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aspirants for army appointments, or to the profession at 
large, and therefore I have considered it a duty to forward 
you the result of my inquiries for publication ; hoping it may 
be of use to those who think of making the army the field 
for the employment of their talents. 
I am, very sincerely yours, 
Paterfamilias. 
Dublin; Nov. 13, 1857- 
Facts and Observations. 
POISONING OP CATTLE BY YEW-LEAVES. 
Mr. E. Bailey, M.R.C.V.S., has informed us of twenty- 
five head of cattle having strayed into a plantation, where 
they ate freely of yew leaves. Three of them had died, and the 
remainder were labouring under the effects of the poison 
when he was called in. He at once exhibited to each a brisk 
purge, which proved effectual in restoring health to all 
of them, except one, that still showed some unfavorable 
symptoms at the time of our receiving the report. 
LACTATION IN AN AGED MARE. 
In the summer of 1852, a foal was turned off in a meadow 
with two mares ; one of these was young, and was its mother ; 
the other was eighteen years old at least, perhaps twenty, 
and certainly had not given birth to a foal for the four pre- 
vious years, during which she had been the property of her 
then owner. And it is believed she never had had a foal, 
but this is uncertain. The man whose business it was to 
inspect the animals in their pasture neglected his duty. At 
last, however, he went and found that the young mare had 
been dead several days, but that the foal, only a few weeks old, 
sucked the old mare, who gave it a copious supply of milk, 
and continued to do so till, at the usual time, it was weaned. 
1 made an especial note of this at the time, because just then 
1 met with an account of an American Indian father having 
given milk from his own breast to his babe, whose mother 
had been murdered by some neighbouring savages. — 
Athenceum. 
