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added to its buildings a post-mortem room, with cement floor 
with drainage, and has enlarged its clinic and operating room. 
Dr. John J. Moynahan, of Holyoke, Mass., has been ap¬ 
pointed veterinarian to the Fire Department of that city at a 
salary of #500 per year. 
The Missouri Veterinary Medicae Association will 
make another attempt during the coming session of the State 
legislature to have a law passed regulating veterinary practice 
in that State. 
Dr. Wiruiam G. Shaw, assistant inspector B. A. I., on duty 
at Cincinnati, has been ordered to report to Colonel Albert 
Dean at Kansas City, for assignment to duty in the quarantine 
division. 
Dr. Arthur O’Shea, of New York, has been appointed, 
after competitive Civil Service examination, veterinarian to the 
Department of Street Cleaning, and assigned to duty in the 
Borough of Brooklyn. 
Dr. Frothingham read a paper before the January meet¬ 
ing of the Massachusetts Veterinary Association entitled 
“ Impressions of European Slaughter-houses and Veterinary 
Schools.” 
The discovery is announced in the lay press of chloroform 
anaesthesia robbed of its dangers and bad after-effects. We 
have not seen the subject treated of from a scientific and au¬ 
thoritative standpoint. 
Christmas Examinations at Ontario Veterinary 
Coerege. —The usual Christmas examinations were held in the 
College building, Toronto, on Dec. 21, 1899. The board of exam¬ 
iners, which is composed of prominent veterinary surgeons in 
the active practice of their profession in various parts of the 
country, after subjecting the candidates to a stringent examin¬ 
ation, awarded diplomas to the following gentlemen : Alva 
G. King, Moosup, Conn., U. S. ; Arthur N. Norwood, Nauga¬ 
tuck, Conn., U. S. ; Millage Philps, Wallaceburg, Ont. ; Wm. 
S. Schulze, Marengo, Iowa, U. S. ; and David J. Smith, Barre, 
Vermont, U. S. 
The Bovine Outdone.— At St. John’s Hospital, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., on Saturday, Jan. 13, 1900, John Sasel, a dime museum 
freak, who had been filling an engagement at one of the many 
New York resorts, and swallowing all sorts of things for the 
edification of the peculiar audiences who frequent such places, 
was operated upon by Dr. George G. Hopkins, the attending 
surgeon, in the presence of many prominent surgeons of the 
