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FOREST AND STREAM. 



ment of the great sources of wealth which the Miramichi 

 river was intended bjr Providence to give man. 



Operations are also being carried on up the Restigouche 

 river, and also at Gaspe\ At the former place an establish- 

 ment is iioav nearly completed, and will be in full working 

 orded this fall. By referring to the Marine and Fisheries 

 Report we find that the establishment is stituated on a beau- 

 tiful mountain stream called "Robertson's brook," which 

 enters the Restigouche on its left frank, and about nine miles 

 above the mouth of the Matapedia. It is a pretty, limpid 

 pure stream, and is reputed to be never failing in its sup- 

 ply of water. The breeding house is overlooked by Mr. 

 iVlowat, a very energetic and efficient officer. At 

 Gaspe diffieuties have arisen in procuring as eligible a 

 stream as might be desired. But the difficulty Mr. Wil- 

 mot thinks will be overcome, and he intends to start for 

 that point at once, to finally locate and build an establis- 

 ment there also. 



with beautiful bright red and erimson fishes' scales. 

 There are also large" cases of fish jewelry, such as knives; 

 forks, spoons, ladles, etc., carved in the most exquisite 

 patterns out of fishes' bones and ornamented with fishes' 



scales." 



Jfiws fjrom J&brond. 



STILL the bad reports about the birds in England eon 

 tinue. Save in Wales, where grouse, though not 

 plenty, are stated to be sound, the complaints are univer- 

 sal. The suggestion advanced by us in our last r&wam%e of 

 foreign sporting- matters seems to have been actually car- 

 ried nut. The Duke of Buceleuoh, from the moors of tip- 

 per Nithsdale, orders that not another feather shall be dis- 

 turbed, and a very just mandate it is, and likely to be fol- 

 lowed by many other true sportsmen. Think of the hu- 

 miliation ! The Lord of the Manor, who was wont to dis- 

 tribute yearly to his numerous London friends his two or 

 three hundreds of juicy, toothsome grouse, is now forced 

 to buy Ms birds, a1 8 shillings a pair, in order' to feed his 

 famished guests at liis own table. This dearth of game has 

 its effect, too, on the English larder. At Leadenhall Mar- 

 ket, on the i2th of last month, grouse were scarce at 22 

 shiPdmrs a brace, and even at the Close of lie' month were 

 selling at exorbitant prices. Of course, the whole matter 

 of grouse will be, before long, worked- up in true ponderous 

 British, form, and an encyclopedia on grouse will be forth- 

 coming. Then will it be found out that it was not the 

 ibntmxk'm wmim (worms) which inade grouse so scarce, but 

 the general and indiscriminate slaughter of prior years. 

 The arms have surpassed the birds. Grouse driving, bat- 

 tues in general, use of sham hawks to keep birds down to 

 the ground, and kid glove and wu ik cologne shooting gen- 

 erally, will be decried in true, straightforward English of 

 the bluntest and tersest character. If our English friends 

 cannot shoot at home, they are seeking other fields of sport. 

 To-day exactly is the opening of the Baden Grand Internation- 

 al Pigeon Shooting-match. It is under the august patronage 

 of an English Duke and some two foreign Princes. Though 

 a Duke of Hamilton and a Prince of Rohan may com hi tie, 

 and to the aristocratic ecUrf of the thing add the more ma- 

 terial effect of a 5,000 franc prize, we think the time is not 

 far distant, when all pigeon matches will be considered as 

 the relics oi a barbarous age. 



As nothing oan be satisfactorily arranged in England 

 without, copious feasting, our English friends had a, most 

 pleasant anniversary dinner to commemorate the founda- 

 i of tie- Brighton Aquarium Company, now one year 

 old. It was unfortunate that Mr. Buckland was not pres- 

 ent, but Mr. Octopus Lee did the honors, and doubtless 

 Sala was as funny as the circumstances could allow. 

 An American gentleman present, in answering a toast given 

 io the health of visitors, spoke feelingly of the merits of 

 the Tartog (so Mr. Buckland writes it), and Mr. Buckland 

 asks, "Who can tell what a. Tortog is ?" ToM&ga Ameri- 

 cana is the proper name, most distinguished English Ich- 

 thyologist! a real Roman hsh, as his name denotes, as far 

 as the t^ga- goes ; a very good fish to catch and to eat, But 

 whilst talking of eating, has France so fully developed 

 hippophagy, that Luteeia cannot now do without, as a lux- 

 ury, whal, once she was forced to gnaw when starving ? 

 In 1872, Parisians ate 0, 725 horses, 866 asses, and 51 mules, 

 the total quantity of horse-flesh devoured being 2,408,076 

 pounds. We wonder if a Mustang would not have a su- 

 perior gamey flavor ? Suppose Delmonico should give us 

 a M<m0tMw*de MustamQ of General Custer's killing?^ 



But to return to England. All the great London cricket 

 matches are ended, though Surrey and Sussex, Kent and 

 Dorset, Royal artillery and engineers, horse, foot, and 

 dragoons, are wielding bats and toppling over the stumps 

 throughout rural England. But move aside, all ye gallant 

 gentlemen athletes, and give place to the brave ladies of 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland. There has been a grand 

 archery meet of ladies, at Dublin. Number of arrows, 

 four dozen at sixty yards, and two dozen at fifty yards. 

 Sir A. Guiness gave the silver cup. Then they have been 

 shooting, too, at Newby, at Hove, andPorvis Castle, and at 

 Birkenhead, and in several matches where gentlemen and 

 ladies contested for the prizes, mostly the gentler sex have 

 Avon If the Forest and Stream has a mission, it is to 

 reproduce this beautiful sport in the United States. Per- 

 haps it is too late for this season, but next year we hope to 

 hear from many a grassy lawn, the twang of the bow-string 

 and the hurtling of the arrow. Toxopholitic sport must be 

 a la mode. _ 



—A correspondent of the Cincinnati (Bken gives the fol- 

 lowing description of the fish jewelry which Denmark con- 

 tributes to the AHenna Exposition: 



-This jewelry is made exclusively of the bones and 

 scales of fish It is just as dear as if it 'was made oi 

 o-old and it is highly esteemed by the ladies of Gopenha- 

 San ' It is in many respects the most beautiful class ot 

 fine work we have seen. There are earrings, bracelets and 

 crosses made of fine delicate fish bones, white as the 

 driven Wow, and carved fiae-.as gossamer web; unci -embossed 



—As shooting tigers is now among the fine arts, the best 

 authorities state that baiting him with a calf or a goat is all 

 nonsense. He will no more come to it, than an elephant 

 after a single blackberry. "What he wants is a whole bul- 

 lock to tempt him. Then shooting him from a hole is de- 

 clared to be risky, as he can jump down into the hole after 

 you. The only way to bag him, is to shoot from a plat- 

 form, in case you can tole him on, because he cannot climb 

 after you, and about fifteen feet is the limit of his spring. 

 His familiar name among India officers is " old stripes." 



— The French war indemnity was 5,000,000,000 of francs ; 

 interest on same for two years, 300,000,000 ; keep of Ger- 

 man troops, 273,637,000 requisitions, 327,581,000 ; value 

 of objects taken without requisition, 254,172,000 francs ; 

 war contribution levied on Paris, 200,000,000, making, in 

 all, the neat total of 6,673,811,009 francs. As the average 

 value of a day's labor in France is not more than thirty-six 

 cents, it is not difficult to count how many days' labor it 

 would take to pay this enormous sum. 



VETERINARY SCIENCE IN FORMER 

 TIMES. 



From a Blue-book lately published by the English Patent 

 Office, containing accounts of all ancient inventions, relat- 

 ing to farriery and veterinary matters, we make some brief 

 extracts : — 



"No great antiquity can be boasted for the science of 

 veterinarv medicine. Ancient nations seem to have paid 

 little or no attention to the medical treatment of their do- 

 mestic animals. Valuable as the horse was, they neces- 

 sarily expended great care upon the preservation of his 

 health, but we cannot discover that they used any remedies 

 to cure an animal once diseased. The well-known work of 

 Xenophon {Ippidie Treatise on Horses) contains many pre- 

 cepts that might with advantage be studied by horse own- 

 ers of out own time, but he gives no directions for the care 

 or treatment, of the horse during sickness. Hippocrates 

 wrote a treatise on equine disorders, Columella (early part 

 of first century) and Vegetius (end of fourth century) both 

 wrote on the same subject. 



"But more ancient records relating to the matter seem 

 entirely Avanting, and even the above, as might be expected, 

 show extreme ignorance. In searching into the early his- 

 tory of any art, We are almost certain to find very ancient 

 record of it among the Chinese. So it was with veterinary 

 medicine. The late Professor Sewell, in one of his ad- 

 dresses to the Royal Veterinary College, said that he had 

 been shown by Professor Huzard, in Paris, a Chinese work 

 on the subject, with colored plates. The date of it was 

 uncertain, but it was probably not less than 5,000 years old. 

 "During mediaeval times* the art was in an equally 

 low state, and entirely abandoned to farriers. The prac- 

 tice of medicine as applied to human subjects was rough 

 and barbarous enough, and. that by which horses were 

 treated wsis even more cruel. Many very barbarous opera- 

 tions were recommended in old French -works. At length 

 the assistance rendered by the dissection of animals to the 

 progress of medicine in general, received most notice. 

 Amongst the early veterinary inquirers of note were Ruelli, 

 Solleysel, and EaTosse, whose works are mentioned in the 

 list appended to this book; contemporary with the last- 

 named was a Spanish author who wrote on glanders— a dis- 

 ease said to have been brought by Columbus from America 

 In England, Snape, Gibson and Bartlett (in or after the 

 times of Charles IE), were the first names of note. But it 

 was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that any 

 great improvement was effected. France then took the 

 lead. A farm near Lyons was converted into a school in 

 1761, and Bourgelat appointed professor. Three years after 

 this, in 1704, a larger school was opened at Alfort, near 

 Paris, and since then another at Toulouse. Other countries 

 followed the example. In 1792 the London Veterinary Col- 

 lege was established, chiefly through the exertions of an 

 agricultural society at Odiham, in Hampshire. 



"Going back to the most ancient known records of civil- 

 ization, the monuments of Egypt and Assyria, Ave are un- 

 able to discover any indication of the use of a protection 

 for the horse's foot. Considering the number of horses de- 



sculp- 



•ac- 



impos- 



sible to suppose that any horse-shoe -was in use without its 

 being represented, not only occasionally, but frequently. 

 No such representation ha's yet been found, and we may 

 consequently conclude that horse-shoes were not known to 

 those ancient nations. 



"Similar researches amongst Greek and Roman antiqui- 

 ties go to show that horse-shoes proper were unknown to 

 the classical peoples. Horse-sandals of various sorts were 

 used as a temporary protection for the foot, but the plan of 

 nailing a metal plate on the hoof appears not to have been 

 used at all. Mr. Fleming is of opinion, and the arguments 

 he brings forward seem nearly, if not quite, conclusive, that 

 the inventors of horse-shoes are to be looked for amongst 

 the Teutonic or Celtic nations of the north. The Gauls 

 shod their horses, so did the ancient Britons, so did the 

 Scandinavians. It even has been suggested that a princi- 

 pal pan of the Druid's office was connected with smiths' 

 and farriers* work. 



l :rn mediaeval times the position of the mareschal, or far- 

 rier, became a very important one. During the age of chiv- 

 alry there was nothing degrading in noblemen shoeing their 

 own horses, and the mareschal was held to be on a footing 

 of equality with the chamberlain, falconer, and other house- 

 hold officers of a court. Horse-shoeing was then as univer- 

 sal as now. Pictures of knights and cavaliers always repre- 

 sent the horses as shod, and allusions to the practice of 

 shoeing frequently occur in middle-age writers. 



"Strangely, enough, very, little difference is discernible 



between the most ancient shoes and the most modern. Of 

 course some very old shoes are of the roughest workman- 

 ship, but as soon as the art of working in iron was brought 

 to a state of comparative perfection, we see shoes exactly 

 resembling those in present use. Numerous as have been 

 the inventions for improved shoes, none of them have been 

 found sufficiently successful to obtain general favor. I I 

 and over again the same inventions have been brought out, 

 tried, and cast aside, to reappear as new a few years later 

 on, and we still use much the same shoes as those with 

 which William the Conqueror's horses were shod at Hast- 

 ings." ^ 



The Fashion stud farm stables at Trenton, New Ji i ■ 

 were burned last week with eleven horses out of the aim 

 teen which it contained. Among tlie horses burned were 

 two road mares belonging to General Grant; Lapier a valua- 

 ble animal belonging to Mr. Butterworth of Philadeiy 

 a large bay horse owned by the same gentleman; a tine 

 stallion belonging to Mr. Hutchinson; Henry B. belong! 

 to William H. jDobie, valued at $4,000, and five other 

 horses. The following horses were saved: Goldsmith Maid, 

 Lucy, Roslyn, Hotspur, and California mare. 



The following horses were also burned: Lizz'a iv. 

 owned by Edward Perry, and a black horse from Bethle- 

 hem Pa? Lapier was valued at |10,000. The stallion 

 belonging to William Hutchinson, valued at $6,000. 



New Enulakd Fair Grounds— The races at the New 



England Fair Grounds, Boston, September;!, 4, and 5, were 

 witnessed by 20,000 people, notwithstanding the rain inter- 

 fered much with the programme. Some fair time was 

 made, Climax and Dustin Jim being among the victors. 



Goshen Park Association— Sept 3.— The second day's 

 trotting attracted a large crowd. Purse, $300 for running 

 horses. Landlord's Purse, John Brougham's blk. . 

 won. Time, 1 . 48 A , 1.40. 



Second race. Purse $1,000 for horses that never heat 

 2-40 Three horses started. W. E. Week's Goklie won 

 three last heats. Time 2 :41, 2 :4l-J, 2 :44. 



Third race. Purse $1,000, for horses that had never 

 beaten 2 :3o. Four horses started. A. Fleck's s. m. Lady 

 Emma won. Time 2 :33, 2 :o2, 2 M±, 



Srptni/ber 4. Third day. Handicap hurdle race. Purse 

 $500; about one mile and a half over six hurdles. Five 

 horses started, and was won by J- Bough rani's s. g. Re- 

 venge. Time8:4y. 



Trotting. Purse $1,000, for horses that had never beaten 

 2:50. Mife heats ; best three in five, in harness. Nineteen 

 horses started, eighteen of which were distanced during 

 the race. K Jennings b. g. George Miller won. Time 

 3:39^ 2:34, 2:304. 



Fleetwood Park, September 5. Purse $100 lor horses 

 that had never beaten 2:50; mile heats, best three in live, 

 in harness. Ten entries. Five horses were distanced; C. 

 Heinzelks b. g. Central Boy won in three straight heats. 

 Time 2:48, 2:40, 2:54. 



Sweepstakes $400; mile heats; best three m five, in har- 

 ness; catch weight. A.-Bouretrs b. m. Marie Louise won, 

 2:50, 2:50, 249. ' 



Deeefoot Park, Brooklyn, L. I. September S. — Match 

 of $200; mile heats; best three in live; between Roger's 

 Honest Abe in harness, and WilliiauC; Unexpected, to wagou. 

 Honest Abe won. Second match for $500; McMahoir* 

 George, to wagon, Thorn's Slippery Dick in harness. ' 

 won.' Time, 2:40; 2:42. 2:48. 



—Colonel Russell, the owner of the stallion Fearnaught, 

 which died recently, has bought the celebrated horse Smug- 

 gler, brought frQm Kansas, and which recently astouished 

 the horse men at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by trotting 

 three consecutive heats in 2:194, 2:19f, 2:2h The price is 

 understood to be $50,000. 



— The recent fire at the Fashion Stud Farm, near Tren- 

 ton, N. J., was very disastrous, and men have been em- 

 ployed in- burning the remains of the burned horses. A 

 maii that Budd Doble had discharged a few days previous 

 is strongly suspected of having set lire to the stables. Pres- 

 ident Grant lost a number of lilies, and set great value on 

 them, as he had raised them himself, and would not haw: 

 parted with them for any money. There were 136 horses, 

 including stallions and brood mares, on the farm before 

 the fire broke out. Fortunately, the most prominent and 

 valuable of the lot were saved.' The owner intends erect- 

 ing a large and handsome stable on the old site. 

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THE PILLARS OF TATTERSALL'S. 



DMIRAL Rous and Sir Joseph Hawley are state pil 

 ! -\_ lars in this aristocratic republic. Their word upon a 

 of point honor or upon a rule of the ring carries with it all the 

 force of law to thousands Who know them only as the 

 great twin brothers of the turf . You can read nothing in 

 the face of a thoroughbred man of the turf except perfect 



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He is booking a bet of 100 to 1 to a youth with the down 

 still on his cheeks, the son of one of the most illustrious oi 

 the Crimean heroes; and close by, in the centre oi a 

 group of bookmakers and aristocratic "legs," stands a 

 young man— still, orobably on the sunny side of thirty— 

 who will tell you with the utmost nonchalance that he has 

 sold an estate* to a city man for £300,000, to square up Ins 

 book and to fight the ring. He is the representative of a 

 long line of mailed barons who fought under the walls ot 

 Jerusalem, at Cressy and at Agincourt — statesmen and 

 warriors who in their time administered government and 

 war with more than the capacity of Richelieu; and he is 

 flattering himself with the presumptuous hope in these 

 piping clays of peace it is his destiny to add one more ex- 

 ploit to the aceievements of his race by breaking the Ring 



"*■*"*" TV 



— The following named gentlemen have been elected in- 



rectors of the Jerome Park Villa Site and Improvement 

 Company for the ensuing year : 



Francis Skicldy, Leonard W. Jerome, August Belmont, 

 Lawrence R. Jerome, A. C. Monson, William Constable, 

 and William H. Anthon. At a subsequent meeting of the 

 Directors Francis Skiddy was elected President of the 

 Board, William H. Anthon, Secretary, and A C. Moj 

 Treasurer. 



