Sanitary Cranks And Humbugs.

We had just been reading the views of an eminent sanitary expert upon impregnation I of brown stone houses with the germs of I diphtheria. We have also read no less than I three published opinions of sanitary experts that "a wooden house is positively unfit to live in." One eminent sanitary expert gives it as his opinión that at the expiration of flve years every bit of woodwork of a house is alive with all sorts of scientiflc things. In the latest uumber of an architectural paper the great Wingate tells us that even "the viclnity of large quantities of wood is dangerous to health," and talks about zymotic germs and the mycelin of the f ungi in a way that is suggestive of bacteria and microbes. Nevertheless, we dotnot believe these things. An eminent Germán sanitary expert says thatchemists have succeeded in making a flrst rate brandy out of sawdust. Aman can, therefore, get a rip saw and go out and get as drunk as a lofd on a fence rail. A man can make brandy smashes out of the shingles of his roof ;he can get delirium tremens by drinking the legs of bis kitchen chaire. You may shut an inebríate out of a gin shop and keep him away from a tavern, but if he can become uproarious on boüed sawdust and desiccated window sills any attempt at reform must necessarily be a failure, and we think that the opinión of a sanitary crank upon the jim jams of a house should be taken with a most liberal grain of allowance. -