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— The. beagle is a small dog, and is used for hunting rab- 

 bits, and the amusement of our junior friends. There are 

 several breeds, which are distinguishable from each other 

 by their size and general aspect. The rough beagle is sup- 

 posed to be produced by crossing the original stock with 

 the rough terrier, and possesses the squeaking bark of the 

 terrier, rather than the long musical intonation of the bea- 

 gle. The nose of this variety is furnished with the stiff 

 whisker-hairs which are found on the muzzle of the rough 

 terrier, and the fur is nearly as stiff as the terrier's. The 

 dwarf or rabbit beagle, as it is sometimes called, is the 

 smallest of the breed, delicate in form and aspect, but 

 of good nose and swift of foot. So small are these little 

 creatures, that a whole pack of them have been conveyed to 

 and from the field in baskets slung over the back of a horse, 

 and on one occasion three gentlemen placed thirteen of 

 these little dogs in their shooting jackets, walked to the 

 woods, hunted all day with them, killing eight rabbits, and 

 then returning them to their pockets, thus saving the dogs 

 the fatiguing walk to the woods and back ' again. These 

 little dogs are chiefly employed by the rabbit shooter, and 

 are not sufficiently swift of foot to hunt the larger rabbit 

 or hare. 



No amusement would afford our college students in the 

 country a more health-giving recreation, or a pleasanter 

 afternoon sport than a little drag hunt in this lovely au- 

 tumnal weather. Take, for instance, the best and longest 

 winded runner in the college or school, trailing after him 

 a rabbit skin well saturated with turpentine or aniseed, put 

 the beagle on the scent, and let the boys follow. If the 

 scent be good, and the course lie tolerably straight, the en- 

 durance of the boys will be tested, and the miniature 

 hounds often come to a check at a small pool, &c, when 

 the little beauties will starl off again in an instant, uttering 

 their flute-like bark, and any one of average strength and 

 speed can easily be in at the finish. Try it, and see if is not 

 good fun. You ask where are we to get the dogs ? A male 

 -and female will cost about twenty-five dollars, and in one 

 year's time you will have all the dogs necessary, and be 

 able to supply other friends and schools as they require them. 

 The cost of keeping them is very small, any farmer's son 

 would be glad to take care of them for a trifle, say twenty- 

 five cents a week per head. "We should be only too glad to 

 give any college or school any informa tion about where 

 to procure or how to train these cunning little miniature 

 hounds. 



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— "On the Chesapeake," says Appletorts Journal, "you 

 must have a good dog, or you will lose h?lf your game. 

 The Chesapeake water dog is a magnificent animal. It is 

 difficult to trace his origin. He is smooth-haired, which is 

 a great point, as the Newfoundland suffers terribly lorn 

 the freezing of his shaggy coat ; his color is either black, 

 with white breast and gray nose, or tawny yellow, the latter 

 preferred. Generally he is fierce, and the best of watch- 

 dogs, deep-mouthed and powerful. He is very sagacious, 

 and loves the water and the sport. I have seen one — a 

 mere puppy — sit for hours in the summer watching the fish 

 hawks as they pursued their craft. Whenever the hawk 

 would make his plunge Leo would rush through the 

 " jumping water" and swim for the spot. He never brought 

 out a hawk that I know of, but never seemed to be discour- 

 aged at his failures. One used to be famous for his thiev- 

 ing propensities. He would sneak off and seize every duck 

 he could lay his teeth on and deposit it on his master's 

 pile. Another would never touch a whiffer or southerly 

 unless ordered by his master to do so, but would swim a 

 half-mile through floating ice to secure a canvas-back or 

 red-head." 



A Disgusted Pointer. — A gentleman requested the loan 

 of a pointer dog from a friend, and was informed that the 

 dog would behave well so long as he could kill his birds, 

 but if he frequently missed them he would run home and 

 leave them. The dog was sent, and the following day 

 fixed for trial, but unfortunately his new master was a re- 

 markably bad shot. Bird after bird rose and was fired at, 

 but still pursued its flight untouched by the leaden showers 

 that fell around it, till at last the pointer became careless 

 and often missed his game; but as if seemingly willing to 

 give his master one more chance, he made a dead stand by 

 some scrub oaks, with his nose pointed downward, the fore 

 foot bent, and his tail straight and steady. In this master- 

 ly position he remained firm till the sportsman was close 

 to his tail, with both barrels cocked; then moving steadily 

 forward a few paces he at last stood still near a bunch of 

 grass, the tail expressing the anxiety of mind by moving 

 regularly backward and forward, when out sprang an old 

 cock grouse. Bang! bang! went both barrels, but alas! the 

 proud bird returned to the woods unhurt. The patience 

 of the dog was now quite exhausted, and instead of crouch- 

 ing at the feet of his master till he re-loaded, he turned 

 boldly round, laced his tail close between his legs, gave one 

 howl long and loud, and off he set, and did not stop until he 

 arrived at the home of his owner. 



The following are from the DanbUry Mies :— 



—No actor has yet been able to counterfeit that expres- 

 sion of joy which a man shows when discovering a ten-cent 

 stamp in his paper of tobacco. 



—Dumb bells at jewelry stores for the exercise of those 

 who contemplate the new style otf sleeve studs, wouldn't be 

 a bad idea. 



—If the price of peaches was a mountain, there would be 

 snow on the top of it. 



Wffytu $!$%£timen. 



—The Prospect Park Cricket Club played the Manhat- 

 tans the return match on October 11th, at Hoboken. There 

 was a full attendance of members and friends of the lovers 

 of cricket. Several of the Park eleven were absent and the 

 substitutes played a better game than their first eleven, 

 although the bowling was not first-class, and were some- 

 what careless in the field. The following is the score : — 



PROSPECT PARK. MANHATTAN. 



Woodhouse, b. Konaldson, 8 McDougal, ct. and b. Longrnire~20 



McCauley, Ronaldson 6 Tucker, 1. c. w. b. Longmire — 6 



Dexter, ct. McDougal, b. Konal- Bosford, b. Dexter 26 



dson 12 Ronaldson, b. Dexter 10 



Peters, b. Greig 2 Greig, ct. Longmire,b. Dexter. . 9 



Longmire, ct. Tucker, b. Greig.. 8 Marsh, ct. North, b. Chadwick. 40 

 North, b. Greig 17 Beattie, st. Longmire, b. Chad- 

 Griffiths, ct. and b. Greig 1 wick 8 



Robinson, ct. Greig b. Ronaldson Tyler, not out 4 



McKay, ct. McDougal, b. Greig. . 9 Oakley, b . Chadwick 



D. Kieller, ct. McDougal, b. Rudy 8 Mears, b. Chadwick 



Chadwick, not out 7 Rutly b. Chadwick 



Byes. 9; leg byes, 2, wides, 3 14 Byes, 6; leg byes, 4; wides, 7. . . 17 



Total 92 



*Fall of wickets.. 1 | 2 1 3 I 4 



Total 141 



5 16 1 7 I 8 I 9 I 10 



Prospect 15 | 22 I 25*1 42 | 42 | 49 



Manhattan 20 | 33 ] 50 1 63 | 114 | 132 



Umpires. — Messrs. Smith and Talbot. 



51 I 77 | 92— 77 

 141 I 141 I 141—141 

 Time of game. — 4:10. 



The Athletic base ball club played the Philadelphias in 

 Philadelphia on October 11th, in presence of a large assem- 

 blage of those interested in the game. The score was Phil- 

 adelphia, 13; Athletic, 9. 



— In Boston on October 11th, a game of base ball was 

 played between the Bostons and Baltimores, resulting in a 

 victory for the Bostons by a score of 13 to 6. 



— The Washington and Boston base ball clubs played in 

 Boston last week. The score was, Bostons, 25; Washing- 

 tons, 6. 



— The Mutual and Atlantic base ball clubs played 

 on the Union grounds, October 13th. The Mutuals won 

 very easily, the score standing 18 to 7, in their favor. 



— The ; Washington and Atlantic Clubs played a match on 

 the Union grounds. Washingtons, 17; Atlantics, 3. 



The Mutual and Bultimore clubs played the eighth game 

 of the championship series on the Union grounds, Williams- 

 burg on October 11th. The Mutuals scored 7, and the 

 Baltimore 0. 



— The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club will play a cricket 

 match with the Manhattan Club at Hoboken on the 16th 

 inst. , eighteen vs. eleven, and on the 20th the St. George 

 club play their eleven against a picked eleven of the Man- 

 hattan, Staten Island, Jersey City, and Prospect Park clubs, 

 for the benefit of Brewster and Smith, the professionals. 

 The players on the part of the St. George will include 

 Messrs. Bance, Bowman, Harcombe, Jones, Moreau, Lem- 

 mon, Sleigh, Souther, Cashman, Talbot, and Smith. The 

 others will include Kersley, McDougal, Jackson, Grey, 

 Woodhouse, Longmire, Dexter, Outerbridge, Brewster, 

 Luske, and Marsh. 



"All Hands Below." — A good story is told of a parrot 

 who had always lived on board of a ship, but who escaped 

 at one of the southern ports and took refuge in a church. 

 Soon afterwards the congregation assembled, and the 

 minister began preaching to them in his earnest fash- 

 ion, saying there was no virtue in them — that every one of 

 them would go to an endless perdition unless they repented. 

 Just as he spoke the sentence, up spoke the parrot from his 

 hiding place : — 



"All hands below!" 



To say that "all hands" were startled would be a mild 

 way of putting it. The peculiar voice and unknown source 

 had much more effect upon them than the parson's voice 

 ever had. He waited a moment, and then, a shade or two 

 paler, he repeated the warning. 



"All hands below!" again rang out from somewhere. 



The preacher started from his pulpit and looked anxious- 

 ly around, enquiring if anybody had spoken. 



"All hands below!" was the only reply, at which the en- 

 tire panic-stricken congregation got up, and a moment 

 afterward they all bolted for the doors, the preacher trying 

 his best to get there first, and during the time the mischiev- 

 ous bird kept up his yelling: 



"All hands below!" 



There was one old woman present who was* lame, and 

 could not get out as fast as the rest, and in a short time 

 she was left entirely alone. Just as she was about to hobble 

 out the parrot flew down, and alighting on her shoulder, 

 yelled in her ear: — 



"All hands below!" 



"No, no, Mister Devil!" shrieked the old woman, "you 

 don't mean me. I don't belong here. I go to the other 

 church across the way." — Christian Union. 



Hay Fever and Asthma. — In a late number of the Lan- 

 cet some peculiar observations are recorded of this unpleas- 

 ant ailing, and of its affinity to the milder forms of asthma. 

 Bronchial inflammation is in most cases the cause of an at- 

 tack, but at the same time, as the following remarks prove, 

 there are some individuals whose temperament is so highly 

 sensitive as to be affected even by the smell of animals: — 

 "In some rare instances the attack may, according to Dr. 

 Salter, be induced by the smell of certain animals, as dogs, 

 cats, hares, and even sheep and horses. Among the remark- 

 able examples he gives is one of a circus proprietor,- who 

 was alwys affected with asthma, in the presence of horses, 

 until having made his fortune he retired, and found that, 

 with the relinquishment of his business, he had happily 

 taken leave of his troublesome complaint, which, however, 

 always returned if he visited the stables. Another instance 

 was that an American gentleman, who was always affected 

 by the presence of dogs or cats, and could even detect that 

 they had passed through a room by the state of his breath- 

 ing on entering it. A third case was that of a country 

 clergyman, who was rendered asthmatic by the neighbor- 

 of a liare or hareskin. This peculiarity converted him into 

 a remarkably keen gamekeeper, for if he met any of his 



parishioners who had been poaching and had their booty 

 about them, he could always in this way detect them. 



What it Costs to Knock a Man Down in Vienna. — A 

 blow is punished out of all proportion to our Engltsh ideas 

 of the offence. If, unfortunately, a foreigner should have 

 a difficulty with an Austrian, and straightway assault and 

 batter him, the best course is to agree quickly with the ad- 

 versary while on the way with him to the Polizei-Amt. 

 "The hurt that honor feels "can in most cases be salved 

 by a judicious application of money. The Viennese are 

 much too lazy to be implacable, and it takes a great deal to 

 rouse them into actual ferocity, even when they get up a 

 revolution. The chiefs of the Peters Platz will always be 

 found willing to assist in a friendly arbitration, but they 

 must naturally be treated with politeness, for Austrian 

 c )inniissaries of police, apart from the code they have to 

 administer are as a rule well educated, patient, courteous, 

 and by no means harsh interpreters of the law. A simple 

 blow may be condoned by five to twenty florins, according 

 to its impact; a black eye has cost the dispenser of it a 

 hundred, and in the case of a person kicked down two 

 flights of stairs, the kicked held out for five hundred as the 

 ransom of the kicker from captivity, but was eventually 

 induced by arbitration to take three hundred. By this sort 

 of arrangement everybody is satisfied; the commissary is 

 saved much trouble, the alien violator of the German ma- 

 jesty of the law is rescued from the disagreeable conse- 

 quences of "that rash humor which his mother gave 

 him," the foreign minister is spared any vulgar interruption 

 of their diplomatic repose, and most of all Pepe, if he has 

 no garden wall to repair, can at least take Pepi in a new 

 bonnet on Sunday to Neuwaldegg, or invest in a few tickets 

 in the last lottery loan.— *AU The Year Bound. 



— Gunning is becoming a fashionable sport with the 

 ladies of the French nobility. The young Dianas go to 

 the forest with their beaux dressed in jack-boots, with zouave 

 velvet pantaloons buttoning at the knee, blouse in velvet, 

 tightened to the waist with a leather belt; falling shirt col- 

 lar, and brigand hat. The game like Captain Scott's fa- 

 mous coon, comes down of its own accord. 



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[We fthall endeavor in this department to impart and hope to receive 

 such information as may be of service to amateur and professional sports- 

 men. We will cheerfully answer all reasonable questions that fall within 

 the scope of this paper, designating localities for good hurtling, fish- 

 ing, and 'trapping, and giving advice and instructions as to outfits, im- 

 plements, routes, distances, seasons, expenses, remedies, traits, species, 

 governing rules, etc. All Inwiches of the sportsman" 's craft will receiv% 

 attention. Anonymous communications not noticed^ 



Nall.— The owner of the Champion Shooter's Badge, is Ira Paine. 

 Woodward.— You can get a good second-hand English breech-loaders, 

 case and all, for $125. 



Fisher, Elizabeth, N. J.— Your buck's head can be neatly set up on a 

 black-walnnt stand for fifteen dollars. 



J. K. — Best dog for duck shooting, water spaniel, cross between 

 small Newfoundland and the spaniel. 



Taps. — One hundred brace ef grouse have been killed by a single gun 

 in Scotland. 



Subscriber.— Pierce county, Wisconsin is good ground for chicken's 

 (pinnated grouse.) Between the Mississippi river and the Big Woods, a 

 stretch of twenty miles or so, it is chiefly farms and scrub oak prairie. 



Harry Darter, 1ST. Y. — If you wish to trap for profit go to Northern 

 New Brunswick, or that district of Canada back of Ottawa, or to Colorado. 

 You can estimate the expenses readily, we should think. 



X. II. X. — It is not so common as is supposed to send a ball through 

 a buck. It has undoubtedly been accomplished, and your friend's state- 

 ment should not be doubted . 



Breech-Loader, Philadelphia.— Bred from the old English hound. 

 The present race of pointers is probably 300 years old at least. Some 

 particular strain of hound may have had a wonderful nose for birds. 



F. E.— A dog something like the Esquimaux dog is found wild in North 

 ern Oregon; specimens have been brought to San Francisco by captains 

 of vessels, and sold at larere prices. 



T. F. C. T.— It is by no means "infra dig" for a sportsman to dispose 

 of his peltry after a trappir g expedition. Otters, goc d c'a-k and brown , aie 

 worth $18. Martins $6. Gunther would alwys give you the market price 

 for them. 



H.— A muzzle-loader can be made lighter than any other gun of equal 

 bore and length of barrel, but then the absolute difference is so slight that 

 it is not taken any account of in the many other advantages the breech- 

 loaders possess. 



Breech-Loader.— The English Pointer is descended from the old Span 

 ish race. The Spanish dog from the hound, one of which hounds is sup- 

 posed to have shown a disposition to point, and this faculty being en- 

 couraged and "bred to," in time the present pointer has been produced. 



C. — Brave public opinion, and do not cut your terrier's ears. Fashion 

 is everything. We have outlived the time when horses were not supposed 

 to be "pretty" unless their tails were docked. There is a decided move- 

 ment in England towards not trying to beautify animal nature. 



Pell. — Distinguishing trait of cats, between wild and tame, is in the 

 tail. The domestic cat has it elongated, ending in a taper, while that of 

 the wild cat is shorter and more bushy . We would give every encourage- 

 ment to a cat-show, and our columns are at your disposal. Arctic fox 

 never exceeds eight pounds in weight. 



X. I. X.— Catching trout by torchlight or by setting a stump ablaze by 

 the water-side is a mode of fishing much in vogue with the Indians of Cali- 

 fornia. All kinds of fish, from the lordly salmon to the groveling eel, are 

 lured by the light of a lantern, torch, or bonfire. 



G . S . S ., Hartford.— It is quite difficult to tell exactly where wild turkeys 

 may be found at this season, as they are inclined to roam considerably, 

 but as they usually return to the same roosting place at night, the hunter 

 may readily take them by discovering the trees on which they rest, and 

 wait near, kill the birds as they come in, which usually occurs just before 

 sun down. 



G. S. H. — It is absolutely impossible to determine the sexes of pigeons 

 by their plumage. The only way is to watch their actions, the 

 cock strutting a little more pompously than- his mate, but even old fan- 

 ciers are often deceived. There is a slight difference in their cooing, 

 which an expert can detect but cannot explain. 



W. I.S., Amherst, Nova Scotia.— In reply to your question whether 

 snaring moose is lawful in Nova Scotia, we answer that John Christmas 

 the celebrated Indian hunter- of Shubenacadie, maintains that it is not, 

 while- a oertaiu school master who saw a sapling bent in a curious fashion 

 one day last month, and going to investigate it, found himself suddenly 

 hoisted by one leg into the air, believes that it is. 



Analis J.— The bird you refer to is the Darter (-Plotus unhinga). We 

 have seen them killed on the Savannah river, and they are frequently 

 met with in Florida. They are remarkable for the noiseless way in which 

 they plunge into the water, making no more splash than would an eel on 

 entering into its natural element. 



