Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-19

services are more than she can meet. Ths hospital for Chinese women, recently opened at Shanghai under the charge of American ladies, is already we'll filled with patients. Lady Duferin is president of the association that has been established in India to import skilled women physicians from Europe and America, for the purpose of training capable native nurses, midwives and medical practi- tioners. Every white physician in Oriental countries is asked almost daily if he cannot prescribe for suffering women without seeing them Debarred by social customs from con sulting men doctors, Oriental women are the victims of great and unnecessary misery. They are thus shut out from the advantages of Western medical art, although they know it's value, and desire to avail themselves of it's resources.
 An apothecary in Germany is a fortunate person. In that country no one can open an apothecary's shop without special permit from the government, which is very difficult to secure. Berlin, with 1.400, 900 inhabit ants, has only 7s such shops, or one to every 20, 900 inhabitants. Consequently the apoth- ecariss are all well-to-d do people. There are also a number of drug stores where miscel- laneous articles are for sale, but where no prescriptions can be prepared on pain of heavy fines. Every precaution is taken to secure safety from accidents and frst-class medicaments. Poisonous articles are only given on the stamped recommendation of d physician, and the poison has to be kept in a special room. There are government in speetors who at various times, and without previous notice, visit the aapothecaries and examine their stock. If stale or valueless medicaments are found, reprimand fol- lows, and repetition of the offense costs the apothecary his concession. The prices are regulated by law, allowance being made for throwing away old and getting fresh sup plies.
 An official paper publis he'd by the Russian financial department gives interesting ac- count of the progress of trade and industry in Central Asia during the last ten years. According to this document Russian occupa- ton of that territory has been of enormous pecuniary advantage to it's native residents. The trouble in the past was that the farmer, the artisan and the tradesman in Central Asia could never be certain that he would be permitted to enjoy the results of his labor. What was not taken from him by govern ment officials, eager to exact every contribu- tion they could from the people, might be seized by raiding tribes of hostile Turcomans hence there was no disposition to work o1 to save. But, since Turkestan has been brought under Russian control, the dormant instincts of the people to work and to save have been developed. Sixteen hundred and sixty-two factories have been built up for the manufacture of great variety of goods, where, practically, not single factery ex- isted before. The farmers have turned their attention to the raising of grain, cotton, fruit and tea, while the production of silk, for which the country is peculiarly well adapted, has enormously increased. By de- grees large trade has been developed in sending these articles to Siberia and South ern Russia,