10; 18961⁄2 Hohner, doz. $4.25.

Nipples, Davidson's Patent Pyramid.-No. 62, White, gro. $3.00, doz. 30c; No. 66, Black, gro. $3.25, doz. 30c; No. 68, Maroon, gro. $3.25, doz. 30c.

Paper, Diamond and Pearl Writing, in one-pound packages, in three sizes: Octavo, Commercial and Packet, each size in two colors, white and cream. The price is low for this grade of paper, and when sold at retail for 15c a pound it makes a good leader. Octavo, Plain, Pearl (cream), 1b. 12c; Ruled, Pearl (cream), 1b. 12c; Ruled, Diamond (white), lb. 12c; Plain, Diamond (white)

1b. 12c.

Commercial, Plain, Diamond (white), Ib. 12c; Ruled, Diamond (white), lb. 12c; Ruled, Pearl (cream), 1b. 12c; Plain, Pearl (cream), lb. 12c.

Packet, Plain, Pearl (cream), 1b. 12c; Ruled, Pearl (cream) lb. 12c; Ruled, Diamond (white), lb. 12c; Plain, Diamond (white),

1b. 12c.

NOTE.-Octavo size requires 50 No. 4 Baronial envelopes to 1 lb. of paper. Commercial size requires 40 No. 5 Baronial or Commercial envelopes to 1 lb. of paper. Packet size requires 35 No. 6 Commercial envelopes to 1 lb. of paper.

Photographic Supplies.-Note the advance on Dry Plates. No change in list prices, but discount reduced as follows:

Seed's Gilt Edge No. 27, Cramer Crown, Hammer Special Extra Fast, 15%; Seed's 23, 26 and 26x, Cramer Banner, 20%; Hammer Extra Fast, Fast and Slow, 25%; Cramer Isochromatic, Medium and Instantaneous, 10%; Seed's Non-Halation, Special List, 10% Hammer Aurora Non-Halation, Special List, 15%. Plasters, M. B. Court.-Imperial Court, 3 piece, white, flesh and black tracing cloth, gro. $1.50, doz. 15c. Favorite Court, 3 piece, white, flesh and black, gro. $3.00, doz. 30c.

Soap, Carbolisoap, Cole's, advanced to $2.00 doz. Soap, Moorish.-Put up I doz. in a box, each cake wrapped; gro. $4.50, doz., 40c. The largest 5c cake of toilet soap made.

Straws, Stone's Julep, Paper.—Put up in boxes of 100 and 500-50,000 straws in a case. Per 1000 straws 65c. Specify whether 100s or 500s are wanted.

Syringes, The Pearl Rapid Flow, Fountain; in paper box, with three hard rubber screw pipes, infant, rectal and bent vaginal.

2-quart, doz., $11; 3-quart, doz., $12; 4-quart, doz., $13. Syringes, Phyrne, bulb, doz., $6.

Toothpicks.-Big values which should be carried by every druggist.

Toothpicks, Ideal, in cartons, 50 boxes each, per carton, $1.75; White Maple, 16 cartons in case, 3 dozen boxes in a carton, per carton, $2; White Maple, hotel, 2,500 picks in a box, in cases of 50 and 100 boxes, per case of 100s, $16.

Unguentine.—

Collapsible tubes, doz., $2.00; screw cap jars, per jar, $1.00; hospital, 5-lb. tins, per tin, $4.75.

Changes and Additions in Proprietary Goods.
Anti-Grippine.-Doz., $1.25.

Balm, Kay's Lung.-Liquid, doz., $1.75; large, $3.75.
Kay's Lung.-Tablets, doz., $1.75; vest pocket size, $1.75.
Bromo-Nervolene, doz., $3.50.

Compound, Ponca.-Price reduced to $3.00 doz.
Waterbury's Cod Liver Oil, doz., $8.00; G. & C., $9.00.

Cream, Dr. Allen's Malt, doz., 4s, $2.10; %s, $4.20; 1s, $8.40; 5s, $32.00.

Croupine, Dr. Lanoix, doz,, $2.00.

Cure, Daisy Corn, doz., 85c.
Kay's, Catarrh, doz., $3.75.

Kay's Pile, doz., $3.75.

Plantation Chill, in both tasteless and plain form, has been reduced in price from $4 to $3.75 per dozen, and the former bonus offer of two dozen free on gross lots has been withdrawn. Shield Catarrh, doz., $4.00.

Dust, Death, 10c size, doz., 75c; 25c size, doz., $2,00.

Honey Tolu, Yager's, doz., $2.00.

Kidneycura, Kay's.-Tablets, doz., $7.75.

Killer, Lee's Lice, advanced; doz., qts., $2.75; gals., $4.80;

Paste, American Roach and Rat, advanced; doz., $1.

Peptonix, advanced; doz., $4.25.

Pills, Red Cross Tansy, doz., $8.00,

Robin's Cascara Compound, mild, doz., $4.80; strong, $7.20.
Powder, Dixie Fever and Pain, doz., $1.75.

Presto, advanced; small, doz., $2.00; large, $4.00; ointment $2.00.

Remedy, S. Grover Graham's Dyspepsia, small, doz., $4.00; large, $8.00.

Restorative, Ricord's Vital, advanced; doz., $9.00.
Salve, Findley's Eye, doz., $1.25.

Dr. Holtin's, doz., $2.00.

SEASONABLE GOODS.

The up-to-date pharmacist is careful to look ahead and order goods that will be in season for a few weeks to come. The following list is suggestive:

Acetanilid,

Acid, Carbolic,
Acid, Tannic,
Ammonia,

Arsenic,

Balsam Fir,
Balsam Peru,
Bark, Elm,

Bark, Wild Cherry,
Cod Liver Oil,
Rock Candy,
Rock Candy Syrup,
Camphor,

Extract Licorice,
Flower Seeds,
Glycerin,

Insect Powder,
Olive Oil,
Quinine,
Sal. Epsom,
Saltpetre,

Mothine, in Marbles or Flakes,

Oliphane, Petrolatum,

Paris Green,

"Pure Food" Spices,
Atomizers,

Fever and Weather Thermometers,
Brushes, Hair, Cloth and Tooth,
Camphor Ice, Imperial Crown,
Cream, Salvea, Imperial Crown,
Cream, Cold, Imperial Crown,
Witch Hazel and Glycerin Lotion,

Cough Drops, "Old Homestead," Horehound,
Writing Paper,

Tablets, Pens and Pencils,

Chamois Skins and Sponges,

Purses, Pocket Books, Bill Books,
Easter Egg Dyes,

Whiskey, Brandies, etc.

Changes in the Pharmacopea Austriaca ed VII. The following are additions:

1-Acetphenetidinum, 2-Amylum Oryzae, 3-Antipyrinum Coffeïno citricum, 4-Antipyrinum salicylicum, 5-Aqua kresolica, 6-Bismuthum subgallicum, 7-Charta sinapisata, 8-Codeïnum hydrochloricum, 9-Coffeïnum Natrio-benzoïcum, 10-Collemplastrum adhaesivum, 11-Collemplastrum salicylatum, 12Extractum Chinae (improved), 13-Extractum Condurango fluidum, 14-Extractum Hydrastidis fluidum (improved), 15-Extractum Quebracho fluidum (improved), 16-Extractum Rhamni Purshiani fluidum (improved), 17-Ferrum oxydatum saccharatum, 18-Ferrum sulfuricum praecipitatum, 19-Formaldehydum solutum, 20-Fructus Capsici, 21-Fructus Piperis nigri, 22Kresolum, 23-Kresolum liquefactum, 24-Liquor Capsici compositus, 25-Natrium hydrooxydatum, 26-Oleum phosphoratum, 27-Oleum Resinae empyreumaticum, 28-Pastilli Hydrargyri bichlorati corrosivi, 29-Phosphorus, 30-Pilulae ferri carbonici, 31-Resina elastica, 32-Resina Podophylli, 33-Resorcinum, 34Saccharinum, 35-Sandaraca, 36-Sebum ovile, 37- Sebum salicylatum, 38-Stearinum, 39-Sulfonalum, 40-Suppositoria Glycerini, 41-Syrupus Sennae cum Manna (improved), 42-Theobrominum, 43-Theobrominum Natrio-salicylicum, 44-Tinctura Aloës composita, 45-Tinctura Rhei acquosa (improved), 46-Tinctura Strophanti (improved), 47-Trionalum, 48-Unguentum Acidi borici, 49-Unguentum Diachylon (improved), 50-Unguentum Glycerini (improved), 51-Unguentum Hydrargyri (improved), 52-Unguentum sulfuratum (improved), 53-Vinum, 54 -Vinum album, 55-Vinum rubrum, 56-Vinum Malagense, 57-Vinum Marsalense, 58-Vinum Chinae ferratum, 59-Vinum Condurango, 60-Vinum Pepsini, 61-Vinum Rhamni Purshiani

these fifty years Mr. Michael has served under seven principals. It will require more perfect hygenic surroundings for many generations before American drug clerks will look back upon half a century of service in a single drug store. Nor can we credit the living customs of Mr. Michael with this extraordinary service. He no doubt belongs to a family of long-lived and persevering people.

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The efforts in Europe to guard the lives of drug clerks is the natural outcome of the growing attention given the subject of hygiene and public sanitation. It has long been considered a crime to permit a fellow human being to take his or her own life. Science has pointed out that arsenic, pistols and other agencies employed by the usual suicide are by no means the only methods of shortening one's own life. sources of danger do not multiply as some secular writers facetiously state, but bacteriology and other sciences and arts acquaint us with our environments and point out dangers never before recognized. It is only a few weeks since Professor Flügge, a German experimentor, demonstrated that the human breath may be laden with disease germs which are more dangerous than the disagreeable cigarette, onion or balsam of copaiba breath.

Since writing the above we have found in the New York Medical Journal an item germane to the subject, since it illustrates how general the study of hygiene has become. The item reads as follows:

"According to the Maryland Medical Journal for March, among the good things said at the last meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York, one of the best came from Dr. John H. Pryor, of Buffalo, who illuminated the economic aspect of State cure for consumptives in these words:

'What we ask for is that the consumptive shall be taken care of at the right place and at the right time until he is well, and not at the wrong place and at the wrong time until he is dead.' It is merely a question of whether we shall pay early or late. The consumptive is a public charge. We can admit the obligation early and make terms, or we can postpone payment until judgment by default is entered, covering every item of the account."

The Pure Food and Drug Congress.-There were congregated in Washington last month some 250 representative men, whose object boded no good to the adulterator of food and drugs in the United States. It was the third annual meeting of the Pure Food and Drug Congress, whose earnest endeavors should be applauded and encouraged by the entire country. The object of the meeting was to urge legislation against adulteration, now so generally practiced not only with food products but drugs as well. It is to be earnestly hoped that the congress members and their friends will succeed in showing our Congressmen the necessity of such legislation.

There were in attendance delegates from thirty-one States, Territories and the District of Columbia; also from thirteen national and ninety-five State and local organizations, making a total of 258 registered delegates. The character of the gentlemen assembled,

representing leading manufacturers of the different food products, pharmacists and members of the leading drug firms of the country, certainly showed that it was a meeting for no small purpose, and that widespread interest was being taken in the movement.

There is now a bill before Congress, proposed by the Hon. Mr. Brosius, of Pennsylvania, the object of which is to restrict the sale of adulterated foods and drugs; and the meeting was called for the purpose of indorsing this bill and to urge upon Congress to make it a law. That such a law is necessary has been conclusively shown by the Senate committee on manufactures, who have been engaged a long time in making thorough investigation on the subject of food and drug adulteration. They have reported that not only the health of the people is jeopardized, but that our markets for these products are also in danger of being lost to us through this pernicious practice of adulteration.

Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Wilson, handled the manipulator without gloves in his remarks to the congress. Among other things, he said: "We must protect the weak from the unscrupulous, and we must protect our homes from the invaders. Gentlemen, let me say to you that the man who sells an article he knows to be different from what it purports to be is a common thief, and the man who sells food that is deleterious to health and life is a common murderer." Very strong words, and yet he was warranted in speaking them.

Senator Mason is one of the most ardent champions of pure food in the United States Congress, and his address to the delegates was full of good, practical advice. He told them to agree upon a bill, general in its character, and then go home and create public sentiment in favor of its passage. He asked them to write, and have everybody write, to senators and representatives, urging favorable action upon the bill at an early date. Senator Mason declared that he believed the pure food bill to be of equal importance with the Puerto Rican tariff bill.

The cause is a just one, and it is hoped that public sentiment will be aroused to the importance of this measure, and that we will not be lacking in this essential for the protection of human life. All civilized foreign countries have long ago realized the necessity of such laws and have had them in force, operating to the benefit of the honest dealer and to the detriment of only the manipulator and the cheat.

The Apprentice Question has been given a new impetus by the Illinois Board of Pharmacy, the A. Ph. A. and some of the State associations. It is not, however, as new as some seem to think. We acci

dentally ran across the following in a copy of the Chemist and Druggist of London, for 1881. It shows what was being agitated in Philadelphia a score of years ago:

"American Apprentices.-The executive committee of the Trade Association of Philadelphia has recently issued a circular treating of apprentices and their proper training. They recommend that an apprentice,

on entering a pharmacy, must furnish satisfactory evidence of good character and integrity; that he should ha e a good elementary education and fair penmanship, and know orthography and arithmetic, as far as proportion and fractions, both vulgar and decimal. Next, it is advised that a trial of three months be agreed upon, and, when agreement is made, the student's term should conform to the rules and requirements of the College of Pharmacy, and that the following terms be agreed upon: For the first year, $50; second year, $75; third year, $100; fourth year, $150; and the student to receive from his employer full-course tickets to lectures of the College of Pharmacy of that city, in the third and fourth years; no student to be engaged under 15, nor over 17 years of age; that the agreement be executed in writing, setting forth the compact on an honorable basis, free from legal binding. Finally, that the apprentices should not be entrusted with the higher responsibilities of the business until they have had at least two years' experience of store routine, and even then under guarded care."

Carthagenia Ipecac has been on the market for some time and commonly sold as the Rio drug. Practical experiments and the usual course of trade failed to find any reason why the Carthagenia drug

should be under a ban.

The recent movements in favor of a pure food and drug law brought out the true condition of affairs and directed the attention of the drug section of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation to the injustice of the custom regulations. The result of the agitation is a removal of the legal prejudice against Carthagenia Ipecac, and its admission under the same terms as Rio. Some predict a great reduction in the price of ipecac as a sequel to the new ruling. In the

London market Rio sells for about 80 cents per pound more than Carthagenia. In this country the latter had no legal standing and when sold bore the name of Rio. The probabilities are that it will now bear its own cognomen and bring the same price as Rio Ipecac. The price of Rio may fall slightly but not to any great amount. A few pharmacists have objected to the admission of the out-cast drug, but captious criticisms of the action are not in order. It is likely the United States Pharmacopoeia will follow suit and make both drugs official.

The Number of Deaths From Consumption causes that disease to rank far beyond the plague as an agency destructive to human life. It does not, however, arouse the same fear that is attached to the plague and some other less destructive diseases. It is interesting to note in this connection that when a person dies from tuberculosis the germs are no longer dangerous. Experiments made by the celebrated Dr. Klein, of Germany, demonstrate that it is impossible to produce cultures of the tubercular germs from those found in the body of an animal dying from the disease.

Nor was he able to infect a living animal with the germs. While this is true of tuberculosis, conditions are different with typhoid fever, cholera and many

other germs. The experiments prove that many disease germs live from one to two or three weeks after death and burial of the animal which has succumbed to their ravages.

An Early Closing Law in New South Wales went into effect January 1. It is a lengthy document and seems to be all the more intricate and confusing on that account. If the law-breakers of that country look as carefully for technicalities as they do in the United States, it is probable that many loop-holes will be discovered in the new law. It groups together chemists' shops, druggists' shops, private dispensaries, public dispensaries and flower shops in one of the four subdivisions of places of business, giving no exception to the general law. The stores just mentioned shall close at nine o'clock five days in the week and at eleven o'clock Saturday evenings.

Medical Works of Interest to Pharmacists.-One of the most erudite and interesting medical writers of this country is Dr. P. C. Remondino, of California. His "History of Circumcision" is much more than a mere statement of historic facts. It discusses this ancient and modern practice in the light of hygiene. The book also contains collateral matter of fascinat

ing interest. It is published by F. A. Davis, of Philadelphia, Pa. Other medical works of interest to pharmacists were mentioned in MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for November, page 328; February, page 36; March, page 68.

Artificial Indigo, as stated in a recent issue of the MEYER Brothers DruggisT, is making unmistakable inroads on the natural indigo market. The growers in Java and India fight the synthetical article as laborers do the introduction of labor-saving

machinery, and with about the same effect. The

demand for the dye increases, but the price slowly declines. Technical and commercial chemistry is revolutionizing many industries, and the wise indigo grower will soon seek other avenues for investments.

Counterfeit Shellac.-During the rebellion much was heard about counterfeit money. Since then, the public is continually warned by the daily and weekly press against counterfeit patent medicine. Now we find that the wholesale trade is warned against counterfeit shellac. The firms in India have taken steps to prosecute all American dealers who counterfeit their brand of shellac. These warning notes should be sounded for the information of the retail drug trade and the varnish dealers.

Dexterity in the Drug Business is required of the successful pharmacist, not only in the making of pills, forming of emulsions and the spreading of plasters, but also in dispensing neat and attractive packages. Probably one of the best examples of dexterity acquired by practice is that of cutting corks by hand. At the present time our corks are mostly machine-cut, but the older readers of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST will remember the hand-cut corks, which were practically as good as those of the present day.