Hcdsos Bay Doo.tba.ms.— Profanity— and 

 particularly French profarrty— seems a neces- 

 sary adjunct to dog-driving. It is unfortu- 

 nate tliat, by some inscrutable dispensation 

 of Providence, the only method of reaching 

 a dog's reason should be through unlimited 

 mprecation. Bu', speaking with the ex- 

 perience of many days of dog-travel and an 

 intimate acquaintance with a score or more 

 of dog-trains, I have never seen an attempt 

 made to reach it in any other way. I do not 

 seek to exaggerate, but simply to present 

 dog-driving as it really is— an inhuman 

 thrashing and varied cursing. The cruelty 

 with which dogs are treated cannot be ex- 

 cused. It is true tbey are often obstinate 

 and provoking, and require severe beating, 

 especially from a new driver, till the team is 

 brought into subjection. But when helpless 

 animals, undergoing severe labor in the 

 trains, are not merely beaten on the body 

 with heavy lashes, but systematically flogged 

 on the bead till their ears drip blood— beaten 

 with whip-handles till their jaws and noses 

 are cut open with deep wounds— cudgeled 

 with clubs, knelt upon and stamped upon un- 

 til their howls turn into low moans of agony 

 —punishment merges into sheer brutality. 

 And yet such treatment is of common occur- 

 rence. As I said, the beatings from being 

 intermittent became incessant. Many of the 

 dogs had so exhausted themselves by violent 

 dartings hither and thither in their endeavors 

 to dodge the blows of the descending whip, 

 that they had no strength left for the legiti- 

 mate task of hauling the sledge. The heads 

 of others were reduced to a Bwollen, pulpy 

 mas3 by tremendous thrashings, while one or 

 two had given out altogether and had been 

 taken from the harness and abandoned on 

 the plain. The operation of " sending a dog 

 to Kome" had been performed more than 

 once — a brutal operation in which the driver 

 sinks below the level of the beast. Sending 

 a dog to Rome is effected by simply beating 

 him over the head with a club or heavy 

 whip-handle until he falls insensible to the 

 ground. When he revives, with the memory 

 of the awful blows that deprived him of con- 

 sciousness fresh upon him he pulls frantically 

 at his load. A dog is sent to Rome for var- 

 ious and often trivial provocations — because 

 he shirks or will not pull, because he will not 

 permit the driver to adjust some hitch in his 

 harness. While he is 'insensible, the neces- 

 sary alteration is made, and upon recovering 

 Consciousness he receives a terrible lash of 

 the whip to set him going again.— Lippin- 

 eolt's Magazine. 



Rules for Ladies Traveling Alone.— 

 From time to time we read of mishaps meet- 

 ing women traveling alone, till it sometimes 

 seems as if it were unsafe for a women to 

 travel alone. Still, women must travel, and 

 very often alone, and by exercise of due cau- 

 tion and foresight, there is no reason why it 

 should not be perfectly safe for them to do 

 so. There are a few rules, which if fol- 

 lowed, it seems, would save a world of anx- 

 iety and trouble. 



1. Before starting on a journey familiarize 

 yourself with the route and with names of 

 good hotels at the various stopping places. 



2. Never travel with just enough money, 

 but always carry enough to provide for any 

 possible emergency. This will save much 

 anxiety. 



3. Wear but little jewelry, and keep the 

 larger part of your money in some inside 

 pocket, out of sight. 



4. Always look after yourself, and do not 

 allow a stranger to procure your tickets or 

 checks for your baggage. 



5. Avoid, if possible, making changes in 

 cars by night ; but, when unavoidable, go 

 with others. Do not become separated from 

 the crowd. 



6. Take no hacks, but go in an omnibus 

 where there are other people. These are per- 

 fectly safe, 



7r If in any doubt as to changing cars, 

 checking baggage, etc., inquire in advance 

 oi the conductor. The conductors on our 

 trains are always polite and willing to be of 

 s;rvice, especially to women traveling alone. 



8. Do not wait till about to make some 

 change in train before inquiring of the con- 

 ductor j for, ten to one, he will then be hur- 

 ried, and you will only half inform yourself. 



9, Under all circumstances endeavor to re- 

 tain your presence of mind. One who can 

 do this will have no trouble in traveling ; and 

 instead of its being unwise for women to 

 travel alone, I thinkit an advantage for them 

 to make trips alone, for there are few people 

 who are not at times obliged to do so, and ex- 

 perience does away with much of the pos- 

 sible danger in traveling.— St. Louis Spirit. 



The Whistling Otktkk.— The shop was 

 first established by a Mr. Pearkes, in 1825. 

 "It appears," says the writer in the Daily 

 Telegraph, "that about the year 1840 the pro- 

 prietor of the house in question, which had 

 then as it has now a great name for the su- 

 nerior exellenceof its delicate little 'natives,' 

 heard a strange and unusual sound proceeding 

 from one of the tubs in which the shell-fish 

 1 ly piled in layers one over the other, placidly 

 fattening upon oatmeal and awaiting the in- 

 evitable advent of the remorseless knife. Mr. 

 Pearkes, the landlord, listened, hardly at first 

 believing his ears. There was, however, no 

 doubt about the matter ; one of the oysters 

 was distinctly whistling, or, at any rate, pro- 

 ducing a soit of ' sifflement' with its shell 1 



It was not difficult to detect this phenomenal 

 bivalve, and in a very few minutes he was 

 triumphantly picked out from among his fel- 

 lows and put by himself in a spacious tub, 

 with a plentiful supply of brine and water. 

 The news spread through the town, and for 

 some days the fortunate Mr. Pearkes found 

 bis house besieged by curious crowds. * * 

 Douglas Jerrold's suggestion was that the 

 said oyster had been crossed in love, and now 

 whistled to keep up appearances with an idea 

 of showing that it did not care." Thackeray 

 used to declare that he was once actually in 

 the shop when an American came in to see 

 the phenomenon, as everybody else was do- 

 ing, and after hearing the talented mollusk 

 go through his usual performance, strolled 

 Contemptuously out, declaring " it was noth- 

 ing to an oyster he knew of in Massachusetts, 

 which whistled 'Yankee Doodle' right 

 through, and followed its master about the 

 house like a dog."— Old and New London, 

 Thornbury. 



The Pig of the Pandoba.— While at 

 Igigtut, (South Greenland cryolite mine,) on 

 oar outward passage, the sailors bought a pig, 

 which was petted to the last desree, and so 

 jealous were tbey of his rights that the dogs 

 were driven in all directions that poor Dennis, 

 as they christened the pig, might not be dis- 

 turbed. The dogs made several attempts to 

 attack this favored animal, but a constant 

 look out — such as one could never expect for 

 ice, rock, or land from any seamen on board 

 was kept, and the dogs were driven off at the 

 moment when victor y seemed certain. Pea- 

 soup, broken biscuits, and slops of all kinds 

 were given to the dainty animal, whereas if a 

 dog attempted to ask for a share of the re- 

 mains of the sailor's dinners he was scouted 

 with derision. In fact, the pig was the pet 

 of the ship, and the only thing worth navi- 

 gating the Arctic Sea for. Finding that he 

 was uncomfortable under the top-gallant 

 forecastle, and liable to be disturbed by the 

 chain running out when anchoring, or the 

 water coming in at the hawse-pipe when at 

 Bea, a snug cask was found for him, and he 

 was housed in with canvas and straw under 

 the bows of the long-boat. Never I should 

 think, had any other pig such comforts 

 8'iowered on him. Btt now came a el a ge. 

 Our decks became full of snow, and every- 

 thing fi ozc. It was necessary to clesraway 

 the ice and dirt from Mr. Pig's sty as well as 

 from the others parts of the ship, and to do 

 this involved an amount of scraping which 

 was not agreeable to his former frends, and, 

 with the decision and readiness in meeting 

 difficulties for which the sean a l is so pre- 

 eminent, the pig was condemned to death 

 without remorse or apology. In fact, from 

 that moment he was a nuisance, and only fit 

 to be killed and eaten ; his throat was cut by 

 his dearest friends, and he was eaten for din- 

 ner on the 7th of September, having died only 

 at 10 A. M.— Two Voyages of the Pandora- 

 Sir Allen Young. 



An Eel Story.— The following is pub- 

 lished in the Easton (Penn.) Express as a true 

 fish story : " Oeorge Bryant, train-master at 

 High Bridge, N. J., and William Hibbler, 

 conductor on the Central Railroad of New 

 Jersey, were fishing from the Newark Bay 

 bridge three years ago. Bryant lost his 

 sinker, and substituted for it a Central Rail- 

 road switch-key. He got a 'huge bite,' and 

 in drawing in his line discovered a large eel 

 on his hook ; but before he could land him, 

 the eel broke loose, carrying away the hook 

 and switch-key. Eight months after an eel 

 was caught by Capt. Simon Chapman in an 

 old barge at Chapman's Wharf on the 

 Thames River, three miles above New Lon- 

 don, Conn. When the eel was cut open the 

 lost Central Railroad key was found inside of 

 it. Last evening, on Conductor Hibbler's 

 train, the son of Capt. Chapman introduced 

 himself to Mr. Hibbler, and said his father 

 still had the key in his possession. Arrange- 

 ments were made to have it returned to Mr. 

 Bryant at High Bridge — Times. 



He Didn't Take Pepper in His— Boys are 

 sometimes more logical in their methods of 

 thought than tbey get credit for, and they can, 

 when the motive is strong enough, resist a 

 temptation. Said a superintendent, " Will 

 the little boy who threw pepper on the stove 

 please step up to the desk? I have a nice book 

 which I want to present to him." The genial 

 invitation was not accepted. 



—A little girl, visiting a neighbor with her 

 mother, was gazing curiously at the host- 

 ess' new bonnet, when the owner queried, 

 " Do you like it, Laura?" The innocent re- 

 plied: " Why, mother said it was a perfect 

 fright; but it don't scare me. " Laura's mother 

 didn't stay long after that. 



— '"Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's 

 honest bark, bay deep-mouthed welcome," 

 etc., murmurs the poet, and from the poet's 

 standpoint it may be all right, but when we 

 are coming down a dark road at night in a 

 strange place, we don't want any watchdog 

 and but very little bay in ours.— Bridgeport 

 Standard. 



—The first public gas lamps introduced in- 

 to New York were located in the City Hall 

 Park in August, 1812, as an experiment. 



Admirers of Artistic 

 Potter v and Glass are 

 invited to inspect some 

 choice examples select- 

 ed bv Messrs. TIFFANY 

 & CO. during the Paris 

 ExDOsition. including : 



New Plaques by Minton, decorated by Mus- 

 sill with novel marine designs. 



Salviati's latest reproductions of the Vene 

 tian Glass of the Sixteenth century. 



Fac-similes of the Trojan iridescent bronze 

 glass exhumed by Dr. Sehliemann. 



New Plaques by Copeland, decorated with 

 strongly drawn heads by Hewitt. 



Reproductions, by Doulton, of old Flemish 

 stone ware. 



Reproductions of the Scinde Pottery made 

 by the Bombay Art Society. 



Recent examples of Ginori's reproductions 

 of old Italian majolica. 



Specimens of Capo di Monti ware, Austrian 

 iridescent and enameled Glass and Limoges 

 Faience of new colors. 



UNION SQUARE. 



SPORTSMEN'S PICTURE. 

 A beautlfa' Colored Lithograph (19x24) of the 

 Celebrated Field Trial Champion Joe, Jr., and Bine 

 DaiBy II. (a litter sister to Sanborn's champion 

 Nellie). The sketch from which this Lithograph 

 waa made was tafcen on the spot by a special artist, 

 and represents Joe, Jr., pointing a bevy of quail 

 witnB.ne Daisy backing, and Campbell ready lor 

 the rise. Sent postpaid, si, send money by P. O. 

 order or registered letter. Address W. H. HOLA- 

 BIED, Valparaiso, Ind. in&m lyr 



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 Also manufacturers of 

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and compressed Buck Shot, more uniform than 

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READ THIS 



You Fishermen & Hunters. 



Iowa State Fish Commissioner B. F. Shaw says 

 of the Wilson ,t Keagle Wharf and Fishing Lamp: 

 " It la superior to any light I have ever seeD, and I 

 take pleasure in reccommemling it. Every flsher- 

 man or hunter should have one." 

 bend for circular and price list to 

 L. L. WILSON, 

 Center Point, Linn Co., 



Iowa. 

 aprs it 



Ucnnel. 



Philadelphia Bench Show. 



APRIL 21 to APRIL 28. 



Entries Will Close April 5, 



OH WHEX 735 DOGS ARE ENTERED. 



All persons Intending to enter their doga, and de- 

 Mring further information, are requested to apply at 

 the northeast corner of 13;h ana Chestnut streets, 

 second floor, or address the club, Post Office Box 

 No. 1,511, Philadelphia. mars Bt 



Jft? Mqntul 



THIRD ANNUAL 



NEW YORK DOG SHOW, 



UNDBB THE AU8TIC88 OP THE 



Westminster Kennel Club, 



TO IB HELD AT 



GILMORE'S GARDEN, 

 APRIL 8, 9, 10 and I I. 



ENTRIES CLOSE MARCH 28. 



Premium Lists and Entry Blanks can be had from 

 the Superintendent at his office, in Fulton street. 



CHAS. LINCOLN, Superintendent. 



marfi 5t P. O. BOX 1.T40, N. Y. 



SPRATT'S PATENT 



MEAT FIBRINE DOG CAKES 



Twenty-one Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals 



awarded, Including Medal of English Kennel 



Club, and of Westminster Kennel 



Club, New York. 



t M 

 None are genuine unless so stamped, 



F. O. I»e LTJZE, 



18 South William Street, N. T,, Sole Agent. 



BROWN & HILDER, st Louts, Western Agenta, 



For sale in casa of 112 pounds. 



Fleas! Fleas! Worms! Worms 



STEADMAN'S FLEA POWDER for DOGS 

 A Bane to Fleas— A Boob to Dogs. 



This Powder is guaranteed to kill fleas on dogs o 



any other animals, or money returned. It la put up 



In patent boxes with sliding pepper box top, whlcn 



greatly facilitates its use. Simple and efficacious. 



Price BO cents by mall, Postpaid 



ARECA NUT FOR WORMS IN DOO 



A CERTAIN REMEDY 



Put ud in boxes containing ten powderB, with 

 foil directions for use. 



Price 50 ccntu per Box by mojl. 



Both the above are recommended by Rod and Gtr* 

 and Forxbt and Stream. 



CONROY, BISSETT & MAL.LESCN 

 Oct 13 65 FDLTON ST., N. Y. 



Dr. Gordon Stables, R, N,, 



TWTFOUD, BERKS, ENGLAND, 



AUTHOR OP THE 



"Practical Kennel Guide," &c. 



begs to Inform Ladles and Gentlemen in America 



that he purchases and sends out dogs of any desired 



breed, fit for the highest competition. 



N. B.— A bad dog never left the Doctor's Kennels 



decl9 t* 



Imperial Kennel. 



Setters and Pointers Boarded, 



Broken, etc. 

 Young Dogs handled with skill 

 and judgment. 

 Address, 



H. <:. GIOVER, 

 Toms Rivkb, N. J. 

 Splendid kennel accommodations ; doga have dally 

 ccess to salt water. octlo tf 



FOR SALE —Very line red Irish Imported setter 

 bitch, Ruby; purchased of Rev. J. Gumming 

 Macdona, last April ; very deep red with white on 

 breast aud a little wiiite on feet ; two years and four 

 months old ; out of Daisy by Flash II. Price, $300. 

 Soldlor want of uBe. Her pupa sold readily for {50 

 each. CAPT. A. L. EMERSON, York, Maine. 

 mar27 at 



tjMJR SALE.— A handsome large Irish setter, 

 thoroughly broken on woodcock and snipe, 4 

 years old, will retrieve from lund or water, at the 

 low price of $10. For particulars [address G.. Box 

 516, Fonghkeepsie, N. Y. mar20 at 



SETl'EK PUPS FOR S\LE— Ten weeks old: lull 

 pedigree. Inguire of JOHN C, CHASE. Ply- 

 mouth, Mass. mariT st 



TTIOR SALE.— Thorough-bred red Irish setter pupn, 

 P by Champion ElchO and oui or Bridget Fluokei 

 (Piunker-stella); dogs, $40; bitches, $20; also a 

 ii oken red Irian bitch, by Champion Rory o'Moore, 

 $45. Address E. J. BOBBINS, Wethersneld, Conn 

 rnarSu eot 



FOR BALE VERY CHEAP— Very handsome set- 

 ter dog, well broken. Lock Box 23", Suspension 

 Bridge, N. Y, aprl it 



