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FOREST AND STREAM. 



— A. W. Merriam, of New Orleans, has lately returned 

 from Europe, and thoroughly refitted his room, besides ad- 

 ding a spacious and elegant club room to his establish- 

 ment. He is one of the most enterprising men in his busi- 

 ness in the South. 



— A large number of billiard celebrities were here to 

 witness the championship match, among whom was the 

 veteran "Chris." Bird, of Philadelphia, his first appearance 

 here for eleven years; Albert Gamier, champion, is anxious 

 to match himself and Maurice Daly against any two players 

 in the world at French billiards. 



— Peter Tracy, the Stamford billiardist, was in town Fri- 

 day, and reports business there flourishing. 



— Cyrille Dion, Maurice Daly, Joseph Dion, Ubassy, and 

 C4arnier, will visit Philadelphia this week to give an exhi- 

 bition for the benefit of E. J. Plunket, who is suffering 

 from a paralytic stroke. 



—John Deery is still in New York; A. P. Rudolph, at 

 last accounts, in Havana. 



— Maurice Daly has challenged M. Gamier. The time, 

 date, and place will -be arranged some day this week. 



— American tourists are familiar with the sturdy moun- 

 taineers who act as guides over the rocky ways which di- 

 vide-France from Spain. La Chasse lllustree tells of one 

 of these guides, Orteig byname, who on December 21st 

 started on foot from Pau for Paris, and arrived in Paris on 

 the 1st of January. As the distance is 880 kilometres, or 

 450 miles as the crow flies, it is a good tramp. It must be 

 remembered that for the first sixty miles it was mountain 

 travel, that the days were short, and that by the roads it 

 was fully 550 miles. Orteig's feat is justly worthy of 

 mention. 







— The Agricultural Association of La Salle, 111., will hold 

 a four day's race meeting on the 1st, of July, and three 

 following da} T s. The first two days will be trotting and 

 the other two running. Eight thousand dollars will be 

 given in purses for competition — $4,000 for trotters and 

 $4,000 for runners. 



— Harry Bassett will not be trained this year, but will be 

 placed in the stud at Princeton, N. J., for Colonel Mc- 

 Daniel's exclusive service. 



— The Trainers' and Drivers' Protective Association 

 passed a set of resolutions at a late meeting as an acknow- 

 ledgment of the kindness and attention shown to members 

 of their association by the members of the different trot- 

 ting associations visited by them as trainers and drivers 

 during the season of 1873. These resolutions were ad- 

 dressed to Buffalo, Hampden, Beacon, Catskill, Point 

 Breeze, Fleetwood, Prospect Park, Goshen, Plainville 

 and Cleveland Club Park associations. The resolutions 

 have been handsomely printed and a copy sent to each of 

 the above trotting parks. 



— The Savannah Jockey Club have been obliged to post- 

 pone the races until to-day owing to the inclement weather. 

 Savannah is quite full of people, and the races promise 

 to be the most successful held in the South since the war. 



— The Chestnut colt Tom Aiken, four years old, by John 

 Aiken, dam Likeness, belonging to the stables of L. A. 

 Hitchcock, died suddenly, in Savannah, on Tuesday last. 

 At the time Tom Aiken had been ridden around the track, 

 when he stopped suddenly, reeled, fell to the ground and 

 expired in less than two minutes, his rider barely alighting 

 on the ground before the colt was down. His death was 

 caused by congestion of the lungs. 



—It is stated by the Louisville Ledger that R Ten Broeck, 

 has recently shipped six head of race horses to Europe. 



—There are at present $60,000 worth of thoroughbreds 

 on the Nashville Course under training. 



In South Durham, Vermont, is -to be found one of the 

 oldest horses in the United States. This equine Methusa- 

 lah is in his forty-second year, and is still lusty. Some 

 time, years ago, we saw an English horse near St. Catharines 

 in Canada, whose age was thirty -eight, he was as neat 

 looking and as full of fire as a two-year-old. A list of 

 equine longevities well authenticated, with attention paid 

 to the kind and breed of horse, and character of work, 

 would be not only interesting, but useful. Will some of 

 our friends give us information in regard to this subject? 

 In Africa, we have seen barbs of twenty and twenty-five 

 years old, with Arabs on them, scouring the plains of 

 Algiers, as fresh and gay as colts. In the United States 

 we use up horse flesh too quickly. 



— At a recent sale of heavy cart horses in Liverpool, the 

 amounts realized were from $271, the lowest price, up to 

 $528, the highest. The animals were from five to six years 

 old, in fine order, and would weigh on an average 2,000 

 pounds each, and reach seventeen hands in height. 



How to Drtve.— There is a point of prime importance in 

 driving any horse, but especially a young one; it is the way 

 you handle the reins. Most drivers overdrive. They at- 

 tempt too much; and, in so doing, distract or hamper the 

 horse. Now and then you find a horse with such a vicious 

 gait that his speed is got from him by the most artificial 

 process, but such horses are fortunately rare, and hence 

 the style of management required cannot become general. 

 The true way is to let the horse drive himself, the driver 

 doing little but directing him, and giving him that confi- 

 dence which alone gets in himself when he feels that a 

 guide and a friend is back of him. The most vicious and 

 inexcusable style of driving is that which so many drivers 

 adopt, viz., wrapping the lines around either hand, and 

 pulling the horse backward with all their might and main, 



so that the horse, in point of fact, pulls the weight back of 

 him with his mouth, and not with his breast and shoulders. 

 This they do under the impression that such a dead pull is 

 needed to "steady" the horse. This method of driving I 

 regard as radically and superlatively wrong. It would tax 

 the ingenuity of a hundred fools to invent a worse one. 

 The fact is, with rare exceptions tliere should never bo any 

 pull put upon the horse at all. A steady pressure is allow- 

 able; but anything beyond this has no justification in na- 

 ture or reason; for nature suggests the utmost possible free- 

 dom of action of head, body, and limbs that the animal 

 may attain the highest rate of speed; and reason certainly 

 forbids the supposition that by the bits and not the breast 

 collar the horse is to draw the weight attached to it. In 

 speeding my horse I very seldom grasp the lines with both 

 hands when the road is straight and free from obstructions, 

 The lines are rarely steadily taut, but held in easy pliancy, 

 and used chiefly to shift the the bit in the animal's mouth, 

 and by this motion communicate confidencs to him. I 

 find that by this method my horses break less and go much 

 faster than when driven by men who put the old fashionda 

 steady pull upon them.— Murray's Perfect Horse. 

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New Legislation for the Society for the Prevention of Cru 

 elt.y to Animals.— At Albany, on the 29th of last month, Mr._Wag- 

 staff's bill conferring additional powers on the ofllcers of theSocietv for 

 the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was favorably received. The ne*v 

 additions to the former laws are as follows: 



Section 3 provides that any officer, agent or member of said society 

 may lawfully interfere to prevent the perpetration of any act of cruelty 

 to any animal in his presence, and any person who shall interfere with, 

 or obstruct any such officer, agent or member, in the discharge of his 

 duty, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



The fourth and fifth sections are as follows: 



4. Any agent or officer of said society may lawfully destroy or cause to 

 be destroyed, any animal found abandoned and not properly cared for, 

 appearing, in the judgment of two reputable citizens called by him to 

 view the same in his presence, to be glandered, injured or diseased past 

 recovery for any useful purpose. 



5. When any persom arrested is at the time of such arrest in charge 

 of any vehicle drawn by or containing any animal, any agent of said so- 

 ciety may take charge of such animal, and of such vehicle and its con- 

 tents, and deposit the same in a place of safe custody, or deliver the 

 same into the possession of the police or sheriff of the county or place 

 wherein such arrest was made, who shall thereupon assume the custody 

 thereof. 



— We acknowledge the following polite note from the 

 President of the Blooming Grove Park Association, and 

 congratulate the Club upon this new and valuable acces- 

 sion to its Kennel. The gift of Mr. Sartori is deserving of 

 highest appreciation : — 



New York, January 30, 1874. 

 Chas. Hallock, Esq.: 



Dear Sir— On behalf of our Club, I have just received a very valu- 

 able addition to our Kennels at the Park; a splendid pair of beagle 

 hound pups of a rare strain, presented by Mr. John B. Sartori of Phil- 

 adelphia, who is one of the Directors. This breed of hounds is specially 

 good for white hare hunting; they are very musical and tractable, and 

 can be trained so that they will follow nothing else. 



I hope you will enjoy many a hunt listening to the music of a pack of 

 their descendants, among the thousands of hares in which our grounds 

 abound. Very truly yours, P. S. Giles, 



President Blooming Grove Park. 



[Beagles are not fast enough to follow the white hare, 

 nor can they trail, track or travel through snow, which is 

 the season the hare changes his coat. The harrier, or a 

 small breed of fox hound is the proper breed of dog for 

 the white hare. — Ed.] 



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 the scope of the paper, will receive special attention. The receipt of all 

 books delivered at o-ur Editorial Rooms will be promptly acknowledged 

 in the next issue. Publishers will confer a favor by promptly advisin o 

 us of any omission in this resvecl. Prices of books inserted whin 

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Eclectic Educational Series. 



Among the recent new publications designed for the use of the differ- 

 ent classes of our public schools, we notice, as worthy of especial atten- 

 tion, one called "The School Stage." Such a work has long been 

 wanted. This new collection of juvenile plays for schools and home ex- 

 hibitions contains twenty seven new short dialogues and plays for ju- 

 veniles. It is handsomely illustrated, with full directions for stage man- 

 agement, properties, costumes, &c, in connection with the whole art 

 of stage business, which makes it a desirable work for all who en- 

 gage in such amusements. These plays, dramas, &c, are by W. II. 

 Venable, and the book is furnished at the price of $1 25. Contents tin- ' 

 exceptionable. 



Good Morals and Gentle Manners. By Alex. M. 



Grow. A. M. 



This is a work designed for the use of schools as a text book on Moral 

 and Social Law. Price $1 25. This work goes into the very essence of 

 school teaching, especially upon the much neglected subjects, which 

 will be found highly useful in every school and family. No one can 

 fail to receive much useful information and profit from a careful leading 

 of it. 



Next we have "Thalheimer's Ancient History." A com- 

 plete manual of ancient History from the very earliest times to the fall 

 of the Western Empire. M. E. Thalheimer, formerly of the Packer Col- 

 legiate Institute, has done a good service to the cause of education. 

 This work is the fruit of much careful research among the ancient tem- 

 ples and other historical objects. Illustrated with drawings and charts 

 of the same, ail of which may be relied upon as accurate delineations of 

 the text. A complete index and pronouncing vocabulary adds to its 

 value. As a. manual the work will, we think, be regarded as near per- 

 fect as any work of the kind before the public. The whole of the rich, 

 glowing, highly oriental style of historic thought, of historical facts and 

 traditions, are admirably blended in one perfect wbole. We think it is 

 a work that should have a prominent place in every town library that 

 has an historical shelf within its niches. As a whole, concise, reliable 

 history, we feel we do only justice to a well written work. If we were 

 to give a strictly critical analysis of this work we might not pass over 

 all its points without calling attention to some minor errors which, in a 

 second edition, will doubtless be corrected. 

 The Pearl of the Antilles. By A. Gallengo. Author 



of "Country Life in Piedmont.'" London: Chapman & Hall. New 



York: Scribner, Welford & Co. pp. 202. $2.25. 



This book is the written experience of the author while on a visit to 

 the island of Cuba, and contains much interesting and very reliable mat 

 ter concerning this pleasant locality. In this work the extent and re- 

 sources of the island are spoken of. He speaks of the Cuba of years ago 

 when in the full tide of expsriemental slave labor; of the form of gov 

 eminent; of the state of society and resources of the island previous to 

 the war for the abolition of American slavery. When we had abolished 

 slavery and were casting about anxiously as to what we should do with 

 our freedmen, the Spanish Antilles were in a state of quietude, left en 

 tirely to themselves, in the enjoyment of a full monopoly of its advanta 

 ges and disadvantages. The author carries his readers through ail the 

 •xciting topics and vicissitudes incident npen all its cbauges, up to the 



year 1868, when the death of Isabella united the two contending factions. 

 Of the Spanish Government he says: "One feeling, however, Spaniards 

 and Creoles may be said to have in common, and this is hatred for the 

 Spanish Government and its officials. The Spaniards find it for their 

 interest to identify themselves with the Mother Country and with its 

 rulers, so long as in their name they contrive to have both the Govern 

 ment and the native population at their discretit n, and so long as under 

 the name of the Spanish Crown they can manage to defy or to baffle the 

 intimations of foreign powers, and the outcry of public opinion for 

 negro emancipation. 

 The Wetuerel Affair. By J. W. Dc Forest. Author 



of "Overland ; " "Kate Beaumont," &c. New York: Sheldon & Co. 



This is one of the class of books that will hold in quiet many of our 

 lady readers. It is of the sensational kind of novels, yet only moder- 

 ately so; it carries along with the theory of the affair not by any means 

 an intricate plot, as any one used to this class of reading would have 

 divined the end of the beginning before he or she had reached the mid - 

 die of the book. The character of the Heir at Law is quite a natural 

 character of many young men of the present day who, like Wctherel the 

 heir disinherited, have a desire to be called "fast young men," and yet 

 who like him, in after life, have not grace enough left to repent and 

 like him become good members of society. Almost too many charac- 

 ters introduced makes the work somewhat profuse: yet after examining 

 its faults— as there are certainly faults within its pages— we feel upon 

 the whole to commend it. There are many men of to-day whom the 

 portrait of Judge Wetherel would just suit, and so of the female char- 

 acters, some of whom we love, and as soon as we know them we feel a 

 deep interest in them. Nestona is a well drawn character. She will 

 find in her lady readers many sympathetic friends. Of the Count Palos- 

 ki we think him a very small rascal, and we are the least pleased with 

 the etchings of his character than with any one in the book. We like 

 the moral tone of this bok— Tupper's quotations and all. 



MA GAZIN ES. 



Among the horticultural catalogues of the month we 

 would notice with mnch favor "Vicks Floral Guide.. 1 ' To the uninitiated 

 in the language of flowers this is the golden key, the open seasame to the 

 whole flower world. We cannot do our lady friends and all who love 

 the bright and beautiful flowers of earth, a better service than to recom- 

 mend them to purchase this Guide. You cannot invest at a better inter- 

 est a twenty-four cent stamp than to send it in a letter to Yick and see 

 what you receive in return. 

 Oliver Optic's Magazine for February. Boston: Lee & 



Shephard. 



We open this truly boys 1 and girls' magazine, and find it filled to 

 overflowing with the good stones and lively chit-chat of the month. We 

 can only promise our young readers a treat from the following table of 

 contents. They well know in what fields to dig for enduring Treasures. 

 We say to them, "Go dig, and be learned and wise." 



"The Coining Wave," Chap, iv and v. "Your Valentines," "The 

 Lily and the Cross," chap, v to ix. "Running to Waste," "Riderless," 

 a poem; "The Homespun Club," "Minot's Ledge Light House,'' "The 

 Camp in the Gulch," and a variety of other interesting original' papers. 



f^"~Durfee & Foxcraft subscription managers, 151 Washington street. 

 Popular Science Monthly for February. New York: D. 



Appleton &Co. 



Among the many papers of this number particularly deserving careful 

 attention, we would place before our readers this extract as having a di- 

 rect bearing upon one of the great questions of the day: "First, as re- 

 gards public Schools, I would make provision for simple instruction in 

 the elements of Physiology and Hygiene, either by the use of some short 

 and plain text-book, or, what is still better, by lectures from some com- 

 petent resident physician. I confess that I greatly prefer the latter 

 method. Not only theory, but experience, leads me to prefer it. Were 

 it not that we have made a very great mistake in our systems of public 

 instruction, by severing our common school instruction from advanced 

 instruction, we should by this time nave a body of teachers in our com- 

 mon schools abundantly able to lecture to the pupils without a text- 

 book. I trust the time will come when provision will be made just as 

 thoroughly for advanced instruction as for primary and common school 

 instruction, when all will be connected together; when the present il- 

 logical separation that exists, under which primary and common school 

 educatiou is provided for by the State, and advanced education is left 

 very inadequately provided by various religious denomination*, will be 

 done away with. But at present we have comparatively few teachers in 

 our public schools who are competent without text-books to teach a 

 subject of this kind; therefore it is that I would have provision made in 

 our larger schools especially, for lectures by resident physicians. That 

 the interest of pupils can be roused in this way I know, for I have seen 

 it fully tried. It is one of those subjects in which, with a lit.le care the 

 •great body of school children can be greatly interested, and this without 

 the slightest detriment to other subjects. The very change of method 

 will make them come back to other subjects of study with renewed 

 vigor." 



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ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



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The Debatable Land, Between this World and the Js T ext 



By Robert Dale Owen. 



A book for the scholar, the sceptic, the believer the scientist and the 

 novel reader A book denounced by the Catholic World as leading to 

 the devil, and praised by the Independent as leading to a greater faith 

 reverence and love of Christianity." New Y^ork: G. W. Carleton & Co' 



Modern Ombre. Boston: A. Williams & Co. have just 

 published an old Spanish game under this title, with full rules and 

 directions for playing the same, both for beginners and the more ad- 

 vanced players. It is said to be "very good indeed;" how good that is 

 we will tell you when we have road it. 



Schem's Statistics of the Wobld. We have re- 

 ceived from the publisher, G. J. Moulton, of 103 Fulton street, the work 

 with the above title, where may be found in convenient form the var- 

 ious statistical points in regard to all countries, so necessary for the lit 

 erarymanor the student, and which take up so much time to find 

 compressed in a single volume. The book in neat form is a very perfect 

 statistical compendium, and will be found most useful 

 Geological Stories. A series of autobiographies in 



chronological order, by J E. Taylor, F. L. §., F. G . S. Illustrated 

 New York: G. R. Putnam's Sons. J8M. -imistiatea. 



Theory and Practice of Navigation Bf Henrv 

 Evers,L.L. D. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1874 



Half Hours with the Microscope. Being a popular 



guide to the use of the microscope as a menus of amusement and study, 

 nitrated. Ldwm Lankester, M. J). New York: Putnam's Sons. 



-Pedro C. Armijo, or Pete Arniijo, as he was better- 

 known to his numerous American friends, the well-known 

 sheep-king of Albuquerque, New Mexico, committed sui- 

 cide by shooting himself on Jan. 7th, the cause, it is said 

 being a disappointment in love. 



-Sleep obtained two hours before midnight when the 

 negative forces are in operation, is the rest which most re> 

 cuperates the system. 



-Naugatuck is the only town in Connecticut bearing an 

 Indian name, * 



