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TO STOP HEMORRHAGE. 



If by any accident an artery should be opened in any part of 

 the limbs, the bleeding is very easily arrested by tying a hand- 

 kerchief around the limb; it should be drawn tightly, and an- 

 swers better if a knot is put in it, which is to be placed directly 

 over the course of the bleeding vessel. By this means the pres- 

 sure will be exerted more directly upon it. This bandage should 

 not be removed till a Surgeon is present. 



All the principal bloodvessels run on the inside of the limbs, 

 and can be easily discovered by the pulsation. 



TO TELL THE AGE OF A DOG. 



It just occurs to us how ignorant many of our friends are as 

 to the mode of telling the age of a Dog; we therefore give in 

 this place a few hints on the subject. 



Take, for instance, a Puppy at one year old, open his mouth, 

 and examine his front teeth ; take no heed of the side or jaw 

 teeth, save to admire their ivory-like appearance. 



These front teeth, or, more scientifically speaking, these in- 

 cisors, both in the upper and lower jaw, will be found jagged 

 and uneven ; this appearance may be termed the marks of the 

 Dog. The age of a Dog may be determined by these marks with 

 the same degree of certainty that a Jockey guesses at the age of 

 a Horse. These marks continue longer in the upper teeth than 

 they do in the lower, and the jagged, uneven appearance noticed 

 in the Pup is half gone at the age of three or four years; when 

 it has entirely disappeared, and all the front teeth have be- 

 come worn smooth and even, the Dog is nearly or quite full 

 six 3^ears old. 



When the front teeth are not only worn smooth, but worn 

 greatly away, the Dog is hard on to eight or even ten years, and 

 then we may notice, in the majority of Dogs, other signs of age 

 which are not to be mistaken — such as the turning gray of the 

 hair, about the eyes more particularly, but which gradually 

 spreads over the whole face. Dogs are seldom good for any 



