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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Life of Mares. —As a rule mares are longer lived than geld¬ 
ings and the majority of instances of prolonged life are among 
the former. The Pennsylvania Record states that Charles Smedley, 
residing near Media, owns a mare forty-two years old, and she is 
still ablebodied, being capable of doing as much hauling as the 
majority of horses one-third her age.— American Farmer. 
Hog Cholera in New Jersey. —A special dispatch from 
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, says: The hog cholera is playing havoc 
with the swine in this place. Within the last four weeks between 
fifty and sixty hogs have died shortly after being taken with that 
disease. Some of the hogs die within twenty-four hours after the 
first symptoms of the disease are noticeable, and others live for 
three days. 
The Condition of the Blood in Hydrophobia. —In an ex¬ 
amination of the blood drawn rapidly from the vessels, especially 
from the sinuses of the dura mater, Hr. Roraiti ( Rivista Clinica , 
July, 1884) found it to be of a dark red color and not coagulable 
spontaneously. The red globules were rather pale, and when the 
preparation was stained by Bizzozero’s method, and placed under 
an immersion lens, there appeared a mass of granular matter in 
which the white globules seemed to be imbedded. These appear¬ 
ances were similar to those presented by the blood of persons 
killed by snake bites.— Medical Record. 
A Mild Form of Hydrophobia. —There seems to be little doubt 
that the following curious series of events occurred near Eufaula, 
Ala. On July 25th a dog on a plantation bit a mule and several 
hog; nineteen days later the mule and one of the hogs died with 
the symptoms of tetanus. Within the next week three more of 
the bitten hogs died with the same symptoms. The dead hogs 
were eaten by some thirty negroes, about half of whom were within 
ten or fifteen days attacked with what Hr. Johnson, the attending 
physician, calls “ a mild form of hydrophobia.”— Medical Record . 
Hestroying Germs —Hr. Hobell, in writing to the London 
Times , directs attention to a method of destroying cholera and 
typhoid germs, in drinking-water, bypassing through it an electric 
