A Nice Ethical Question

The doctor troubles himsell very little, I imagine, about the relative deserts of his two patients. Each is a "case" to be treated on its merits. But all the same there is a striking dillerence between the two uses to whieh the science of medicine is put. The physician prescribes equally for the hard pressed, poor man who seeks strength i order that he may support his fainJy, and for the self indulgent free liver, who comes to be cured so that he may ke up a fresh course of dissrpaiioix I once heard a heated discossion berween a doctor and a lawyer as to the relative dignity of their respective calinga, in which the latter deelared, as lis paxting shot, that he saw nothing so very noble in a profession one of the chief uses of whieh was to en&ble the man who had eaten and drank too much to eatand drink still more. - Boton Post. An immense hall in St. Petersburg is used for balls at night and military displays by day. It is 620 feet in length, and 150 feet wide, without pillara, and a roof of only one single iron arch. It reqrrires 20,000 tapers to üght it up, and Itcaaaocommodatel5,000peraaot.