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weather; but on the following night a severe frost set in, and 
snow fell in abundance, continuing on the 3rd and 4th, so 
that it rose to a height of nearly three feet. The head of the 
column arrived at Setif on the evening of the 4th. During 
these two days and nights about one fourth of the men were 
buried in the snow ; another fourth experienced no bad effects 
from the cold, and the rest had to be sent to the hospital on 
account of bad chilblains. And yet none of the horses of the 
four squadrons, w^hich belonged to the 3rd African Chasseurs, 
suffered the slightest inconvenience ; neither feet, nor tails, 
nor ears were frozen ; the pulmonary affections w^ere not more 
numerous than usual. The second case occurred in the 
Crimean w^ar, during the winter of 1855-1836. The thermo¬ 
meter fell to four degrees below Fahrenheit's zero; one of the 
horses had a hoof frozen so firmly to the ground, that it had to 
be broken up with a pickaxe to release the animal; for thirty- 
six hours the horses were kept without drink, because as soon 
as the water had been drawn up it w^ould freeze in the pail; 
and yet this intense cold did not affect them, although they 
had to bivouac in the open air, the stables not being ready. 
These cases go far to show that there is no danger in good 
ventilation of stables even in the depth of winter. 
Hydrophobia at Preston. —Two deaths having re¬ 
cently occurred in Preston from hydrophobia, the police of 
that town are now carrying on a vigorous raid against dogs. 
A few days since six of these animals were poisoned with 
prussic acid in the yard of the police station. One of them 
bit a young woman named Tyson, twenty years of age, of 
Silver Street, six weeks before Christmas, and lately, since 
reading the reports of the dreadful sufferings and deaths of a 
youth named Weights and the child of a man named Wrigley, 
who were both bitten by rabid dogs about the same time, she 
has been in a very depressed state of mind. Acting upon 
the superstition that if the dog were destroyed the person 
bitten \vould recover, the owner of the dog, John Blake, of 
Canute Street, gave the animal up to the police. The officers 
now capture all the dogs they find at large, and such as are 
not claimed suffer death by prussic acid. Persons who appear 
to claim their dogs are forthwith summoned for an in¬ 
fraction of the bye-law relating to such animals, and are 
mulct in penalties and costs. Seven persons were thus 
dealt with, and in nearly every case it transpired that the 
defendant had obtained a dog licence only on the day or 
day after the animal was captured, or the person reported.— 
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