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437 



Pbilip LTighfield Bows.— Concerning 

 these English, bows, John J. Pickett, Esq., 

 of Washington, writes to the American agents: 



3,143 Pjshh Avb., Washington, D. C.,'| 

 Jan. 8, 1878. f 

 Messrs. Peck & Snyder: 



n — i have bought, since taking to 

 archery, some 50 bows at a cost of from $2 50 

 to $20, 00 each, and I have no hesitation in 

 saying that I have more satisfaction out of a 

 6ft. 651b. Higbfield lemnnwood obtained 

 from yourselves near a year ago. than from 

 any bow 1 have ever pulled. My Bon fan 

 athletic youth) has shot with it ten thousand 

 times (at a modi-rate estimate) and the long 

 yellow stick seems to grow tougher the more 

 it is used. John T. Pickett. 



A Watch foe the Field.— We notice a 

 remarkably nice black-faced nickel watch, 

 just the thing for boating and fishing, where 

 a fine watch may get wet and lie ruined. 

 They are furnished for eight dollars (less than 

 the interest on the price of a gold watch) by 

 Hall, Nicoll & Granbery, 20 and 32 John 

 street, N. Y., who fully warrant them. 



— Nothing is more iu keeping with the 

 present aspiring nature of the thermometer 

 than the delightfully cool and case-compelling 

 hammocks, manufactured by J. P. Travers 

 & Son, and advertised in another column. 

 These hammocks are strongly made and of 

 the moBt comfortable shape. 



M m ffttbliqitfwip. 



Frank Forester's Fugitive Sketches 

 —We have read with great interest this little vol- 

 ume of 150 pages, lately published at Wostheld, 

 Wiacouain, at the low price of sixty cents per 

 copy. Its editor Is "Will Wildwoocl" (P. E. 

 Pond), of that place, who has made a study of 

 sporting literature, and has collected with great 

 industry many of Herbert's sporting 'tales and 

 sketches, originally published in vaiious period- 

 icals of th'rty yearB since— articles which have 

 never yet, to any great extent, been republished, 

 and which therefore havealtnost the interest of 

 an original work to the present generation. 

 These sporting sketches of the lamented Forest- 

 er, now resoued from oblivion, bear the stamp of 

 the brilliant pen that produced the "American 

 Pield Sports," and will be welcomed and valued by 

 the great fraternity of sportsmen. They present 

 a succession of attractive pictures of woodland 

 scenery, and lead us forth again to the romantic 

 domains of the natural world — to mountain and 

 stream, to sea shore and foreBt and prairie— syl- 

 van retreats so dear to the sportsman. The con- 

 tents of tbiB volume are entiroly new to ue.and we 

 have had a feast In reading the chapters on the 

 Quail, the Snipe, the Woodcock, the Bittern, the 

 Stag, the Trouting Trip to the Mountains, and 

 the Geese Shooting Adventure at Barnegat. 

 We trust that the volume wall meet with the 

 ready Bale that it so well merits. IIcL. 



SAeBer Island, June 7. 

 TfiOTJTTKG OK THE BKTJLE RlVBK, OB LiW- 



tek's Stjmmbb Watfaiung in the 

 Nobthebk Whdeeness. By John Syle 

 King, Chicago. Chicago Legal News 

 Co., 1879. 

 In paper, type and binding this is an exceed- 

 ingly handsome volume of 293 pages. It relates 

 the vacation rambles of a party of Chicago law- 

 yers on the Brule Biver and on other streams of 

 Wisconsin, and Michigan, and delineates the 

 actual life and incidents of the party in canoes, 

 on portages, in tents and with abundant fly. 

 fishing, and some gunning. The author claims 

 that the merit of the book is in its " minute and 

 faithful portrayal of the real life of real persons 

 in pursuit of holiday pastime and respite," 

 mainly with the fly-rod as their wand of enchant- 

 ment. And a perusal of the work neatly con- 

 firms the justice of the claim, and affiords us a 

 delightful picture of that abounding " innocent 

 revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which 

 only anglers enjoy to the utmost." Tbe preface 

 contains information generally of sporting 

 regions of the Northern portion of Wisconsin, 

 and adjacent Michigan, the routes to them, and 

 hints as to outfits ; and, also incidentally, some 

 fine passages as to the fascination of angling 

 and instances of some noted men who have en- 

 nobled a.nd made it a glory of sport. There is a 

 map of the same regions with tables of distances 

 in several routes. These are valuable feathurea 

 of the work. The style is always Bowing and 

 vigorous, is often graphic and brilliant, with a 

 charming delicate and subtle vein of humor and 

 pleasantry throughout, a ounding in happy 

 allUHiona, with touches bordering on poetry, and 

 an occasional graceful professional turn of 

 thought, just enough to remind the reader that 

 it iB a lawyer who writes of lawyers at holiday 

 play. It is really ft most attractive volume, and 



deserves a popularity which will rank it with the 

 best of summer books of the kind, and we doubt 

 not, will afford to the writers brethern of the 

 bar, and to others, an insight into the pleasures 

 of Fokest and Stkkim which will, as the autho r 

 says, he hopes it may induce in them a desire to 

 go and do likewise. 



Map of thb Oomstook Lode.— The Mining 

 Record, of 61 Broadway, N. Y., publish anew 

 map of tho "Mines of the Great Oomatook 

 Lode,'' Virginia City, Nev. Those interested in 

 this branch of our national industries will find 

 the map of great benefit. It is sent post-paid 

 for SI. 



A Little Gunning. — The following ac- 

 count of "a little gunning," done by a 

 farmer's boy, was narrated by the father to a 

 correspondent of the Hartford Timea. And 

 yet they say game in Massachusetts is be- 

 coming scarce : 



"1 had a yearlin' heifer die along the last 

 of the winter, and after skinning left, the car- 

 cass on a lot back of the house ; but as the 

 weather got warmer I agreed I'd haul it up 

 back of the barn and put it into the dung 

 heap. Well, one Saturday night, after I had 

 got done my day's work with my team, I 

 drew the carcass up back of the barn. Next 

 morning my boy looked through a knot-hole 

 iu the side ol the barn and saw more crows 

 than he could count hovering about the. place. 

 He wanted to get his gun and pepper even, 

 but I told him he had better not be sho ting 

 Sunday and by the next day tbe crows would 

 be better baited and likely there would be 

 more there. Monday morning there was snow 

 on tbe ground, but more crows than ever about 

 the place. So the boy loaded his gun and 

 went out. It wa'n't long afore I heard him 

 fire and I went out to see what luck he had, 

 and I found that he had winged six crows at 

 one shot. He went about his work and later 

 in the day thought be would try 'em again, 

 and that time he brought down twelve. 

 That evening 'long about 8 o'clock, as I was 

 getting sleepy in my chair, rny boy spoke up 

 and said : ' I believe I'll go out and see if I 

 can't get a fox around that carcass.' He 

 wa'n't gone long 'fore 1 heard him fire, and I 

 went out to see what he had hit. I found 

 that he had shot a skunk that was prowling 

 around, for he knew a fox would not come as 

 long as the skuuk was there. He gave it up 

 for that night, and went to bed. The next 

 day he shot more crows, and wheu night 

 came he went out again for a fox. Another 

 skunk was skulking about, but he did not 

 want to fire, so be rigged a trap, and Mr. 

 Skunk soon went into that, and he was out of 

 the way. Later in the evening his fox ap- 

 peared, and was knocked over by a charge 

 from the boy's gun. Crow shootin' was good 

 for several days after. One day we were out 

 by the sap place, and a big hawk flew over. 

 L said to the boy, "We must get him." 

 "But bow?" says he. I told him I would 

 show him ; so I set a trap and put in one of 

 the dead crows for a bait. 'Twa'n'tmany 

 hours 'fore the hawk was caught ; and then 

 we figured up that from that carcass of the 

 heifer we had got about forty crows (besides 

 a good many that probably died from getting 

 hit, as we frequently found dead ones in the 

 lots near by,) a fox, two skunks, and a hawk 

 that had wings of about five feet spread." 



A Pyramid of Geraniums. — Mr. Editor: 

 — Five years ago I commenced trimming some 

 double geraniums so as to form a pyramid, 

 and I have one, of which 1 send you a draw- 

 ing. Tbe four centre plants are ten feet high. 

 Theie is no difficulty in wintering them over 

 in large pots in the ball of the house, giving 

 them but little sun or water. The smaller 

 plants are hung up on the beams of the cellar. 

 In February begin to pot these and water 

 them a little. Leaves soon start, and water is 

 more freely given. When the time for plant- 

 ing them out comes I have a circular bed 

 prepared, eight feet across, and several poles 

 set deep and firm in and near the centre. 

 The plants are taken out oi the pots and 

 planted, trimming them to a point. Water 

 them freely for a week or two, and flowers 

 at once form, and by tho first of June are 

 out. At no time lust summer was there less 

 than fifty clusters of flowers, and sometimes 

 one hundred. 



An Expessite Beak.— Mrs. Vredenburgh, 

 having sued the members of the Crescent 

 City Kifle Club, of New Orleans, secured a 

 verdict of $15,000 in her favor. Her husband 

 had been killed by a pet bear kept on the 

 club grounds. 



—"Wine maketh glad the heart," said the 

 King of Israel ; and the Hebrew heart of Da- 

 vid's day was gladdened by a real wine, tbe 

 wine of grapes; while the ancient Egyptian 

 heart rejoiced in wine of barley, that is, hetr. 

 The invention of beer as a beverage is as- 

 cribed to Osiris, twenty centuries 

 Christian era, and it was known to the 

 ancient world as wine of barley. In tbe 

 modern times the nationalists of Latin origin 

 drink wine more freely than those of Saxon 

 origin, who consume much peer. The agri- 



culture of European countries is largely influ- 

 enced by the popular demand for beverages. 

 Within the last two decades, beer has been 

 rapidly gaining favor in Latin countries. 

 Beer saloons now flourish in Paris, Rome and 

 Madrid, as well as in Berlin, Vienna and 

 Hamburg. In Paris, for example, tbe an- 

 nual consumption of beer has risen to over 

 one hundred million litres (about 250,000 

 gallons), and jnany Parisians have come to 

 the conclusion that beer, though inferior in 

 attractiveness to wine, allays thirst, stimu- 

 lates digestion, refreshes the Bystcm, and is 

 nutritive. 



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SPRATT'S PATENT 



LONDON 



MEAT FIBRINE DOG CAKES. 



Awarded Silver Medal, Paris, 1878— Medal from 



British Government, and 21 other Gold 



and Silver Medals. 



Trade Mark. 

 SOLE AGENT FOR THE UNITED STATES, 



FRANCIS O. De LUZE, 



18 South William Street, New York. 



Also Spratt's Dog Soap, and direct orders taken 

 tor Spratt's medicines. 



Fleas! Fleas! Worms! Worms 



STEADMAN'S PLEA POWDER for DOGS 

 A Bane to Fleas— A Boon to Dogs. 



This Powder Is guaranteed to kill fleas on dogs of 

 any other animals, or money returned. It Is pnt np 

 is patent boxes with sliding pepper box top, which 

 greatly facilitates its use. Simple and efficacious. 



Price (SO cents by mall, Postpaid 



ARECA NUT FOR WORMS IN DOG 



A CERTAIN REMEDY 



Put an in boxes containing ten powders, with 

 rail directions for use. 



Price 50 cents per Box by mall. 



Both the above are recommended byRonANDGDT 

 and Fokest ano Strkam. 



CONROY. BISSETT & MALIESON 



?Ot 12 65 FULTON ST., N. Y, 



Diseases op the Dog 



aad their Homoeopathic Treatment, Including 



CARE AND TRAINING, 

 By SILVER MTHAIN, now ready. Price SO 

 Cents. Mailed Free. Postage stamps taken. Ad- 

 dress SILVER STRAIN, Stamf Jtd, Conn. 



COCKER SPANIEL 



Breeding Kennel 



M. P. MCKOON, Franklin, Del. Co., N Y. 

 I. Keep only cockers of the finest strains. Sell only 

 young stock. I guarantee satisfaction ana safe de- 

 livery to every customer. These beautiful and in- 

 telligent dogs cannot be beaten for ruffed grouse 

 and woodcock shooting and retrieving. Correspond- 

 ents tnclOBine stamp will get printed pedigrees cir- 

 cular, testimonials, etc. jio tf 



Stud Spaniel. 



TR1MBUSH (pure Clumber), imported direct from 

 the kennels of the Duke of Newcastle For nose the 

 clumbers are unrivalled, and Trimbush is a capital 

 dog to oreed (oekera or small-six : jttei i i i ate 

 Fee $20. Address H. C. GLOVER, Toms Biver, 

 janlG tt 



lie Mennel 



N.J. 



E. S. Wanmaker, 



COOL SPRING, IREDELL, CO., N. C. 



Field Trainer of purely bred Setters and Pointers 



Prices, ?75 and $loo. 

 Dogs bought and sold on Commission. maylS ly 



GORDON SETTER PUPPIES FCR SALE. 



Two does and two bitch puppies out of Champion 

 Lou by Young Jock. Young Jock Is r>y imported 

 Jock (he by the ceUbri ei Del iv Jock) out of 



Mati ; she oy Jerome's (now Oopelaod's) -shot out of 

 Pueh.ss. These pnppies combine the best Strains 

 of Gordon setter blood. Address W. II. TILESTON, 

 this office. maj29 at 



Dr. Gordon Stables, R, N. 



TWTFORD, BERKS, ENGLAND, 



AUTHOR OP THB 



"Practical Kennel Guide," &c. 



begs to Inform Ladies and Gentlemen in America 



that he purchases and sends out dogs of any desired 



breed, lit for the highest competition. 



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



decI9 « 



Imperial Kennel. 



Setters and Pointers thorough- 

 ly Fie d Broken. 

 Young Uogs handled with skill 



and judgment. 

 Dogs have da, l.v access to salt 



N. B.— Setter 'and pointer 

 puppies, also broken dogs, for sale ; full pedigrees. 

 AddresB n. c. GliOVBK, Tons Rives, n. j. 

 apr24 tf 



Choice. Pointer & Irish Setter 

 PUPPIES. 



FOR SALE BY LINCOLN 4 HELLYAR, 

 WARKEN, MASS. 



Eight pointers, whelped Mav 29, by our Champion 

 Imported Snapshot, winuer arst Mew i'ork, ;s,'y and 

 1*77, and twave other prizes. Ou' of our Gypsv a 

 large, s rong, healthy bitch (Cai-P.-yche), H C St 

 Paul champion class and opei Bias*. IST8 Two 



S. Whelped March 21 by Bake il'idNew 



York 18T8, oat of our Daisy. Eight i ed Irish setters 

 i May 13, by our imported Hash, 1st. New 

 York '73, 2d Bust m 'IS, out oi o ir import -a Flora 

 IstMeivYoiS '7S, 1st Boston '79. As Dash is now 

 dead this is the last opportunity of securing this 

 stock. The above are mil brothers and raters to 

 Phantom and Biz, both 1st Ktw York '79. Eight red 

 Irish seiters, wnelped May 10, by our imported 

 Chance II.. V. II. C. New York '7», rut of our 

 Phantom (Dasli-Floia), 1st New York '79. For lull 

 pedigrees, prices, etc , addresa as above. j.28 tf 



O: 

 that win require my personal attention,! now 

 offer for Bale some ot the Dtst blooi in this country 

 Victress— Pure Laverack setter bitch, fun sinter to 

 tne celebrated Countess, one of the b 

 ever lived. Gipaey— Iri-h setter bitch, sired by Sod- 

 man 9 Dash ; a good brood bitch ; her pups have 

 turned out first-class. Jmnie-F,il,-Mooded Gordon 

 setter blich, not a white hair ou her ; ont of 'I'illey'3 

 stock; lias been hunted and broken on quail Dew 

 Drops— A very handsome Llewemn biicii, siren bv 

 Paris out of Peeress ; eight, months old ; will make a 

 good one; from L.H.Kn ii [tool Canada. France 

 — Field trial bitch. lienesau— I ernou poii.ter 16 

 months. Bridget— Red Irish, 6 months. Su-an— 

 Gordon bitch, 3 months. Royal Nibbs- Gordon dog. 

 3 years old ; no better dog iu the Held, barring drop 

 to shot i the person buying him can hunt him against 

 any man's dog for a day or a week; ,f he does not, 

 suit can return him. Address H. B. VONnEK- 

 S V1ITH, Lancaster, Pa. jy3 It 



FOR SALE.— My imported red Irish champion 

 stud dog rarK, winner of prizes in tins country 

 and Ireland, is also a stanncu dog in the Held Im- 

 ported red Irish setter bitch Colleen, in whelp to 

 champion York, the best brood bitch thitlever 

 owned, also a winner of prizes in America and 

 England, the red Irish setter bitch pan, nieelv 

 bioke; the red Irish setter bit' h .Nora- one nurn 

 black and tan Gurdou dog, 15 months old.' unbroken- 

 two Llewellm's puppies sired by champion Druid 

 out of Led™, she by champion Leicester and liosr- 

 whelped May 12; two dogs and three bitches, pure 

 red Irish puppies, whelped ,\i»y 6, sired Dy cham- 

 pion York ; one liver and woite cocker spaniel 

 bitch, in whelp io Dick, a pure liver cocker sp in el 

 The above list I guarantee io be sound and In the' 

 nest of health and condition. For partculaiS 

 inquire of C. Z. MILE*, Lancaster, Pa, je26 at 



FOR SALE— Fonr Llewellln setter pup«, by the 

 champion Dash ill., out of Starlight (Rata. 

 Fanny). For price, etc., address H. W. DOKGin 

 Bangor, Me. 1el9 « 



FOR SALE -Five Gorden setter bitch puna 

 Good pedigree. JAA1ES WIGHT, Rockland 

 __ Junl9 4t 



pOR-SALE, when eight weeks old, 7 puppies ont 

 •t 1 of Pat j :ob Roy-PicSeal id. 



dreasL. F. WHITMAN, 5 City Hail,' Detroit, MfnhT* 

 juniatr 



RATTLBR-Inthe Stud.-Blue belton, Llewellln 

 setter, winner of three bench prizes by cham- 

 pion Rob Roy, winner oi live English nek tri ,1a ont 

 of the pure Laverack bitch, Pi ties, wm servo 

 bitches at $20. Litters warranted. Inquire of I P 

 WHITMAN, Detroit, Mich. Jauatr 



O PORTSMEN intending to come Sou h thecoroing 

 kj winter c.i boarded during the 

 summer, and orokon on the early fall -hooting oy an 

 expert. Terms reasonable, and satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. Refere:., at Correanonrf 



cn° Ve!,^- AdureS3 A - * ™«. G^!t_?£S_ 

 co„ faeorgia. maj22 u 



POINTERS, Setter- (Laverack and Gordon) Wolf- 

 mg^B^M^ eDne ' s ' S * evia S">b Hail, W, 



FOR SALE CHEAP-Premlum Stock-Two red 

 Irish setter mien pups, live weeks old : win 

 matched; price $Vi each, or the pair Wr**"' T5_ 

 aw*s Box «,Eljmomb, Mass. iyait 



Points for Judging Dogs. 



A pamphlet, compiled from '• Stonehenge'e '' new 

 edition of "DogB of the brltlsh Ialunde," and con- 

 tsiplne the " points " by which every breed of dogs 

 is judged In Hits country and Enclaqd, together 

 with a description of the same. . For sale at this 

 office, Price 50 cents, may23tt 



F°taVlts^?, (Neme C nLf Panie !i " UpS ttm ' hc 



« fx«^r P fl S 



hoih tn» Pmiadelptiiu Kennel Ciub b t'e 

 1177 and ls.7.1. Price, ,'io each. Apply ■.", ('•;■< ittt 

 Haywood, 5j Laurel s reet, •■ _2 _! ? lt r„„? 

 Philadeipma.Pa. ' s jva it' 



J- old lull paaigr-e; very haudsoms; narirMee 

 joodcock and qua,! a! fall. p r f oa 



W. Address W, £, MEDD, waitham, Mass 



