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completed, it is said, will be the finest club house in the State. 
Dr. Lowe deserves congratulation upon his election to member¬ 
ship, as several prominent and wealthy men have recently been 
“ blackballed.” The doctor has “ balled ” many horses, but all 
who know him know that when it comes to the matter of 
balling a man, he would prefer to be excused. 
Honors Easy. —The following inquiry and answer recently 
appeared in the “Veterinary Department ” of one of our turf 
papers : “I have a mare that ran away to-day and fractured her 
under jaw. She is a good one and I would like to save her if 
possible. Will you kindly tell me how to treat her.—M. H. D. 
Answer .—Place the jaw in a sling; this can be done by fixing 
a broad bandage around the mare, thus holding the mouth 
closed. Feed upon gruel for a week, and she will recover.” If 
the inquirer can secure any clearer conception of the answer than 
the editor could of his inquiry, he will have the advantage of 
the editor. Just how the latter expects a bandage around the 
mare to be of service in the emergency is not shown. 
Dr. Scheibrkr State Veterinarian for Tennessee.— 
Dr. J. W. Scheibler, of Memphis, was yesterday elected State 
Veterinarian by the State Board of Health to succeed Dr. W. C, 
Rayen, of Nashville. Dr. Scheibler is one of the most eminent 
veterinarians of the entire South. He graduated from the 
American Veterinary College, of New York city, in March, 
1885, and served as house surgeon of that institution until 
March of the following year. He then returned to Memphis, 
where he has since practiced his profession. As Dr. Scheibler is 
right on the State line he will be able to deal effectively with 
the Texas fever, which disease the State Board of Health is 
making a strong effort to stamp out .—(Memphis Exchmtgei) 
New York State Medical Society and the State 
Veterinarian. —Apropos of the bill to ereate the office of 
State Veterinarian, and a subsequent bill to take all diseases 
of domestic animals out of the hands of the State Board of 
Health and place them under the Commissioner of Agriculture, 
the following resolution of the New York State Medical 
Society will show the sentiments of its members in relation 
thereto : “ It is the opinion of this society that the State Board 
of Health should be permitted to make such regulations under 
the law as will provide for the proper inspection of suspected 
cattle and for the destruction of diseased animals, and especially 
that the services of a competent pathologist should be employed 
