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— The first day of Hie third Fall meeting at 

 Fleetwood Park was characterized by n pour 

 aUeiulance. The first race for a purse of 

 $400, by horses that never heat three min- 

 utes was won by Mace's H. D. Walton; and 

 the second race for a purse of $000 for 

 horses that had not beaten 2:31, was won 

 by Murphy's Lady Dahlman, Best time, 

 3:33*. 



—The second day of the Fall meeting of 

 the Fleetwood Park Association passed oil' 

 successfully, as there was an increased at- 

 tendance or spectators, and three excellent 

 contests furnished a Rood day's sport. The 

 first nice was a sweepstakes to wajron be- 

 tween Anna, Corra F., and Harry Gilbert, 

 for which Gilbert was the favorite, but 

 Lady Anna won in three straight heats. 

 Best time, 2;40. The 3:38 race, for a purse 

 of $500, was won by Pauline in three 

 straight heats. Best time, 2:3.1. The 

 2:2-1 trot, for a purse of $600, closed 

 with live entries, and the honors fell to 

 Barney Kelly. Best time, 2:27*. 



— Two trotting contests and a pacing 

 match came off at the Fleetwood Park las! 

 Thursday. The track was in fine condition 

 and the weather very suitable for the 

 amusement. The first trot was between 

 horses that had never beaten 2:38 before the 

 closing of the entries. The staters were 

 Ben Mace's bay gelding H. D. AV'alton, P. 

 Fleming's gray gelding Willie, A. Bourritt's 

 roan gelding T. E. Gordon, Jacob Somerin- 

 dyke's chestnut mare Melissa, John Mur- 

 phy's roan mare Lady Collier, and L. De- 

 voes bay gelding Tommy Moore. Walton was 

 the favorite over the field before the start and 

 afterwards at almost any odds required. He 

 won the race in three straight, heats very 

 easily. Best time, 2:38|. The second race 

 was between four horses under the saddle — 

 a novelty now-a-days. The horses were 

 John Murphy's bay mare Lady Dahlman, 

 W. E. Weeks' gray gelding Farmer Boy, 



E. K. Bradbury's brown horse Berkshire 

 Boy, and H. Peterson's gray mare Cora F. 

 Four heats were trotted, Lady Dahlman 

 winning the first, third and fourth. The 

 second heat was won by Farmer Boy. Cora 



F. was distanced the first heat. Best time, 

 2-.27-J . The third race was a match between 

 two pacers, one called King of the Forest, 

 the other Cricket. The latter was distanced 

 on the second heat. 



—The regular trotting season closed at 

 Fleetwood Park last Saturday. The 2:34 

 purse was won by Ella Madde"n after seven 

 heats had been run. Best time, 2:30. The 

 leant race for a purse of $400 was won by 

 May Bird and Fred. Best time, 2:37. The 

 contest, between American Girl and the 

 pacer Copperbottom, for a purse of §1,000, 

 was won hy the hitler. Best time, l:22i. 

 Music beat Barney Kelly the same day. 

 The best time made was 2":29£. 



— The four-mile heat ruuning race for a 

 purse of $25,000, gold, took place at San 

 Francisco last Saturday. The first heat was 

 won by Katie Pease, Joe Darnels second, 

 Thad Stevens third. Time, 7:43*. The 

 secoudheat and the race were won by Katie 

 Pease, Henry second, Harwood third, Thad 

 Stevens fourth. Hock Hocking fifth. Joe 

 Doniels broke down. Time, 7:30*. 



— C. Boycc's Dick won the $300 purse at 

 the West "Side DriviDg Park on I he 10th. 

 Lest lime, 2:47. Eva won the $500 purse, 

 and the $300 purse for running horses, half 

 mile heats, best three in live, fell to Dan 

 O'Connor. Best time, 0:50. 



[FROM OUK OWN COtlllESrONDEXT.J 



Memphis, Teniu, Nov. 10, 1874. 



The horse fever hasn't subsided any as 

 yet in this or adjoining States, as was shown 

 in my last letter giving the' result of the 

 races at the Mississippi State Fair. Since 

 then Helena, Ark., has had quite a display 

 of horse ilesh, which with the fair lasted 

 three days, and to give your readers an idea 

 of the average speed of a Southern " scrub,'" 

 I will give the race there on the first day, in 

 a dash of half a mile : McMahon's bay pony 

 made the distance, under saddle, in 524, 

 beating three competitors, and iu a mile 

 dash which followed she got around the 

 track in l:5(ii, beating two other entries. 

 On the second day, in the trot, mile heats, 

 best three in five, Tanglefoot won three 

 straight heats, ids best time being 4:10. Iu 

 a pacing race, mile dash, same day, Senator 

 Alcorn's Julia, from Mississipps, won iu 

 2:20*, beating two opponents. On the third 

 day the trot to harness, best two in three, 

 Farran's mare Kate won the two first heats 

 iu 3:03, 3:0Gi going to wagon, while her two 

 competitors drew only two wheels each. Iu 

 the running race, three in five, Brook's 

 horse Johnson lost the first and won the 

 three next heats in 1:40^-, 1:52*, 1:48. 



Pine Bluff, Atk., has also had a week's 

 sport, during which a trot, two in three, to 

 harness, was won by Floyd's Henry iu 2:52, 

 2:41, distancing his only competitor in the 

 second heat. A running race between three 

 plautatiou horses resulted in Bed Bone 

 winning iu two heats iu 1:55 and 2:05. Here- 

 in Memphis the turf is being sadly neglected, 

 although there are thirty or more roadsters 

 owned iu the city that can draw a top buggy 

 around a mile track inside of 2:40, trad thei'e 



are half a dozen matched tcams # that can 

 make the circuit in 3, while some of the 

 high-flyers, if put to the string for big 

 money', could make a record of from 2:27 

 to 2:35, but all we have to encourage the 

 sport is a few young men who some time 

 since organized a club and secured a very 

 good track, but for some reason they cannot 

 enthuse the people to a sufficient extent to 

 collect over 100 or 200 at the horse mati- 

 nees. General Forrest, who has resided 

 here since the war, ha3 a very fine stable 

 (nearly all trotters) that he exercises per- 

 sonally about the Btreets and on the track, 

 and recently has carried off several purses 

 at the fairs, but did not get an opportunity 

 to show his running stock, as the regular 

 Fall meeting of the Chickasaw Jockey Club 

 went by the'board for want of supoortin the 

 " purse" line. 



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Back foh Life.— The Calais Tin\es says 

 that Thursday's express train on the E, & 

 N. A. It. B. had a race with a fox, on its 

 way down, just below Enfield. The fox 

 jumped ou to the track after dark, and the 

 only place where there was light enough to 

 see to run being the centre of the track 

 where the headlight of the locomotive threw 

 its rays ahead of the train, he took it, and 

 commenced "his race for life." For the 

 first three or four miles, while the fox was 

 fresh, he held his own, keeping about the 

 same distance ahead of the train, but after 

 that gradually lost ground, until the pilot 

 struck him, knocking him against a tree and 

 killing him instantly. The train was late 

 and was running along at the rate of sixty 

 miles an hour. 



Beak Hugs.— A man residing in Colorado 

 had an opportunity recently to test the hug- 

 ging power of a bear, and" after his expe- 

 rience he considers such affection rather 

 disagreeable. It seems that he went into 

 the mountains to look after cattle that had 

 strayed away, and while pausing to listen 

 and look about, suddenly a large cinnamon 

 bearwhich had been concealed in the bushes 

 near by sprung toward him, with the evi- 

 dent intention of giving him a hug. Not 

 fancying such intimate friendship with 

 strangers, the man declined to permit the 

 affectionate embrace, and made for a tree 

 which fortunately stood close by, and 

 reached the lower branches near the ground 

 just as bruin seized hold of his light leg 

 and ankle. After a severe struggle he suc- 

 ceeded in freeing himself from the bear's 

 hold, but before he could get out of reach 

 the other leg was grasped with such a firm 

 hold that ho could not shako him off, and 

 he began to feel that his time had come, 

 and he was destined to become a meal for 

 the ravenous beast. But finally the bear let 

 go, slid down the tree, and retreated from 

 the field. 



—The number of canary birds in the Uni- 

 ted States is estimated at 900.000, of which 

 number 300,000 were imported last year. 

 Additions come only from importation, 

 since the number raised in this country, 

 yearly, only about equals the number lost 

 through various causes. Of other cage 

 birds there are about 100,000, and the whole 

 consume about 175,000 bushels of seed in a 

 year. Of this amount more than two thirds 

 is canary seed, millet, cracked wheat, etc., 

 to the value of more than $2,000,000 an- 

 nually. 



TUvisa recently purchased, for the use of our 

 Florida Commissioners, a very tine Breech Loading 

 Gnu, made by the celebrated firm of W. & C. Scott 

 & Sous, England, ami the outfit purchased being in 

 excess or their wants, we now otter the gnn for sale. 

 Description— Breech Loader, Side Snap, Double Shot 

 Gun, 10 bore; length, 82 inches; weight, about 11} lbs. 

 Price, $110. Address, Forest and Stream, 17 

 Chatham Street. 



Trout Business for Sale. 



One of the largest Establishments in the country. 



WELL STOCKED WITH TROUT, 



Having a Dwelling for Superintendent, 

 OFFICE and READING ROOM, 



SHOW and STOCK TANKS, WORK 



SHOP, ICE nOHSE, HATCHING HOUSE, 



Five Small Ponds and Three Large Ponds (of an area 



of over nine acres). 



The property consists of over fifty acres. The pond* 



Are Fed by rthoiit 100 Lively Springs, 



rising on the premises, some of which register 45 and 

 4C\ The volume of two cubic feet of water passe* 

 over the lower dam, with a fall of fourteen feet, con- 

 tinuously, and htttdlv varies, and never freezes, rank- 

 ing li good water p.-iwcr lh.it luL'bt b.; utliiied. 

 On the farm is a 



Favorite Pic Nic Grove, 



with dancing platform. &c. 



The location is about SOD feet from depot, express 

 and telegraph offices, and 



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HURST'S 



Natural History 



For Object Teaching in Schools, 

 PARLOR ENTERTAINMENT. 



We arc prepared 10 fumisn the first sixty nr.nibrr.i 

 of the first series of 



Animals and Birds of North America. 



To these will bo n.UU d u second -oric- of r,„eitru speci- 



ts, and locality of 



teaching. 



transfers t 

 habitat tot 

 our homes, 

 impression 

 each specin 



An experience of more than twenty-five years us 

 Taxidermist of the New York State Cabinet of Nat- 

 Ural History, and in ^atberiiiL' his large collection of 

 native arid foreign specimens, enables Mr. Hurst to 

 combine in every view ibe locality of the specimen 

 witli it* appropriate rocks, woods or wator, and color- 



ingfi.nn the ..-..giiiai-. 



2. SnowvOwl ..' ...•...'.'....'.'.' Mirnia Xyctta. 



3. American Wolf Lvpui Occidentulit. 



■I. Wild I'.ge.m 



5. Northern Panther Fell* Concolor. 



C. Black Crowned Nicht Ileum Irdea JJIeeorr. 



7. Woodchuck Actomut Monax. 



S. Red Necked Grebe Podicci« 8 



9. GreatBlue Heron Ardcalloodui*. 



10. American Swim Vy<i»«* An-ni <■„,.».■,. 



1!. Red Shouldered Buzzard Burco Ilyimalis. ' 



18. American Woodcock Xiuticola Minor. 



13. White Fronted Goose Au.-er Albiftvns. 



14. Long Eared Owl Olits AmeHcamts. 



15. Hooded Sheldrake Venp. 



11. Homed (irebe PeUiceps Comutus. 



)7. Golden Euele Aqialta Chrysftos. 



18. Prairie Wolf 



II). Spotted Sand Link Tor.u.us Mmulaiiui. 



SO, M arsh 1 litrricr Circus Uliginosut. 



21. Mallard Duck Anns Hotchus. 



22. C-reutllorncd Owl Bute Virginiamis. 



21. American Deer (Albiuoos.). . (;t;-i)«/ !V0;iiai,«.' 



25. The American I'.itt.rn irdea Minor. 



20. Old Wife, or Squaw Duck;.. . . Fudoulu OhtcialU. 



27. The Wild Turkey Metejgris Ctallr.jMtO. 



23. The Beaver Castor Fiber. 



29. Common American Snipe Scolopax misonl. 



30. The Buff Breasted sheldiake. . . .Vermis Merganser. 



31. The Canada Goose Ane<r Canudende. 



;:■:. Tli"N'c« Yuri; ICuniiie./Vto'it/o-. Xoi etoi aceruis. 



33. RedBrestcd Sheldrake Mtrous Serrator. 



34. Pinnated Grouse Tetroo Ciiuido. 



35. 'IbeSi.ud 1 1 ill Crime Oms Americana. 



36. The American black Bear. . . . Ursws Americanus. 



37. Red Tailed Buzzard Butero BorealU. 



38. BuDle Headed Uuck Fuligula Albeola. 



39. NQrth A mei lean 1'orcnpine. . . . Hj/strix llttdiohim. 



40. Virginia Partridge. Ortyx Virginiana. 



42. Grey Fox , VuUes Yirgiuianvs. 



43. lied Head Fuligula hiythrmmhalia. 



•!l. Ruffed Grouse Tetrao Vmbcllit*. 



45. The Hacoooti Procyon Lotor. 



40. The Whistler Fluligula Clangvla. 



47. Brown or Bald Eagle IMixtos Leucecmhalus. 



43. Red Fox Vulpis Fulvut. 



49. Wood Duck A nas ^lonsa. 



50. American Burn Owl Slryx Pratincola. 



5t . Spruce Grouse Tetrao Cannd6nsis. 



M. Northern Lynx Lyncus Borealis. 



S3. Black Duel- AnasObscura. 



5). Belied King Fisher Akedo Alq/on. 



55. Liltle Screech Owl J&uboAtio. 



50. American Opossum DitUl/Ml Virginiana. 



";7. A mcrican Coot t u'ha Americana. 



58. Ptarmigan Tetrao Mutut . 



59. Shoveller, or Spoonbill Anas Clypeala. 



00. Musquash Fiber ZHiethicua. 



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TESTIMONIALS. 



Cornell University, | 

 Ithaca, March 14th, 1870. f 



I must congratulate you upon yon emu success in 

 this new educational enterprise. If we can arramro 

 oiir amusements, so as I.e. make ihein impart instruc- 

 tion to the mind, it will bo a step in advance in edu- 

 cation. EZRA CORNELL. 



Washington, D. C, March ISth, 1870. 



I am much pleased wilh the success you have met 

 with m giving to the stuffed specimens a very decided 

 appearance of life. 



1 hope you may be able to continue the Scries, and 

 I hive no doubt they will furnish Interesting ineaiia 

 of information and instruction in recard to tlio wild 

 animals of New Yolk. SPENCER F. BAIRD. 



State Hocsb, Boston, Mass., March 18th, 1670. 

 1 have examined carefully the "Steroscopic Studies 

 of Nae.ral llistoiy." and jmbjin,; by the nut ten num- 

 bers, shooM say mat they uil: prove of very great 

 Mil 'ie, both as object lessons for students, and as a most 

 intercstim; suite for the parlor Stereoscope. The de- 

 lineations, position, and color of the different groups 

 and the general treatment are most perfect. I cor- 

 dially recommend them to the public- attention, and 

 trust you wilt meet the encouragement which you 

 havo earned. EDWARD A. SAMUUX. 



Curator of Zoology in Mass. State Cabinet. 



Peabohv Academy of Science, I 

 Salem, Mn»s.. .March lutb, 1870. ( 

 I have shown your Stereoscopic views to the Direc- 

 tors of the Academy aud the editors or the Aflierican 

 Naturalist, Dr. Packard and Mr. Morse. 



They concur with me in praising tbeit iruthfulness 

 and the taste Which you have displayed in surround- 

 ing the specimens wilh natural objects and scenery of 

 characteristic iltue.-s. They are c, rtninly better fitted, 

 not only as p.ub.r and drau ing room illustrations, but 

 oi.al illii-ira;:eiis for the- use of schools and 



A. HYATT. 

 — s Rooms, 

 Ituaoa, March 19th, 1870. ', 

 I have received the Stereoscopic Views of objects in 

 Natural History, and have enjoyed I hem greatly 

 They have surprised all who have "seen them bv their 

 wonderful fidelity, both as regards the animals and 

 their surionridin.es; and I think tlteji can not fail to be 

 of great service to the study of Natural History, first 

 by ultructiug studeuts to it. und next bv perfecting 

 them tu it. ANDREW D.'tt HlT.fi. 



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