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Once in Jamrach's, however, your illusions as to the pro- 

 saic character of a trade in wild beasts soon vanishes. A 

 roar here, a growl (here, a snort from yonder, and then a 

 mad daFh at the iron bars, made by a young lioness who 

 has taken a fancy to you, and who has quite a desire to 

 flash her white pointed fangs in your body. She makes 

 the iron bars shake, and the wooden partitions trembles; 

 her claws are expanded, and her mouth cavernously open, 

 but you arc safe, though you do not recover your presence 

 of mind fora moment or two, and you conclude these were 

 net the kind of animals you have been used to seeing in 

 Zoo's or menageries, however wild and untamable they 

 were there represented. 



Here comes a cab to the door. It contains what looks 

 like so many packing cases. A foreign looking young man 

 alights and presents a bill of lading. It is for a little lot 

 of rare birds from America, and the packing cases turn 

 out lo be strong, wooden cages, containing red ibo.es, 

 white eagles and trumpet birds, which, when unpacked, 

 meet with a fearfully noisy welcome from the macaws and 

 parrots. 



On one occassiun, Jamrach, Jr., went to Calcutta, at the 

 request of his fat her, to take charge of aud deliver in 

 London a nice little lot of merchandise, consisting of six 

 tigers, three rhinoceroses, several elephants, and a number 

 of smaller things which were there waiting to ba brought 

 away, nearly all of which, if I remember rightly, were 

 safely landed in due time at St. George's street. 



Occasionally Jamrach lends his animals, or rather rents 

 them out at a certain sum per mouth. A few years ago a 

 pair of splendid elephants were thus loaned to the Jar- 

 dindes Planters, in Paris. 



Of course losses by death are many and heavy. There 

 will always be a percentage of loss in the transporting of 

 the stock from place to place, many also die in the estab- 

 lishment, and thus, at the end of the month, when the 

 profit and loss list is made up, the books show that thous- 

 ands and thousands of dollars have been carried off by 

 death. 



Jamrach's organization for the carrying on of his 

 strange trade is not the least curious of the many curious 

 things connected with it. No native trapper in any part 

 of the globe, however remote, but knows where Jamrach's 

 agent, and Jamrach's money can be found. Jamrach's 

 . trade list is a complete lesson in natural history. 



"What may be the price of a rhinoceros, a tiger, a zebra; 

 or anything of that kind?" Well, $8,008 for the first; 

 $3,000 for the tiger, and for the zebra say $1,500. That 

 is what you must pay in Loudon — charges for transporta- 

 tion, and deliver at your Zoo or Menagerie is a matter you 

 will have to make a special agreement about; and you 

 must also, unless thore be a special agreement, to the con- 

 trary, run a large part of the risk of said transportation, 



When our readers visit London, we advise them by all 

 means to call on Jamrach, for a visit to him and a convex 

 sat ion with him, is to learn natural history, and find it 

 coupled in the strangest way with political economy, and 

 the mercantile law of profit and loss. 



tern by which the intellectual powers alone can be forced 

 to a precocious and spurious maturity We might take up 

 a great deal of space in attempting to impress the veiy 

 evident lesson which the ancients could be made to teach, 

 but shall content ourselves with some time hence with 

 simply and briefly stating our own conclusions, and apply- 

 ing them to the general qucsliou before us. 

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GAME PROTECTION. 



EDUCATION IN THE ABSTRACT. 



PARENTS, and especially mothers are the first educa- 

 tors. 



In one of our magazines sometime ago the assertion was 

 made, in reference to the Venus of Milo, that it is "the 

 most perfect type of that pure Greek art, which all the 

 world studies, but cannot, reproduce." And going on, the 

 writers asks "Do you wonder why? It would make a very 

 long story to give you all the reasons. But one great rea- 

 son is that our artists and sculptors despair of finding any 

 living models, either of meu or women, so noble and 

 natural and simple as those which the Greeks saw around 

 them everywhere. For they made it the business of their 

 lives to grow sleek and blooming, from beautiful children 

 to beautiful men and women, and so on to happy vigorous 

 old age. 



In that olden time a child was taught to read, write, and 

 cipher; to play the lyre and chat the National odes, cele- 

 brating brave deeds and great victories; to wrestle and to 

 perform all the bodily exercises." "Youths and maidens 

 went daily to the gymnasium, and there weie practiced in 

 running, leaping, throwing the lance and discus, and in 

 every other exercise which could make them strong, healthy 

 and agile. Then the wise were strong, and the learned 

 beautiful. There were no narrowed chests and stooped 

 shoulders; no pale faces and blinking eyes from desk 

 and study and school-room; no warped muscles from work- 

 bench and loom. Artisans, philosophers, poets, rich and 

 poor, went alike through a daily course of training, ate 

 sparingly, and lived through all seasons in the open air." 



It is possible that this picture of life in the birthplace of 

 Art may be slightly overdrawn; and, further, it is certiin 

 that much of its suggestiveness must be lost upon us, 

 through the difference in the surroundings of life in our day. 

 But. after making every allowance the passage serves to re- 

 mind us of the otherwise well established truth, that in 

 those days a due attention to physical development was 

 not found inconsistent with the attainment of supreme ex- 

 cellence in Art, philosophy, science and literature. In this 

 vaunted agt of progress, we may find it conducive to a proper 

 feeling of humility to turn back aud discover one single 

 point which was reached in a byegone age, and from which 

 we have retrograded. Such is unquestionably the case in 

 the science of education. Then the process appears lo 

 have had a wider scope than is generally allowed it now. 

 It meant the development in due proportion of every 

 natural faculty, while in our time it too often means a sys- 



Assembly Acts.— An act has been introduced into Ihe 

 Stale Senate amending the incorporation act, by which so- 

 cieties may be formed for the purpose of improving and 

 breeding poultry, game birds, domestic and pet animals, 

 fish culture, etc., upon tiling in the office of Ihe Secretary 

 of State, aud also in the office Of the cleik of the county 

 in which the business of the said company is to be eon- 

 ducted, a declaration signed by all the incorporators (13) 

 and acknowledged before any officer authorized to take the 

 acknowledgement of deeds in this Slate, expressing their 

 intention to form such company, together with a copy of 

 the charter proposed lo be adopted by them. The corpor- 

 ation shall exist from the time the declaration and copy of 

 Charier has been tiled. 



Also au act providing for the construction of fishways 

 in the Stale dams across the Oswego, Oneida and Seneca 

 rivers. 



N. Y. Association fou the Protection of Game.— 

 The monthly meeting of this Club was held on Tuesday 

 evening, at the residence of Mr. Charles II. Housman, No. 

 19 Bast fifty- fourth street. Mr. Clinton Gilbert, President , 

 occupied the chair. The Secretary read a mass of corres- 

 pondence from persons iu other Stales, asking for infor- 

 mation and advice on the subject of the preservation of 

 game, end-stated that the most cordial co-operation had 

 been extended to all such inquirers. Senator Wagstaff re- 

 ported that the amendments to the game laws (printed by 

 us week before lusl) would undoubtedly be passed at the 

 present session of the Legislature, with the exception of 

 section (1, which permits game or fish to be sold out of 

 season on the plea of its having been killed out of the 

 Stale. 



This section, Senator Wagstaff explained, would entirely 

 nullify all previous legislation for the preservation of game, 

 and had caused the defeat of the bill last year. With the 

 objectionable section stricken out, the bill would undoubt- 

 edly pass. He would suggest, that the next night of meet; 

 tog t/e altered to Friday, so as to give them au opportunity 

 of inviting the members of the Legislative Committee em 

 Amendments to the game law, and discussing the subject 

 in all its bearings. The suggestion was adopted, and the 

 next meeting night changed to Saturday. Mr. Whitehead 

 reported that no venison could now be found in the 

 markets, nor was there any in the city except what was 

 secreted by some commission merchants, who managed to 

 elude the vigilance of the officers of the Association, but 

 would unquestionably be entrapped some day. Mr. White- 

 head also commended to the notice of the meeting that sec- 

 tion of the Pennsylvania game laws prohibiting ihe pollu- 

 tion of streams and rivers by the refuse of oil factories aud 

 gas-works, which practice was terribly destructive to fish. 

 The matter was referred to the Committee on By-laws. 

 On motion of J. W. Cuthbert the Executive Committee 

 was authorized to invest a surplus of §500, in addition to 

 the fund of $1,000 already invested. 



Hon. Seth Green, who was present, said that in his 

 opinion one of the greatest mistakes made in framing the 

 game laws was in allowing the spearing of fish in any sea- 

 son.' The practice had been extended into the spawning 

 season, and as a consequence bass, bull-heads, and other 

 fish were being destioyed by wholesale. Mr. Kobeit B. 

 Roosevelt also alluded 'te the practice of spearing in the 

 spawning season, and said that legislation was absolutely 

 necessary to stop the wholesale destruction of fish. The 

 Stale Fishery Commission had stocked Owasco Lake, in 

 this State, but no sooner did the fish begin to thrive than 

 the residents of the locality commenced the practice of 

 spearing, aud continued it through the spawning season, 

 taking iu as many as three hundred pounds of fish a night. 

 So defiant and lawless did they become, too, that nobody 

 dared interfere, and the consequence was that the fish 

 which had been placed there at such immense trouble and 

 expense was speedily exterminated. The subject was one 

 of very great importance, and he hoped the Association 

 would meet the' Fishery Commissioners and agree upon a 

 joint plan of action for securing legislation and to do 

 away with the evil. 



Treatment of Quail is Confinement.— Ourold friend 

 Ethan Alliu, of Pomfret Centre, Conn., sends us the fol- 

 lowing communication on this subject: — 



"I would say a few words in regard to care of confined 

 quail, as there seems to be a general effort among sports- 

 men to secure quantities of live quail to keep over for 

 breeders the coming season. I had some experience of 

 this kind some years since, when the severe winter killed 

 off the quail in this section, and learned by sad experience 

 the proper mode to care for them. If they can be kept on 

 the ground surface just as conveniently, I should prefer it; 

 give plenty of water and different kinds of grain and 

 gravel; see that their apartments are kept clean and feed 

 no faster lhan they consume; lei the water be fresh or 

 changed at least oace a day; give something green occa- 

 sionally; make them a dusting place of dry sand or wood 

 ashes, and most important of all, do not have their coop 

 over 12 inches high, as if they are in;.a high coop they are 

 liable to get frightened and bang their heads at top of the 

 coop. I lost more by having them iu coops some four feet 

 high. They would get frightened by a sudden Hash of a 

 laulern, and so bang iheir heads as to kill themselves. 

 When so disturbed in the uigul by B Midden Ha! 

 from a lantern they would oiieu Butler and bang them- 

 selves by the half hour, before they would get quiet. Be 

 veiy quiet ami gentle when around them, and disturb them 

 as little ae possible. I have Written this in hopes it may 

 be of some service to Bob Wb'te, In this .section the quail 



have stood starvation aud snow much better than any one 

 would suppose. I have endeavored to feed some I e 

 but owing to the crusted and deep snow it not onlj 

 difficult to get about iu it, but also owing to fhecri 

 was difficult lo discover iheir whereabouts, The snow has 

 now so far disappeared as to leave plenty of bare pi 

 for them to obtain all food necessary for their support, and 

 from what I hear from different quarters hi this section 

 there is still a good supply left if nothing befalls them be- 

 tween this and April next to make the supply more 

 dant the coming season than they have been here for some 

 years past." Ethah Alms. 



1'eotoni:, 111., Jan. 31st. 

 Editor Forest and Stream.— 



I wish some one who can handle it would agitate the 

 subject of game laws, aud write something iu favor id 

 extending the shooting season on quail, pinnated and ruff- 

 ed grouse at least a month longer. There are one or two 

 changes in the laws of this State, which could be a 

 without injury lo the game, in fact, one change would, I 

 think protect Ihcm much more fully . First] would have 

 the shooting season extended to the 1st ot February, and 

 the close season on wookcock to the 1st of October or Sep- 

 tember. I doubt if there would be any appreciable do- 

 crease in game in consequence of the first change suggested 

 above, and 1 am sure that the second suggestion would 

 materially aid in the increase of the last mentioned bird. 



Second, I would alter the section which allows ! 

 thirty days alter the 1st of January to get rid of came on 

 hand. 1 think, or almost, fifloeu days would sulliee, and 

 every dealer could easily get rid of whaUsVei game he had 

 in that time, if he knew he had to do so, or pay a hi 

 fine. As the law stands now every inducement is held out 

 to the market shooter, and the produce dealer, or commis- 

 sion merchant, the one to kill and the oilier to buy for at 

 least fifteen days of the thirty days of grace allowed by 

 law. This is Ihe case iu country towns, aud being so there 

 is of course so in the cilies. Now if the lime was 

 shortened to ten days, city dealers would be anxious to get 

 off their stock on hand, aid would refuse to buy any game 

 after the 1st of Jan., country would be Obliged IO stop 

 buying also, and the market shooter his "occupation gone," 

 would "hang up his fiddle and bis bow," in other words, 

 his gun, and wait as sportsmen are obliged to do, 



Umhellijb, 



OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. 



FHOM OUR OWN CORRKSFONDCl.T. 



The Mount Vernon Docking Ottjfi— Poisoned by Eat- 

 ing Partrioge— A Snake Story- (Join Fiaa De- 

 stroyed by Eels, Etc , Etc. 



Washington, D. C., February olh, 1877. 



IN a recent letter 1 briefly alluded to the magniflcefit duck 

 sbootiug of the lower Potomac and Chesapeake Kay, 

 aud I might fill columns of the Forest and Stheam in 

 regard to the rare sport afforded to lovers of aquatic shoot. 

 iug on these waters. We have among our Washington 

 sportsmen many who enjoy this spoil, and now that the 

 riveris agiin clear of ice there will soon be an active cam- 

 paign against the swan, geese and ducks of every variety 

 which are so plentiful. From now until the end of March 

 duck shooting iu this locality is probably equal to that of 

 any other section, and busy preparations are being made 

 for Ihe sport. 



The Mount Vernon Ducking Club, composed of gentle- 

 men of this city, is a decidedly popular and well conduct- 

 ed organization, and those lucky enough to secure mem- 

 bership therein enjoy many privileges aud comforts dur- 

 ing their shooting excursions. This club has had a sort of 

 informal existence during the past twelve years, bat it was 

 not thoroughly orgauized until about three years ago, when 

 Mr. J. H. Kuehling, one of the best shots in Washington, 

 and a true sportsman, was chosen as its president. The 

 active interest which he has taken in the organization has 

 done much towards its present popularity. The member- 

 ship is limited to twenty -five, and is composed of gentle- 

 men of high standing to the community, most ot whom 

 are good shots, and they frequently return to the city with 

 all the game they cau carry, after spending a day or two at 

 the shooting grounds or flats near Mount Vernon. Mi 

 Kuehling, who may be regarded as the originator o f the 

 club, owns a farm adjoining the Mount Vernon estate, aud 

 upon this a very comfortable club house is located. It is 

 suitably furnished, and the properly of the club consisting of 

 boats, decoys, shooting boxes, blinds, etc., is all properly 

 cared for by a competent janitor. There is. an extensive 

 flat immediately in front of the club house, which seems 

 to be a favorite feeding place for the dpeks. Canvas backs, 

 rednecks, shufflers, mallards, leal, whistle wings and but- 

 ter balls are among the varieties killed by the members, 

 and they are anticipating rare sport during the nest two 

 months. Mr. Wm. B. McKelden is now president of the 

 organisation, and the following named gentlemen are mem- 

 bers. J. H Kuehling, II. R. Searle, Col. John R. Mora- 

 hous, Harry King, Capt. M. A. Tappan, Dr. Barnard, Dr. 

 L. Wilson, Geo. Ryneal, Edward Graves, C. P. Willelt, 

 M. M. Eldridge, Wm. H. Tucker, N. 0. Farmtm, L. P. 

 Humphrey, J. Baker, E. T. Thomas, A. B. Bryan, F. 

 Pratt, Mr". Houghton, E. M, McLeod, L. A. Bartlctt, Mr. 

 Woodbury, and Wm. Turner. These gmitleiui n are all 

 true sportsmen, aud they take great interest in their organ - 

 zation They au- constantly adding lo their i lock' of de- 

 coys, boats, etc., and thus they have every facility for rare 

 sport. 



The recent severe i line M mntnt tnthou; ol Rhode 

 Island, was caused |)J 

 had been feeding upon 



:ire confident thai pol run tl I fl 



was in great pain, and vomited ficeh 



