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FOREST AND STREAM. 



CURRENT JOTTINGS BY A STRAY DOG. 



A BOSTON paper insists that, "to perpetrate doggerel 

 poetry is to be guilty of a cur-rhyme." That B-hounds 



reasonable A. fierce old dog ina Texas jailis named "Dash," 



because -when the convicts make a dash for liberty he dashes 

 after them, their hopes are dashed to the ground, and their 

 remarks as the cur grips them from behind could be only 



hinted at in a polite journal like this by dashes A New 



York police station dog, ' ' Major, " had an extra dish of rations 

 the other day and an engrossed set of resolutions besides. He 



pursued a flying jail-bird and treed him in a cellar A. 



Yankee Norval has discovered that the dogs which devour his 

 father's mutton on the Grampian hills invariably attack the 

 neck of their victims to sever the arteries and drink the blood; 

 so Norval has designed a collar with sharp projecting points, 



to be worn by the sheep Denver people used to scatter 



strychnine around tUeir yards and alleyways to kill off the 

 stray dogs. A little black baby ate some of the poison and 

 straightway winged her flight where all good little black babies 

 go. Denver people don't scatter strychnine around any more. 

 In my nocturnal wanderings I have made the pleasant ac- 

 quaintance of several canine artists who " do " the dog " busi- 

 ness " in the third and fourth class (and some no-class-at-all) 

 variety shows. The Bowery Theatre is about as high as I 

 ever get. In one of the most notorious of the variety halls, a 

 favorite actor was, until recently.a dog, "Sport." His "parf'was 

 always the occasion of boisterous demonstrations from the de- 

 lighted audience. But "Sport" fell into the dog-catcher's hands, 

 and his master lamented with a reporter as follows : 



That chap was the best part hof my show. Why hevery- 

 body 'as seen 'im jump from 'is chair, where 'e 'ad been 

 Bleeping while the Big Four were hon the stage finishing 

 then' performance, hand scramble hup hand chase them behind 

 the scopes. Why, there his ban 'ole bin the scenes, purposely 



made for the \. 

 course Vd bite 'em. 

 hover. The hactors 



hot, lost his appetite ; also to a bitch big with young ; she 

 sickened and died ; also to a kitten which disappeared, no 

 one knew where. The children said the pup had been eating 

 green apples, that the bitch got injured by one of their num- 

 ber, and that the kitten was stolen by a bad boy, but the co- 

 incidence struck me as singular, to say the least. W. 



As our correspondent intimates, there may be something of 

 a coincidence about all this, but we arc very sure that insect 

 powder cannot affect an animal. We believe Pyrdhrum 

 rubrum to be perfectly innocuous. 



to hescape through. Bite*! hof 

 ne hof the hactora hare bitten hall 

 e hafraid hof 'im, halthough 'e made 

 fun for the folks haround. The honly way to sbut 'im hup 

 was to throw 'im ban hold 'at — and wouldn't 'e shake hit ? 

 "Sport " got halter ban hactor last week, chased 'im hoff from 

 the stage hup hinto the gallery hamong the spectators, ban 

 the hactor nearly broke 'is neck when 'e jumped from the 

 gallery to hescape. 'Is lead struck hon that wooden settee 

 there, hand smashed bin the seat. The hactor didn't know 

 hanything for twenty minutes. Hi wouldn't 'ave lost 'im 



for But wasn't 'e tricky ? Last fall 'e was sent down 



to the stables to sleep nights, band Hi'm blessed hif 'e didn't 

 walk lame hand play hup sick to get back hinto the warm 

 rooms. But one day, lookin' 'im hin the heyo, hi says, 

 " ' Sporty,' you're play in' hit," hand 'c never tried hit hagain. 

 " Sport " was ha show dog by nature. When hi was sick 

 last winter with rheumatism, " Sport " stayed by the bed 

 hand could 'ear the performance hon the stage. When 'is 

 performance came — the Big Four — 'e would rush like mad to 

 play 'Is part, hand then come back, jump hon my bed, look 

 hinto my heyes, hand halmost say has plainly has day : 

 " What's the reason you haren't downstairs?" 



The dogs of the profession differ from every dog. Every 

 dog has his day; theatrical dogs have their nights. An enter- 

 taining article might be written about these four-footed char- 

 acters of the stage. Think 1 will suggest something of the 

 kind to my friend "Tatters," of the "Shaughraun," or to 

 " Schneider," whose drolleries in the first act of "Rip Van 

 Winkle " have convulsed whole audiences with laughter, as 

 in the concluding scenes his refusal to recognize the dazed 



"Bip" has completed the pathetic picture When a dog 



tries to run ahead of a lightning express train and the people 

 go to the spot to investigate the result, they can hardly tell 



whether there has been a dog there or not The Turin 



papers record a curious hunting accident, II. Giacomo Bes- 

 chetti, while out hunting, became weary and stood leaning 

 upon his gun. His dog pawed the trigger, the gun went off, 



the man received the full charge in his breast and died We 



all know of dogs who have traveled long distances to reach 

 their homes, in some instances enduring great fatigue and 

 hunger on the road. Much sagacity is often displayed, be- 

 sides a very wonderful instinct— shall we call it ?— of direc- 

 tion, which has furnished a theme of speculation for more 

 than one student of animal psychology. A curious incident 

 recently transpired on the North British Railway, Eng., 

 which affords a striking example of canine sagacity : 

 ^Shortly before the arrival of the train leaving Edinburgh 

 for QueenBferry, a wise-looking black and tan collie dog came 

 on to the platform, where it stood for some time, during 

 which a West-going train stopped and took in passengers, 

 until the Queensferry train came up, when, watching its op- 

 portunity, it slipped in at the open door of a third-class car- 

 riage, in which were seated some ladies and gentlemen, who, 

 seeing that the dog had no owner, endeavored to turn it out, 

 but without success, the dog retreating into a corner under 

 the seat, and resisting every attempt. At the other stations 

 on the line these attempts were repeated, but the dog stuck 

 to its post until Kirliston was passed, when it approached one 

 of the doors of the carriage and sat waiting until the door 

 was opened at Dalmeny" station. Then, with a bound it 

 cleared the carriage and made off at full speed. It had evi- 

 dently, traveled by the same route before, and, having lost 

 its master in Edinburgh, had taken this method of getting 

 home. 



Westminster Kentjbl Cluh Notes.— The Westminster 

 Kennel Club's pointer bitch, May, full sister to Psyche, win- 

 ner of first prize and special prize at the late New York 

 Bench Show, has just whelped six by Sensation.— Mr. T. 

 Hall, of Marlboro, Ulster Co., N. Y., has purchased a Sen- 

 sation-Daisy puppy.— Westminster Kennel Club's Sensation 

 has just visited their Pallas. Pallas was bought at St. Louis 

 last February of Mr. Scott, with the imderstanding that she 

 was then in whelp to Bow. Pallas is lemon and white, by 

 Gen'l Prim out of Powell's Queen. She has a very sensitive 

 nose, and is stylish and fast in the field. It is expected that 

 her litter by Sensation will be very fine, combining the high- 

 est bench show and field qualities. Her head is the nearest 

 approach to Sensation we have ever seen. She was not ex- 

 hibited at Boston, Baltimore or New York, as she was at the 

 lime suffering from the usual mange, contracted by her ocean 

 trip. She is now in perfect condition. The club have a few 

 Sensation-Daisy puppies, six weeks old, lemon and white 

 dogs, which will be sold at reasonable prices. 



" Doos at a Baeqam."— Notice is hereby given that there 

 are no more dogs to be secured at a bargain in the Now York 

 dog pound. See our Kennel Department last week. We 

 should be glad to select good dogs for all the correspondents 

 who have applied to us, but dog-fanciers must look else- 

 where. 



Topeka Kennel Drafts — The Topeka Kennel (Topeka, 

 Kan.) has disposed of the following pups from the litter out 

 of their field-trial bitch France, by Mr. Ulias. N. Whitman's 

 imported pure Lavarack dog Pedigree, whelped June 13, 

 1878: To C. K. Drano, of Frankfort, Ky., a black white- 

 aud-tan dog pup, and a black-and-white dog pup. To B. R. 

 Buffham, of San Antonio, Texas, a black-and-white bitch 

 pup. To Wm. Vie, of St. Louis, Mo., a liver-and-white 

 bitch pup ; and to Mr. Henry Wilson, of Silver Lake, Kansas, 

 a black white-and-tan dog pup. All reported are tine healthy 

 pups, and very promising. 



Queen's County Hunt. — The club has increased in num- 

 bers since last season. There are several new horses, an en- 

 larged pack of hounds, five foxes, and a good supply of anise 

 seed to be used when the foxes refuse to run. The meets ar- 

 ranged are as follows; September 28, Garden City ; October 

 2, Hempstead ; October 5, Garden City ; October 0, Syosset ; 

 October 12, East Meadow Brook ; October 1G, Farmingdale ; 

 October 19, New Cassell ; October 23, Island Trees ; October 

 20, Jamaica ; October 30, Hinsdale ; November 2, Garden 

 City. ^ 



How Dogs abe Judged. — "Stonoheuge," in his latest edi- 

 tion of " Dogs of the British Islands," gives the Bench Show 

 points of our breeds of dogs, as compared with the latest 

 standards. Mr. W. M. Tileston has compiled these points, 

 together with the descriptions of the dogs and the "why and 

 wherefore," the whole forming a neat pamphlet, which is a 

 valuable guide to visitors to our dog shows," or to owners of 

 dogs who do not possess "Stoaehcnge's" book. [See adv.] 



Sales.— Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 20.— Mr. J. N. Shapley, has 

 sold his black, white and tau field trial setter pup St. Nicho- 

 las, whelped March 10, 1878, out of Bess by champion Rob 

 Roy, to Mr. C. Wolf, of Now York. 



Sales Last Week.— Jet, by J. S. Jones, of Marshalltown, 

 Iowa, to Hopkins Smith, of Portland, Maine, $ 100; Queen 

 of the West, Jones to B. Beaupre, Esq., St. Paul, §125 ; 

 Tempest, by Geo. Waddington, of Geneva, Iowa, toJ.H. 

 Wilcox, of Cedar Rapids, $100. 



Tennessee— Columbia, Sept. 19.— M. C. Campbell's puppy 

 Light got strychnine a few days ago and died, in spite ot all 

 that could be done for her. Light was entered for puppy 



stakes in the Nashville field trials. Val. 



Visits.— »Sep«. 18.— Mr. P. H. Morris' champion English 

 setter Lark has been bred to his Llewellen setter bitch Ida, 

 out of Rob Roy. Also Mr. Morris' Llewellen setter Czar, by 

 champion Leicester out of champion Petrel, to Horace Smith's 

 Gypsy out of Shipman's Joe. 



Whelps. — The Topeka (Kan.) kennel's small-size liver- and 

 white ticked pointer bitch Fanny whelped, September 12th, 

 nine— seven dogs and two bitches— by their large-sized, 

 liver-colored pointer dog Drop, Jr. (a grandson of WaddcU's 

 old Phil). Five are pure liver, and four nicely marked liver 

 and white, Two of them are marked with tan. 



Will Flea Powomt Injure Dogs?— Union League Club, 

 New York, Sept. 22.— Editor Forest md Stream : Is it possi- 

 ble that the- Persian insect powder is injurious to dogs? 1 

 applied it to a young dog and he was quite sick after it ; nose 



THE CREEDMOOR MEETING. 



Full Repoht op the Sixth Annual Prize Meeting op 

 the N. R. A. op America. 



THE Sixth Annual Fall Prize Meeting of the National 

 Rifle Association, which occupied the range at Creed- 

 moor for the majority of last week was an entire success as a 

 shooting exhibit. The work done indicated progress, and, 

 while the attraction for a great crowd was wanting, the rifle- 

 men were left to carry on their work without interruption or 

 annoyance, and after the start had once been made, every- 

 thing passed off with the greatest smoothness and precision. 

 Capt. Jos. G. Story, the Executive Officer of the meeting, was 

 most fortunate in having a spell of beautiful weather in which 

 to carry out his list of matches. Stress of weather did not 

 in the least interfere, and all matches began and closed 

 promptly on time. His excellent time schedule worked to 

 a charm from first to last. Gen. D. D. Wylie carried out 

 the financial part of the work, and did a rushing trade in 

 pool tickots, disposing of nearly 10,000 bits of pasteboard 



during the meeting. Col. Geo. D. Scott, as officer at the 

 firing points, found a week of hard work, and to his coolness 

 and efficiency much of the smooth moving of the meeting is 

 due. Without a single accident to man or rifle, and without 

 the consideration of a single material protest, the week's work 

 shows that there are riflemen from dozens of ranges who have 

 learned well the lessons of modern rifle practice, and have 

 found in it an invigorating, healthful exercise, while to the 

 country at large the gain is in having so much proficiency on 

 the part of the militia. The story of the gathering is told in 

 the following columns: 



Tuesday, September 17. 

 The first arrivals at the range by the early morning trains 

 found a mist-covered lawn, a wind — what there was of it- 

 had a " fish-taily " tendency, but by nine o'clock — the hour 

 fixed for the opening of work— a brightly shining sun had 

 driven away the mists, while the wind freshened up to a good 

 breeze. The range never looked better, and Supt. Brower 

 had things fixed in first class order. The targets were bright 

 and clean, ready for the leaden shower, and the long grass 

 and daisies had all disappeared before the lawn-mowers. 

 Down the western edge of the field ran a long line of tents, 

 put up by the various teams and organizations engaged in the 

 matches. The club-house was thronged from morning till 

 night, and the several official tents 'looked cosy and neat. 

 When several unfortunate blunders had been corrected in the 

 issuance of tickets, the firing of the meeting opened by a 

 general line of work at the 200 yards points. The Judd 

 Match, with its 232 entrants, gave opportunity for a bit of 

 off-hand work for many of the militiamen who were to com- 

 pete later in the team matches. In connection with the short- 

 range match, fired immediately after, it, is interesting to note 

 the leading scores in connection with the fact that in the first, 

 military iifies were required, and in the second any rifles were 

 allowed, one had 2SZ entries, the other 157. It may be that 

 some of the military marksmen remained out of the short- 

 range, fearing the competition of the line-sighted rifles. But 

 a majority of the prizes, it will be seen, oven in the auy-rille 

 match, fell to the users of open-sighted weapons, and the 

 leading score is to he found in the military match. It proves 

 once again what every rifleman of experience knows, that 

 under general circumstances the open-sighted rifle is equally 

 as efficient for off-hand shooting as the bead-sighted pieoe. 

 The Judd Match has now been fired for six years. In 1873, 

 with 78 entries, Wm. Robertson was the winner with 16 

 points in the possible 20 at the old target; in 1874 there 

 were 177 entries, and Capt. H. B. Smith was winner with 23 



in the possible 28, also at old target; in 1875, J. Mas 



Canada, among 130 entries, came to the front with 30 in the 

 possible. 35; 1876 saw 200 contestants, and F. J. Fullgraff led 

 with 34 points; a year ago E. W. Whitlock, of Connecticut, led 

 the 217 competitors with 83 points, and to-day that score is re- 

 peated by B. McSoley, of Rhode Island. With the afternoon 

 the military shooting began, the cavalry leading off With 

 their carbine matches. The first stage of the champions at 

 200 yards was eagerly looked for, and among the 10 contest- 

 ants, W. M. Farrow, who but recently returned from his 

 European shooting trip, led with 40 in the possible 50. 

 Meanwhile the team shooting had opened in full blast upon 

 the old range, where mid-range targets had taken the place of 

 the short-range slates of the morning. The Army and jS'avy 

 Journal cup drew twenty teams into the field and gave a flue 

 match, with good average scores. In the past six years no 

 less than thirty separate teams have contested for this trophy 

 with scores as follows .- 



1878. 1S77. 1S78. 1ST5, T1S74. f!873 



C S Engineers 310 .. 271 255 IM lotf 



4Sttl, SOSKV 305 32S "823 3113 l'.U 



illl.NGSNY 3U3 298 300 3011 2*7 



49th,NGSNY 2S0 875 253 



20th Sep. Co., N G S N Y 271 



71st, N GSM Y 205 307 270 262 163 



9ttl,NGSMY 263 245 20(1 221 36 HO 



lBtOOnn.NG 263 275 



l«h,NUSKY 202 24S 228 ... 87 33 



8th, N GSM T 200 299 293 245 160 



23d,MGSNY 254 202 278 3.4 1T7 101 



IStll.NGSNY. MB 218 229 298 233 161 



4th Uonn,NG... 233 



oth.NGSNY 932 



2d Conn, NG 280 312 282 306 



2lst,NUSNY 222 ... 234 



lOtn.NGSNY _.,. 2US 



lint.h.MGSNY 200 



liMli.NGSN Y 1S7 145 



latC'al.NG 290 



J4i.li, N Y Batt 2<S3 250 



471.11, N U S N Y 221 234 261 131 



13th,NGSNY 219 01 



32d,NGSNY 217 IM 237 I 



26th,NGSNY 201 141 . . 63 



22U.NGSNY 273 293 22S 811 



79Ul, NGSNY 273 169 152 



[7 S Heguiara, Governor's Ifll'nd 135 



Sill, N H s s Y 8S 



19th,NGSNY 33 



Average 252 252 265 264 149 109 



» Score dlaallowed because of Ulod sights on rlilefl. t Old laiget. 



The victory of the Engineers was well deserved by them. 

 Captain Livermore, were he present, would at last see some- 

 thing of the results of his intelligent efforts toward a better 

 rifle drill at Willett's Point. But it must be borne in mind 

 that that post is an exception to the general rule of the army, 

 and any comparisons founded on those figures would be en- 

 tirely eixoueous when applied to the whole army. 



The Galling match brought another outside team to the 

 front, and if anything were needed to prove that Creedmoor 

 is a fair range this series of victory after victory by outside 

 exports over the old Creedmoor men should show it. A 

 couple of subscription matches and the day's work ended. 

 Many marksmen went off disappointed, but none Without the 

 conviction that they had been beaten by the best man of the 

 crowd. 



Wednesday, September 8 



The second day was entirely a military one of local interest 

 mainly, but it passed off with the greatest smoothness. The 

 bustle of the first day was not seen, and from the opening gun 

 at 9 o'clock in the morning to the sundown gun at (J o'clock 

 tbe rattle of the military arms was almost incessant at the 600 

 and 200 yard ranges. The wind was moderately strong 

 throughout the day from about the " 8 o'clock " quarter. In 

 some of the regiments it was plain from tbe wandering way 

 in which the shots struck the targets that the men did not Are 

 with any intelligent appreciation of the wind problem. 

 Colonel Scott, at the firing points, pushed on the shooting ac- 

 cording to the time schedule, but a cloudless sky permitted the 

 sun's rays to fall with an unwelcome force upon those obliged 

 to walk about the lawn. During the afternoon a large num- 

 ber of regular army officers, at present visiting the headquar- 

 ters of the Division of the Atlantic, went to the range and 

 watched the doings of the men with their military rifles. 

 The details of the matches are sufficiently shown in the an- 

 nexed scores, but it is evident that to the team who puts in 



