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Index to Volume VII. — Witl) this issue we commence 

 Volume 8 of Forest and Stream, mid publish with it lite 

 index of the 2G numbers previous to date, which constitute 



Vol utile 7. 



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Ouii Guowing Circulation.— The new 3 r ear opened 

 most auspiciously for our journal, the subscriptions for 

 the month of January, singly and in clubs, exceeding those 

 of any preceding month. February is even better; so that 

 we feci confident that out paper is not only high in favor, 

 but that the prospects of an improvement in general busi- 

 ness encourage its friends to subscribe more freely. Clubs 

 of a dozen and upward cheer us almost every day. With 

 the exception of Now York, Pennsylvania is the banner 

 State. Pittsburg is the banner town. 

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Thb Aquatuum. — Although ihe white whale is no more, 

 the aquarium is still well supplied wilh novelties. The 

 graceful and beautiful mermaid, Miss Lubin, daily gives 

 her interesting performance under water. Our friend Fred 

 Mather, the pisciculturist, recently returned fiom a trip to 

 Currituck Sound, bringing wilh him a fine lot of black bas3. 

 Hamilton says the largest weighs seven pounds, and as 

 •what Hamilton says is very likely to ue true, we won't dis- 

 pute il. At all events they are the handsomest specimens 

 of the Perm ni</rk<Ms we have ever seen alive. Mr. Hol- 

 der and party brought from the upper Hudson a few days 

 since Bouie fine striped bass and sturgeou. i'.y-ihebye, 

 while Mr. Mather was at Currituck he fell in with the 

 Grand Duke Alexis and parly, slopped at the same house 

 wilh him, and for all we know has laid some deep scheme 

 for the introduction of a new kind of cavaire into Russia, 

 Aleck, he says, is u good fellow, a first-rale shot, and 

 "takes sugar iu his." 



to Invitation.— We acknowledge with thanks an in- 

 vitation from the Foresler Club, of Jauesville, Wis., to be 

 present at their annual reception last evening. The For- 

 ester is the most flourishing organization of the kind in 

 Wisconsin, numbering fitly members. All the Stale game 

 laws of Hits and last winter's session of Ihe Legislature 

 were prepared by this club. ^ 



—Ihe dial of (he new Crystal Palace clock iu London is 



40 feet in diameter The minute hand measures 10 leet. 



four miles a week, but it don't compare wilh its 



great grandfather, Old Father Time, who travels 25,01)0 



miles every 24 hours. 



RAQUETTE FOR LADIES, 



THE game of raquette described iu Fokest and 

 Stream a few weeks ago is eminently suitable as 

 an amusement and exercise for women during the inelem 

 eney of winter weather. Though we strongly recommend 

 out-door exercise, there are limes of boisterous bluster 

 when it is scarcely practicable. Attention must then be 

 turned to in-door resources, anil the raquette court has 

 many advantages and endless attractions. 



The game is already played, lo a limited extent, by the 

 ladies of this city. They may occasionally be seen in the 

 courts of Ihe New York Raquette Club, deftly handling 

 the bat and retrieving the rebounding balls wilh creditable 

 skill. Il is a game which for many reasons is well worthy 

 of the attention of the female sex. ' 



It is, in the first place, a light game which demands skill 

 rather than strength, and activity rather lhau hatdihood. 

 It develops the muscular power of the player without 

 straining the nerves. The gracefulness of the game in- 

 vests the player, and its great charm in this respect will, 

 we do not hesitate to say, be most highly appreciated and 

 most fully recognized when women players have attained 

 the skill of the sterner sex. It is attended by no violence, 

 either to the most sickly sentiment of the bug-bear propri- 

 priety, or to the physique. It forms, in fact, a happy medium 

 bel ween the insipidity of croquet and Ihe roughness Of 

 baseball. A question of the piecision of these statements 

 may possibly arise iu Ihe mind of the onlooker at a game 

 played by men. The perspiring, flushed faces ami heav- 

 ing chests are hardly theaccompanimeuls of an amusement 

 in which women are recommended lo engago. Let us, have 

 no weakness in looking at this matter. The flush of exer- 

 cise is surely better lhau ihe pallor of indolence, and the 

 heaving chest than the hacking cough. 



We are perfectly willing, at the same time, to make 

 concessions. Wc have heard of meu making hard work 

 out of a game of billiards. We might go further and ask, 

 what woman has not either heard of or known men who 

 were addicted to violence while engaged iu the arduous toil 

 of the toilet? They may, in fact, in whatever direction 

 their attention is turned, make hard work out of exercise, 

 and pleasure laborious. Ladies need not follow their ex- 

 ample. Fveu should their taste run in that direction, i. e., 

 towards extremes, il is a tolerably safe assertion that hall 

 a dozen games ef raquetle would not be so fatiguing as the 

 dances enumerated in one ball-room programme. ADd, 

 further, how often in the ball-room are the most wonder- 

 ful creations of the hair-dresser destroyed? How often 

 does Ihe heightened color set at defiance the milk-and- 

 water law of maudlin fashion? But setting such matters 

 aside, the game could, we presume, be shortened lo suit 

 women, should such a course be deemed advisable, or 

 otherwise modified to make its mildness as an exercise, 

 when played in reason, ye', more mild. 



It will be apparent to those who have any acquaintance 

 with the game that it cannot very well be played by a lady 

 "got up" lor making calls, or with a sweeping train drag- 

 ging its slow length behind her. The appendages' of fash- 

 ion are sad obstructions to agility. A special fashion for 

 raquette could easily be devised. The gentlemen's rule is 

 a very simple one, viz., dispense with everything unneces- 

 sary. Ladies might imitate them at a distance. A very 

 pretty costume, which would satisfy all the requirements 

 ot the situation, should not he beyond the inveulivo genius 

 of an average modinte. Il would only be necessary to beat- 

 in mind lhat the. chief end in view is the unimpeded use 

 of the limbs. The luxury of wearing for a few hours a 

 costume in which hand aud foot were equallv free would 

 lend a new atu action to the game. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Sew Yokk. — In union is strength, is a well-known 

 aphorism that none will be inclined to dispute, but that in 

 diversity of interests may oftentimes be found ihe greatest 

 good for the greatest number, is also a truism upon which 

 we need not dilate. A healthy emulation leads lo great 

 achievement-*, when a lack of the spur of excitement re- 

 sults only in careless inactivity. We are led to these brief, 

 but wc believe pertinent reflections, by observing iu the 

 Yonkers Gazette of two successive weeks, the action of the 

 two Sportsmen's Clubs existing in that lively city. Bolh 

 of these Clubs have been iu existence shout two years, and 

 were brought into being barely through Ihe eucrgy of Dr. 

 Charles W. Torrey, who seems not to have iost any of his 

 vim through his incarceration iiuce then in a South 

 American dungeon. The original "Yonkers Sportc-rneu's 

 Club" split upon the rock of pigeou-shootiug, aud the. 

 "Yonkers Game aud Fish Protection Society" was the 

 vigorous offspring. The Hon. Joseph Master, ex-Mayor of 

 of" Yonkers, preside-; over the desliuies of those sporting 

 gentlemen who are quick ou ihe tiigger and eager on the 

 trail, while Dr. Torrey, assisted by an Executive Com. 

 mitlee of prominent citizens, conducts the more quiet de- 

 liberations of those who believe that there is more of 

 cruelty titau of sportin trap-shcoiiug. The gentlemen, be- 

 lieving with Isaac Walton lhat, 



Peace, and a secure mind, 



Which all men seek, we only Dnd, 

 have been taking measures to stock the new aud commo- 

 dious reservoir, and the subsidiary creek which furnishes 

 the water supply Eor the citj with brook and salmon trout. 

 The eggs are to be obtained from the State, and hatched 

 out in the piscatorial establishment of Alderman Morse, 

 the Vice-President of the Society, and within a few years 



we can hope to see the contemplative angler gaining health 

 and recreation in the grassy shades and murmuring waters 

 of old Westchester. 



This action seems to have producod the spirit of emula- 

 tion we referred to, and resolutions were adopted at the 

 last meeting of the parent Club, authorizing an appropria- 

 tion lor stocking the county with quail, and urging the 

 member of Assembly from the district to aid in amending 

 the game lawsof ihe State regarding the shooting of wood- 

 cock before September 1st. 



Both Clubs are desirous of having a law passed prevent- 

 ing the raking or dredging for oysters in the waleis of the 

 Hudson, until such lime as the oyster beds may recover 

 from the bad treatment they have received. This is a 

 matter, as we have before had occasion lo observe, which 

 should obtain the atteutiou of the New York Sportsmen's 

 Association, inasmuch as weakfiah and striped bass, form- 

 erly plentiful in our noble river, feod largely, on the spawn 

 oT the oysler, and are bectuning scarce from the increasing 

 destruction Of their food. Westchester county has a law 

 protecting its water front in certain months, and irom all 

 except resident oyst.ermen, but the newly annexed portion 

 of the City of New York is without any protection. There 

 is need along the whole river front of a prohibilory law 

 for at least five years. 



Slauoiiteuing Dkeii.— There is no lime more favorable 

 for the destruction of deer than during a deep snow, when 

 the animal breaks through the light crust and labors heav- 

 ily to escape from his pursuers, who, mouuted on snow 

 shoes easily overtakes his victim. The following ex- 

 tract from a letter written from Russell, St. Lawrence 

 county, on January 20th, shows how Ihe law is being vio- 

 lated with impunity in lhat section . — 



Mr. Wright h*3 just come down from Cranberry Lake 

 and informs me that Mr. Irish and Mr. Thomas' people, 

 also Cltas. Gotham and Clark Goodale, are slaughtering 

 deer fearfully. They run them down by using snow shoes. 

 Geo. Sawyer has killed about ten at Clifton. It is simply 

 downright murder, aud if there is any law it ought to be 

 put in force. We all like the taste of veuison, but like to 

 have it a little more legitimate. If anything can be done 

 to stop it do it, aud push these fellows. They will keep it 

 up as long as the deep snow lasts. Yours truly, 



J. R. S. 



— The Yonkers Sportsmen's Club have secured their 

 first instalment of Mi live quail from Ohio. They are all 

 hardy birds, arrived iu good condition, and are tempora- 

 rily housed in a barn, where they are being fed. When Ihe 

 frost breaks upthey will be distributed, and wilh proper 

 precaution do much to increase the slock of birds in West- 

 chester couuty. 



Pennsylvania.— Sportsmen of this State are agitated 

 over a bill which it is proposed to introduce into the Legis- 

 lature, the provisions of which, some say, are to prevent 

 the killing of quails for three years; while other:, lie 

 fears cause them to magnify the evil, state that it is even 

 suggested to stop all killing of game for a period of ten 

 years. Such a law would be loo absurd to be entertained 

 seriously. We can make a suggestion to the Legislature 

 which is far more practicable and sensible; that is, for 

 Ihem lo appoint a Committee lo visit Milford, say the 1st 

 ef August, aud count Ihe ruffed grouse (pheasants) that 

 are shot out of sca.son or snared in Pike county alone. 

 They may then see the necessity of enforcing such laws as 

 they have, before passing new ones. 



Connecticut— Summer Shooting. — A correspondent 

 writes us from Lakeville, Lilchfield county, Conn., Jan. 

 25th as follows:— 



"1 notice in the present issue of Fokest and Stream, a 

 communication from 'Grumbler,' to a portion Of which I 

 must take exception. I agree with him fully as regards 

 quail. Nov. 1st is plenty early lo begin shooting Ihem 

 here. My experience was very similar to his the past tall, 

 for on Oct. 20lh we flushed a bevy that were not any larger 

 than sparrows and scarcely able to fly. Regarding wood- 

 cock .hooting, 1 must differ with him. I for one would be 

 glad to see Sept. 1st Ihe beginning of the open season for 

 woodcock aud ruffed grouse. There is certainly very little. 

 pleasure iu sweltering in a woodcock swamp in July aud 

 August with Ihe themomcter among the nineties, and mos- 

 quitoes nearly as large as the birds and far more numerous. 

 As to there being no fall shooting in Fairfield couuty, L 

 must confess that lean not understand it, for our hills are 

 considerably colder and the birds stay with us uulil after 

 Ihe ground is frozen. Our best shooting is in the latter 

 part of October, usually when the weather is simply per- 

 fection, and one shot at a strong full grown bird is enough 

 to make a man ashamed of popping at the poor half 

 fledged things of our summer' shooling. Our birds don't 

 leave us for Jersey as soon as they leave the corn 

 fields, but stay about till the fall flight begins, (at least 

 that is my experience); they sometimes lake to whal m ems 

 unusual ground, but if a man looks iu the right place he 

 will find them. 



"There is at least one corner of Litchfield county where 

 'Grumbler' will find the alvocalesof summer shooling few 

 and far between. I would rather shoot less birds for u few 

 years at least and give Ihem a chance to increase, than to 

 kill extra birds each year for a few years and then have 

 woodcock shooting a thiDg of the past. If Ihe birds should 

 become tod plenty under the short season, I ii 

 would not take loDg to thin Ihem down again, should such 

 a course be necessary. We are feeding the few quail lhat 

 the heavy snows have left us, and propose to turn out a 

 number of pairs in the spring. 



"The trout, hatched by the Salisbury Game Club are also 

 doing nicely and will be placed iu our depleled streams in 

 the spring." Protection. 



Vilksuuiio, Miss., Jan. 13th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



1 have received the following letter from Princeton, In- 

 diana, which 1 seud you, wilh my answer thereto. If you 

 see proper you may publish them. 1 1 P 



" Princeton, lnd.,Jau. Ill 

 "Tolfe about your fiohinc uu the Sunflower, lout sod.Rol 



