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binated removed. As the animal had lost an enormous quan¬ 
tity of blood, and the haemorrhage was still going on, hemosta¬ 
tic measures were applied and further interference postponed. 
A week after the lower turbinated was removed and the dis¬ 
eased tooth removed by punching it out. The after cares con¬ 
sisted in antiseptic measures as thorough as possible, and after 
a complication of collection of pus in the left sinus, which 
received the ordinary treatment, the horse was discharged 
cured.—( Rec . de Med. Vet.) 
AMERICAN SUNDRIES FROM FRENCH REPORTS. 
Shrewdness of a Parisian. —An American who lived in 
Paris for some ten years reports a remembrance of his stay in 
the great city. Every time he passed one of the bridges that 
crossed the Seine, a dog covered with mud would come and 
roll himself on his shining boots. At the other extremity of 
the bridge was a boot black (perhaps a negro) who on seeing 
him offered his services. The first time the gentleman did not 
pay attention and got a shine. But the next day and the one 
after the same thing occurred—same muddy dog, same soiled 
shoes, same offer from the boot black. Watching the dog, he 
soon observed that the dog was thoroughly broken to this 
work, and only rubbed himself on polished shoes ; those of poor 
people he respected. The dog could not be bought, notwith¬ 
standing very generous offers made to his owner.—(A’ Elevenr- 
Semaine Vet.) 
A Musical Cow. —The Petit Courrier records this from 
New York. On a farm strange, devilish noises were heard 
at night coming from a stable, where a horse, a dog, and a cow 
were enclosed. However, these noises were neither the neigh¬ 
ing of a horse, the barking of a dog, nor the bellowing of a 
cow. What was it? Everybody was frightened. One day, the 
village butcher bought the cow, killed it and found the cause 
of the trouble. The cow had swallowed an harmonica. How, 
no one knew, but when at night she ruminated the air enter¬ 
ing the stomach made the notes of the instrument resound. 
The noises were heard only at night, because the cow was out 
all day and only kept in after dark. There was a fortune in 
her, and the owner did not know it .—(Semaine Vet.) 
Speaking Monkey —Again from America, the Eleveur 
says : A certain Hopkins (not the veterinarian) has succeeded 
in making his monkey Raisy pronounce a respectable quantity 
