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349 



— At the second annual meeting of the 

 Clanderboye Snow Shoe club, of Halifax, 

 Nova Scotia, the following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year: C. P. Bickell, 

 President; '&.. I). Thompson, Vice President; 

 H. J. LeMesuier, Secretary; F. M. Dug-gun, 

 Treasurer. Managing Committee, W. J. 

 Fraser, J. P. Stafford, ,T. Crawford,' A. A. 

 Brocklesby and Joseph Duggan. Tt. was de- 

 cided that the nights for tramping should 

 be Friday, to commence as soon as there is 

 sufficient "snow. 



—The Victoria Skating Kink at Montreal 

 was opened on the 19th ult. 



— A meeting was held on the 22d ult., in 

 Toronto, for the purpose of organizing an 

 Ontario Branch of theltoyal Caledonia Club 

 of Scotland. Lord Dufferin was elected Pa- 

 tron; Mr. Peter Cow, Guelph, President: 

 Mr. Joseph Slovel, Toronto, and Mr. George 

 C. Ward, Port Hope, Vice-Presidents , Rev. 

 Dr. Barclay, Toronto, Chaplain ; Mr. D. 

 Walker, Secret ary -Treasurer. 



— The population of Muskoka, the great 

 bunting district of Ontario, Canada, is about 

 12,000. 



CANADIAN WINTER SPORTS. 



Winiei has brought fQI lis Us usual concomitants — 

 magnificent sleigh ride-*, cosy little dinner parties, 

 snow shoe tramp-*, skating, tommy-cod tlshing on the 

 St. Charles, lectures ic- bvit Tor most, onr Pall hunts 

 in the wooded gorges of those picturesque Lanrcntiun 

 Mountains, whose lofty peaks glisten in the lilac dis. 

 tance north of onr historical battlements. Here onr 

 Quebec sportsmen delight in seeking the stately moose 

 and tillable catiboo. This pursuit, is enjoyable and 

 invigorating in the estTeme to persona neither asth- 

 matic, paralytic, apopleptic, or rheumatic in this 

 joennd season, where, at each turn in the old city, the 

 car is gladdened with the tinkle of the merry sleigh 

 bells. Our hunting parties have not been very numer- 

 ous. Col. D. C. Thomson and Mr. Hope SewoH 

 arrived recently from the creeks behind Bass S\ Paul, 

 some ninety miles northeast of Quebec, with two 

 moose, one a most superb specimen, and four cariboo— 

 the woodland cariboo, of course. Sir George Gore, of 

 Irish fame, left last week for the Eastern Township, 

 bent, on the same errand, and my neighbor, Col. Rhodes> 

 has also started two or three days back with an English 

 nobleman, the young Earl of Dunrnven, and Dr. Kings- 

 ley, brother to the: famous Canon of Westminster' 

 and novelist. Their conrse is southeast, towards the 

 Chick-Chaw Mountains, in rear of Remoastcr. They 

 are erpected back about, the 10th of January. 



Some rare feathered visitors have arrived from the 

 fur regions of the extreme North. A superb snowy 

 owl was shot on the flagstaff of the citadel of Quebec, 

 and a magnificent great cinereous owl, fresh, from Lap- 

 land, is being immortalized by the best attuTer, prior to 

 taking his place at the head of the owl tribe in the 

 Museum of Spencer Grange. Fine grosbeaks are 

 numerous and very tamo tills Winter. Moreauon, 

 Ornithos. 



The Belmont Diti\ ing Park.— The City 

 of Brotherly Love has added another attrac- 

 tion to her irtairy beautiful siUTOundings, 



During the past few months, a number of 

 her wealthy citizens have been engaged in 

 an enterprise. Which has eulmiuated in one 

 of the most elegant and best appointed 

 driving paths known in this country or in 

 Europe. ., , _ . 



Situated about two miles from lamnonnt 

 Park on the direct Hue of Ibo grand boule- 

 vard 'reaching from the precipitous hanks of 

 the Schuylkill i () ''"' beautiful suburban 

 villa of Brya» Marr, -i distance of ten miles, 

 this driving; park possesses all the artrae- 

 tionsof picturesque surroundings with the 

 more practical advantage ol easy aocess. 

 The grounds occupied by the park cover an 

 area of seventy-six acres, ami the course is 

 marked out with an unusual breadth ot de- 

 sign- as it is eighty feel, wide on the home 

 Stretch and turns, with a corrcspoudimr 

 width on the back stretch. 1 he grandstand, 

 clubhouse, slabh-s, (the lal'.cr lor one hun- 

 dred horses), and other bmldings are to be 

 of colossal yet elegant proportions. 



An entirely new ami unique feature, and 

 one essentially attractive will include the 

 privilege of erection by the members of 

 private'eottages for the use of their families 

 and personal friends. These cottages are of 

 ornate design, and as they are intended tor 

 use solely during the gala days of the club, 

 will add much to the comfort and freedom 

 in the hospitalities of lbs members. 



—The Goshen Park Association have ar- 

 ranged the programme fortwo -">>**£« 



t^rfoals cf ISTS.flOO subscription, $a'0 at 



let uie of nomination and fSQ on the first 

 d'tv of August, when all shall become play 



horse, and oue-lhird to the third horse; to 

 name and close March 1, 1875 ; five or more 

 , Al i A. slake upon the same conditions 

 Y,r oar-year-olds, foals of 1871; $300 added ; 

 T ,ilc heals, best three in five; to name and 

 close same day as the three-year-old stakes; 

 J«or more to file; to be trotted at the fall 



meeting of 1875. This movement on the 

 part of the Goshen Park Association will 

 please the Block raisers of Orange and adja- 

 cent counties. 



—The first day's events of the fifth annu- 

 al trotting races came off on Dec. 29th, at 

 Grafton, Canada, on the ice. They were well 

 attended, the weather being favorable, and 

 the ice in splendid condition for the trotting. 

 The first race was for driving horses. Eight 

 horses entered for this race, which was won 

 by Hero, Favourite second, Greybill third. 

 In the 2:50 race there were four horses en- 

 tered, Stack's Tom J, Card's Milliner, May- 

 bee's Little Ned, Reid's Oddfellow— IVtn'.l 

 winning in three straight heats, Oddfellow 

 second, Milliner third, and Little Ned dis- 

 tanced. 



—A great centennial four mile heats race 

 for the stars of the American turf, to be run 

 at Monmouth Parkin 187G, has been opened. 

 The entrance is f 100, and the purse $5,000. 



—Lexington still stands at the head of the 

 racing sires. Horses of his get during the 

 vearl874wou$51,73 , .).3o': Australian's 'sCiO - 

 314,67; Planet's, $44, 950. CO; Leamington's, 

 $81,535; Vandal, $30,902; War Daiice, $27,- 

 508.33; Asteroid's, $21,343-33. Of the prom- 

 inent winning stables McDaniel & Co.'s was 

 the largest, "amounting to $42,445: A. B. 

 Lewis <fc Co.'s, $29,350; M. H. Sanford's, 

 $22,631; H. P. McGrath's, $18,005; P. Lor- 

 illard's, $18,G00; Lawrence & G. Lorillurd's, 

 $11,915; Air. Belmont's, $11,008. 



— D. Lyons, of Providence, P. I., recent- 

 ly matched his six horse team to trot ten 

 miles, drawing half a cord of wood, in sixty 

 minutes, for a wager of $500. The team 

 won, with eight minutes to spare. 



—The two-year-old coll. Charles Dickens, 

 by California Patchen, was recently sold in 

 San Francisco for $5,000. He is own broth- 

 er to Sam Purdy. 



— Fifty-three race horses are now quarter- 

 ed at ihe Fimlico course, Baltimore, to be 

 trained in the Spring. Pimltco has become 

 a very popular place for wintering race 

 horses. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 

 Maple Leates. This is the title of Mr. J. 



M. Le Mime's handsome quarto series. In which 

 sketches of the. early history of Canada, its naval 

 military and priestly heroes, and its haTdy voyageurH 

 and pioneers are written. The volume before ns (for 



Wolf's \\ ild Animals. A quarto volume. 



Full gilt. By Joseph Wolf: Sew York, Harper* 

 Brothers. 



This is a magnificent work and is finely and mos- 

 fully illustrated with twenty fnl! size plates, from de. 



1S73) contains such into 



esting articles as "Th 



dian Cid," "the Cimadia 



u s. L -..uidas,""ThuSl 



Lake Slurcoe," '-The 



•auadiau Mobility." " 



Customs, ''and other eq 





fond of obtaining u knoi 





study this work. 





signs by Joseph Wolf, engra( 



ed in ttu 



best siyle by J 



W". and Edward Whympcr. 





;r jiress accorat 



panying this pictorial delta 

 i-.m-.d-e, is l.v Daniel Cirurd V. 

 a surety of ;uvnro-v and lid ( 

 detail. During the" twentv-t 

 devoted to the study or anil 

 hardens, he lost no opportu 

 drawings, i.liistrating the vat 



nil life i 

 lily of 

 tons pa- 



wild wood Und 

 se name alone is 



that '.Mr.'w'olf 

 i the Zoological 



1-M.wi.iA. By Sir Samuel W. Baker, M. A., 

 F. It. S., 1?. it. (1. S.. ic: .New York. Harper & 

 Ill-others. 942 pp. 



Of this work we need not give n special introduc- 

 tion lo induce all our leaders to give it their most 

 careful perusal. Sii -Samuel W. Baker ami Lady Ba- 

 ker's adventure- while passing through Africa in the 

 service of the Khedive of Lg.i pt , at t lie head of a 



■ling 



the Kued'he, who i: 



oHiberatic ■ luindreds of slaves byihi- >-M»-,li. 



lion, reads like a history of the days of early bart.in- 

 I.-IH, and not of the aCtOftl evuute of the 1 

 winch they uanspiied. This work is illustrated in 

 Harper's best style, with accurate plates and drawings, 

 in great number and deserves a place in every public 

 and private library. 



MAGAZINES. 



The Overland Monthly, the literary repre- 

 sentative of the Pacific coast, made its appearance 

 with the New Tear. It contains sketches by Joacpnn 

 Miller, Stoddard, Muir, Powers, and others, and while 

 several of its articles arc broad and Instructive, yet a 

 few are devoted to depicting life among the mining 

 camps, those theatres or actual romance, whose scenes 

 of life are unknown in any other portion of the v, uikl. 



The Popular Science Monthly, (New York i 

 D. Appleton <y, Co,) for Jauitary, has two papers of 

 great value to the student of science und genera! reader. 

 We reud with carernl interest, and were well repaid for 

 the perusal, "Chrystaiinc and Molecular Forces," by 

 Tvnall, and the "Future or Chemistrv." Iiv Prof. F. 

 W. Clarke. The ursc, although upon a dr'v subject, 

 has what we believe to he the element of true teaching. 

 mid the maimer in which this subject is bundled is 

 both interesting and graphic. But few of our public 

 teachers of school or lecture room have the ability lo 

 ■hi. ■ i »-• - 1 tao-e of ih ■ yo.n-.g.-s: , i,i j.,.-i: -,■ upon ni u]l ], ; 

 subjects. "The Future of chemistry" la a paper of 

 proloimd thought, and die euUre number is unsur- 

 passed by any of its predecessors in the highest class 

 of scientific knowledge. 



A $S SQUIRREL HUNT. 



A gentleman (remotely descended from Nimrod) 

 ro.Mdenl.of New York, visited the lulls of Berkshire, 

 Mass., last Pall, for tho purpose of enjoying a Utile 

 healthy recreation in the shooting liue. Armed and 

 equipped as the law direct i, anil with a five dollar bill 

 in his vest pocket, (he loft his pocket-book at home, 

 for fear of losing it) to defray any little incidentals »f 

 the day's "port, he proceeded to a chestnut grove, and 

 stationed himself near a bluff to atlll hunt for gray 

 scpiin-el. Presently the woods resounded with the 

 barking and chattering of the sly and nimble creatures. 

 Directly overhead is a rousing big squirrel. Aim- 

 lire -bang: Both barrels off. and down comes M'. 

 Squirrel, but no sooner touching the ground than he 

 is off along the edge of the bluff. Load quick; in 

 with the powder. Now a wad. But oh I horrors! 

 Ihere is a hole in his coat pocket, and they are all 

 gone. With his eye fixed upon the squirrel with 

 murderous intent, he searches his pocket far paper for 

 wadding. He finds it in his vest pocket, tan-on 

 sdouslyho vunis homo the live dollar hill on top of 

 the powder, and covers his shot with leaves. Now 

 i .limn, nee.- an exciting race after Mr. Squirrel, wlio 

 goes over tin- hhiff out of sight: our hero, who, as he 

 reaches theblnff, trips his feet, aud over the bluff he 

 goes, heels overhead, with his lingers on the trigger 

 ofhisgun. In his excitement he fires itoff inmihc 

 ground, and lands about thirty feet down the bluff, 

 where he finds his squirrel dead. He takes an in 

 count of stock and finds— a borsted gun, bruised knee, 

 sprained ankle, and he don't find a five dollar bill 

 A liberal use of Eennes' Pain Killing Magic Oil 

 healed the bruised knee and sprained ankle in short 

 order. We are not at liberty to mention the gentle- 

 man's name, who is a well known amateur spoil. -man: 

 but we will give his moral: Use Rcnnes' Pain Killing 

 Magic Oil, in all cases of emergency. Also use a 

 breech loader, and yon won't loose any live dollar 

 bills for wadding in your excitement, and the squir- 

 rels won 't gel frightened to death by having a forty- 

 bprse .jackass power fired at them. SAWB2. 



Communicated. 



IT.T.USTRATKD NATURAL HISTORY.— The following 



testimony to the truthfulness and beauty of "Hurst's 

 Views," merely supplements the expressed opinions 

 of many of our readers, who delight in the field of 

 practical natural history. The views are taken from 

 mounted specimens i n life-like alutmlos, with aland- 

 scape in exact imitation of the native haunt of the 

 biro or animal. We refer to the advertising columns 

 of the Forest anw Strkaji for list, of views aud prices. 



Shakopek, Minn., December SO, 1874, 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



The twelve "Hurst's Views" received thin morning, 

 and I must say that they surpass anything in the stereo- 

 cope line f ever saw. It, is better than going to a 



Iheir natural state, it brings the " true sportsman im- 

 mediately amid scenes wherein he loves to dwell, and 

 during the close season he can be constantly reminded 

 of trie many happy dins he may have passed in the 

 field. c. A. S. 



Red-field, Iowa, Decmeber, 137-1. 

 Editor Forest akd Stream:— 



In my note on loading a gun with buckshot, your 

 types made me say, of the proper size for Jire to tit, 

 &c. I wrote it "for Tree to fit, &c." Please correct, 

 and oblige H ami-ton. 



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 their homes or apartments wear the appearance of 

 elegance should call on Mr. Bendall, 113 Fnlton street, 

 and select a handsome carpet for about one third its 

 real worth. The. stock embraces all sorts of carpels 

 for parlors, sitting ruoms. libraries, chambers, dining 

 rooms, and stair.-: al-o a Large invoice of oil chilli.-. 



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