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advance of building- and the invasion of the bicycle, the owners 
were without any facilities for speeding, or even pleasure driv- 
ing. To overcome this legislative enactment was seeiired, and 
the Speedway constructed for the exclusive use of light vehi¬ 
cles. It was thrown open to the driving public recently, and 
about the first thing that followed was a suit to mandamus the 
Park Commissioners and prevent them from restraining the use 
of the bicycle upon this the only spot on earth which it was 
hoped would be kept sacred from this universal nuisance. To 
the everlasting honor of the court, the application was peremp¬ 
torily refused. 
Did this Horse Rupture the Fibres of the CEso- 
PHAGUS ?—A patient was brought to the hospital of the junior 
editor of the Review suffering from gastric indigestion, but 
while his breathing was labored, no eruetation of gas oeeurred. 
He was extremely sick, hanging his head to the ground, making 
a spasmodic squeal every minute or two, as though endeavoring 
to vomit. In an instant he broke into a profuse perspiration, 
the sweat coming in drops from his face, ears, and neck. Gas 
began to regurgitate, coming up the oesophagus in great 
volumes. He was scraped, rubbed dry with alcohol, and 
seemed much relieved. In a few hours he was eating and out 
of danger. Did the spiral fibres rupture, relaxing the oeso¬ 
phageal opening to the stomach, permitting of the escape of 
the confined gas, and save a rupture at the greater or lesser 
curvature ? 
Spraying Cattee for Ticks.— Dr. W. K. Lewis, the well- 
known veterinarian of this place, has just received an apparatus 
that may in the future play a prominent part in freeing cattle 
from fever-producing ticks. It is a large tank of galvanized 
steel made for the purpose of containing oil or any other liquid 
found to be the right thing for the destruction of cattle ticks. 
Some time ago Dr. Lewis evolved the spray theory for ridding 
cattle from ticks, and made some experiments which satisfied 
him that it was the cheapest and most effective manner of suc- 
eessfully destroying the dreaded boopJiliiis bovis. Dr. Lewis’ 
proposed spray method is an application of the tick-destroying 
fluid by means of a spray to the animal’s hide, applied through 
a hose under strong pressure by means of compressed air. By 
this means he believes he can use every drop of the liquid and 
effectually reach every portion of the animal’s body, using a 
comparatively small quantity of the liquid and reducing the ex¬ 
pense far below that which would be incurred by the dipping 
