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vat. The idea is entirely original with Dr. Lewis, nothing of 
the kind having ever been attempted before. He estimates it 
will require the expenditure of but a few pints or quarts for 
each animal infested with ticks. The tank is set upon wheels 
and Dr. Lewis proposes to haul it around to the infected herds 
and make the applications, thus rendering the building of dip¬ 
ping vats or driving cattle to them unnecessary .—(West Texas 
Stockman^ Colorado City.) 
A Veterinarian in a “ Smash-up.” —Dr. W. T. Monsar- 
rat, the American veterinarian, who has done so much for the 
profession in our most recently annexed colony (Hawaii) figures 
prominently in the following story, from the Honolulu Adver¬ 
tiser of June 9 : “A horse that American Minister Sewall has 
been using a few weeks freed itself from a rig out ou Beretania 
Street at uooii yesterday aud made a ruu for a stable dowu town. 
^Directly in front of Central Union Church the excited horse, 
travelling at a strong gallop, overtook Will Monsarrat in his 
rig. Theo. Hoffman, who was driving near, shouted a warning 
to Monsarrat, but it was too late. The ruuaway horse dashed 
into Monsarrat’s outfit and in a twinkling there was a mixup of 
two horses, a carriage and a man. Mr. Monsarrat escaped with 
a few bruises and disordered clothing. His horse was cut some¬ 
what aud the ruuaway horse was quite badly injured.” 
Horse Insurance Hard to Get.— It is not possible now 
to have a valuable horse insured in this city. A year or two 
ago there were several horse life insurance agencies here. 
Many horse owners have their stock insured outside of the 
State. At last accounts the only horse life insurance company 
in New Jersey had headquarters in Canada. Horse life insur¬ 
ance appears to have been disastrous to every capitalist who 
has touched it, and after taking advantage of experience gained 
in both Europe and America, it is still an experiment. Speak¬ 
ing to an agent of one of the defunct companies regarding the 
failure of horse life insurance, he gave various reasons for the 
want of success. In the first place it requires extensive capital, 
which cannot always be had. In Europe horse life insurance 
has been tried for loo years, with a fair share of success to the 
investors in the enterprise. In this country it has been con¬ 
ducted on various plans, and many of the schemes failed to 
meet the end for which they were designated. After meeting 
heavy losses, very vigorous ruling was adopted by several of the 
companies as to the character of the risks. Car horses, driving 
horses, fancy-priced horses, runaways, blind horses, cribbers. 
