Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     A startling report comes from the region known as the Kaskaskia Bottoms, in this state, to the effect that during the past nine months from 10,000 to 15,000 hogs have died of trichina in that neighborhood. At first it was believed to be hog cholera but recent examinations leave no room to question the fact that the terrible fatality among the swine is occasioned by the loathsome trichina. At St. Charles, Mo. there are about thirty-persons suffering from the dreadful disease. It is hoped that most of them will survive.