. Annals of hygiene. that country still enjoyed the advantages—or disadvantages—of a monarchical regime. During the entireforty days that the embalmed corpse of the illustrious dead layin state in the Cathedral of St. Denis, the court ceremonies werecarried on within the abbej^ as though the monarch or prince stilllived. The royal or imperial table would be set every night in therefectory and the grand master of ceremonies, when dinner wasbrought up, would proceed in full uniform to the chancel of thechurch, where the corpse lay rigid and cold, and, with a low obei-sance, would exclaim,— Sire,
. Annals of hygiene. that country still enjoyed the advantages—or disadvantages—of a monarchical regime. During the entireforty days that the embalmed corpse of the illustrious dead layin state in the Cathedral of St. Denis, the court ceremonies werecarried on within the abbej^ as though the monarch or prince stilllived. The royal or imperial table would be set every night in therefectory and the grand master of ceremonies, when dinner wasbrought up, would proceed in full uniform to the chancel of thechurch, where the corpse lay rigid and cold, and, with a low obei-sance, would exclaim,— Sire, the dinner is served according to your Majestys or-ders! Then the chamberlain, standing on duty beside the corpse,would respond with great dignity,— His Majesty has been graciously pleased to dine already anddesires to remain undisturbed, whereupon the master of the cere-monies would back out with the three customary low obeisancesto the dead, and would order the meal to be taken away.—Phila-delphia IWansIaug^liter and Xypboid Fever. The Duluth Gas and Water Company has been indicted formanslaughter in having caused the death of Harry W. Smith bytyphoid fever, alleged to have been contracted from water deliv-ered through the mains. Their franchise specifies that they shallfurnish pure water. Vaccinated His Fingfers. A young New Orleans man, named Taylor, recently learneda lesson, the moral of which is, Do not touch anything you maysee in a doctors ofiice. Taylor was waiting for his physician, and while doing so tookoccasion to manicure his nails with an ivory instrument that layon the table. A few days later his finger-tips became so sorethat he was obliged to consult the doctor, who found that thesores were those caused by vaccination, which Taylor had in-advertently practised upon himself by using a vaccine point asa nail-cleaner. A Case of Oyster-Poisoningf. Case of poisoning from the use of oysters are becoming ex-ceedingly common. The British Medical Jot
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