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person filing or attempting to file as liis own, the diploma or cer¬ 
tificate of another, or a forged or fictitious diploma or certificate, 
upon conviction shall be subject to such fine and imprisonment 
as are made and provided by the statutes of this State for the 
crime of forgery. 
NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Large Mule. —A mule in Kansas City is eighteen hands and 
three inches high. It weighs 1975 pounds. 
Prevention of Mammary Abscess. —Equal parts of chloro¬ 
form and glycerine, well shaken and quickly applied and cov¬ 
ered with oil silk, is highly recommended.— Druggists' Circular., 
Polyorchism. —A case of polyorchism was observed in Bul¬ 
garia, in a farmer eighteen years of age. There were three tes¬ 
ticles, two being on the right in the scrotum, one above the 
other.— Med. Record. 
Extermination . of Hog-Cholera. —It is said by officers of 
the Department of Agriculture that hog cholera has been prac¬ 
tically exterminated. Unsuccessful attempts have been made for 
weeks past to secure virus from infected hogs for experimental 
purposes.— Am. Cultivator. 
Fertility at Advanced Age. —A Darlington correspondent 
informs the London Live Stock Journal of a remarkable affair 
which has taken place in that town. Mr. Trees, Parkgate, Dar¬ 
lington, has in his possession a pony aged thirty-four years, which 
gave birth to her first foal on the 28th April last. 
Superfcetation .—Mr. B. B. Olds, of Clinton, Wis., writes 
us that a two-year-old Poland-China sow, on his farm, on the 16th 
of April last, was delivered of nine good pigs, and that twenty 
days thereafter she was delivered of fourteen more. Certainly a 
very remarkable occurrence.— Breeders' Gazette. 
Beported Pl^uro-pneumonia. — Pleuro-pneumonia was as¬ 
signed as the cause of the death of some cows at Washington 
