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offering to our profession. Not only in theory of construction, 
but also in practical execution we consider their apparatus a 
very superior one, and among its votaries we can name such 
men as: Profs. W. J. Coates, R. R. Bell, Herbert Neher, J. 
Elmer Ryder, J. D. Burtiss, Ralph Hall, M. E. Knowles 
(Helena, Mont.); Capt. A. H. Wattles, M. R. C. V. S. (Pitts¬ 
field, Mass.) ; W. H. Prophett (Bridgeport, Conn.); Eemiiel 
Pope, Jr., M. D., V. S. (Portsmouth, N. H.), and many others. 
Horses for the Engeish Army. —A party of fifteen cavalry 
officers accompanied by six veterinary officers, left South¬ 
ampton on the steamer Dmiube, of the Royal Mail Steam 
Packet Company, for Buenos Ayres on Friday last for the 
purpose of selecting as many as 8,000 or 10,000 horses suitable 
for campaigning under the most trying circumstances. The 
party is in charge of the Assistant-Inspector of Remounts, 
Colonel W. R. Truman, and the instructions to the officers, who 
left at short notice, were to buy serviceable horses of a higher 
grade than usual, and to make selections without so much regard 
to the prices to be paid as is customary. Orders for the inser¬ 
tion of advertisements in Argentine papers, making known the 
fact that an important order for a large number of vigorous, up- 
to-weight horses would soon be wanted by a ready cash pur¬ 
chaser, had been sent ahead. The detachment from the office 
of the Inspector General of Remounts will remain in South 
America all the summer, if necessary, in order to secure the 
horses required, which will then be shipped direct to South 
Africa. This is the first time that the British Government has 
seen fit to send an important commission for the purchase of 
horses to South America, the usual sources of equine supply 
being Ireland, the Continent, and North America [The United 
States and Canada .].—{The Loitdon Daily Mail.) 
The Horseeess Carriage. —The progress of the moto- 
cycle is not so swift as to take one’s breath away. The horse¬ 
less age is hardly yet in sight. Amid the hullaballoo that has 
been kicked up about the motor vehicles some people have been 
deceived—being ready to accept at this time almost any wild 
promises of invention that may be made in the name of science. 
The motocycle so far as developed has not only its inexorable 
limitations but also its inherent objections. It is of interest to 
note the expression of the opinion of Mr. Henry Labouchere, 
the famous editor of London Truths who is certainly as free a 
lance as ever wrote : “I have no special feeling of like or dis- 
