FOREST AND STREAM, 



77 



Flies, Flikl. Fue?, Funs, Flies, Furs, 

 Fwbb. — Flies are artificially propagated in 

 New Jersey, near Patersno, where an asBocra- 

 tion of jnen liavc invested capital and are run- 

 ning the works to their full capacity. Flies 

 are incubated from eggs by an artificial batch- 

 ing arrangement and iImj young Hies are taught 

 all the deviltry they know right in the fac- 

 tory. Some will look upon this statement as 

 false and wonder why any association of men 

 should engaj ■.iiieial propagation of 



the lly. yVe will explain. It is well known 

 that flies die at the end of the season, and if 

 it were not for artificial propagation there 

 would be none the second season. The par- 

 ties that are engaged in this industry are also 

 sole manufacturers of fly paper and fly traps. 

 We trust that the object is now plain. In or- 

 der to sell their paper and traps it, is necessary 

 to have game to catch. The gentlemen had 

 engaged largely in the manufacture of fly 

 paper and fly traps before they knew that flies 

 onlj lasted one season, and after a year of 

 success they found bankruptcy staring them 

 in the face, as it was probable they would not 

 sell a sheet of paper the nest year. So 

 they organized the "Great American Artifi- 

 cial Fly Incubating Association of New Jer- 

 sey," and issued a million dollars, worth of 

 slock. We have not room to describe the 

 hatching of flies, in the Sun, but it is like 

 hatching chickens by steam. Some of the 

 best old flies are kept; to lay eggs, and eggs 

 are placed on cards and put into an oven. 

 They hatch out in twenty minutes, and are 

 ready in half an hour to learn the business. 

 First they are taught to wade in butter, to 

 swim in cream and to get into things around 

 the kitchen. Then the young flies are taken 

 to the dormitory, where men and women, en- 

 gaged for the purpose, are pretending to sleep. 

 An old fly and a hundred young ones are 

 placed in each room, and the old fly, after 

 lighting on shirt bosoms, or female white 

 goods, in order to teach the young flies the 

 noble art of punctuation, begins to get in its 

 work on the sleeper. The old fly, after seat- 

 ing the young flies on cuffs and collars, calls 

 "Attention !" and after buzzing around a little 

 lights on the sleeper's nose. The sleeper pre- 

 tends to be mad and slaps at the fly — this is a 

 mere matter of form, however, for if a sleeper 

 engaged by the association kills an old stool 

 fly it is deducted from his or her salary. As 

 the old fly gets away the young flies laugh and 

 want to try it themselves. Then the old fly 

 lights on the lady sleeper's big toe and pro- 

 ceeds deliberately to walk up her foot, ankle 

 and calf, occasionally stopping to bite. This 

 is very trying to the alleged sleepers, causing 

 nervousness and a twitching of the muscles, 

 but they must not injure the fly. The little 

 flies notice everything, and after the old fly 

 has caroused around and tickled and buzzed, 

 then the young flies are. allowed to practice 

 on them. The persons practiced on get $6 a 

 day and board, and it is a very particular and 

 trying site: fl ■■.,. 



Then comes the expensive business of dis- 

 tributing flies throuhgout the country. For- 

 merly it was done through book agents and 

 lightning rod peddlers, but that was found 

 too expensive, so the association originated 

 the idea of sending out regular agents, called 

 tramps, to introduce the flies. The first 

 year only about 10,000 tramps were sent out, 

 but. the business has grown to such huge pro- 

 portions that it is estimated that this year the 

 association has out half a million tramps 

 leaving flies around. They go from house to 

 house begging, and before they leave they 

 manage to drop a few flies Each tramp has 

 a card with a million young flies on. After 

 he has partaken of his meal and the woman 

 of the house is out after a shot-gun, or a dog 

 to drive him away, he slips his hand up his 

 sleeve and tears off a piece of card containing 

 perhaps 10,000 yount flies and drops it in the 

 wood box, or in some convenient place. That 

 is enough to start on, as the flies breed rapid- 

 ly. The next day the woman will wonder 

 " where on airth all them flies come from." 

 The company has distributing points all over 

 the country, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Paul 

 being among them, where the tramps go once 

 a month after a new supply. A card will 

 last a tramp thirty days. The introduction 

 of the tiy paper and the fly traps is easier, as 

 the articles are sent directly to druggists, 

 who sell them to consumers. Stock in the 

 association is worth an immense amount, 

 paying a quarterly dividend of 20 per cent. 

 The only way that the fly nuisance can be 

 abaited is to kill the tramps as fast as they 

 enter a community, or destroy the manu- 

 factory at New Jersey. The Sun has 

 exposed the nefarious business; now let the 

 people rise up and crush it out of existence. 



■Wanted : Names and Dates. — Some one 

 has been gulled. We don't know who it is 

 but perhaps the editor of the Germaniovm 

 Telegraph does. In that paper we find the 

 following : 



A correspondent will write to a sporting 

 paper that (he trout-fishing is splendid at a 

 certain place one or two hundred miles away ; 

 a dozen people in five or six parties rig up 

 and go there. They put-up at the only tav- 

 ern in the place as they drop in day by day. 

 The landlord is very polite and makes tnem 

 heartily welcome. The two first anglers who 

 arrive, alter refreshing themselves, makea bee 

 line for the stream. They find it smaller than 

 hey expected. They cast and cast and get 



two or three rises of very small specimens. 

 Hungry and disappointed they return to the 

 tavern and complain to the landlord. He 

 apologizes as best he can, says that the water 

 was veiy low and there hnve been numerous 

 parties before them who had pretty well 

 cleaned out the stream. The Bame disappoint- 

 inout and the same story meet each party af- 

 ter a trial in the stream. It is discovered af- 

 terward that the daughter of the landlord, 

 who had been to a boarding-school, had 

 written the communication, to get business 

 for her father, to help him to make up her 

 school-bill 



A Real Teeat. — Philadelphia is just as 

 happy as it can be. They have .a gorilla to 

 dissect. Dr. Thomas G. Morten is a delight- 

 ed man. The dead monkey came from 

 Orange River, West Africa, in a 30 gallon cask 

 of rum: 



The carcase was shipped about April 19 

 last. The gorilla was captured alive, and 

 came into the possession of an Englishman, 

 who intended to ship it to Europe for ex- 

 hibition. While capturing it the natives 

 broke one of its arms, and before the English- 

 man got possession of it the gorill i came near 

 dying for want of proper food and attention. 

 Then inflammation of the bowels seized it and 

 from this disease in a few days it died. Its 

 head, mouth and eyes are large, nose flat and 

 ears are small. The arms are large and the 

 lower limbs rather small, but the hands and 

 feet bear a striking resemblance to those parts 

 of the human organization. The head, arms, 

 legs, back and breast are covered with black 

 hair. Mr. Nassau also sent Dr. Morton by 

 the same vessel the skeleton of an adult gorilla 

 of extraordinary size. It is complete, with 

 the exception of a few minor bones." 



A "Star" Mule. — At one of the theatres 

 in a town of Nevada, the play of the " Forty 

 Thives" was lately presented, but in rather a 

 meagre manner, as may be inferred from the 

 lack of abundant seenery and properties in 

 the far West. When All Boba had seen the 

 thieves enter and quit the cave, he went to 

 the wings and brought in a mule, which, 

 having taken grave offence at something, 

 awaited his opportunity for revenge. No 

 sooner bad Ali come out of the cave with his 

 bags of wealth, and attempted to put them 

 on the back of the beast, then he began his 

 part of the performance. He let fly with his 

 heels ; kicked the shavings (the supposed 

 riches) out of the bags ; kicked down the 

 cavern ; kicked down a whole forest ; kicked 

 down the wings ; kicked the end of the base 

 viol, leaning against the stage, to pieces ; 

 smashed the foot-lights ; and finally doubled 

 up AU by planting both feet in the pit of his 

 stomach. The mule fairly cleared the stage 

 and set the audience into a great roar, the 

 miners laying wagers that he could out-kick 

 any mule in the State. The quadruped con- 

 tinued kicking as if he were hung on a pivot, 

 until a rope was fastened around him and he 

 was dragged off by the united strength of the 

 company. The Nevadans want to give the 

 mule a benefit. — New York Times. 



" Toee, " the Miniatube Teamp. — This is 

 one of Baltimore's characters. The last heard 

 of him, Tobe, according to the Baltimore 

 Sun, had been incarcerated on a charge of 

 vagrancy : 



John Henry Johnson, who bears the name 

 "Tobe, "is about six hands high and black 

 as the ace of spades, his face shining like a 

 brilliantly polished stove. Every body 

 knows "Tobe " iu the eastern section of the 

 city, and the objection to him is that he has 

 a strenuous objection to wearing apparel, 

 and is in the habit of making his appearance 

 at the eastern city spring or at Patterson 

 Park in the midst of large crowds without a 

 stitch of clothing on his person. 



Time and again he had been fitted out 

 with a full suit of clothing by a generous- 

 hearted giver, but the day after he is sure to 

 appear in puris naturalibus, much to his own 

 apparent delight but somewhat to the as- 

 tonishment and dismay of the modest. As 

 far as has ever been discovered he has no 

 home, no relatives and no particular friends. 

 He generally sleeps under a porch, and never 

 lacks for food. 



No Market For It. — On the 25th the ship 

 Ouilia stranded on the shoals near Nantucket, 

 the vessel loaded entirely with brimstone. 

 Now, had she been cast ashore near New York 

 with such a precious cargo, why — 



— A steamer plying in California keeps a 

 trained sheep on board, which goes out on the 

 gang-plank when a flock is to be loaded, to 

 show that the approach is safe, and to act as 

 pifot to the herd, which readily follows it on 

 to the boat. 



— Aa announced elsewhere, the Fifth Grand Dis- 

 tribution of ttie Commonwealth Distribution Com- 

 pany of Louisville, Ky., will take place on September 

 30th, next. Tills organization acta under authority 

 of the State of Kentucky, and as it never scales nor 

 postpones its drawing it has met with, a flattering 

 public support. 



—The lateBt tiling in monograms la to have it on 

 Cigarettes. The enterprising inannlacturers of 

 Vanity Fair have brought it oat in a most tempting 

 style. 



Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, 

 Jewellers, and Importers, have 

 always a large stock of silver 

 articles for prizes for shooting, 

 yachting, racing and other 

 sports, and on request they pre- 

 pare special designs for similar 

 purposes. Their TIMING 

 WATCHES are guaranteed 

 for accuracy, and are now very 

 generally used for sporting and 

 scientific requirements. TIF- 

 FANY & CO. are also the agents 

 in America for Messrs. PATEK, 

 PHILIPPE & CO., of Geneva, of 

 whose celebrated watches they 

 have a full line. Their stock of 

 Diamonds and other Precious 

 Stones, General Jewelry, Artis- 

 tic Bronzes and Pottery, Electro- 

 Plate and Sterling Silverware 

 for Household use, fine Station- 

 ery and Bric-a-brac, is the 

 largest in the world, and the 

 public are invited to visit their 

 establishment without feeling 

 the slightest obligation to pur- 

 chase. 

 UNIQN SQUARE, NEW YORK 



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HIGHLY EFFERVESCENT. 



APPROVED by UieAcademieiU Medimieot Prance, 

 and Its sale in France authorized by special order of 

 the French Government. 



Recommended by the highest Medical Authorities 

 in New York as 



"A great relief for seasickness." 



"A delightful beverage. Mildly antacid, most 

 grateful and refreshing." 



"Par superior to Vichy. Seltzer, or any other." 



"Absolutely pure and wholesome ; superior to all 

 for daily use ; free from all the objections urged 

 against Croton and artificially aerated waters." 



" Impregnate: l oiilv with its own gas." 



"Healthful and well suited for Dyspepsia and 

 cases of acute disease, and where there is a gouty 

 diathesis." 



"By far the most agreeable, alone or mixed with 

 wine, useful In Catarrhs c i stomnc.li or Bladder, and 

 in Gout." 



" Not only a luxury, but a necessity. " 



Tobe had oral) W'me Merchants, Grocers, Drug- 

 gists, and Mineral Water Dealers throughout the 

 United States, and wholesale of 



FKJED'K DK BARY A; CO., 



Nos. « and 43 WARREN ST., N. Y. 



Solo Agents for the United States and Canada. 



Every Genuine Bottle bears the Registered YEL- 

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slnu slAMFtUH ILLUSTRATED PRICE LIST. 



^- A WWSUKW Wow e*. 



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5th 



GRAND DISTRIBUTION 



COMMONWEALTH DISTRIBUTION CO., 



By authority of the Commonwealth of KoDtnoHy, 

 supervised by Hon. R. C.Wintersmith, Ex-Treasurer 

 Generals T. A. Harris, Geo. IB. H. Gray, and other 

 prominent, citizens, will Rive their FIFTH POPU- 

 LAR DRAWING In Public Library Hail, Louisville, 

 Ky., on 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1878. 



No Scaling. No Postponement 



UNPARALLELED SCHEME. 



$1 15,400 in Cash Prizes, 



AND TICKETS ONLY »& 

 Head the Ltst of Prizes; 



1 Prize ..$30,000 



l Prize l.ooo 



l Priae 6,ooo 



10 PrlzeB $1,000 10,000 



SO Prizes $500 10,000 



9 Prizes $300 each. Approximation Prizes... $2,700 



100 Prizes $100 . ..$10,000 



3f0 Prizes 50... 15,000 



600 Prizes 20... 111,000 



t,000 Prizes 10... 10,000 



3 Prizes soo each' 

 9 Prizes loo each 



1,600 



1,960 Prizes $116,400 



WHOLE TICKETS, $11. HALF TICKETS, $L 

 25 TICKETS, »50. 5R TICKS PR, $100. 



Remit by Post-office Money Order, Registered 

 Letter, Banlc Draft or Express. Full list ol Drawing 

 pnblishea In Louisville Ccurier-Journal and New 

 York Herald, and mailed to all ticket-holders. For 

 tickets and Information, address COMMON WEALTH 

 DISTRIBUTION CO., or T. J. COMMERFORD 

 Secretary, Courier-Journal Building, Louisville. Kv , 

 or to B. H. PORTER&CO., General Eastern Agonis 

 1,227 Broadway, New York. aug29 4c 



L.S.L 



A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WI V A 

 FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND DISTRIBU- 

 TION, 1S76, AT NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, 

 SEPT. 10. 



Louisiana State Lottery Company. 



This Institution was regularly Incorporated by the 

 Legislature of the State lor Educational and Chari- 

 table purposes in 1868. with acapitalof $1,010,000, to 

 Which it has since added a reserve fund of $350,000. 

 ITS GRAND .SINGLE NUMBER DISTRIBUTION 

 will take place monthly on the second Tuesday. It 

 never scales or poatpones. Look at. the following dis- 

 tribution : 



CAPITAL PRIZE, $30,000. 



100,000 TICKETS AT TWO DOLLARS EACH. 



HALF-TICKETS, ONF. DOLLAR. 



LIST OF PRIZES. 



l Capital Prize of $80,ooo 



1 Capital Prize of 10,000 



1 Capital Prize of 5,000 



3 Prizes of $2,500 6,000 



BPrizesof 1,000 5,000 



20Prlzesof 500 lo.ooo 



100 " 100 10,000 



200 " 50 10,000 



boo " go 10,000 



1,000 " 10 10,000 



APPROXIMATION PRIZES 



9 Approximation Prizes oi {300 J,700 



9 A pproximation Prizes of 200 ±,800 



9 Approximation Prizes of 100 900 



1,857 Prizes amounting to »llo,ioo 



Responsible corresponding agents wanted at all 

 prominent points, to whom a liberal compensation 

 will be paid. 



Application for rates to clubs should only be made 

 to the Home Office in New Orleans. 



Write, clearly stating full address, for further In- 

 formation, or send orders to 



M. A.DAUPHIN, 

 P. O. Box 092, New Orleans, Louisiana, 

 or to H. I.. PI.U1U, 



319 Broadway, New York City. 

 All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings a^e under 

 the supervision and management of GENS. G. T. 

 BEAUREGARD and J UBAL A. EARLY. 



aug22 2t <?ot 



EXTRAORDINARY DRAWING ol the ROYAL 

 HAVANA LOTTERY, which will take place 

 September!, 1879, only ls.ouu ttckeis, -.141 prizes, as 

 follows : 



One prize of pasos $500,000 



Two prizes of $100,000 each 200,000 



One prize , 50,e00 



One prize 25,000 



•I'wo prizes of $10,000 each 20,000 



Eight prizes of $5,000 40,000 



3,126 prizes, from $3,00.) 10 $10,000 515,0011 



2,141 prizes, amount to 1,350,000 



For particulars address M. H. MARTINEZ & CO., 

 Bankers, 10 Wall street. Basement, N. Y. augls 2t 



Kentucky State Lottery. 



EASTERN AGENCY, 699 BROADWAY. 



Class Draws September 1 4. 



One prize of $14,ooo, one of $3,000, and one ol $4,Ufl0. 



1S94 PRIZES DISTRIBUTING $67,925. 



Whole Tickers, $1. 



WILLIAMSON & CO., 



599 BROADWAY, N. Y. 



J£mtt$ement8, J§fc. 



HHE AQUARIUM, BROADWAY AND 35TH ST. 



Thousands of living curiosities ; DEVIL PISHES, 

 TROp[t'ALAN^..M ON E^, CHIMPANZEE, etc. Per- 

 formances twice dally ol the Troupe of DOGS. 

 MONK !CYS ami GOATS. 



Admission 5') cents. Children half price. 

 THE MARVELLOUS ST. BENOIT TWINS. 



Admission 25 cents extra. Children 15 cents. 



^isteJJmieaus. 



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251 and 862 BROADWAY, NBW YORK. 



Leesburg Academy. 



Boys prepared for College or University. Terms, 

 $210 for ten months. For circular apply to Principal, 



burg, Loudoun Co., Virginia, 

 auglilmo. THOMAS WILLIAMSON. 



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