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Building, East Broad St., Columbus, Ohio, on the evening of 
Jan. 8, and morning of Jan. 9. All veterinarians are cordially 
invited to meet with us and especially the veterinarians of 
Ohio, as business of especial interest to these latter will be 
brought before the session. Wm. H. Gribbee, Secretary . 
NEWS AND ITEMS. 
The Grand Rapids Veterinary Coeeege advertises a 
“ School of Farriery.” 
In mixing sulphur with a liniment containing oil, by first 
dissolving it with an alkali, it will be made soluble. 
James Harvey Sanders, founder of the Breeder's Gazette , 
died at Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 22, aged 67 years. 
Are you still trying to get your fellow-veterinarian to be¬ 
come a subscriber to the Review ? If not, you are not doing 
your full duty to your brother nor your profession. 
“Bumps,” the fastest road-horse in the world, having paced a 
full mile to road wagon last September in 2.03^ at Eouisville, 
died of pneumonia at Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 16, aged 9 years. 
Next to France, the United States has the greatest num¬ 
ber of automobiles of any country in the world—a few more 
than six hundred. France has more than six thousand. 
At the annual meeting of the Missouri Agricultural Board, 
in December, Dr. D. F. Uuckey, of Thayer, was elected State 
Veterinarian, to succeed Dr. T. E. White, of Columbia. 
Dr. H. D. Giee, of the Journal of Comparative Medicine , 
has been appointed and accepted the position of Veterinarian 
to the Department of Agriculture of the State of New York. 
Veterinarian P. O. Koto, of Forest City, Winnebago 
County, Iowa, an active member of the Iowa State V. M. Asso¬ 
ciation, has been elected to the State Senate. 
Mambrino King, the noted trotting stallion and sire of 
many of the fastest horses upon the American turf, died re¬ 
cently at the Village Farm of C. J. Hamlin & Son, East Aurora, 
N. Y. For many years he was unbeaten in the show-ring, 
being regarded as a perfect type of the trotter. 
Ceingstone, “ the demon trotter,” who held the stallion 
record of 2:14^ for some time, and who trotted some of his 
fastest heats while suffering from a large champignon, was 
chloroformed a few days ago, on account of general infirmities, 
aged 25 years. 
