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NEWS AND SUNDRIES. 
Cattle Export in Canada.— The export of cattle from 
Montreal has increased from 2,880 head in 1876 to 50,365 in 
1883, while daring the same period the export of sheep has risen 
from 2,686 head to 102,835. 
Trichinosis in Illinois. —Several cases of trichinosis have 
appeared in a German boarding-house at Bloomington, Ill. The 
disease was caused by eating raw sausage made from a hog raised 
in the place.— Med. Record. 
Age in Breeding. —The Kerry cattle in their bleak, North¬ 
ern home, with scanty fare, do not breed until six or seven years 
old. When brought to milder climates and better fed they will 
' breed at three years of age.— Am. Cultivator. 
Scarlet Fever from Milk. —A Scotch dairyman was re¬ 
cently convicted of selling milk which had stood in the room in 
which a child was ill with scarlet fever. The milk absorbed the 
poison, and seventeen persons were infected with the disease, 
four of whom died.— Am. Cultivator. 
Bacillus of Jequirity.— The Medical and Surgical Reporter 
states that M. L. DeWecker ( Comptes Rendas) shows that the 
infusion of the seed of the jequirity contains a bacillus which, if 
applied to the human eye, produces purulent ophthalmia. This 
is the first instance of the transmission of an infectious disease 
by a plant. 
Removal. —The New York Post Graduate Medical School, 
on account of lack of room in their old quarters, and the desire 
to combine—beside teaching—the usual clinical instruction, will 
remove to a larger building in 20th street, near 2nd avenue. 
In the past year sixteen thousand patients were utilized and 
treated, and 140 physicians matriculated. 
Precocious Cow.—Jersey cows breed at an early age. Mr. 
Jacob Vernon, of Independence, Mo., owns a Jersey heifer that 
gave birth to a calf before she was 11 months old, and when the 
