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FOREST AND STREAM. 



owner of the lost dog, the hank officers went to the place in 

 question, inquired the price of a gome rooster, and finally 

 stood before the cage of the little pet for which they were 

 searching. Galling out "Oeasar!" the imprisoned animal 

 i 'with joy; the recognition was mutual. The 

 store-keeper previously wanted $25 for the creature, and 

 eren now under suspicious circumstances, refused to surren- 

 der until threatened with difficulty. He at least demanded 



the return of h , . , nts, which he said he paid to the 



man who brought him. 



In another instance, a beautiful Maltese eat, which disap- 

 peared from a provision store in the Second Worfi, was found 

 n :i 1 1 p r c ircumstanflBB much the same. Again, when a stolen 

 dog bad been ideftified and recovered, the animal picked up 

 .strychnine in the street ( reasonably assumed to have been 

 !:: ed in hi ,- .;- i - m on i-sary of the professional thief) 

 ■while on its way home, and died the next day. Again, the 

 alleged receiver of stolen pets was heard on a certain occa- 

 sion "to inquire of one of his skirmishers, if he remembered 

 a house on Madison avenue, where he sold a cat a few days 

 before. " Well," he said, " you bring back that cat: I've got 

 another customer." These statements, as above, received 

 from various sources, suffice to account for singular disap- 

 pearances for which no other explanation can be given. So, 

 look out. 



Does in- New Yoek City. — We have not always been in 

 accord with Mr. Bergh in his crusades, but in his present 

 fight with the Common Council of this city, his efforts 

 to have the recently passed ordinance regarding dogs so 

 modified that they may he humanely dealt with, Mr. Bergh has 

 our warmest sympathies. As the new law was first worded, 

 any dog which might happen to run astray, or escape tem- 

 porarily from its master, was liable to be seized by paid ruf- 

 fians, or their sattelites, who, under the inducement of the 

 reward offered by the city, would not he particular as to 

 the means by which the dogs would be brought within their 

 clutches. The poor beasts would then be carried to some 

 place prepared for the purpose, and there tortured to death. 



Mr. Bergh's proposition is, that the whole matter pertain- 

 ing to dogs in this city shall be turned over to his society; 

 that a proper place shall be provided for the reception of the 

 dogs, and that after a reasonable time has been allowed for 

 their owners to reclaim them, all remaining unclaimed shall 

 be put to death in a merciful and and painful manner. Mr. 

 Morris's plan, that a license should be taken out and a fee 

 paid for every dog, is an excellent one, and if it is enforced. 

 our streets will soon be rid of curs; only, we think that the 

 fee should be made $5 instead of $2. 



A Good Omen. — The first application for an entry blank 

 for the forthcoming New York Bench Show was received 

 from a lady. We regard this as a good omen, the managers 

 having counted upon a large entry of pets. Nor will the 

 prizes for these classes be less valuable than for the others. 

 as several ladies of this city have all early presented valuable 

 cups tor Skyes, Pugs, etc. The entry in question is of pure 

 English Toy Terrier, the mother and father of which have 

 taken the first- prize at the Crystal and Alexandria Palace 

 shows. 



— Mr. H. B. Bostwick, of Atchison, Kansas, writes to 

 claim the name of " Fanny Esler " for his white-and-black 

 ticked puppy, born Aug. 1(3, 1S76 ; dam, C. P. Demuth's 

 (Fort Dodge, Iowa) imported Laverack bitch, Pickles ; sire, 

 Arnold Burgess' Bob Boy. He says that Fanny is the per- 

 fect image of her sire, both in markings and in build, and 

 promises to make a field dog that will be hard to beat. 



— Mr. F. B. Farnsworth, of Paris, Ontario, has sold his 

 imported Field Trial setter bitch, Rose, to Mr. J. H. Dodge, 

 of Detroit, The price, we understand, was $300. Mr. 

 Houghton's (of Detroit) Fan visited Carlowitz on the 12th 

 nit. 



St. Lotos Kennel Club. — Bowe's Peg and Waddell & Sher- 

 wood's Daisy have visited Bock. F. H. Bierbower's Katty, 

 by Plunket, out of Kitty, has visited Erin. 



The Fokest City Kennel — Mr. Mathews's Fan ( of Toledo, 

 O). visited Plunket last week, and Dr. 8. J. Croym's ( of 

 Chicago ) Belle has visited Bapp. " 



Ticks on Doos and Houses. — A correspondent writes 

 from Santa Fe, New Mexico, under date of March 3, as fol- 

 lows: "In your issue of February 22d your correspon- 

 dent, 'Fred. L. It., Longwood, Fla.,' complains oi ticks 

 troubling his horses and dogs, and asks ' what will take them 

 off,' etc. While serving in "Texas I met with thetrouble 

 he complains of, and allow me to differ with you in your 

 advice — 'the ticks must he picked off in the first place.*' If 

 the tick be picked off, its head is invariably pulled off and 

 left in the flesh to fester and create a sore. Any kind of oil 

 will make the tick let go of its own accord, if well rubbed 

 into the hair of the animal. The theory is, that the oil fills 

 the pores of the skin and deprives the tick of air to breathe. 

 However correct or incorrect the theory may be, the prac- 

 i< ,l1, and it is the only safe way of getting rid of ticks 

 when they have taken hold. I believe the ' seed-tick ' and 

 ' wood-tick ' are found in all the Southern States, in bushy 

 or wooded districts: and experience has taught me that they 

 are as fond of the human as of the brute creation. 



"Yours truly, C. A. Stebman." 



[ Our answer was given to our first correspondent under 

 the impression that he was alluding to that swollen, red, dis- 

 gusting looking tick, which, in California particularly, affix 

 to a dog's skin, usually about the head and ears. 

 mv. found could be picked oil, or pulled out, by 

 using a little care, and our instructions from the natives were 

 burn them if possible. We are much indebted to 

 pondent for his letter. We are quite . ■ < thai 



■'■■ I ' ! laeious. It is well known that grease 



will destroy, or disperse, lice and fleas. — Ed]. 



hotels, and other public places, there is nothing so nice to 

 purify the air. Simple green copperas, dissolved in any- 

 I render a hospital or other place for the sick free 

 nsant smells. In fish markets, slaughter houses, 

 sinks, and wherever there are offensive gases, dissolve cop- 

 peras, and sprinkle it about, and in a few days the smell 

 will all pass away. If a cat, rat, or mouse dies* about the 

 house, and sends forth an offensive gas, place some dissolved 

 copperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance 

 is, and it will purify the atmosphere. Then keep all clean. 



A Seut-ie DisinfeCtaut, — One pound of green copp 

 ing seven cents, dissolved in one quart of water, fan d poured 

 down a water-closet, will-effectuidTy concentrate and destroy 

 the fouleBt smells. On board ships and steamboats, about 



fachting and §aa ting. 



HIGH VTATEH, FOB THE WEEK. 



Date. 



Boston. 



New Tort. 



Charleston 



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 8 50 

 8 45 



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 1 58 



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Seawanhaxa. Yacht Club. — In publishing last week a re- 

 port of the recent meeting of the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, 

 the programme of races adopted was accidentally omitted. 

 It was as follows : 



First Race. — To come off on June 16th; open to all clubs, 

 with the usual restrictions. This is to be a Corinthian race 

 for first and second-class Bloops Jand second-class schooner-; 

 one prize in each class of $150, making the amount for 

 prizes sl50. The steamboat to c >st not more rhan sinij. and 

 the lunel: 



Second Bate. — To come off on June 23d; an ocean race for 

 first and second-class schooners; owners to command and 

 steer their own boats, with the usual restrictions. One prize 

 in each class of $200, making Sif.'O for prizes. Tie- .-tryju 

 boat to cost $125 and the lunch $60. Two entries in each 

 class, and no race in the class that fails so to fill. 



Third Bane.— Annual regatta of Oyster Bay, July 4th; there 

 being five prizes of the value of $50 each, making $250. The 

 steamboat to cost not over $125, and the lunch $50. 



FouiihJBace. — To come off July 28th: a race for open boats at 

 Oyster Bay, one prize in each class of the value of S50, 

 making $100 for prizes. 



Fifth Race.— A series of four races for open boats, to be 

 sailed at Oyster Bay on the last four Saturdays of September. 

 The prizes to be of the value of $50 in each class, said prizes 

 to be awarded to the boats scoring the greatest number of 

 victories, a "walk over" to count, Should there be a tie, it 

 will be sailed off on October 3 over the usual club course. 



SixHiRao.— ''Ladies' Day" regatta, to come off in Septem- 

 ber, the date to be appointed by the Commodore. The 

 prizes to be colors in each class, to the value of $150; the ex- 

 penses not to exceed $50. 



New Bedeoed Yacht Clxtb. — A meeting of this club was 

 held at the new club-house on the 16th inst., the object being 

 to adopt a constitution and by-laws. The following was 

 adopted: 



"The name of the club is fixed as the New Bedford Yacht 

 Club, and the officers are to consist of a commodore, vice- 

 commodore, captain, secretary, treasurer, measurer, and 

 twelve directors. The admission fee is to consist of five 

 dollars, and the annual fee five dollars. The club will also 

 admit a limited number of honorary members. 



Charles F. Monroe, Peleg Macoiuber, and Walter Myrick 

 were appointed a committee to nominate a list of officers, 

 and reported the following list, which was adopted: 



Commodore, John A. Hawes; Vice-Commodore, Edgar B. 

 Hammond; Captain, Thomas G. Wing: Secretary, George W, 

 Parker; Treasurer, Edwin Dews: Measurer, Willard Kye, Jr 



Directors, George W. Parker, Frank C. Bancroft, John H. 

 Garnett, C. Warren Fisher, James B. Forbes, Alfred G. Alley, 

 Charles F. Monroe, Gilbert D. Kingman, Kobert S. Lawton, 

 William Sanders. Joseph A. Bullard, Henry F. Hammond. 



Thomas G. Wing was appointed treasurer pro tent., and a 

 large proportion of those present paid the entering fee as an 

 earnest that they meant business. It was stated' that 44 

 persons had already placed their names upon the books, and 

 that 13 names additional had been presented for considera- 

 tion, all being oarsmen or yachtmen of repute. The club 

 starts under most favorable "auspices, ami we anticipate, re- 

 cording many stirring contests in the waters of Buzzards 

 Bay. 



St. Augustine Yacht Club.— The 4th annual Regatta of 

 the St. Augustine Yacht Club took place on March 17th. 

 The "Idlewild,"— J. W. Keep— received the first prize in the 



d-class yachts, bv time allowance from the "K 

 Vice-Corn" Morrison. The "Henrietta," N. Edgar, won the 

 prize of the special class yachts, and the "Carrie," B. Pink- 

 ham, in the 3d-class. In the contest between the canoes 



'Emma" and "Ella" of the St. John's Canoe Club, the former 

 won; and the fisherman's canoe. "Mallet," by Benet, won in 

 her class. The race betw-een the gigs of the Bache and yacht 

 Wanderer, manned by men from the respective boats, was 

 won by the Wanderer's crew. 



Scientific Affabatus fop. Taking Flying Soundings. 

 — The apparatus fur taking flying soundings— an English 

 invention— has attracted much notice from nautical men. 

 It consists of an oval weight of lead, thirty pounds, at- 

 tached by half a fathom of hemp cord to a ring or thimble 

 properly secured on one end of a length of two hundred 

 fathoms of piano forie wire coiled on an exceedingly light 

 wheel of thin galvanized sheet iron of about a foot diame- 

 ter, mounted on a fram--work fixed in a convenient posi- 

 tion on the ship's taffrail. The wheel has a second rim, 

 with a simple kind of friction brake, by which a constant 

 force of Jive pounds is applied to it when the wire is run- 

 ning out. There is also attached to the same shaft a ratchet 

 wheel and pawl, which can be thrown out of gear or into 

 gear at pleasure. A counter to count up 200 turns completes 

 the apparatus. To take a sounding by it the plan is to let 

 the weight hang by a short cord di'-ect from the wheel and 

 clear of the taflrad, and then to lift the pawl and throw it 

 out of gear, holding the wheel by hand till ready to begin, 

 then to let go the run and stand by. The moment the wheel 

 is heard to go slower the rim is to be laid hold of with both 

 hands, protecied by a piece of canvas or thick leather 

 gloves, and stopped. It is only necessary to read the counter, 

 and the sounding is complete. Two men, working on han- 

 dles applied for the purpose, haul in the wire and recover 

 the lead easily and speedily. 



Rational §a$time&. 



SKATING. 



Tec skating ended in the metropolis the last of February, 

 since which time the in-doorform of skjiting on the Plvrnp- 

 ton patent roller skates has become a popular recrea- 

 tion, especially with the fashionable class of society in 

 Brooklyn, where no less than four roller skating halls" are 

 now in operation; on the Bink in Clermont, avenue, 

 Gallatin Hail on Fulton avenue. Burnham's Academy on 

 Schermerhorn street, and Apollo Hall in Williamsburgh. 

 I he Kink is the largest building, but it is not managed on 

 »he Dest interests of the new exercise, inasmuch as the 

 high-pressure Parisian system of variety performance has 

 been the plan pursued on the special entertainment Dights. 

 and the result has been a large falling off of the patron- 

 age. People prefer to see exhibitions of graceful figure 

 skating, in the place of mere trials of speed and endur- 

 ance in the form of dangerous hurdle races and steeple 

 chases on rollers. The best arrangement in the way of 

 catering for society peoele, is that introduced at Burn 

 ham's Gymnasium, which was opened on Wednesday nigh 

 Inst. The popular plan of moderate prices is pursued" as 

 Gallatin Hall and Apollo, where no rapid skating i 

 allowed, and crowds are attracted nightly to see the ex 

 hibitions of figure skating. 



CKECKET. 



—The annual meeting of the Young America Cricket Club, 

 of Germantown, took place on Tuesday week, at Wilson 

 Hall, Philadelphia The officers of the ensuing year are as 

 " "ows: President, E. M. Davis. Jr. : VicB-Preisident, T. V. 

 itokee . Secretary, J. Wain Vaux : Treasurer, E. N. Wright, 

 •Jr.; Ground Committee, George M Newhall, Sidney L. 

 Wright, Edward Wain, Jr. The Secretarv's report gave a fvdl 

 account of last year's business and the averages of the first 

 eleven as follows : B. S. Newhall, 33 : George M. Newhall, 

 2.5 3-7 ; E. N. Wright, Jr., 26 ; D. S. Newhall, 25i ; John B. 

 Large, 2i-| : K. Loper Baird, 14 1-6 ; H. L. Newhall, 14 ; C 

 A. Newhall, 12 ; Thomas Baxter, 9 4-5 ; Harry Stacker, 7 ; A 

 A. Vanrensallaer, 6 ; E. S. Bucklev, Jr., 6 : F.'i '. Baird 5S ; E. 

 W. Clark, 5. The Treasurer's report, was well reoejvi L. there 

 being a cash balance of over one hundred dollars on hand. 

 The prospect for the coming year is very promising, Lord 

 Harris having written to say that Mr. G. W.' Grace and himself 

 intend getting up a gentleman team to come over in the fall 

 to play Canada and "The States." 

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— "I don't call that binding," as the sick man said of the 

 castor oil. 



%ew publications. 



MAGAZINES. 



The opening paper in .,/ for April is on 



the Austrian Arctic Expedition, derived from Julius Payer's "New 

 Lands Within the Arctic Circle." The article is [tlnatr&ted with flf- . 



teen excellent engravings, depicting the scenes.. oi ii. 



expedition. The other articles of the number ,ve rariety 



— an excellent short story of New York life, by Thomas Dm 



one by the lamented young Albert F. Webster, the last en au a 



from his pen. bearing the title of " The Owner of Lara ;" a third, en- 

 titled " The Wild Dove's Nest," a Russian Easter story. There is on 

 entertaining stretch under the title of " A Hero of the Old Regime,'' 

 which describes the remarkable career of the Marshal de Itichelieu, and 

 a paper by Geo. Cary EggleBton, on "Phases of Russian LI! 



contains many interesting facts. " Chorio EUpol famed, and is 



full of fresh interest. There are other papers, poems, car., and the 

 editor, who discusses many current topics, glrm some statistics in re- 

 gard to the New York savings-banks, which are of great value, and 

 prove tho general trustworthy character of these institutions. 



Goon habits learned in youth are apt to remain fixed through life. 

 This is one reason why B. T. Babbitt's Toilet. Soap is certain to become, 

 by and by, a monopoly in tbe toilet line, beyond all question, the chief. 

 Custom from babyhood up will unike this the most desirable and pleas- 

 ing of all articles in use, for what is good for the child will be no less 

 valuable for tbe mau and woman.— Ado. 



Tiffany & Co., silversmiths, Jewelers, and 

 Importers, have always a large stock ot sil- 

 ver articles for prizes for shooting, yachting, 

 racing and other sports, and on request they 

 prepare special designs for similar purposes. 

 Their timing watches are giiarem teed for ac- 

 curacy, and are now very generally used for 

 sporting and scientific requirements. Tiffany 

 & Co,, are also the agents in America for 

 Messrs. Patek, Philippe & Co., of Geneva, of 

 whose celebrated watches they have a full 



line. Their stock of Diamonds and other Pre- 

 cious Stones, General Jewelry, Bronzes and 



Artistic Pottery is the largest in the world, 

 and the public are invited to visit their estab- 

 lishment without feeling the slightest obliga- 



tion to purchase. Union Square, New York 

 Adv. 



