FOREST AND STREAM. 



215 



MY WINTER GARDEN. 



I prefer to any glass roof -which Sir Joseph 

 Paxton ever phnned, that dome above my 

 head some three miles high, of soft d 

 gray and yellow cloud, through the vast lat- 

 tice work whereof the blue sky pesps, and 

 sheds down tender gleams on > elkrw 

 and softly rounded heather knolls, and pate 

 chalk ranges gleaming; far away. But, above 

 all, I glory in my evcrgreeus. What winter 

 garden can compare for them with mine ? 

 True, I have but four kinds— Scotch fir, 

 holly, furze, aud the heath ; and, by way 

 of relipf to them, only brows of brown fern, 

 sheets of yellow bog grass, and here and there 

 a leafless birch, whose purple tresses are even 

 more lovely to my eye than those fragrant 

 green ones which she puts tin in spring. 

 Well, in painting, as in music, what effects 

 are more grand than those produced by the. 

 scientific combination, in endless new variety, 

 of a few simple elements? Enough for me is 

 the one purple birch ; the bright hollies round 

 its stem sparkling with scarlet beads; the 

 furze-patch, rich with its lacework of inter- 

 woven light and shade, tipped here and there 

 with a golden bud ; the deep, soft heather car- 

 pet, which invites you to lie down and dream 

 for hours ; and, behind all, the wall of red 

 fir-stems, and the dark fir roof with its 

 edges a mile long, against the soft gray sky. 

 An ugly, straight-edged monotonous fir plan- 

 tation? Well, I like' it, outside and inside. I 

 need no saw-edge of mountain peaks to stir 

 up my imagination with the sense of the sub- 

 lime, while I can watch the saw-edge of those 

 fir peaks against the red sunset. They are 

 my Alps— little ones it may be ; but, after 

 all, as I asked before, what is size ? A phan- 

 tom of our brain — an optical delusion. 

 Grandeur, if you wiL consider wisely, con- 

 sists in form, not in size ; and to the eye of 

 the philosopher the curve drawn on a paper 

 two inches long is just as magnificent, just as 

 symbolic of divine mysteries aud melodies as 

 when embodied in the span of some cathedral 

 roof. Have you eyes to see ? Then lie down 

 on the grass and look near enough to see some- 

 thing more of what is to be seen, and you 

 will find tropic jungles in every square root 

 of turf, mountain cliffs and dehacus at the 

 mouth of every rabbit burrow, dark strips, tre- 

 mendous cata'racts, ''deep glooms and sud- 

 den glories," in every foot-broad rill which 

 wanders through the turf. All is there for 

 yon to see, if you will but rid yourself of 

 "that idol of space;" and Nature, as every- 

 one will tell you who has seen an insect dis- 

 sected under the microscope, is grand aud 

 graceful in her smallest as in her hugest 

 forms. The March breeze is chilly, but I can 

 be always warm if I like in my "winter gar- 

 den. I turn my horse's head to the red wall 

 of fir-stems, and leap over the furze-grown 

 bank into my cathedral, wherein if there be 

 no saints there are likewise no priestcraft and 

 no idols ; but eudless vistas of smooth, red 

 green-veined shafis holding up the warm, 

 dark roof, lessening away into eudless gloom, 

 pived with rich brown fir-needle — a carpet at 

 which Nature has been at work for forty 

 years. Red shafts, green roof, and here 

 and there a pane of blue sky — neither 

 Owen Jones nor Willement can improve 

 upon that ecclesiastical ornamentation ; while 

 for incense I have the fresh, heabhy tur- 

 pentine fragrance. There is not a breath 

 of ait within ; but the breeze sighs over 

 the roof above in a soft whisper. I shut my 

 eyes and listen. Surely that is the murmur 

 of the summer sea upon the summer sands in 

 Devon far away. I hear the innumerable 

 wavelets spend themselves gently upon the 

 shore, and die away to rise again. And with 

 the innumerable wave-sighs come innumer- 

 able memories, and faces which I shall never 

 see again upon this earth. I will not tell even 

 you bf that, old friend. It. has two notes, two 

 keys rather, that iEiuian harp of fir-needles 

 above my head; according as the wind is 

 east or west, the needles dry or wet. This 

 easterly key of to-day 7 is shriller, more cheer- 

 ful, warmer in sound, though the day itself 

 be colder j but grander still, as well as softer, 

 in the sad soughing key in which the south- 

 west wind roars on, rain-laden, over the for- 

 est, and calls me forth— being a minute phi- 

 losopher—to catch trout iu the nearest chalk 

 stream. Tbe breeze is gone awhile, and 1 am 

 in perfect Bilence— a silence which may be 

 heard. Not a sound, and not a moving ob- 

 ject—absolutely none. The absence of ani- 

 mal life is solemn— startling. That ringdove. 

 who was cooing half a mile away, has hushed 

 his moan ; that flock of long-tailed titmice, 

 which were swinging and pecking about the 

 fir cones a few minutes since, are gone; and 

 now there is not even a gnat to quiver in the 

 slant sunrays. Did a spider run over these 

 dead leaves, I almost fancy I could hear his 

 footfall. The creaking of the saddle, the soft 

 step of the mare upon the fir-needle, jar my 

 ears. I seem alone in a dead world. A dead 

 world, and yet so full of life, if I bad eyes to 

 seel Above my head every fir-neeole is 

 breathing— breathing b r ever; currents un- 

 numbered circulate in i very hough, quickened 

 by some undiscovered miracle j around me 

 every fir-stem is distilling strange juices, which 

 no laboratory of man can make; and where 

 my dull eye sees only death, the eye of God 

 sees boundless life and motion, "health aud 

 use.— - ■ ." by diaries A 



Mind and Mtjsole.— The gate receipts at 

 Gilmore's Garden last week were $15,000. 

 Of this $7,500 goes to the management, 

 to O'Leary between $5,fio0 and $G,U0O, and 

 Hughes about $1,800. Who is foolish enough 

 to develop his brain when leg work is at such 

 a premium ? 



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. PiTEK, 

 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 witfiou.t feeling 

 the slightest obligation t>.> pur- 

 chase. 

 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK 



APOLL INARIS 



NATURAL 



lineral Water. 



HIGHLY EFFERVESCENT. 



APPROVED by the Academic de Medicine of Prance, 

 and Its sale In tfrance authorized by epecial order of 

 tn« French Gmrnment. 



Recommended by the highest Medical Authorities 

 in New York as * 



•'A great relief for seasickness." 



"A delightful beverage. Mildly antacid, meat 

 grateful and refreshing." 



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



"Abs lutely pure aud wholesome ; superior to all 

 Tor tidily use; free from all the objections urged 

 agaiust. Croton and artificially aerated waters.'' 



"Impregnated only with its owu gas." 



"Healthful and well culted for Dyspepsia and 

 eases of acute disease, and where there is a gouty 

 diathesis." 



" Bv far the most aereeable, alone or mixed with 

 wine, useful la Catarrhs i f Stomach or Bladder, and 

 in Gout." 



" Not only a luxury, but a necess ty. " 



To be ha-i of all Wine Merciiai ts, Grocers, Drug- 

 gists, and Mineral Water Dealers throughout tae 

 railed States, and wholesale of 



FRED'K DE BA1JY & CO., 



Nos. 41 and 43 WARREM ST., N. T. 



Sole Agents for the United .States and Canada. 



Every Genuine Bottle bears the Reg'stered VEL- 

 LOVV Pictorittl Label of the 



APOLL1NARIS CO. (LIMITED), LONDON. 



Miscellaneous, 



NEW ENGLAND 



MUTUAL 



Life Insurance Comp'y. 



Post Office Square, Boston, Mass. 



Total earn assets, as per Insurance Com- 

 missioner's report $14,486,920 58 



Total surplus as per Insurance Commis- 

 sioner's report 1,621,078 83 



Benjamin F. SteTens, President 



J. ai. tJibbeus, Secretary 



GKKBRAI. AGEKT3. 



KENNY A RATCLIFFiS New York Cily. 



'•'. R, TAPBOX Ponliuid, Me. 



E F. E'.Eiisus Nashua. N. H. 



MAR9TOS .V WMvELIN. ..Philnrtelpulu. 

 •lAIJ. A \\ORTtllNaTON..Bnl iu.orr. .Ud. 

 VKKMOK UKiiTtiEKS Detl-i.lt. Mich. 



;::j'T£ CMcago, ill. 



.1 J. WA1SOJH Hi. Paul. Minn. 



W\ B. DAVIS » t , LouK a i„, 



M C. RANDALL New Orleans, La 



W.E\ERfcON 9an Francisco. Cal. 



W. W. Jfreener's Champion Treble Wedge Fast. 

 Breech-Loader. 



At the International pigeon shooting, Monaco, Feb., 



1S78, the Grand Prix de Casino, an objet d'art yarned at 

 £169, and a money prize of £105, tits the greatest 

 prise ever shf-t for at. Moua -o, was competed for bv 

 Blltj-sfxof the best shots of ail nations, and won Iw 

 Mr, Cholmond ey Penned, with a full-choir- 

 Wedge-Fast Gun by W. W. Greener, killing 11 bird i 

 out of 12 at 28 yards and 1 (bet and ity, yards, lie 

 alsowon tbe second event killings blrdiJlnssn 

 ataBjarda, raakLuratotftlof 19 birds out of 20. Tm 

 la acknowledged to be the best shooting on rero'd. 

 The winning gun at the choke-bore in3teli, 1S7I, beat, 

 lug 17 gnus by the best London makers, and 

 tneallver enp, ral anted by Mr. 



J. Purdey. the gunmaker. 

 The winning jjnn al-:o at Philadelphia, 1576. In the pigeon shooting match between CiiDt. Bogardus and 

 Mr. South tor J.aK, a side, Smith, killing 86 bird? out of 100, using one Barrel only. B 



Tbe wanning gun also at the great London Qua Trial, 18 t beating 102 gun* bv all the bent makers of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. THE PATENT TRUBLB WHOSE FAS i' BHBBCH-LOA.DBB is the strongest 

 and most durable ever invented, aud the most successful gnu of the period. Patented In the United 

 States, Oct. 6,1875; No. 168,838. BiSWARE OF 1NPKIXGEMENTS OR IMITATIONS. 



W. W. GREENER, St. Mary's -Works, Birmingham, England- 



H. O. SQUIRES, Agent, No. 1 Oortlandt Street, New York City. 



FOSS BROS. & CO., 



(Successors to F. J. ABBEY & CO.), 



MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 



Guns, Rifles, Pistols and Fishing Tackle, 

 43 SOUTH CLARK STREET, 



CHICAGO. 



WEBLEY'S TREBLE WEDGE GUNS. 



Messrs. P. WEBLEY4S0N- 

 machinery for gun making ever s 

 out guns, perfectly uniform in ex 

 specialties this year are their ni 

 to erably fair Idea. Every gun i 

 grip, extension rib, lever"jorepa 

 such marvellous res olts, and yet. 

 This 



WITHOUT A RIVAL. 



Birmingham and London, at vas 

 it np in any one factory in Engiai 

 elle'ce. ami iu such increa-td qu 

 e Treble Wedge Gnus, Nos. 1 an 

 is line Damascus or laminated st 

 id treble bolt, 1 



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It i 



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the most perfect 

 hev can now turn 

 :e the ci st. Their 

 re cut will give a 



! ar leaks, pistol 



den has p. onuced 



ich of aim -at 



a,kaa 



villi 



very po=S'tile sppdance wtrch can contr.bu e „ 

 price or ordinary gnus. In addition to tn e areble Wfdge Guns, we luvenn hai 1 upwards a one bandied 

 of Webleys breecu- loaders, pap and side lever, of viv ions grades, which (it vert la-t rear after the sea-en 

 was over. These anna are being rapidly closed ont. at greatly redm td prices. They are all bored nfterthe 

 VI eb ey 9 system, ano will snoot Just as well as the Tiebie Wedge Guns. Many of them are from su to 11 

 pounds weight, and are splendid guu- f m 1 an . k shoeing, or (or kill ng large game at 1< ng range. We also 

 Wehley'g celebrated Double Action Revolvers, the Pug, British Bull Dog, etc.. etc, at out little over 



half last year's prices. 

 P. O. box- 4.3(19. 



H. & D. FOLSOM, 



3H WARREN STKkEr, NEW TORE. 



c^Jiscclhtieoug. 



PATENTS 



In connection vita the publication of the Scientific 



America.!, va; aaiiliii ue to ::rr a-: a aiaia.- ..!.■■ 



Caveats. Trade-Marts, Copyrights, etc., far tlif t aarrt 



wai ■-. a _i : i , ,, aa ,; : .aa, r, - . ; 



In this line of business wo have had tin rti,-'ti,TCr. 



years' experience. 



./. tra s 1 ncd h aa us ; n ricerlintueSewn- 



InSuHSilS^ 

 Cim I Obtain a l>atei 



way to obtain a : 



to write to us Kuna ,*; Co.! 



with a small t\: 



v, eaallvnmrrlaitclranswe.,™ 



instillations. Per ;:::s .. '.v:\ a we make no charoc. 



' We also scndSree. our Hand Book about the Patent 



Laws, Patent-, Caveats. Tmac-alarks. their cosls. and 



how procured, with hints for obtaining advances on 



1- u'.ions. Ad 1 1 1,. bars of the 



SctentUK American, S" Park Row, New York. 



it : a I ana 



ins the invention, 



to net the l a 

 ive the necessary 



Leesburg Academy. 



Boys prepared for College or University. Terms, 

 $210 for ten mouths. For circular apply 10 frincipal, 



New York Mailing Agency. 



with lateBt improved Newspaper Folding and 

 Mailing Machines. 13 Spruce St.. 1th door from 

 Tribnno Buildings. JAAEESBRADY, Managerand 

 Proprietor, Ooen dav and night. 



«J. Jt B. KETTLER, 



GUNSMITHS AiND RIFLE GALLERT, 



ni Bowery, New York. 



TAXIDERMIST'S MANUAL. 



8. H. Sylvester, Taxidermist, Mlddleboro', Mssb. 



polices. 



"sCREAT AUCTION SALE 



English Breech-loaders 



AT 



TUNIS JOHNSON'S, 37 Nassau St., N. Y., 



Tuesday aid Wednesday. October 15 and 1(5, 



At 12 o'clock each diy. 



We win offer ard ten. recording to in'tructions 

 Irom the rngli.-li mirorteis. wit . tit u-ervc or re- 

 strictlon i f any kind. 55 guts o tbe foil 

 known makers: W. -v o. Soot A Mns, Y,\ W. 

 Greener. .". Web ey ,t Pons. Wm M ore A i'o . Jas. 

 Ocoper. Parke- and manv otheis; al-o t . rmmberAf 

 fine rmesbv Ran eg on and Hiiarpf Pill" Co.'s. Cat- 

 a'ognesresdv and nhiomon Mm day. Parlies wto 

 have rcf.alned fiom liuvlag in 1. tofoie will Hurt this 

 an opportunity which will not happen again. OotlO if 



FOURTH ANNUAL SALE. 

 BREECH-LOADING CUNS 



:at, 



AUCTION. 



BARKER & CO. will J 

 Street. Ud- day (Thur dai 

 at 130'clock eachdar.au" 

 of English and American 1 



Liberty 

 i'Tidm), 

 rtment 

 lie f. 1- 

 '. and 



' a Scott « Bon, H W< blei i Bona. J, 1 



A- Pro. V. V. Schiiliiic, chiitl-s Palv, . 



Bonehill, Moore. Parker A Bros., Remiugion, etc. 



This sale will be followed by another of rqual Im- 

 portance, to take place as fcon as gnna now In 

 transit arrive, which will be within two weeks. 



BAKKEB &■ CO., Auctioneer. 



oot 10 it dT and 49 Liberty street 



