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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Southampton Railway Terminus about a fortnight since. 
They exhibited every symptom of having been poisoned by 
strychnia. 
Disease among Foreign Cattle. —The rinderpest is 
raging to rather a serious extent among the herds of Bohemia 
and Hungary, and the disease is stated to be of so contagious 
a type that even sheep (?) are affected by it. This is rather 
a serious matter for the consumers of Paris, as by arrange¬ 
ments made by the Eastern of France Railway with various 
German lines, large numbers of Hungarian cattle have been 
brought to France of late; the transit being effected in about 
seventy hours, and on terms which leave a margin of profit 
to the importer, if such an expression can be applied to the 
speculator who brings them to Paris. Considerable interest 
has been excited among graziers and breeders by the an¬ 
nouncement that the disease has been communicated con¬ 
tagiously to sheep (?), and further and more exact information 
is awaited on the subject with curiosity. 
Suffolk Agrigultural Society. Veterinary Ex¬ 
aminations. —It has been determined that at the future 
meetings of the Society no prizes shall be awarded to horses 
in any of the classes until the animals have passed a veterinary 
examination; and in future a Veterinary Surgeon will go 
round with the judges, and give them a confidential opinion 
as to the soundness of the animals entered for competition. 
It is proposed that the next annual show shall be held in 
Fonnereau Park, Ipswich, on Friday, July 3rd. 
Central Farmers’ Club. —Among the subjects named 
for discussion during the present session of the Central 
Farmers’ Club, is one of considerable importance to our pro¬ 
fession, namely, the Veterinary Art in relation to Agricul¬ 
ture.” It is to be introduced by Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Box- 
stead Lodge, Colchester. 
Salts of Cinchonia. —In cinchonia bark it is well known 
that two alkaloids exist, quina and cinchonia. Preference 
appears hitherto to have been given, in medicine, to salts of the 
former, to the almost exclusion of those of the latter; but as 
fears are now entertained of the partial failure of the trees 
yielding yellow bark, whence these bases are obtained in 
the largest quantities, Mr. Ince has, in the Pharmaceutical 
Journal, directed the attention of medical men to the salts of 
cinchonia, the therapeutical action of which differs little, if 
