The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-17 00:00:00

MADNESS IN DOGS.

The following observations on rabies are made
by Mr. Hertwich, Professor at the Veterinary
School at Berlin, in a work which he has recently
published. Their extension may be useful :
" The two different forms of rabies, the one of
which Dr. Hufeland calls the acute or fierce, and

the other the chronic or quiet rabies, are not two
distinct diseases ; for inoculation from an animal
affected with the one was fiequently observed to
produce the other. In the acute rabies, the dogs
are observed to change their manners, and to be-
come either more lively and irritable, or more
lazy and morose ; they generally become of very
changeable temper, and are, at times, seized
with restlessness, which forces them to run
about ; most of them know and obey their master
until a very short time before death. At the
commencement of the disease the animals often
show a great desire to lick cold things. They
lose their appetite, especially for solid food, but
frequently eat wood, turf, straw, or their faeces ;
this symptom is very characteristic, and the con-
tents of the stomach iu the post-mortem exami-
nations of dogs are of the greatest importance to
determine whether there has been rabies or not.
No rabid dog shows a dread of water at any
period of the disease ; they drink, lick, and be-
hold it, without any dislike, and sometimes ex-
hibit even a great avidity for it, although they
often have some difficulty in swallowing it, on
account of the swelling in the throat ; there is
also no dread of light, nor any dislike on looking
at shining surfaces, or being exposed to a cur-
rent of air.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.—A farmer in
the parish of Halberton, states that he has four and a half
acres of orchard, which will produce 300 hogsheads of
eider.—Dorset Chronicle.

A servant of Mr. FRAMPTON'S, at his
Lodge, Axminster, has two young hares who are suckled
by a cat, and she is as fond of them as if they were her
own offspring, and even follows them in the fields.—Dor-
set Chronicle.

FEMALE PEDESTRIAN..—.On Monday last
a woman,. 61 years of age, a native of Berkahire, under.
took to walk in Ranelagh Gardens, i't this city, 96 mi!es
in 24 hours. She started at four o'clock in the after-
noon, and performed her task 11 minutes within the time,
having only stopped once for ten minutes to take refre.h-
merit. We understand that about 101., taken for admiss-
sion into the gardens, was given to her as a remuneration
for her trouble.—Norwich Chronicle.
ANECDOTE OF COLONEL NAPIER'S HIS-
T() RT.-For the following very fair testimonl to an au-
thor's merit we can vouch from our own knowledge. A
lady having procured Colonel NArnia's History, was so
much interested by it, as to continue reading it all day;
her delight and ardour increasing, she read it all night ;
with unabated pleasure she ceased not to peruse it daring
the whole of the following day; and absolutely, in order
to finish it, sat up the second night I Whether this be
most conclusive of the soldier's genius or the lady's perse-
verance, our readers must decide.— United ServiceJourn.

THE TURNIP CROPS.—The turnip fields
in this neighbourhood present, upon the whole, a very
promising appearance ; and, should this esculent escape
the action of frost, the crop will Le excellent and abun-
dant.—Donenster Gazette.

By a pretty accurate calculation, it is ascer-
tained that the quantity of whiskey consumed at Wick,
during the herring fishing season, exceeds 500 gallons per
day !—lnverness Courier.

ABUNDANT CoRN MARKET.—Whether
from the occurrence of the Michaelmas rent day, an ex-
pectation of a demand for seed, the general scarcity of
money, the evils of which affect the farmers as well as
most other classes of the community, or from all these
causes combined, the supply of corn at our market last
Saturday was more extensive !than has been known for
years. Between five and six hundred sample loads of va-
rious kinds of grain were, it is computed, pitched upon
the stones in the corn-inarket.—/Ancaster Gazette.