Queer Hospital

Tlie animale' hospital ia ia ckarf ! the New York College of Veterlnary I Surgeons, and that, if you please, is i part of the Unlverslty of Nmt Vort; ] so that if rou wanted to seud your j dickey-blrd there for the pip, he would be in a manner antier the shltertng wing of all the D.D.s and LL. D.s that j shlne as regents of that noble inatrflition. A great deal of the hospitai's most intercsting practice is among tlu; animáis kept in zoologieal gardena or i In traveling shows. An old circus Hon j was forought here not long ago to have his ulcerated tooth pulled. Now if the toothache makes you feel "cross as a bear,'" how cross does the toothaehe make a live Hon feel? To teil the trulh, no one at the hospital wanted to know how cross that Hon did feel - they thoaght it "was a oase in which it would be folly to be wise. The flrst thing to be done was to drop nooees of rope on the floor of hls cage, and then draw them up when he put his foot In onO - he knew he had "put his foot in It" when he found himself snared- and so, step by step, get hira bound and helpless. If you will think how partlcularly hard It is to tle up a cat, you may guess that it Is no Jok to make a Hon Cast; he ia just like a itupendous cat in his agllity and sllpperiness. The oaly way to render hlm helpless is to get his hind quarter tied up outside his cage, and hls head bound fast wlthin it; the nest thing, for dental work, Is to put a gag in hfá mouth; that is the easier because thexé is no trouble at all about gettlng blm to open his mouth- he does it ererytime any one goes near bim. When medicine cannot be given disguisel ín drink or food, it is usually squeezed down the patient's throát wlth a syringe. The horses are very good about that operation, but the dogs are often troublesome at flrst; but both dogs and horses soon lestrn that they are with friends, and then they are wonderfully good and grateful ven when the