VACCINATION ON THE CANADIAN
BORDER.

PASSENGERS coming from Canada by the Grand Trunk and other railways into the United States were lately subjected to some novel experiences, consequent upon the smallpox epidemic at Montreal. At Sutton Junction, on the Grand Trunk Road, trains were boarded by Dr. Hamilton, of Richford, Vt., examining physician in the employ of the United States authorities, whose business it was to examine all passengers bound for Uncle Sam's domain, with a view to the vaccination of all the unvaccinated, and the scenes which followed the physician's appearance were sometimes ludicrous in the extreme. The first car invaded was usually the "smoker," and every passenger who could not produce a vaccination certificate or show a fresh scar on his arm was obliged to undergo the operation. Here, the passengers being men, there was ordinarily little resistance; but when the cars filled with ladies were reached, the "fun" commenced in earnest. A correspondent of the Montreal *Herald* thus describes what he saw on a recent occasion: "All sorts of objections are made to the doctor's demands; these tight-fitting sleeves cannot be pulled up, and mayhap the certificate has been left at home; yes, it has, honor bright; and only two weeks ago, the lady declares, she was vaccinated by Dr. B. of Montreal. She will write and have the doctor send a certificate to the examining physician. No, that won't do, and the law must be complied with. A tug at the tightly fitting jersey sleeve, another determined pull, and the arm is bared nearly to the elbow. 'That will do,' says the doctor. Out come the little knife and point, and thirty seconds later the doctor passes on, while the lady sinks back in her seat with defiance flashing from her eye, and inwardly vowing, without doubt, that she will get even with that horrid man if she lives long enough—that she will." And thus the physician, during the prevalence of the Montreal panic, went his rounds among railway passengers, day by day, encountering constantly fresh experiences of female perjury and audacity.