Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-10
MORNING. JUNE 10, 1885.

changeless land, has changed it's form. Es-
 tablished in the year 911, the Pekin Gazette
 has been published regularly since 1851. Uuder the new arrangement three editions 1 are published; the first, the King printed upon yellow paper, constitutes the official gazette of the Middle Kingdom; | the second, the Hsing-Paou Commercial journaD, also printed upon yellow sheets,
 contains information interesting to the trad ing community; while the third, the Titani- Paou (provincial gazette), printed upon red paper, consists of extracts from the other two editions The total circulation of the
 three issues is 15. 900 copies. The editorship is confded to committee of six members of the Academy of Han-Lin.
 A decision of interest to druggists and the
 public has been delivered by court in Eng
 land. MT. James McNulty, of Shipley, was, on the 14th day of last month, fined s5 and
 costs for violating the Food and Drug act,
 which he did by supplying thirty-six grains of iodide of potassium in prescription in stead of one hundred and twenty, as ordered.
 The accused, while pleading guilty to the
 charge, defended himself on the ground that
 he merely exercised proper discretion in not making up so strong mixture as was in1fs eated by the medical prescription. The court, however, held that this was no exten-
 uation, that "a medical man might give a certain prescription to save life, and have
 his object entirely thwarted by the action of | a druggist in dispensing an inferior medi- cine. It could not be too well known that druggists must not interfere with the pre- scriptions of medical men," It would seem that the proper course of the druggist, if he thought that any error had been made in the prescription, was to communicate with the physician who had written it.
 The Boston Water board has something to explain, and it does not look as if explana-
 tion would be easy. Mir. Harding, a mem
 Der of the city council, and 8 respectable
 lawyer, says that last winter the water board,
 under the advice of City Engineer Wight man, since fdead, had substantially agreed upon site on Fishers Hill for high ser vice station. The engineer had made his
 plans requiring an area of 377, ,670 feet of land. The owners of the land selected, who were clients of MT. Harding, offered to sell it to the city at nine cents foot, assuring the
 board and the city engineer that they wished to deal directly with the city, and would
 hold the land for the city, refusing all other offers. Near the end of March they were in formed by the city engineer that other land was more desirable for the purpose, and that
 the city would not buy the land in question.
 On the fourth of March the owners sold the
 land to MT. George A. Wilson, and on the ninth of March the city bought it of him at twenty cents a foot Another lot of land
 containing about eighty thousand feet, was
 also bought by Wilson, the agreement being made on the same day in March, and Wilson
 afterward bought that land, not getting his
 title until May, and conveyed it to the city on the same terms as the Fisher land. The city might have bought the whole for about
 fifty thousand dollars. but the price actually paid was more than ninety thousand dollars.