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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
“ SpoiIvS ” System in Ieeinois. —Governor Tanner, of Il¬ 
linois, has appointed a non-graduate, Charles P. Lovejoy, of 
Princeton, to the position of State Veterinarian, in the face of 
the united opposition of the graduated members of the profes¬ 
sion. It is stated that the new appointee is not only lacking in 
qualification himself, but derides higher education in the veter¬ 
inarian. Verily, the road to our glorious consummation is 
strewn with the thorns of ignorance and petty politics. 
In Pennsyevania, as in New York, it is being sought by 
legislative enactment, to reopen the registration books, which 
closed there in 1889, for the purpose of registering quacks 
who have been in practice ten years or more. Our brethren in 
the Keystone State must be alert and send to the committee to 
which the,bill has been referred such an avalanche of disap¬ 
proval and denunciation as will effectually bury it; and they 
should allow their righteous indignation to be so pointed against 
the proposer of such an infamous measure that no other mem¬ 
ber will have the temerity to so offend the honorable body of 
men who compose the profession of veterinary medicine in the 
great State of Pennsylvania. 
The B. a. I. in Tennessee. —The following is taken from 
a Memphis paper of recent date : “ There is a very vigorous 
effort being made to establish in this city a branch office of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry of the Government, the office of 
which is to examine the cattle that are daily shipped through 
Memphis. This branch is particularly needed here, because 
this city is a point where cattle from the infected districts are 
shipped through on the way north, and the location of the office 
at Nashville is therefore of no benefit. Dr. J. W. Scheibler is 
being recommended for the position of inspector in case the 
branch is established, and his experience and standing particu¬ 
larly fit him for the position.” 
A SociAE Honor. —Dr. William Herbert Dowe, of Pater¬ 
son, N. J., former United States Veterinary Officer of the Port 
of New York, has been elected a member of the Hamilton Club, 
of Paterson, N. J., an exclusive social club of the highest 
standing, numbering among its members Vice-President Hobart, 
Hon. John W. Griggs, Governor of New Jersey, and many 
prominent men in the different walks of life. The club is 
now building an extensive and elaborate' new home, costing 
in the neighborhood of $80,000 within half a block of Dr. 
Lowe’s veterinary hospital, in the city of Paterson, and when 
