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A WEEKLY JOURNAL,, 



DSV0TSO TO Fl8M> AMD Avj;ta tic BpOKJ'B, FK1CTI0AL NATTJBALHIBTOEY, 



Fish Cclturb, te- ion of FoBBHi'a, 



AND TBB LNCtlLCATIOK Iti MCT AND WOStEN OK f. ESALTSY IrTy.F.ESV 



IN Odt-Doob Rscrkatiou as-t, Stcdt : 



PDBLISHEB BY 



Safest mi M^®] §KbUslting f£emg«qg, 



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SO. HI FULTON STREET, NSW El 

 (POST OFFICE BOX 286?,] 



raffias o«J] . - i -. -?"i'?c;. 



Tweeny-five per cent 03 Sor Clubs of Two er more. 

 Advertising Hates. 



inside pages, nonpareil type, 86 cents per line ; outside page, *o cents. 

 Special rates lor three, six ana twelve months. Notices in editorial 

 columns, 50 cent? per line— eight words to the line, and twelve linea to 

 one inch. 



Advertisements snonld bs seat in by Saturday of eoch wee: 

 slble, 



All transient advertiaeuj ooompanied with theEciiey 



or they will not be En 



No advertisement orb; ,:_,_ 



received on any terms. 



".* Any publisher Inserting onr prospectus aa above one time, with 

 ortef editorial notice calling attention thereto, and Bending marSed copy 

 to us, will receive the Fokkst and stbeam far one year. 



—Our usually estimable contemporary Tlie Turf, Field and 

 Farm, flatters itself too much when it, charges us with appro- 

 priating one of its editorials as our own. We challenge it to 

 tbe proof, and will turn over a whole week's net e 

 its treasurer if it will establish its point. Our real crime was 

 in copying into our column of seliy 

 which we found flo - it credit in one i 



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—Mr. Wm. M. Tilestcn, of this paper, has been appointed 

 by the Harlem Railroad Company, owners of Gilmore'i> G«r- 

 i ■ known as the Hippodrome, agent for the 



property, and will manage lie eanie in their inter< 

 lease of Messrs. Shook & Gilmore having expired, the railroad 

 company, have purchased of them all the furniture and ap- 

 purtenances of the bui-<?i"g, and applications for leaping it for 

 athletic meetings, etc., most be made to Sir. Tileston ct this 



NEW YORK. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1678. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, intended lor puhUoatton ffiusi&eac- 

 eompanied vdth r'-al name of the writer as a guaranty uf good faith 

 and be addressed b . • aisecoiip m 



Names will n, 

 formications will be regarded. 



We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 



fiecretariee of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor an with one? 

 ootes of their movements and transactions. 



Nothing will be admitted to any department of the papc 

 cot be read with propriety in the home circle. 



TYe cannot be re sponsible for dereliction of tbe mail service if mot> ey 

 remitted to us is lost. No person wsatkvkb la authorised to coiiec- 

 money ror us unless he can show authentic credentials from one of lie 

 undersigned. We have no Philadelphia agent. 



a is supplied by American News Company. 

 BOUBB DAilA'CK, Editor. 



T.:,C.BAX58, 

 Business sTarc;..:' 



s. H. TOEHILL, Chicago, 



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E'EH BIBLE HOLIDAY PllIiSEKTS. 



FOREST AhiD -STREAMS. 



Oluba can obtain subscriptions to Fobbst and Stream and 

 Rod akd Gun at $ 8 per annum, Now, at the beginning of 

 tlie year, is the time to start new clubs ; subscriptions to be- 

 gin Jan. 1. The circulation of Fobkst akd Stream is now 

 distributed among 2,400 post offices in the United States and 

 Canada, and over 100 in foreign countries. Twenty-nine 

 foreign countries are represented. 



Feiesds who Stick. —Come to think of it, tlipfirm of 8chuy 

 ler Hartley & Graham , whose very striking advertisement ap- 

 pears upon the outside of our cover, have constantly advertised 

 •with Fobkst and Stbbam since the very beginning of the ex- 

 istence of tha paper ! This is one Of the very heaviest and, 

 shrewdest firms in the United States, and their constant patron- 

 age she Lhey value our paper as an advertising 

 medium. We hope they have received a ten-fold benefit from 

 their outlay and investment in printer's ink. Remington & Co. 

 is another firm which lias stuck to us from the outset ; and so 

 laave J.B.Crook, Abbey&lmbrie (late Andrew Clerk & Do.), 

 Barton, Alexander & Waller, and Wm. Read & Sons, of Bos- 

 ton. Of almost equal duration is the patronage of Kimball & 

 Co , the tobacco manufacturers; Thomas Sparks, shot maker, 

 of Philadelphia, and the house of Conroy & Co. There are a 

 score of other firms which have appeared intermittently dur- 

 ing the period, the combined patronage of which has been to 

 us a valuable and substantial support. We have come to look 

 upon these friends as fixtures, not only in our columns, but in 

 the public business— fixtures which revulsions do not seera to 

 shake, but which we trust will stand " as long as grass grows 

 and water runs." Is gives us great pleasure to make this 



reference to them. 



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®" Foebbt and Bibeam will be sent for fractions of a year 

 as follows s oi£ months, $3 ; three months, SsL To clubs of 

 two or more, $3 per annum. 



—The New York Herald publishes a resume of scientific 

 discoveries during the past half century, and exults 

 progress and development of knowledge. Row, 

 is life, and spiritual life is the exaltation of knowledge. If we 

 in the flesh are made happy by the acquisition of knowledge 

 and its application to our personal desires, and are only to a 

 limited extent capable, how much will this enjoyment be en- 

 hanced hereafter when our corruptible bodies no longer clog 

 and obstruct the movements of thought .' When the body 

 dies true life begins. 



Chicago and Noethwkstbbn Railboad. — The hundreds 

 of our readers who have accepted the considerate services of 

 this popular sportsman's route, whoso advantages have long 

 been set forth through the advertising columns of Fobebt 

 and Steeam, will be glad to know that the company has just 

 declared a dividend of three and a half per centum on the 

 preferred stock, and two per centum on the common stock of 

 the road, payable December S8, 1878. The half-yearly state- 

 ment of the road, with the earnings and expenses to Novem- 

 ber, 1878, show that the net earnings were $3,987,414.07 ; the 

 expenses, $2,417,846.96; and the net profits, $1,596,567.11. 

 We take pride in tbe assurance that our efforts have con- 

 tributed a large mite toward the aggregate revenue, 



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Sport in Asia.— The growth of modern civilized sport is 

 forcibly instanced in the fact that a new and handsome 

 sportsman's journal has just been started in Calcutta, India, 

 It is called the Asian, The number before us comprises 

 fourteen pages, larger than those of London Field. It has a 



:--.'■ Is, composed of jungle, tigers, ele- 

 ph na - etc., and altogether presents a very 



respectable end encouraging appearance. The local adver- 

 tisements show that there is a huge sporting interest in India, 

 centreing in Calcutta. The field there is immense for the tall- 

 est and biggest kinds of sport. Every year statistics are pub- 

 lished of so many thousand persons having been killed by 

 wild beasts in this or that Presidency, and sportsmen will find 

 abundant occupation in thinning out the varmints and pro- 

 tecting the lives of the population. Under the impetus which 

 the " Asian" will undoubtedly give 10 all residentsfond of ad- 

 ventures in the field, a decline is the price of tiger pel;- and 

 lion-skin robes may reasonably be anticipated. 



Defunct Creedmoob. — The abandonment of the range at 

 Creedmoor has been forced upon the directors of the National 

 Rifle Association. Such a contingency should have been 

 foreseen from the start, but with every train cut off, the 

 management at last conclude that something should be done, 

 and have taken the first step to the securing of a new site. 

 They will leave behind them many advantages, much sunken 

 capital in improvements and plant. There are petty disadvan- 

 tages connected with the Long laland range, but the supreme 

 discomfort of want of access, ready and reliable, is sufficient 

 to blast its future. Per contra, it may be that the choice of a 

 new location may permit the laying out of the range accord- 

 ing to some one of the plans which more recent experience 

 has shown to be more satisfactory than the line and line plan 

 of Creedmoor. The defects of that plan have been sorely felt 

 on many a match day, and with care in the planning of the 

 new home, it may be the change of location will be the begin- 

 ning cf an era of permanent prosperity for the National Rifle 

 Association of America. 



Feopessional Riflemen. — The subject opened by Professor 

 Chas. E. Dwigbt, of West Virginia, in our rifle columns has 

 long been a matter of talk on the ranges Without giving 

 our own views of the topic or of the questions involved, the 

 feeling is certainly growing among a large class of gentlemen- 

 shots, that their effc - d by -the expldil 



gun-agents. The growing of this Bystem of rifle 



. for supremacy is seen in the loss of that mutual 

 helpfulness which at one time was so marked a feature at 

 Creedmoor. It was this long, strong pull together which 

 enabled Col. Bodme and hia companions on tha first and 

 second Ami to do such magnificent work; for, 



taking conditions and opportunities into account, no succeed- 

 ing American team has done anything approaching it. That 

 cordiality is leaving Creedmoor, and the keen calculation and 

 shrewd watching of points, a la mug-hunter, is seen more and 

 more. The remedy which Professor Dwight suggests of 

 private shooting clubs will moat the difficulty in his case, but 

 it ia a confession of weakness when such freedom of exercise 

 as he will find in his clubs cannot be met with on any rifle 

 range. 



Ancient HpueBS in Ajlssioa.— The antiquities of North 

 America antedate the occupation of the cou : try by Uncle 

 Sam. Yet the United States have now become old enough to 

 itory, and can boast of buildings nearly two cen- 

 turies and a half old. Our valued correspondent below gives 

 history of three of them. Long may they stand 

 and be regarded, with the veneration due their respectable 

 antecedents : 



Jamaica Plain, Mass., Dec. a, 1B78. 

 Kb. Editor— In Forest Aim Stbeah, for isov. 28, 1 find the state- 

 ment, which has been often repoitea in the newspapers, that tbe 

 Horton House, at Southed, Long Inland, la the oldest in America, 

 having been built In less. The.ro ar.: two, perhaps three, houses in the 

 vicinity of Bostou older than this. F.rst, the " Plantation Uonga " of 

 Gov. Craaoci, at Medford, Mil",?., built of brlcS in 10S4. This house. S. 

 A. Drtilte, goad authority, cilia the monarch of all houses la North 

 America, end believes It to have been the first bricfc house erected 

 within the government of John Wlnthrop. second, the Fairbanks 

 House at Dedhaoi, Muss., built of wood in 16)9, and atlll occupied by 

 1MB of tbe builder. • » House at Jamaica 



■ , omit lu 1638-fl, as appears by the Record* of Mass. Bay. 

 - :u good preservation. It la occupied by the de- 

 scended in the same name of the seventh generation from William 



■ tod In rural or 

 ubntban dtstricta, land in the large cities belss too valuable to allow 

 if Us occupation by indent buildings. Some suppose t'-at St. Augus- 

 Ine being tbe oldest settlement lu the Halted States must have the 

 :: but this not so, that town having been twice destroyed 

 iy fire in the seventeenth century. Besides which, the Coquiua HocS, 

 ,f which St. Augustine was built, la not a durable material. 



3. C. Clakice. 



Wsstebn IsTJTJSTRrEB,— The Hon. David W. Judd, who 

 recently returned from a two-months' tour of the Per West, 

 is now publishing in ht3 paper — the American Agrietiliurut — 

 most valuable notes of his extended observations relating es- 

 pecially to stock raisiug and farming, but covering all the in- 

 dustries of that vast and re;;liy productive section which lies 

 along the foot hills of the Rocky Mountains, from the Laramie 

 Plains to tbe Eio Pecos in Texas. Iu the December number 

 of the Agriculturist is a half page engraving of a Nebraska 

 stock farm, and in another number is a similar illustration of 

 a cattle range and stock ranch in Colorado. Besides these 

 iclee there are editorial notes which give the readers 

 an intelligent idea of many things in the regions which he 

 visited, of which they have hitherto been ignorant. It is for- 

 tunate that gentlemen of such intelligence and discriminating 

 observation as Mr. Jtuld are willing to take time to investi- 

 gate these new fields which are being bo rapidly settled by 

 immigration from tbi ■- tormation on these import- 



ant subjects will be most eagerly read by Eastern men whose 

 eyes are turned westward. As a sp (d has not 



allowed the game of the West to escape his attention. He 

 notes with approval that during the past few years ihe far 

 Western States and Territories have taken measures to pre- 

 serve the game, tbe result of which is seen in a very percept- 

 ible increase in game, especially Id Wyoming and Utah Terri- 

 tories. Employees of the Union Pacific Railroad say tbey 

 never before saw so many antelope on the plains, while baok 

 in the foot hills and mountain ranges elk and deer are abund- 

 ant. In riding, during tha month of October, from Rock 

 Creek to Laramie, antelope, wolves, mountain grouse, sage 

 hens, wild geesa, ducks, etc., were to be seen from the cars 

 almost constantly. The favorite point for English hunters in 

 this country is about seven hundred miles west of Omaha. 

 Here they leave the railroad track and strike back forty miles 

 to the Sweet Water regions. Having procured a guide and 

 spent a few days at the hospitable ranch of Mr. Tim Foley, 

 who is one of the largest ai i if nl cattle growers 



in the world, they push on to the Wind River country north- 

 ward iu quest of the larger game there is to be found in that 

 region, A small party of these English gentlemen returned 

 from the Wind River country a few days ago with twenty-one 

 bear skins and the headB of numerous elk, mountain sheep, 

 etc , which they were conveying to England as trophies of 

 their American hunting excursion. 



Lost Rivees Rrfousd. —We read in the cuirent literature 

 ■hat an interesting experiment has been made to 

 determine whether the head waters of the Danube found then- 

 way through subterranean passages into the Aach. Some 

 fluorescein was placed in the waters of the Danube, and in 

 three days the Bplendid green color and golden reflect ious were 

 quite distinct in the waters of the Aach. Ten kilos of fluor- 

 escein had colored at least 200,000,000 litres of water. 



Very good ! Now let us adopt the suggestion of our trans- 

 Atlantic savans and apply a few kilos of fluorescein to our 

 own mysterious, erratic and undetermined streams, of which 

 we have : .io many all over America. Let us put a few kilos 

 into the St. John's River in Florida, and see whether its vivid 

 green boils out of the huge fresh water spring off Mataazas ; 

 let us empty a little of the fluorescein into the Gila and tha 

 lost rivers of Tsxas, which start from the mountains in full 

 and sparkliDg volume and finally disappear in the sand. Let 

 us discover what causes the intermittent tides in Lake Su- 

 perior, and ascertain the supply sources of the reservoirs of 

 the Great Likes. Let VM ascertain whither the great volume 

 of the might- Saguenay flows, and whether its subterranean 

 discharge does not cause the myaterionfl currents which vex 

 the shores of Acticosii. Let us learn whereaiiouta in the river 

 St. Lawrence the volume of Montmorenci's waters reappears. 

 .; ihe origin of the subterranean flow of caverns; 

 the outlets of mountain lakes which have no bottom; the 

 secrets of the Florida sinks ; the source of the hotting ocean 

 spring in the Gulf of Mexico. Let us find out for certain « 

 the waters of Backs ana Makenzie's river and the Yellow- 



