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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE CUR- 

 RENT WEEK. 



Friday, August 21st.— Trotting meeting at Wilkesharre, Penn.— 

 Trotting meeting at Homellsville, N. Y.— Trotting meeting at South 

 Norwalk, Conn.— Trotting at St. Paul.— Americans vs. Irish at Dnb- 

 lln, cricket and bass ball— Chatham vs. Chelsea baseball clnb, Capito- 

 line grounds— Halifax Cricket Tournament, Nova Scotia. 



Saturday. August 22d.— Trotting meeting at St. Paul. Minn.— Trot- 

 ting meeting at Potsdam, N. Y.— Running meeting at Saratoga, N. Y.— 

 Americans vs. Irish at Dublin, cricket and base ball— Mutual vs. At- 

 lantic base ball club, Union grounds— Cricket Tournament, Halifax, N. 

 S.— Annual cruise Dorchester Yacht clnb, Mass . —Practice day narlem 

 boat clubs, Harlem, N. Y. 



Monday, AuEust 24th.— Trotting meeting at Potsdam, N. Y.— Ameri- 

 can vs. Scuich at Glasgow, Scotland— Fly-away vs. Competing clubs at 

 Adam I, Base Ball Tournament— Four-oared race— Mutual vs. Olympic 

 at Albany, N. Y.— Cricket Tournament, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



Tuesday. August 25th.— Trotting meeting at Penn Yann, N. Y.— 

 Trolting meeting at Earleville, 111.— Trotting meeting at Hartord, Conn. 

 —Trotting meeting at Gardiner, Me.— Trotting meeting at Manchester, 

 N. H.— American vs. Scotch at Glasgow— Chelseas vs. Keystone base 

 ball, Capitnline grounds— Fly-away vs. St. Lawrence. Kingston, Canada 

 —Cricket Tournament, Halifax, Nova Scotia— Deerfoot Trotting park, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



WeuntvSday, August 25th.— Trotting meeting at Penn Yan. N. Y,— 

 Trotting meeting at EarlvUle, 111.— Trotting meeting at Hartford, 

 Conn.— Trolting meeting at Gardiner, Me.— Americana vs. English at 

 Hudsc-xiletd, Eng.— Fly-away vs. Watertown club, N. Y.— Yacht race, 

 Fidget, vs. Lovelin, Newburg Bay, N Y.— Cricket Tournament. Halifax, 

 Nova Scotia— Trotting meeting, Deerfoot Park, Brooklyn, N. Y.— Match 

 day, St. George Cricket club, Hobokcn, N. J.— Trotting at Manchester, 

 M. Hampshire. 



TflrrnsDAY.August 27th. —Trotting meeting at Penn Yan.N. Y.— Trot- 

 tin? meeting at Hartford, Conu.— Trotting meeting at Gardiner, Me.— 

 Trotting meeting at Manchester. N. H.— Fly away vs. competing clubs 

 at Oneida, N. Y.— Trotting meeting, Deerfoot Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Obituary.— Died, on Tuesday, August 18th, in Brooklyn, 

 at the residence of her son-in-law, Charles Hallock, Esq., 

 Editor of this Journal, after weeks of unremitting suffer- 

 ing borne without murmer, Mrs. Julia A. Warden, relict 

 of the late Oliver T. Wardell of New York, aged sixty-four 

 years. 



CANAiinss.— Those of our readers who wish to procure 

 theso beautiful pels, are referred to the announcement of a 

 large importation by Mr. Louis Ruhe, 98 Chatham street. 

 The first shipment is expected to-day, and consists of first- 

 class German Harfe Mountain birds, and will be followed 

 by weekly shipments during the season. Mr. Ruhe has an 

 established reputation in his business, and offers libera! in- 

 ducements to cash or prompt-paying customers. 



IN the Manchester (Vermont) Mirror is a suggestion 

 to farmers which we like. It advises them now, when 

 work is slack, to "take a vacation, and run into town, 

 just for a change." 



We, who are confined to counting-rooms and offices, and 

 to closely-walled premises in cities, need extra elbow-room 

 and a change of scene; so we go to the country. The eye 

 and the mind find relief in new objects and new colors, 

 and the more vigorous the pursuit after these objects, 

 within judicious physical effort, the more robust and elastic 

 the body becomes, and the more cheerful the disposition. 

 We add five pounds per month to our live weight, and 

 gain mental nourishment and stimulus sufficient to sustain 

 that pressure and strain without which the highest duties 

 of life could not be performed. 



Now, that which clothes the citizen with flesh and 

 muscles, is only " icear and tear" to the countryman. The 

 low of kine, the babbling of brooks, and the rustling of 

 leaves become monotonous to the farmer ; his eye grows 

 tired with the vivid green of the fields, and he who is always 

 so wing seed, and turning over, and covering, 'gets morbid and 

 heavy with waiting for things to "turn "up." Did not 

 autumn bring crimson and golden relief, the man would 

 die of ennui produced by droning sameness and plodding 

 monotony. But, take that ambiguous season of the sum- 

 mer hour which farmers designate as being " between hay 

 and grass," when green things have done growing and the 

 harvest is ripening, and send him to town for a month to 

 do nothing but see " the sights," and he will actually grow 

 fat. Even late hours will not hurt bim, nor a temporary 

 indulgence of the stomach make him thin. By mingling 

 with large numbers of his fellows and seeing their handi- 

 craft, he will gather enlarged ideas of himself and them, 

 and increased respect for both, if they deserve it. A host 

 of new objects will fill his mind, and vivify his thoughts, 

 and enliven his labors when he comes to the ingathering of 

 the harvest, whose increased garnerings will be then re- 

 quired to pay for these expensive indulgences, which no 

 regrets can follow, simply because he had a "good time," 

 and is happy in the. remembrance thereof. 



Yes ; let us all have change ! Let us make some arrange- 

 ments by which we can leave both farm and merchandize 

 at a fitting time and opportunity and go somewhere. It 

 matters little where we go, or how we go, so that we only 

 get the value of our money in rest, rejuvenation and sound 

 condition. There is oftentimes a year's recreation in a 

 siugle week of exercise that is untramelled of business 

 cares. Sympathy should not alone attach to the unfortu- 

 uate can t-get-a- ways of cities, but we should have some 

 grain of compassion for the countryman, whose weary 

 round of toiling years is employed in making grain for 

 himself. So mote it be. 



BEYOND DEPTH. 



THE twelve published deaths by drowning within the 

 past week is not encouraging to bathers whose ambi- 

 tion reaches beyond six inches depth of still water. Some 

 persons are never satisfied in what they do, until they get 

 beyond their depth ; never pausing until they put them- 

 selves in a position where they are obliged to "tread water." 

 It is a delightful sensation to them to know that they can't 

 touch bottom, but that they nan, nevertheless, contrive to 

 keep their heads above water by novel devices and con- 

 stant exertion. Thus, they not only show to others their 

 superior powers, but they feel astonished at them them- 

 selves, and are possibly more than astonished if they get 

 safely to shore. There is pleasure in danger. They like 

 to test the problem of chances, which those who have 

 studied it most have ascertained to be about 40 per cent, 

 against success. It must be this that invests the ambitious ef- 

 forts of our surf bathers with such great charms or induce- 

 ments. It cannot be that they go out into the surf and the 

 undertow and the neighborhood of sharks just because 

 they think that a "good wash" in the ocean is wholesome, 

 or conducive to longevity. This is not the rational con- 

 verse of the fact that those bathers generally die young 

 who are " washed a#7ioie" by the breakers. Neither can it 

 be that they hope to change natural laws, and become 

 fish. Men cannot be fish and swim, any more than fish 

 can walk about on dry land. Men have tried to fly, too, 

 and have generally broken their necks in the experiment. 

 Birds, fish, and men are created differently, with different 

 organisms, different functions and different appliances for 

 their several kinds of locomotion. Very likely, if men 

 had feathers they could fly ; but all the men we ever saw 

 objected to feathers, especially if they were mixed with 

 tar, So, also, as to fish, decent men dislike to bo thought 

 scaly, no matter how great their fondness for the briny 

 deep. It is true that men can acquire the art of swimming 

 quite beyond the usual gift of nature, and when so attained, 

 it is a most valuable acquisition. But still, it is not wise for 

 even the best swimmers to indulge temerity. Powers of 

 skill and endurance have to be tested often enough by 

 downright necessity, without being foolishly tampered 

 with, to gratify vanity or excite the surprise and applause 

 of other people. We seriously object to all attempts to 

 swim extraordinary distances, cl [dangerous depths and in 

 dangerous currents, even with means of rescue provided at 

 hand in case of casualty : and we believe that the examples 

 thus set, especially by young women, excite and provoke 

 the emulation of many foolhardy persons, who are certain 

 to be drowned, when they might live to a good old age on 

 dry land. This attempting to cross the English Channel, 



this testing the undertow at Long Branch for thousand 

 dollar purses, the swimming contests by men and women 

 in the swift currents of our rivers, is all wrong and ought 

 not to be encouraged. Yet one-half the world would wish 

 to see Sam Patches leap water falls, or Blondins wheel 

 their barrows on single wires two hundred feet above 

 death, but possibly within one span of eternity, and gaily 

 applaud, while the fools risk all. 



By all means learn to swim, we say, it may save many 

 lives from shipwreck or untoward accident ; but swim 

 discreetly, be not venturesome, for the bather who cannot 

 swim at all is safer than the one who swims but little, for 

 he is almost sure to keep within bounds and not go beyond 

 his depth. However, as more lives are likely to be savad 

 by remedy than prevention, we herewith repeat the direc- 

 tions., which we printed last week, how to restore the 

 apparently drowned. They emanate from the Massacbu 

 setts Humane Society .- 



" Convey the body to the nearest house with head raised 

 Strip and rub dry. Wrap in blankets. Inflate the lungs 

 by closing nostrils with thumb and finger, and blowing 

 into the mouth forcibly, and then pressing with hand on 

 the chest. Again blow in the mouth and press on the 

 chest, and so on, for ten minutes, or until breathing begins. 

 Keep the body warm, extremities also. Coniinue rubbing ; 

 do not give up so long as there is any possible chance "of 



THE FROG BUSINESS. 



LAST year, in Nature, Mr. St. George Mivart wrote a 

 series of very remarkable papers on the Prog, which 

 were indeed masterpieces of profound learning. We do 

 not imagine that Mr, Smiley, of Watertown, ever read 

 them; but for a thorough acquaintance with frogs as an 

 alimentary article, and the modes of catching them and 

 preparing them for market, we are willing to pit Mr. Smi- 

 ley against the world. 



The United States and Canada possess a mine of wealth 

 in frogs, for the family of the Jianidee are gloriously rep- 

 resented. If we can brag of the biggest rivers and the 

 biggest lakes, we may talk in an exaggerated way about 

 our frogs; for what batrachtans can compare with our 

 Rana . pipiens, six to twelve inches long, and the northern 

 bull frog (Sana horiaiaenm), somewhat smaller, aud both 

 famously musical? 



"Would you listen lo the peeping of the frogs, 

 As they clmunt a land hosnnnah from the bOga?" 

 This is what Mr. Smiley told us-.— 

 "Progs are caught entirely with hooks. You take three 

 books, lash them together, and bail, them with a bit of red 

 flannel. You use a cane pole, and some three feet of line. 

 You see your frog in the marsh, you dangle the red thing 

 before him, aud he, goes for it, but he doesn't swallow it; he 

 sees it ain't good to cat, but is kind of curious like, just as 

 a bull has a fancy for red colors. He is fascinated some- 

 how. Then you work your hooks under his jaw and yank 

 him. Another way is to go out of nights and have a light 

 on the bdat. The frogs come to see the illumination, pad- 

 dle around with their beads up, and you hook them. Irish 

 Creek, that, runs into Lake Ontario, in Canada, is the great 

 stamping ground for frogs. When we get as many as" five 

 hundred" frogs we pen them up, and then dress them after- 

 wards as they are wanted. A man handy at dressing frogs 

 can prepare for market as many as 250 an hour. We slip 

 their skins off by means of a pair of pincers. Pros lime 

 begins in June, and lasts until cold weather. The biggest 

 frog that ever was caught in the Canada region weighed 

 three and a quarter pounds, and when dressed turned the 

 scales at two and three eighths pounds. I could not say 

 whether their voices increase with their size. At night's 

 they are awful noisy, and no doubt this big one was a bus- 

 musician. The biggest ones come from Canada, and six 

 of them to a pound is about the way they will run. A 

 good catch will be about two hundred a day. I send regu- 

 larly about eight hundred frogs into the I\'ew York market 

 every week, but the demand is larger than the supply. We 

 shipfheru one hundred pounds lo a box, and they come to 

 the city sweet and fresh, packed in ice, in about twelve 

 hours. Don't eat them myself. It ain't prejudice, but you 

 see handling so many of them destroys the appetite for 

 that kind of food. Don't think a single person in the 

 region where they arc caught eats frogs. Where they are 

 caught is one of the finest places for fish and game in the 

 country. The exact spot is on the Canada side, opposite 

 to Wolfe Island, in the St. Lawrence, where it runs out of 

 Lake Ontario, and Kingston, Canada, is the headquarters 

 for frogs. Cape Vincent, in Jefferson county, is a great 

 place for fish. This spring that place sent off every week 

 to market sixty tons of fish, made up of pike, bull heads, 

 trout and white fish." 

 "Do you ever have a surplus of frogs?" we inquired. 

 "Rarely, if ever," said Mr. Smiley. 

 "How would it do to can them?" we asked. 

 "Tf Prance, takes all our surplus quantity of lobsters, 

 and contracts for them years ahead, we have no doubt she 

 would be pleased to swallow all the frogs you could ship." 

 Having thus, a.s we think, got to the bottom of Ihe frog 

 business, we left our intelligent informant, revolving in our 

 mind the feasibility of shipping cargoes of canned frogs to 

 Prance aud the rest of the world. 



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A New Article fob. Paper. — Years ago the paper man- 

 ufacturers of this country placed hefore the public a very 

 cheap and very poor quality of paper, made chiefly from 

 straw. These last efforts in paper making were made 

 up into small bags for grocers' use, and were used for a 

 short time only, as they proved quite unfit for use, not 

 bearing the weight of a pound of sugar without tearing. 

 The paper wasps make a stronger and battel' paper in con- 

 structing their nests, find the striated hornets a far more 

 durable quality of paper. Now we learn from a friend at 

 Chicago that certain enterprising manufacturers of paper 

 in England are importing from this country a kind of 

 hay for paper stock. This is the well known "slough hay," 

 or prairie grass, grown in great abundance- in many por- 



