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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Dr. Will. H. Derr (Out., ’93), of Mansfield, 0 ., was re¬ 
cently united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Tulloss of that city. 
Dr. and Mrs. Derr will be at home to their friends on E. Fourth 
St., after April 1st. 
Wo R. Fleming, D. V. S., recently of Troy, N. Y., has 
been appointed upon the meat inspection force of the B. A. I., 
and assigned to duty at Omaha, Neb. 
Dr. Spaak, of Brussels, has obtained excellent hemostatic 
results from a mixture of two parts chloroform with one 
hundred parts of water. This mixture is said to rapidly arrest 
bleeding after tooth extraction. 
Maud S., ex-cpieen of the American trotting turf, died of heart 
trouble on March 16. A veterinarian called to see her three days 
prior diagnosed the condition, and had it confirmed by sudden 
collapse, though we have not heard the result of the autopsy. 
The Kansas Live Stock Sanitary Board now requires 
that all cattle shipped into Kansas for breeding purposes be 
accompanied by certificates of health. The certificates must 
show freedom from tuberculosis, demonstrated by the tuber¬ 
culin test. 
James Fraser, M. R. C. V. S., a native of Canada, has 
been elected President of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons of England. He was born in Canada, began his profes¬ 
sional education at Montreal and completed them in Edinburgh. 
He is the first colonist to achieve that high honor. 
The Carabao, or water-buffalo, is being used now by the 
United States army in the Philippines. It is a very powerful 
but slow animal, but is of good use during the rainy season. 
Our soldiers have named the carabao “amphibia ” from its per¬ 
sistency in taking a bath when crossing a-river, and this with¬ 
out regard to the occupant of the cart it draws. 
Flying Fox, the unbeaten English thorougbred, brought 
$188,000 at auction in February, being purchased by a son of the 
founder of Monte Carlo, M. Blanc. This beats all previous 
records for price, the former figure being $150,000 for Ormonde, 
who was bought by Macdonough, of California. Ormonde is 
grandsire to Flying Fox. 
Kansas City Meat Inspection. —The following named 
veterinarians are employees in the Federal Meat Inspection 
Service at Kansas City : S. E. Bennett, H. B. Adair, J. S.- Buck- 
ley, T. W. Carnahan, H. B. Chaney, W. R. Cooper, C. H. Davies, 
H. H. George, J. S. Groves, D. C. Hanawalt, Raymond John¬ 
son, B. F. Kaupp, P. I. Kershner, R. G. Lawton, Albert Long, 
