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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 21

The "isolated city of the great North-west " is up the Missouri River, 1200 miles beyond Bismarck, away from any railroad, hemmed in by mountains, and at this season shut out from all the world. It bears the name of Benton, in honour of " Old Bullion," and it is the magazine of the North-west. It is a substantial town, because lumber is so costly there that it is economy to build with brick. During navigation twenty-two Bteamboats carry freight to this remote city, and the volume of business there justifies a Chamber of Commerce and mammoth brick blocks. The three thousand souls in this mountain fastness must enjoy a peace that passeth understand* ing in the busy life of New York. Some of the practical results of M. Pasteur's protective system of inoculation of animals have been furnisbed the public. Last year 80,000 sheep were vaccinated in the Department Eure-et-Loire, and only 518 have died of the disease known as " charbon," or 0.05 per cent., whereas the mean annual loss from the disease for the ten preceding years were 9.01 p;r cent. Of bovine animals 1,500 were vaccinated, and the mortality has fallen from 7.03 to 0.24 per cent. A special experiment made with sheep gave the following result : 2,308 sheep were vaccinated and 1,639 were not ; all were cared for in the same manner and mixed freely with each other. Of, the vaccinated sheep only 8 died, while of the uovaccinated ones 83 died.