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country no legislative measures had as yet been 

 enacted, but we live (he said) in hopes. 



Dr. Straub (from Wiirtemberg) was gratified to 

 say, that the Government of his country had issued 

 an order that railway cars should be kept clean. 



I think, perhaps, I have extracted enough just to 

 give an idea of what fills more than three hundred 

 mortal pages of Mr. Gamgee's book. And now 

 what are we to say about all these good folks ? 

 There can be no doubt what we should call them in 

 England. It is some time since I set to work to 

 forget my German, and yet I fancy I am right in 

 thinking the German equivalent of the English 

 idiomatic expression I am alluding to must be " Alte 

 Frauen." Still I may be mistaken. 



Amongst such a mass of evidence and opinions, 

 twaddle as it must seem to most Eno-lishmen, there 



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cannot but be something worth noting. 



In the first place then, the prevailing idea is that 

 the Rinderpest comes only from Russian cattle. 

 But the only wa} r they can get over the innumerable 

 cases that apparently contradict this, is by saying 1 , 

 which they mostly seem to do, that Russian cattle 

 will impart the disease in any country, at any 

 distance of time after leaving* Russia, and without 

 ever having any disease themselves. Allowing this 

 as an argument, of course they can prove anything. 



But Professor Jessen, the Russian veterinary 

 representative, denied that the disease does originate 

 in Russia; and each representative denied that it 



