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EDITORIAL. 
A similar accident, with less fatality, occured at Yonkers the 
day following that at West Point, whereby William Walters 
and family were thrown violently in all directions from their 
runaway machine, which clashed into a fence, and then tumbled 
over on its side, and on the next day a gasmobile blew up, the 
chauffeur being found an hour afterward in a mangled condition 
with the debris of his machine in promiscuous disorder around 
him. In the meantime, the horse advances in value and in 
esteem. 
WE are pleased to note that the San Francisco Veterinary 
College, which maintains a summer course of six months, has 
raised its requirements for graduation to three such terms. 
The prices obtained by Tichener & Co., of Chicago, at their 
first.New York autumn sale, last month, broke all records for 
heavy harness horses. Forty-four head averaged about $1300 
each. 
The logical reasoning by which Dr. Robert W. Ellis, in his 
contribution to this month’s u Reports of Cases,” arrives at the 
cause of the accidental tenotomy in his patient, stamps him as 
the Sherlock Holmes of veterinary medicine. 
The American veterinary schools opened their sessions last 
month with greatly enlarged classes. The Chicago colleges 
have a veritable boom in the matter of attendance, while the 
New York schools, with their high matriculant standards, have 
a large increase in the number of students. 
IT is stated by a South African correspondent that the Brit¬ 
ish Army horses in that country are dying at the rate of 10,000 
a month—by disease, privation, and accident. In the meantime, 
America is supplying this terrible decimation almost entirely, 
about 9000 animals embarking from New Orleans monthly for 
the dark continent. 
