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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3564, 29 May 1880, Page 2

Bismabck has conferred a blessing upon the German people by talcing the doctors in hand and regulating their aeale of fees. It remains to be seen whether he will have the courage to assail the lawyers. The fees which physicians may charge in Prussia for their services are regulated by law, and according to the most recent ordinance the charge for the first visit to a sick person is fixed at two marks, and one mark for each subsequent visit; where, however, several persons belonging to the same family, or dwelling in the same house, have to be treated of the same time, then for the second and each succeeding person; only the half of those fees respectively is to be charged. The same rule is to apply to boardingschools and similar institutions, also to prisons. When .there is a consultation of several physicians about the treatment of a sick person, including their personal visits, each physician is to receive for the first consultation five marks, and three marks for each subsequent similar consultation. On the occasion of the first visit to the physician's residence for his medical advice, one mark and a-balf. For the administration of chloroform, &c, when necessary for the treatment of the patient, three marks.

"If we are to lire after death, why don't we have some certain knowledge of it?" said a sceptic to a clergyman. " Why don't you hare some knowledge of this world before you come into it P " was the caustic reply. /

" Joon," said a doting parent to her gormandising son, "do you r|»llj think that you can eat the whole of that padding with impunity?" "I don't know, ma," replied the young hopeful, "but I can with a spoon."