Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-12
NIAGARA AND TORONTO.
Letter from a Nashville Delegate 10
the American Dental Association.

Letter from a nashville Delegate 10
the American Dental Association.
To the Union and American:
TORONTO, ONT, Aug. 6.-The UNION
AND AMERICAN has so many cOrrespOn-
dents in Europe this season, that we fear
a letter bearing the modest date above,
will scarcely arrest the eye i'll its eager
search after the foreign bonnie bOuche.
Ontario sounds foreign, but then everyone
knows it is a next door neighbOr, just
across the lakes.
We left Nashville just one week ago to-
day. A detention OF ten hours in Louis
vile was pleasantly spent in looking up
friends there, and Saturday morning found
Us in Cincinnati. Here We remained IN
til Sunday evening, ayailing ourselves Of
the opportunity Of seeing the suburbs Ofthe
city. Mount Auburn, Clifton, Walnut
Hills, AvOndale and Eden Park are now in
the very acme Of their summer beauty,
clothed in their richest Vesture Of grass and
flowers.
Sunday evening we left Cincinnati via
the Atlantic and Great Western for Nj
agara Falls. Owing to the recent heavy
rains much Of the track was under water,
and our progress through TO Kent, where
we breakfasted next day, was very slow and
dangerous. In some places the track had
been lifted up and fioated of the road bed.
But notwithstanding danger We had a jolly
time. Our party was made up Of ladies
and gentlemen from Cincinnati, Louisville
and Nashville. Ne were all partly ac-
ouainted. and had a splendid Pullman all
TO ourselves.
Niagara never looked So quiet before at
this season. There are very few tourists
here, comparatively speaking, and while
the hackmen are as numerous and impor-
tunate as ever, and all the ShylOcks Of the
place as much on the alert to wiring money
from the traveller, the hotels look unusu-
ally quiet, and their parlOrs, which are
wont to present such fairy scenes OF beauty
and fashion, look empty aud deserted. The
Buffalo races, set for this week, usually
bring life and money TO Niagara, but owing
to the bad weather these have been a
failure.
The American Dental Association con-
vened here Tuesday morning. But for
this, Niagara must have looked desOlate
indeed. The Association has had a most
successful meeting, and its transactions
give evidence Of a continuance Of that same
progress, upward and onward, which has
ALWAYS characterized this sjngularly vigOr-
Gus Young profession. Their published
proceedings adds annually a handsome
volume to the literature Of the specially.
We are glad TO see that the subject Of dem
tai education is eliciting so much attention,
and that the American Dental AssOcia-
ton is taking all the steps possible
to support the dental colleges, and
to make the curriculum Of study
thorough and comprehensive. As this meet
ing, a resolution was passed, suggesting It
as the sense Of this DO hat the profession
should hereafter rec ---s three years
course Of office instruction, together with
three terms at college, as the conditions for
admitting students 20 examination.
Another, to the effect that hereafter no del
egates are TO be received into this body as
the representatives of local societies, unless
they are graduates Of some reputable dem
tal or medical school. The attendance has
been larger than usual, and the papers and
discussions evince great scientific culture
and research. l wish / had time to give
YOU a synopsis Of a paper on the
| ssPhvsiology Of Dreams and the action OF
Anaestbetics," by Prof. McQuillan, Of
Philadelphia. 1t would be as interesting
as a novel to your readers who are fond OF
novels.
Seven or eight different firms engaged in
| the manufacture Of dental instruments and
| appliances have their wares on exhibition,
and quite a display they make. Surely
the dentists have compaSsed sea and air &c
bring together the therapeutics which they
use. There were present three enteEpris
! ing dentists FRO Nashville. They will
carry home with them much that is new
| and valuable.
We have spent this day in the art gal
| Iery and museum Of the Normal SchOO
here and in looking through the University
buildings and grounds. There is a tint
museum in the University, but our time
was too limited to take more than a rapid
/ survey of its attractions. The building
are Of stone and finished in the interior
with oak most deliberately carved. 1t j!
literally supplied with Libraries, chemical
and philosophical apparatus.
The great point Of interest TO the vis.to
! 10 Toronto, is the art gallery Of the Norma
School, and this no lover Of art could fail t
| appreciate.
We leave tomorrow for Chautauqui
Lake, where we expect to Tejoin our part!
and spend Sunday in attendance upon tht
National Sunday-schooI Convention.
! TOURIST.