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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
A son of wealthy parents was seeking a license to operate 
a locomobile before the Board of Engineers in New York lately, 
and when asked what action he would take if he found that all 
the water had been consumed and the boiler was hot, promptly 
replied : “ I would put more water in the boiler.” It would 
probably be of some assistance to society if he were to carry out 
his deadly threat. 
A Freak Lamb. —Dr. H.W. Skerritt, of Utica, N. Y., reports 
the following case: “ I recently had a nice little monstrosity 
presented to me., viz., a lamb with one perfect head and two 
normal bodies, including eight perfect legs and two tails. The 
dam gave birth to one nice lamb on the previous evening. 
Mother and first son are all right.” 
The complete vote of the Executive Committee of the 
American Veterinary Medical Association for the place for 
holding the next annual meeting of the iVssociation is an¬ 
nounced by Chairman Tait Butler as follows: Detroit, 7 ; 
Minneapolis, 6. Therefore the thirty-seventh annual meeting 
will be held in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 4, 5, 6, 1900. 
In Spite of the fact that this is the day of automotors, 
when horses are beasts of the past, when starvation stares every 
veterinary surgeon of the land in the face, Dr. C. J. Mulvey, 
“ The Canuck Vet” of Mooers, N. Y., has just moved into his 
handsome new house. He built it this summer, and it is large 
and commodious, elegantly finished and fitted out with all 
modern improvements. An office and infirmary are in con¬ 
nection. (j. A. M.) 
The twelfth annual meeting of the Iowa State V. M. Asso¬ 
ciation will be held in Des Moines January 10th and nth. 
There is an extra inducement for a large attendance, as on the 
9th a Tuberculosis Convention will be held, represented by the 
stockmen, physicians and veterinarians of the State. Dr. 
Salmon, of the B. A. I., is expected, and it is the hope of the 
profession that enough interest may be awakened in the sub¬ 
ject to secure better legislation for the control of the disease in 
that State. 
Corneal Ulcers. —In treating these the eye should first be 
thoroughly cleansed by a warm saturated solution of boracic 
acid. After the eye is thus cleansed the upper lid should be 
painted with a camel’s hair brush which has been saturated in 
a solution of nitrate of silver, ten grains to the ounce. A more 
energetic method, that has been found very satisfactory and 
prompt in its results, is to place a wooden tooth pick in a 95 i<> 
