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trasted it with its position to-day. The progress made had been due 
to several causes, mainly, however, to two, viz. : the general advance¬ 
ment of education, and to the establishment of the Ontario Veterinary 
College, which had been due to the efforts of Prof. Smith. He an¬ 
ticipated a bright future for the College. (Applause.) The toast of 
“ Our American Students ” was responded to by Mr. Wheat, New York 
State, who spoke in the highest terms of the College, and of the kind¬ 
ness they had received at the hands of the Canadian students. Many 
other toasts were proposed and capital songs sung, and the company 
broke up at 2, a. m., after singing “ Auld Lang Syne ” and “ God Save 
the Queen.” 
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OPEN JOINTS. 
Editor Veterinary Review : 
Behold, another luminary lights the northern sky ! 
Rochester is convulsed with parturient throes, and to our list of path¬ 
ologists we add a new and “Cutting” name. Happy Rochester ! we 
send thee greeting. Thy offspring’s birth was premature, yet still we 
trust the child will live, and living gain with growth a knowledge of it¬ 
self. And now, since thou art a primipera (unless, perchance, thy pre¬ 
vious abortions have given thee claim to something more), I ven¬ 
ture thee advice, for, in the pride of thy young motherhood, some 
youthful indiscretion may rob the world of this new-born prodigy. 
First, then, guard well thyself, else parturient apoplexy or milk 
fever may deprive the child of the nursing care which only a mother 
can rightly give ; and that thy milk may nourish well the tender form 
that draws it from thy breast, a just regard to diet must be paid ; and 
guided by hjs greatest wants as measured by his recent prattlings, we 
recommend thee Jish, because, forsooth, it stimulates the growth of 
brain as we’ve been told, and may induce the child to think —which 
would, indeed, be an achievement worthy of thy highest aim. 
Next, when growth and age, and thy good sense, have taught the 
youthful mind to comprehend those simple things which now it does 
not understand, unveil the shrine where Virchow, Billroth, Rindfleisch, 
Paget, Green, Lister and other master minds have knelt, and let the 
