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seven little stones were squeezed out. To remove the large one, 
the bitch was chloroformed, the vagina dilated with an ear 
specnlum, a vertical incision made of the stone permitted its 
extraction. No more calculi could be detected. But at the 
post-mortem, made the next day, two more were found in the 
urethra, one of the same size as the one operated on and a smaller 
one. The mucous membrane of the bladder was much inflamed. 
The Horseless Carriage. —Few men are so well posted 
as to events on both continents, especially those that relate to 
the horse, as Mr. W. B. D. Stokes, who is the Russian Govern¬ 
ment’s commissioner in America for horses. He has traveled 
widely and is possessed of keen powers of observation as well as 
an ability to set forth clearly the conditions that fall under his 
view. In a recent letter to the editor of an Bastern contem¬ 
porary, Mr. Stokes, who is home at present, thus throws a ray of 
light on the motocyle question that is troubling some of those 
who formerly gave attention to horse-breeding: “I have just 
got a long account from the other side regarding motor carriages. 
We had an idea here that it was thought on the other side that 
they might supersede the horse, but there are not half as many 
used to-day as there were two years ago.” Of course the horse 
has been wiped out of existence numberless times—on paper. 
Nothing so well suits the average contributor to “ modern jour¬ 
nalism ” as to weave a story of fiction from a single strand of 
fact. Oftentimes they do not have even the “ raw material ” 
with which to work, but concoct startling stories of alleged fact 
from the nebulous dreams of would-be inventors. Much of the 
stuff written about “ the horseless age” has found its way into 
print from such sources. Bven if the cab horse should follow 
the street-car horse it would be all the better for horse-breedino-, 
but at present there seems small chance that ‘‘ cabbie ” will need 
to take out license as an engineer before soliciting fares.— 
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