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lot of animated beer barrels, ivith elastic hoops. This herd 

 was kept especially to provide food for infants and invalids., 

 and the M. Ds. received the cursings. 



Tuberculin. — Tuberculin, the much vaunted diagnostic, 

 was discovered some years ago by one Dr. Coch, a Ger- 

 man, and heralded about the country as a sure cure for 

 the disease in the human. It was found not only unsat- 

 isfactory, but decidedly harmful to the patient. It died 

 from exposure, and was buried, but was resurrected to 

 prove that the poor cow was guilty of harboring a disease, 

 the penalty for which is death, not to herself alone but all 

 of those with whom she may liave associated, whether they 

 were possessed of devils or not. 



We have grave doubts of its infallibility, and the greatest 

 good to the greatest number, both of cows and people, 

 would arrive from its second burial. For it will soon be 

 crowded out by a so-called discovery Qwe call it fad') which 

 is alread}^ heralded from far off Genoa. Probably it will 

 be termed Columbian, and an Italian physician is making 

 arrangements for a stand up battle between the two, unless 

 opposed b}^ the Mayor of Brooklyn and the Governor of 

 New York. 



" Let us render unto Csesar the things that are Caesar's," 

 and unto the cow a just protection. 



