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NEWS AND ITEMS. 
Evansville, Ind., sends the Review the following clipping from 
a woolly Western newspaper: “A recent report says a Ken¬ 
tucky horse was afflicted with a strange ailment, seeming to be 
almost wild with pain, and, being a family pet, every effort was 
made to relieve him. At last there appeared a young veterinary 
surgeon, just graduated, and he, after a lengthy examination, 
announced that the horse was afflicted with a peculiar disease 
of the teeth, that could be cured only by extracting them and 
grafting in new ones. It seemed cruel to take a horse in perfect 
health and pull out his teeth for such a purpose, but it happened 
the very next day a horse near by broke its leg and had to be 
shot. The young surgeon was on hand ; he drew out the teeth 
of the dead horse, hurried back to the live horse, had it strapped 
up, and after an hour’s hard work drew out the diseased teeth 
and inserted the new set. The operation was a complete suc¬ 
cess, and the horse is now careering around, no longer in pain, 
and possessed of a new and excellent set of teeth.” 
“Theory and Practice.” —Mr. A. C. Bostwick, who owns 
the fastest electric carriage in New York, and who was among 
the first to get one, said in the Rider and Dinner office on 
Wednesday : “ My motor carriage is broke down. Not a week 
passes but what something gets out of order with it. I’m sick 
of it, and wouldn’t bother with another one if the makers should 
send it to me as a gift.” That Mr. Bostwick knows the differ¬ 
ence between horses and motor carriages will be readily granted. 
He has a stable full of horses and carriages of every description, 
and, with his celebrated four-in-hand, purchased from C. F. 
Bates, last year won the park team prize at Madison Square 
Garden Horse Show. It has been said of horses that they are 
dirty and perishable ; in answer to the first accusation we should 
like to know what is dirtier than machinery when not kept 
properly cleaned. On the score of perishability, let us say that 
we know of no machine that would last one-tenth as long as the 
life of a horse if it were not being constantly renewed in parts. 
—Rider and Driver. 
The Sure Cure for Spavin. — “ An illiterate ‘ boss doctor ’ 
has of late sent me at frequent intervals murderous attacks upon 
good English which vaunted the miraculous powers of a spavin 
cure. The doctor seems to be a graduate and may have some 
knowledge of his profession, although the almost instantaneous 
cures claimed for his spavin annihilator are not in accord with 
the more gradual processes of nature as observed and noted by 
the teachers of veterinary science in the reputable schools. A 
