>From The Alleganian (Cumberland, Maryland), 22 November 1865, page 1: Curious Effect of Epidemics.---The visit of the cholera to Europe seems to be as fatal to birds and beasts as to man. We hear of wild birds as well as domestic beasts dying in large numbers. In England, sheep, cows, and horses are visited with this plague. In Belgium poultry is attacked the same way. In Paris, the dread of the cattle disease is such, according to London Times that all dogs running at large are to be killed. Lest they become agents for the transmission of the contagion. A common impression is that these various forms of disease among the lower animals, also the abundance of insects, are a precursor of the cholera, and originate in a vitiated atmosphere. The frequent shocks of earthquake denote that the magnetic and electric currents which course through nature are producing great internal disturbances of the globe, and the facts may be related to each other as cause and effect.