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recognized by the State Board of Health.— i^Oakland^ Cal.^ Tri¬ 
bune^ Oct. jp.) 
A Monumental Liar. —Kven the giving of names, dates 
and places will not save the hero of the following story from 
reaching his proper position as an asinine prevaricator, whose 
clumsy recital in the New York Evening World is not worthy 
of a place in a scientific journal except as an exhibition of the 
imposition practiced upon the lay public by the extravagant 
stories of “existing practitioners ” : “ East New York has an-- 
other nine days’ wonder. This time, although the incident is 
local, the people out there are talking of an event which will 
interest veterinarians from one end of the globe to the other. 
A week ago, a man up in a hay-loft over the stable of William 
Fiesler, at Blake and Rockaway avenues, slipped and fell head 
first into the hole over one of the stalls through which hay is 
dropped for the horses. When the man fell a silver watch and 
four pennies dropped from his vest pocket. When he got down 
to the stable watch and coins were missing. There was no one 
else around and so it was decided that a powerful bay horse had 
swallowed them with his fodder. The local veterinarian, Dr. 
George A. Crowin, was called in, and after listening to the 
strange story removed the horse to his hospital at Vermont and 
Jamaica avenues. The big beast was placed under a powerful 
drug and strapped to the floor. With much care, a piece of flesh 
in the shape of a lid about six inches square was cut away from 
his stomach. Predictions proved correct. The horse had swal¬ 
lowed the watch and the pennies, as well as a blanket pin, which 
had turned black. The watch had stopped an hour after being 
swallowed. After the things had been removed the lid in the 
animal’s stomach was sewed up and restoratives applied. From 
Thursday last until yesterday the horse continued as a patient 
at the hospital. Yesterday, however, he was taken to Patchogue 
to fully recuperate.” 
The Popularity oe the Horse. —To the pessimists who 
have been preserving equine skeletons so that they might have 
a real curiosity when the horse became extinct, we commend 
the following item from an elaborate account of the late 
New York Horse Show, in the Herald of November 19: 
“Now that the Horse Show is nearing its end there are sev- 
feral points which have been established this season that are of 
especial interest. First of all, the lasting popularity of the 
horse. We have heard much about the passing of this beast, 
and have come to believe, some of us, that what with bicycles 
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