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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
the Veterinary Surgeons’ Registers of the 67 counties of the 
State, 1770 names. In Pike County no names are registered, 
while in Philadelphia there are 154. Of the total number of 
names registered 120 are duplicates, leaving 1650 distinct regis¬ 
trations. Of these deduct 250 who have died, removed, relin¬ 
quished practice, or registered as castrators only. This leaves 
1400. Of this number 400, or 28.5 per cent., are graduates of 
17 recognized colleges-—probably only 375 of these are prac¬ 
ticing. 
TuberculOvSIS in Hawaii. — The Evening Bulletin^ of Dec. 
30, published at Honolulu, Hawaii, reprints from the December 
Review, the report of the Committees on Regislation and Sani¬ 
tary Science and Police of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary 
Medical Association relative to tuberculosis as an object lesson 
to their citizens, who are to deal with that subject legislatively 
this winter. It also reprints the Review’s editorial ridiculing 
the theory advanced by some authorities of that city that the 
existing epidemic of dysentery was caused by infection of the 
milk from cows which had undergone the tuberculin test. It 
would seem to us that upon an island where the commerce 
in cattle can be so readily controlled from infection from with¬ 
out that this disease could be effectually eradicated by isolation, 
sanitation, and control of the new cattle introduced, and, if it is 
possible, the ends certainly justify almost any means. 
A Buggy-whip in a Horse’s Alimentary Canal for 
Two Years. —The following is from the Bloomington Panta- 
graph: “ That a stout buggy-whip, four feet and a half long, 
could remain in a horse’s stomach over two years, and tfie horse 
survive, seems impossible, but just this thing happened to a val¬ 
uable animal owned by Allen D. Eakle, near Carbondale, which 
died a few days ago. A veterinarian held a post-mortem exami¬ 
nation as to what caused the horse’s death, and a whip was 
found protruding from the stomach. Mr. Eakle, in October, 
1895, used a six-foot buggy whip to punch an obstruction down 
the horse’s throat, putting a horsehoe in the animal’s mouth to 
keep it open. The horseshoe fell out, and the horse bit off the 
whip, swallowing the long end, with no bad effects until a short 
time ago, when the beast sickened and died. After swallowing 
the whip, the horse worked every day and ate three meals a 
day.” 
The Government New Anti-Hog Cholera Serum.— 
The extensive experiments carried on by the Bureau of Ani- 
