Show dr francis dowling bowling in a paper which he be read at a recent meeting of the cincinnati academy or of medicine stated that between the agee fla and 40 at least one person in three is subject to partial den deafness thess the great majority of vases came of impaired hearing bearing are hereditary and are largely owing to a too close consanguinity of the parents deafness is more prevalent among males than among ferrules fer rules ilea owing to the fact that the male is moro more exposed to the viniss vicissitudes audes tudes of clin climate aate there is much more deafness in america than in europe and this is due to a 4 more general use of sc lentic tic instruments such as telephones where one ear is used to the exclusion ol 01 the other philadelphia ledger the chinese times of tien tsin inan in an article on the revenue of the central government of china estimates it at asels or about the main items atema are tat is ls from the foreign customs cu and the some same amount nin from sundry duties from the salt revenue from the likin or inland transit duties from the land tax from opium from inland customs and smaller sums from other sources but the writer says at least twice this total sum is actually ge collected from the people the half of which is unaccounted for being absorbed by the provincial officials a fraction only being applied to any local public purpose M |