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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
storm on the first of February and left him standing in snow up 
to his knees for eight hours while he played pool within. He 
was arrested by an officer of the American Society for the Pre¬ 
vention of Cruelty to Animals, and the judge before whom he 
was tried sentenced him to jail for ten days. 
Prof. Koch in Demand.— A despatch to the New York 
Herald from Berlin, Feb. i, says that Dr. Koch has been re¬ 
called from South Africa, whither he had gone to study the 
bacteriological aspect of the rinderpest, which has been devast¬ 
ating the cattle of that country, and ordered to head a commis¬ 
sion to proceed to Bombay to investigate the Bubonic plague, 
with a view to adopting measures against its introduction into 
Europe. 
The meeting of the Alumni Association of the American 
Veterinary College will be held in the lecture-room of the college 
building, Thursday, March 25th, at 2.30 p. M., sharp, and the 
annual banquet of the association will be held at the Marl¬ 
borough, Broadway and 36th Street, after the exercises. Tickets, 
$4.00, and can be had by sending to Dr. F. R. Hanson, 160 
Eldridge Street, New York City, or to Dr. Clayton, at the 
college. 
W. H. Dalrympee, M.R.C.V.S., of Baton Rouge, Fa., was 
elected Secretary of the Louisiana State Agricultural Society, 
at its meeting in the latter part of January. He was also elected 
Secretary and Treasurer of the Stock-Breeders’ Association, 
formed during the meeting of the Agricultural Society, the ob¬ 
ject of which is to “ increase the excellency and to provide for 
the preservation and dissemination in their purity of the different 
breeds of improved stock of all kinds.” We are much pleased 
to see that this scholarly veterinarian is appreciated by the agri¬ 
culturists of his State. 
Horse Meat for Hoeeand.— Last week a car-load of horse 
meat was shipped from this city consigned to meat dealers in 
Rotterdam, Holland. Richard Martin and Charles Beagles 
maintain a slaughter-house for horses at Lyons, just outside the 
Chicago city limits, and Mr. Martin is thus quoted concerning 
the trade: “We ship a car of horse meat to Rotterdam every 
three weeks. We usually ship it corned, in which condition it 
is almost impossible to tell'it from beef. We slaughter from 
fifty to one hundred horses a week and pay $2.75 for all horses 
offered for sale, taking them just as they come.”—( Breeders > 
Gazette , Feb. 10.) 
