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EMPEROR WILLIAM. EMPEROR FREDERICK-“UNSER FRITZ”—IS DEAD. AFFECTING SCENE AT THE DEATH BED — AUTOPSY DECIDES HE DIED FROM CAN CER—THE NEW RULER'S POLICY. WILLIAM 11. The Jteichrammger , the official paper of Berlin, publishes the following an nouncement: “The royal sufferer has ended his earthly career. By God’s de cree the emperor king, our most gracious master, passed to his eternal rest shortly after 11 o’clock this morning, which was borne with admirable fortitude and sub mission to God’s will. The royal house and the German people have been twice bereaved in a short time. They deeply mourn the all too early decease of our much beloved ruler. Minister of State.” The Bundesrath met at noon. Bis marck formally announced the death of Emperor Frederick and the accession to the throne of William, who takes the f TTTMI* TT nue ui y* 11 mini 11. The death scene was most pathetic. At the foot of the bed knelt the emperor’s daughters, Prince Henry and the two daughters-in-law. The chaplain softly murmured the litany. Princess Freder ick Charles, who had strewn the coverlet with white roses, stood with the rest of the family. At some distance were mem bers of the household; servants were crowded about the doors with bowed heads and bated breath, and from time to time the litany was interrupted by half re strained sobs, the most heart-rending be ing those of old Wenderlin, who had been the emperor’s trusted servant since his youth. He is quite prostrated, and it is not likely that he will survive the emperor Every five minutes the doctors felt the pulse. The expression on Dr. Mackenzie’s face showed 'that it was weakening. At times the pulse was suspended, and the doctor was obliged to place his ear close to the emperor’s lips to detect his breathing. At 11 o’clock Dr. Mackenzie made a sign to the empress who fervently kissed the hand of the emperor. At twelve min utes past eleven the doctor drew his watch and declared all was over. When, at the last moment, Dr. Macken zie, amid profound silence, said * impres sively: “He is quite dead now 7 ,” the empress gave a heartrending sob and loud crying was heard in the room. All pressed around the bed. From the eyes of the new Emperor William tears fell thick and fast. After the first agonized spasm the empress arose and took Dr. Mackenzie’s hand, saying: “The first words I shall speak shall be to express my thanks to you for having lengthened my beloved husband’s life.” When the younger members of the family had left the room, the empress begged Dr. Mac kenzie to tie a ’kerchief around the em peror’s throat, in order to hide the canula. Her majesty also directed the laying out of the body, she herself ar ranging the hands on the sword so as to give the appearance of a firm grasp. The head was placed a little sideways, giv ing a perfect illusion of sleep. The em press added to the Woerth wreath two roses which she had cut on the previous evening, and which the emperor had held during the night. The empress Victoria had arranged every detail of the funeral service. The behavior of the new emperor is that of a dutiful and loving son. He does not allow many hours to pass without inquiring for his mother, and her manner toward him is most motherly and affectionate. Her majesty has not decided yet as to where she will ?o from Pottsdam. There is some talk of her going to Switzerland. Dr. Mac kenzie, in his report on the Emperor Frederick’s case, says: “In my opinion the disease from which the emperor died was cancer.” The effect of the emperor’s death in Berlin was instantaneons. In a couple of hours the bright summer look on the streets was changed. Womeif appeared clad in black and men with bands of crape tied about their arms. Newspapers were sold at exhorbitant prices, but the buy ers were disappointed because no details of the emperor’s last hours were given until evening. The first full declaration of the new emperor’s policy is now understood as taking the form of an address to the Prussian people, which is expected to be issued soon. The secretary will be sum moned to meet to receive the message, and shortly afterwards the em peror will formally take the oath of con stitution before the Landtag. The re mains of Emperor Frederick were placed in a coffin and then carried to the cata faloue, which had been erected in .Tasner i j t x gallery. The coffin i 6 identical with the one in which Emperor William was bur ied. Profs. Nirchow, Wildeyer and Bergmaun went to Fredrich'-kon place at the request of Emperor William and re mained for two hours. Their presence gave rise to an accurate report that Em peror William had ordered a post mortem examination made, although dowager Empress Victoria was adverse to it. Pub lic feeling in Berlin distinctly favored the holding of such an examination and the supposed abandonment of the plan caused a revival of excitement against Dr. Mackenzie, who was charged with omitting an autopsy in order that he might prevent a final authoritative report as to the true malady from which the emperor died. Besides the doctors w t lio conducted the autop-y, Count Von Stol berg Wernigerode, Count Chamberlain, remained during the examination, which proved the existence of cancer. The funeral service was read in Jasper gallery by Chaplain Koegel, at the head of the bier. A black baldachin has been erected, while around the catafalque were numerous footstools. All members of the imperial family were present at the service. Sir Edward Malet, British am bassador, handed Count Herbert Bis marck a letter from Lord Salisbury, ex pressing the profound grief felt by Queen Victoria w 7 hen she received the news of the death of the emperor, who she so dearly loved. The queen commends Lord Salisbury to express to the German people in the name of the British nation, her heartfelt sympathy in the heavy loss sustained in the premature death of the emperor, whom they rightly loved so ar dently. Under cover of assumed confidence, the death of Emperor Frederick has caused a feeling in Paris very much like dismay. It was impossible not to notice the silent agitation which pervaded the Chamber of Deputies, when his decease was announced. It is worthy of remark that not a single journal published an ex aggerated statement or premature account of the death of Emperor Frederick. He was respected as a lover of peace, and mingled with the expressions of sorrow at his death are dismal speculations as to the political consequences. Rightly or wrongly the new 7 emperor is regarded as being animated by bitter hatred of France and a desire to render his reign memorable by fresh laurels culled upon the battle field at the expense of his hereditary foe. The funeral ceremonies at the Castle Fredericliskron began with the perform ance of Bach's “Bald Rufst Du Mich zu hoehren foieden.” Then the chorale “Jesus meine zuveisicht” was sung, and Chaplain Koegel offered prayer and blessed the remains. After the singing of the chorale “Wenn Ich Einmal Soli ; Scheiden,” the coffin was carried out to I the castle. During th« removal of the body the chorale “I know that my Re deemer liveth,” was sung. The serv ice in the cathedral on Sunday was at tended by Dr. Von Gosster, minister of ecclesiastical affairs, and many other high officials. The service opened w 7 ith the 6inging of the fifty-fourth Psalm. The litany was read by Chaplain Schroder, who also preached the sermon. The public was readmitted to the Jasper gal lery after the imperial party had left. Correggio’s painting, “Saint Veronica’s Veil,” was suspended at the head of the catafalque, on the right of which laurel trees had been placed. The coffin was removed from the catafalque by twelve officers of the body guard and borne to the funeral car, preceded by the court chamberlain. The ministers of state, bearing the insignia of royalty, joined the procession, and stood opposite the coffin during the seivice in the church, Gen. Blumenthal, with the standard, standing at the head of the coffin. The order of the procession from the castle to the Friedrichskirche was as follows: The line headed by a detachment of in fantry, followed by the officers of the imperial household, the officiating clergy, the late emperor's physicians, the court chamberlains, ministers of state, bearing the imperial insignia, and court officials. Then catne the funeral car. The pall bearers, all Knights of the Black Eagle, Generals Von Der Goltz, Von Tresknow, Von Obernitz and Von Pape. The can opy was borne by twelve generals, the lieutenant generals marching on either side of the car. Twelv^ J superior officers of the Prussian, and Saxon body guards marched immediately behind the coffin. They were followed by General Von Blumenthal, bearing the royaLstandard, supported by two adjutantfrgenerals. Then followed Emperor William, the king of Saxony, Prince Henry, and other mourners of the imperial family, and the foreign royalties, followed by the adju tant generals, the Russian military at tache, the suites of the imperial family and visititing royalties, the younger princess of reigning houses, the imperial chancellor, field marshals, Knights of the Black Eagle, princes residing in Ger many, the generals of the army, the pres idents of the bundersrath, reichstag and landtag, the officers of the army and civil service, officials and municipal au thorities of Berlin, Potsdam and Char lottenburg. Two squadrons of infantry brought up the rear of the procession. Large crowds went from Berlin to Pots dam to view the emperor’s remains. SOLDIER REMEMBERED. Two monuments, commemorative of the late War, were dedicated near Rich mond—one in Emanuel church cemetery, on the Brooks turnpike, over the remains of seventy-three Confederate dead, the other in the spot where the Confederate cavalry leader, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, fell. The mounted military from Richmond and the surrounding country, the R. E. Lee camp of Confederate Veterans and old soldiers generally, and a large num ber of citizens, including mauy ladies, were present at both the ceremonies. The exercises at the cemetery were opened by prayer by Rev. J. N. Newton, o* Richmond. Va. He was followed by R. \ H. M. Jackson, also of Richmond, ana by Rev. Cornelius Walker, of Alex andria. A march was then made to a point in the telegraph road three miles distiint, where stands Stewart's monu ment, on the front of which is inscribed : “Upon this field, Major-General J. E. B. Stewart, Commander of the Confederate Cavalry, A. N. V., received his mortal wound May 11, 18G4.” STANLEY IS DEAD. I Advices from Zanzibar to the Paris I Journal Dasbats says: “There is little : doubt but that Stanley is dead. The j families of persons who accompanied the j expedition have worn mourning for sev- I oral weeks. It is believed that Tipped Til) lias taken revenge for Stanley’s hav ing thwarted him in his efforts to continue the slave traffic.” WHO WON THE PRiZES. Gener d Carnahan received the report of the awards of prizes to the Knights of Pythias in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Mon day as follows: Hastings, Mich., first; Kokomo, [id., second; Terre Haute, Ind., third; Fort Dearborn, Chicago, fourth; Lociiiel, Elgin, Ills., fifth; Mi ami, of Toledo, Oh o, sixth. LIVELY TIME. national republican con vention MEET AT CHICAGO. A MAGNIFICENT HALL BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED FRED DOUGLASS MAKES A SPEECH —INTERESTING GOSSIP. Before the Convention assembled, im mense crowds visited the grand hall in. which the National Republican Conven tion were to meet to choose a presiden tial candidate. At the apex in front of the chairman’s desk was a gilded American eagle, and beneath it a por trait of Washington, On the right of the chairman’s desk was a plaster bust of Gen. John A. Logan, in heroic size, draped with an American flag. Hang ing from one of the boxes at the right was a large painting of Logan's charge at the battle of Atlanta. On the face of the north and south wails of the auaito tium, framed in festoons of large Amer ican flags and surrounded by a circle of electric stars, w r ere portraits of Lincoln and Grant, the designs being mammoth in proportion, and form two of the most striking details of the decorations. Flashing its parti-colored brilliancy full into the face of the audience and delegates, was pended an American shield, formed of different colored electric lamps. This shield, its horizon of stars, its stripes of the Union, are all pictured out and put in a basso relievo of light by flashing jets through red, white and blue globes. At points of exit and entrance to the hall, which dip like great wells into the audi torium, are the nation’s standards, planted at either side and draped so as to hide the rough boards which form the staircases of these avenues to the con vention, of which there are sufficient to empty the place in case of accident, in three minutes. The Boston club planted its magnifi cent banner, five feet long, just behind the stage and it proudly floated, bearing in letters of gold upon a field of blue, the sentiments which appear to be upper most in the minds of the delegates. The banner is inscribed: “Home Market Club of Boston. American ways for American workingmen. American markets for the American people. Protection for Ameri can homes.” This banner is marked by the delegates as they come into the hall, and by spectators as they gather in the galleries and balconies. It was cheered time after time. The arrangement of delegates’ seats was made in alphabetical order, begin ning with Alabama, on the extreme right aisle, through the two big states of New York and Pennsylvania together on the front, facing Washington’s portrait on a panel of the chairman’s platform. The Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ala bama, Arizona and Dakota delegations had front seats. The Ohio delegation was directly back of the New York seats, while Missouri, lowa and and Illi nois are on the mam isle near the center of the space reserved for the delegates. The space reserved for the District Columbia delegation, was designated by a white banner, marked in black letters. This is a conspicuous departure from the general plan of voting delegations, the situation of all others being designated by a blue silk banner, lettered in gold. A significant view was the open space of empty seats in the Virginia delegation. The doors were not opened until all of the interior arrrangements were complet ed and the crow 7 d was kept waiting un til two large bouquets of cut flowers and a floral shield were being nailed upon the chairman's d§§k, which bears in Greek letters this l^bription: “James A. Gar field was nominated from thi3 desk in 1880 and James G. Blaine was nominated from this desk in 1884.” Chairman Jones, of the national com mittee, came upon the platform just be fore the convention was called to order and brought with him two handsome oak gavels, one merely polished and in tended for hard pounding. The other is a more pretentious affair, intended as a gift to the temporary chairman, is richly chased in gold, and has engraved upon its several gold bands the names of Washington, Lafayette, Grant, Lincoln, Garfield and Logan. Precisely at 12.30, on Tuesday, the gavel of Chairman Jones, of the National Republican Com mittee, sounded sharpiy upon the ma hogany desk, and the Republican Con vention of 1888 was formally opened. The hum of conversation ceased throughout the vast auditorium, and the buzz of expectation gave place to the impressive silence as the chairman intro duced Rev. Frank W. Gunsauler, of Plymouth Congregational Church ot Chicago, who opened the proceedings with prayer. At the conclusion of the prayer, Chairman Jones announced that the secretary, Mr. Fessenden, of the na tional committee, would read the call for the convention issued by the national committee. Mr. Jones made an address, and Mr. Thurston, the temporary chairman, then announced a long list of secretaries, as sistantant secretaries, sergeants-at-arms, etc., tor temporary organization. After the reading of the list of officers was com pleted, the bands struck up a medley of national airs, which was warmly received by the audience, and as the air turned into “Marching Through Georgia,” the assemblage caught up the refrain and the chorus of many voices resounding throughout the hall. Gen. Fremont was presented to the convention, Fred Doug lass made a speech, bouquets were pre sented to Miss Rachel Sherman, daugh ter of the Gen. Sherman, and Mrs. Thurs ton, the wife of the temporary chairman of the Convention. Virginia presented a contesting dele gation, and at one time it looked as though Gen. Mahone and Capt. Wise would blows. SENSIBLE. A committee of the French Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution, on mo tion of Frederick Passy, to enter into a perpetual treaty with the United States for the settlement, by arbitration, of disputes that may arbe between that country and France. Passy is president of the International League of Peace. The Queen Regent of Spain has given f 10- 000 to the poor of Barcelona. Her Majesty also gives ffc-OJ to each boy and ?ID.» to each ] girl born on the opening day of the Spanish I exhibition. THE Will ROOM. ! •AN INTERESTING CORNER IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Where the Rills of Congress are Copied—A Bill's Course While on Its Passage—lm portant Errors. A Washington letter to the New York Sun says: Just to the left of the en trance of the old hall of the House of j Representatives, or statuary Ilall, as it | is now called, is a suite of rooms almost j as rich in historical associations as the old hall itself. They are peculiar rooms, architecturally speaking, clinging to the outer walls of the rotunda like swallows’ nests around the circumference of a great factory chimney. Here are born a fair share of the laws of the United States. -Most people know that Congress makes the laws of the country, but few, per haps, are aware of the processes through which they pass from the time they I first make their appearance in the shape ; of a bill introduced by Representative Blank until they appear in the Revised | Statutes and take their places in the li braries of courts and attorneys. The process, in brief, is as follows: After being introduced in either house the bill is read by title and referred to an appropriate committee. If the com mittee thinks well of it, it reports the bill to the House with a recommendation that it pass. It takes its place at the foot of the calendar, or list of bills and resolutions awaiting action, and if there is a real need of such legislation the House or Senate, as the case may be, will pass it. Supposing the bill to have originated in the House (and the process iD the Senate is exa tly similar), the bill comes out to the clerks in the room al ready described. Up to this time it is usually in the handwriting of the mem ber who introduced it, or in that of his clerk or the constituent who requested him to present it to Congress. And very queer shapes some of the bills do take. While a fair share of them are written in a good legible hand, on good foolscap, others are the most wretched scrawls, on greasy scraps of paper, blotched and un healthy in appearance. Printed forms are supplied by the clerk to such members as care 10 use them, but comparatively few do so. Many are too careless to take the trouble to apply for them; others delight in exhibiting their originality in their bills, and for others again the printed form is not sufiiciently imposing in appearance. Perry Bel mont’s bills excite the admiration of the clerks. They are always gotten up with the greatest neatness, on the whitest paper, beautifully written, backed with tinted paper and laced with dainty blue silk ribbons. Good, bad, and indifferent, the bills, after being passed by the House, are brought out to the clerks to be engrossed. The engrossment consists in copying the bills, with amendments, if any, on sheets of stiff paper about twelve inches by eighteen in size. Next they are signed by the Speaker and the Clerk of the House, and by the last-named officer de livered in person in open session to the Sen'ate, with the announcement that the House has passed them, and request that the Senate concur in that action. Supposing that the Senate sees fit to do so, wilich is not always the case, however, back comes the bill to the House for enrollment. While at first glance this appears to be a simple dupli cation of whut has been already done in the engrossment, the enrolling process is distinguished from the other in the very much greater care and regard for absolute accuracy with which it is con ducted. Patriotic Americans may not be pleased to learn that our statutes are spread upon English parchment, and written in part at least with English ink. But this seems to be a necessary pocketing of the national pride. The parchment, in sheets about twenty-four inches in length by sixteen in width, is of a peculiar quality, thin and flawless, and made from the skin of a lamb. The proper quality is not made in this country. Before it is in fit condition to take the ink the natural grea=e must be removed from the surface of the skin. This is a tedious job, which is effected by rubbing over the entire surface with the cuttle bone commonly used in bird cages. The ink which gives the most satisfaction in the matters of durability, blackness, and fluidity, is made by com bining an English with a domestic brand. Ordinarily two clerks manage to keep abreast of the current work in the House wing, but toward the end of a session, when many bills are rushed through with little ceremony, the labor becomes so great that the entire clerical force of the clerk’s office is called into requisition, and even the pages who show fitness for the work are pressed into ser vice. With sufficient time to properly enroll and compare the bills, a high de gree of accuracy is maintained. But in the closing days of a Congress, with the avalanche of bills pouring into the office, with untrained assistants, with the force working day and night almost contin uously, and with the ever present fact that the slightest delay in enrollment may result in the failure of important legislation, mistakes are unavoidable. Some are serious and some are comical. A misplaced comma in a tariff bill, just a little dot of ink that a fly might have made, once transferred flowers of sulphur to the free list and placed a pretty steep duty on flour of sulphur, when it was the intention of Congress to axactly reverse the facts. An error was discovered in an appro priation bill just in season to prevent the then Vice-President of the United States, Mr. Wheeler, from receiving a salary of SBO,OOO a year instead of the SB,OOO de signed by Congress. One cipher too many put in in committee did it, but an enrolling clerk discovered the error. But to return to the history of the bill; its future course lies in smoother water, and is soon described. The en grossed House bill, when returned with the Senatorial approval and transcribed, is, at the end of the session, bound up with others into large volumes and stored away in the basement of the Capi tol. The entire walls of a great crypt like room are covered with shelves tilled with them. The transcribed or enrolled bills are carefully compared with the originals by the Committee on Enrolled Bills and ♦akeu to the President. If he approves hem, he so notifies the House and. send? them over to the State Department, where copies are again made for the use of the printers, who set up the statutes at large, and the enrolled and approved bills—now known as acts of Congress— take their places in the files along with those passe 1 at the first Congress of the United States. English Football Accidents. Serious accidents at football again cast reflections upon that game as played in «i tain districts. We reported yester day the death of a young man at Man chester from the violence of a collision between him and another player. The game was played on Saturday under the Rugby rules, and the victim suffered such injury to the spine that he died on Sun day morning. We reported in the same paragraph another collision between Cov entry players at Rugby, resulting in a case of “concussion of the brain and other serious in uries.” In addition to these cases we have now to note that at Hexham a schoolmaster who took part in one of Saturday’s matches is lying dan gerously ill in consequence of injuries received in a manner which one shudders to read of in the local accounts of the game. He had got the ball and he was “seized by two of the Hexham Star players aud thrown into the air. He fell heavily on the back part of his head and neck.” He was taken away in a state of acute suffering. Paralysis of the lower part of his body resulted, and his condi tion is described as critical in the ex treme. As thus played, football is not so much a lively as a deadly game.— London News. * Not Sucli a Hard Bargain. Not long since a party of young men went from Boston to a country town in Maine for a few day’s fishing. They had a full outfit of “tackle” and “gear,” and- upon arrival at their destination stood in need of but one thing—bait. After consulting their local adviser they secured the services of an ancient resi dent, who started out to dig the needed worms. He was gone three or four hours, but to good purpose, for when he re turned he had a water bucket even full of a wriggling mass of earthworms. Now this was more than the boys had bargained for, and thoughts what such an unheard-of wealth of bait would cost began to trouble them. To end their susj ense they appointed one of their number spokesman, with plenary powers, but with instructions to make the best bargain possible. “How much do we owe you?” he asked, approaching the venerable bait digger and taking out his wallet. “Well, I don’t rightly know, ” rejoined the old man; “the ground is kinder solid and the worms is fur down, and its been hard on my back to dig 'em. But I’ve half a notion to gofishin’ myself to-morrow, and if you'll give me half the bait we’ll call it square.”— Boston Heruld A Siamese Cremation. “From Siam,” says the Pall Mall Gazette , “we learn that the cremation of the two sons of the King was a cere mony eclipsing in magnificence even that of the King’s uncle, whose body was cremated last year. For fifteen days Bangkok was given up to revelry. No work was done, and such amusements as fireworks, illuminations, and inter minable dramatic performances were pro vided nightly and kept up till two or three o’clock a. m. The building in w’ ich the cremation was effected had been erected at a cost £50,000; a fact which, as it is now being demolished, as having seived its purpose, shows muni ficence, if not extravagance. External ly this ‘premane’ presented the appear ance of a palace of gold, so gorgeous was its ornamentation; and internally its chief feature was the electric light with which it was illumined throughout. There were two separate cremation days during the fortnight, and the final pro cession for each was so long that it oc cupied over an hour in passing a fixed point. Siamese funerals may be expen sive ceremonies, but at least they cannot be called lugubrious.” Raising Frogs. Says a writer in the St. Louis Globe Democrat “Any man who has a pond on his farm can try the experiment of rais ing his own frogs. First, let him buy, say, six pairs of fine New Jersey breed ers and dump them into the water. With these for a starter you may select a quan tity of domestic bactracean, and then yon will have the nucleus of a fortune, Don’t interfere with your water invest ment for a year any more than to keep your growing stock well supplied with food. They require an abundance, but as they are not very dainty in their taste the expense account will be light. For*a young farm two barrels a day of hotel table scraps witl keep the frogs in splen did shape, so that at the end of twelve months you can begin marketing all you can fi-h out at the same price as spring chickens. Give me the time and facili ties, and I will wager at the end of two years I will be living on an income of .>SOOO and my frogs will pay all expen ses.” The Costliest Bean. The vanilla bean is the costliest bean on earth. It flourishes in Mexico, chiefly in Papantla and Misantla. It grows wild, and is gathered and marketed by the natives. Just as they come from the forest the beans sell at $lO or sl2 per thousand. After the beans are dried and cured they are worth from $7 to sl2 per pound, according to quality. Last year, the vicinity of Papantla alone ex ported sixty million beans. They are used by druggists and confectioner*, and are an important article of commerce. At Mrs. Snaverick’s Musioale.—Prof. Von Hulow of the Beilin Academy)— “Berhabs Herr, your esdimaple fader, vould der seiegtion maig for mine blay ing, madam. Hee vas haf vat you gall der museek-look.'’ Snaverick, senior (ex-captain of the brig Susan) —“Ham- mer out ‘Hull's Victory,’ with th’hard pedal on, professor.”— Till-Bits. “Zalediscoffokenonischi” is the name of a Schuylkill miner. After barb-wire fenciDg his half acre lot with his name, he still has enough left to climb in and out of the mine on, when he can't wait for the bucket, but the mine is only 800 feet deep.— DansrHie Breeze. Nightcaps as articles of dress, except in antiquated farces and amateur the atricals, have gone out of fashion. VETERINARIANS. ' remarkable progress in VETERINARY SCIENCE. A Horse’s Leg in Slings—Animal Dentistry—Horses Subject to Diseases Incident to Human Beings. Great improvement has been made, says the New 1 ork Mai' and Express, ii» the medical aud surgical treatment of the horse in the past few years. The sick or injured horse gets nearly as care ful and minute treatment as the sick or injured man. Fractured bones are often reset and even amputation has been per- for special purposes. Let the horse injure its leg or foot, and the mem ber is done up in a sling as tenderly and carefully as though it belonged to a hu man being. Here is a case in point, re ported by Dr. L. C. Wakefield: A bay mare that had been used in horse power, while working in the machine caught her right, hind foot in one of the logs with such force as to stop the machine and seriously in jure the foot. In a short time the animal could hardly put her foot to the ground, and when the doc tor was called in she was suffering in tense pain. An operation was performed aud the injured leg as well as the ani mal herselt was put in slings and for ‘lays the foot was dressed daily. Just two months from the date of the opera tion the wound was entirely closed. “Fill horses’ teeth? Yes, why not? It can be done,” said a surgeon in the American \ eterinary College the other day. “A horse is a good deal like a man,” he went on, “and horses suffer from de cayed teeth, exposed nerves and tooth ache just the same as a man or woman. How can we tell? Why, by examining their jaws, of course, and after we have located the seat of the trouble we quickly try tf> alleviate the suffering. Even dogs have toothache. Many a lady’s pet dog suffers pain from cold and exposed nerves, and pines away and refuses to eat because they are suffering with their teeth. Juno, a l.averick setter of excel lent pedigree, owned by Dr. A. N. Rous sel, a Brooklyn dentist, now rejoices in a gold-filled tooth. Dr. Roussel noticed a defective tooth in the dog's head and de termined to fill it. Juno was persuaded to take a seat in the chair while the doctor drilled out the cavity and filled in the gold. The dog stood it like a major and looked up gratefully when the work was finished. Oh, yes, it was a hard job, I suppose, and the dog fussed and fumed for a time, but he’s all right now. ” Horses in these days must have their quinine as well as human beings. Dr. W. H. Pendry tells of the biggest dose of quinine ever given to a horse. It was 1 a case of pneumonia. He prescribed the ordinary dose, one drachm. By mis take an ounce of the drug was added to this and given to the animal at 10 a. xr. At 7 p. >f., when the doctor called, the horse was perspiring freely, had a full jpulse, and its temperature had fallen from 104 to 101 degrees. The same dose jwas ordered given, and wa9 carried out before the mistake was discovered. The doctor, in telling the experience, added: . “I visited the horse about 9 o’clock the following morning and was met by a whinnying welcome, to which I at once responded by giving a small feed of oats, which was soon put out of the way. I found the pulse not so full, body quite dry, but the temperature was back tot 104 degrees. Here was a case where two ounces of quinine had been given inside of nine hours without any re markable result.” A fact not generally known is that electricity is coming into extensive use in the medical treatment of horses. It is found of value in nervous affections and especially in diseases of the throat and larynx. Sometimes regular shocks are given two or three times a day, and the horse submits to the galvanic current very readily. The veterinary surgeon of these days finds that the horse is subject to con sumption, rheumatism, sciatica and, in fact, nearly all diseases incident to hu man beings, even hydrophobia. An in teresting case of the latter is on the veterinary records. A ten-year-old mare, ordinarily of kind disposition, was found one morning in an entirely opposite state of feeling. She had kicked at her mate several times during the night. She was placed alone and firmly secured. She took food and drank readily, but during ihe evening her ill-temper and perverse actions in creased and she tried to attack the man who had charge of her. The next day she became still more violent and dan gerous, kicking and biting everyone who approached. The doctor who saw her says: “Her eyes were widely dis tended and her looks threatening, her countenance having a peculiar contract- i ing appearance, re-embling a kind of sardonic smile. When suddenly ex cited she wo Id kick with both hind r , feet, but at times with one fore foot ' only. Unable to bite others, she turned upon herself, biting her own chest and forearm. She ground her teeth and tossed her head up and down, and her jaws were seized with convulsive move- - meats. She 1a 1 been bitten bv a dog that had been killed three weeks before on account of hydrophobia. Two shots in the region of her heart put an end to her sufferings.” The Age of the World. Profe-sor I’lestwick, in the seond volume of his geology, just issued from the Oxford University press. England, says that the calculations on which the Glacial Epoch was put back 240,090 years are very defective, as they are based on the rate which the puny glaciers of the Alps move. But, basing his calculations on the rate at which the Greenland glaciers move, lie thinks that the time occupied by the great American ice slide need not lia . e been more than from 15,000 to 25,01)0 years. And, by means of similar observations and calcu lations, he limits the time for the forma tions of the valleys, which followed, to 8000 or 10,000 years. Hence the begin ning of the Glacial Period may not havd| been more than 110,000 years ago instead of 240,000, and the close of the period not more than 10,000 years. This makes m mraense shrinkage in the antiquity which some of the geologists have claimed for the human race. The in all these calculations is that it is not known how fast the ice moved in glacial times.