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VARIETIES AND NEWS. 
ring, lacerating the peritoneum, and, going into the abdominal cavity, 
grabs the testicle, brings it outwards, and removes it as usual. 
The mortality in said operation is said to be an average of 10 
per 100. 
BOGUS DIPLOMA MILL. 
\From the Sunday Dispatch, Philadelphia , April 22, 1877.] 
The Philadelphia Veterinary College, of No. 903 Filbert Street, has 
bursted like a beautiful bubble, and the provost, secretary, treasurer 
and faculty, represented in the one person of Robert McClure, horse 
doctor, are now safely stowed away in a little cell in the county prison. 
The police authorities have suspected for some time that this “ institu¬ 
tion ” was not granting diplomas “on the square,” but on the plan of 
Dr. Buchanan, of the Pine Street Medical College, and so a scheme 
was incubated to get down to it. A young man named Francis Standin 
some time ago opened a correspondence with McClure, with a view to 
the purchase of a diploma, that he might blossom into a full-fledged 
horse, mule, and—if the occasion required—cow doctor. He offered 
to transfer three shares of the Green and Coates Streets Railway Com¬ 
pany as the price of the “ sheepskin,” which hardly met the approval 
of McClure. He wanted cash. 
Standin notified the detectives of what he was doing, and wrote to 
McClure that he would be at his office yesterday with the money, and 
would expect to receive the diploma. The price hit upon was one hun¬ 
dred and twenty dollars. The money was marked, and the young man 
saw McClure, who delivered the diploma, which was filled out, sealed 
and signed with the names of several horse doctors. A few minutes 
after a Central Station detective walked in and arrested the diploma 
man. In the office were found several other sheepskins already filled 
out with the names of those for whom they were intended. One was 
marked with the price—one hundred dollars. A batch of correspond¬ 
ence was found in the office, showing that McClure had carried on a 
lucrative business. He was arraigned before Magistrate Pole, at the 
Central Station, yesterday afternoon, and, upon the strength of the 
above evidence, was required to give three thousand dollars bail for 
another examination on Tuesday. He subsequently acknowledged that 
the college is a bogus concern; or, in other words, that he is the 
college. 
