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■ — The meeting of the Tennessee State 

 Sportsmen's Association, which begins at 

 Memphis on the 25th inst and continues 

 during the week, promises to be well at- 

 tended. Thirty -five hundred dollars have 

 been offered for trap shooting, $1,300 in 

 cash, and $450 in plate for field trials, and 

 $500 in plate for a bench show of field dogs. 

 Several fiae kennels from the Eastern States 

 have already arrived, and the West will be 

 well represented. 



A Tame Gull.— Located as he is now, in 

 a country place, among dogs, ducks, and 

 poultry, with plenty of liberty, but well 

 looked after, Peter has become quite domes- 

 ticated, after his own fashion. During the 

 last Winter he was allowed by his friend the 

 (Cook to come into the kitchen and sit before 

 the fire, where a small piece of carpet was 

 placed for him. Peter took possession of 

 this, entirely excluding two small kittens 

 from any share in it. To these little ani- 

 mals he was quite a tyrant. If they at- 

 tempted to sit on any part of his carpet, he 

 drove them away; they were permitted to 

 sit as near as they pleased to the edge of the 

 carpet, but not on it. He invariably took 

 away from them sticks or anything else that 

 they began to play with, and on one occa- 

 sion kept one of the kittens a prisoner in a 

 drain-pipe into which it had run. No sooner 

 was it in than Peter, always on the alert, 

 took up his station outside, and there kept 

 guard, pecking the kitten every time it tried 

 to come out, until be was seen and the kit- 

 ten rescued. In fact, they had a very bad 

 time of it while in Peter's society. Another 

 •occupaut of the kitchen, however, found 

 more favor with him. This was a retriever 

 pup, now a very large dog, and the friend 

 ;and companion of a sea gull! To see these 

 two together is most amusing. Whenever 

 the dog lies down anywhere near Peter he 

 does not long remain unmolested; the bird 

 leisurely walks up to him, and at once be- 

 gins to pull his hair and peck his tail every 

 time it moves! To all this the good-tem- 

 pered dog makes no objection— in fact, 

 Peter can do what he likes with him. He 

 will sometimes sit on his back, at others lie 

 down close to his side, or even between his 

 fore paws, and when the dog is having his 

 food, run off with portions of it from the 

 plate, a liberty that none of the poultry dare 

 take. This is a very strange friendship, but 

 not altogether an unusual "one. Almost all 

 animated beings are so fond of society of 

 some kind or other that, when they cannot 

 get that of their own species, they will se- 

 lect creatures of a very different character, 

 and often form very strong attachments for 

 them. Morris mentions a tame gull that 

 was kepi in a garden, where it made a great 

 friend of a terrier dog. Gavvel speaks of 

 another that made great friends with a pair 

 of silver pheasants. But the most curious 

 anecdote of a gull is given by Mr. Donald- 

 son, in the Naturalist. This bird acquired 

 a taste for sparrows, and scarcely a day 

 passed on which he did not regale himself 

 with four or five. His system of catching 

 them was this: He was on the bestteims 

 with a number of pigeons, and as the spar- 

 rows fed along with them, he mixed with the 

 grays, and by stopping, assumed as much as 

 possible their appearance, and then set at 

 the sparrow as a pointer dog would do at 

 bis game; the next instant he had his prey 

 by the back and swallowed it without giv- 

 ing it time to shut its eyes. The sporting 

 season with him began about the middle of 

 July, as the young birds were leaving their 

 nests. This was, however, rather a merce- 

 nary friendship. Like most gulls, Peter 

 will eat almost anything, although in his 

 younger days nothing would satisfy him 

 but fresh fish.. Now he is not so particular; 

 be will eat meat, young chickens, and even 

 small rats and mice — the latter he seems to 

 have a great relish for. At one time he 

 lived on no thing but snails and slugs . This 

 was after his removal from Falmouth; for, 

 being so far inland, we could no longer sup- 

 ply him with the fish he had been accus- 

 tomed to, and for a few days we were afraid 

 he would starve, as nothing seemed to suit 

 his taste; but he very soon got used to diff- 

 erent fare, and now there is no trouble 

 whatever in finding food for him. At first, 

 when fish was his only food, he stldom 

 swallowed it without previously soaking 

 it in water, and now almost everything 

 he eats goes through the same process. — 

 Argosy. 



Are Cats Snake Proof.— In an" article 

 entitled u Two Years in Natal," the author- 

 ess writes, "Perhaps every one does not 

 know, that cats are snake proof. A bite 

 has no effect on them. We had an opportu- 

 nity of proving this. A long green imamba 

 was engaged in a fierce tussel with a big cat, 

 in which the cat had bitten out one of its 

 eyes, and in return had got a wound on its 

 face that swelled up to an enormous size, 

 bui beyond that he seemed none the worse 

 for the encounter, and in a few days was 

 well again." On referring to those magnifi- 

 cent works by Dr. Fayrer, on "The Tha- 

 natophia of India," and by Dr. G-tXnther, 



on "The Reptiles of India," I fail to find 

 the term imamba mentioned by either of 

 those authors, so I conclude it is a special 

 name given by colonists to a snake indige- 

 nous to Natal and the Cape of Good Hope; 

 but the question arises, Does this so-called 

 imamba possess all the deadly qualities of 

 a poisonous snake? I cannot imagine any 

 animal receiving a wound in the face, caus- 

 ing it to swell up, from a snake said to be 

 deadly in the strict sense of the term, and 

 yet to survive. It is true that pigs in the 

 United States destroy numbers of rattle- 

 snakes, but I suppose they would succumb 

 to the effects of the poison if they were bit- 

 ten by the snakes. In the same way it was 

 maintained that the mangoose was capable 

 of resisting the venom of the cobra, I b(* 

 lieve, but few believe it now. Many years 

 ago, while in India, I saw a tame domesti- 

 cated mangoose on two occasions seize cob- 

 ras by the back of their heads and carry 

 them off in triumph. It was much too wily 

 and active to be bitten by a cobra. Had it 

 received the full charge from the poison 

 fang of the latter, death, I doubt not, would 

 have ensued. If the common domestic cat 

 of this country were to be bitten by our 

 only poisonous English snake, the adder, 

 would it escape death? I believe not. — 

 Land aud Water. 



The success of the pig in this country in 

 destroying the rattlesnake is not owing to 

 any immunity from the effects of the poi- 

 son, but to the fact of his always present- 

 ing his jowl to his adversary to receive the 

 bite; the thick fat on the cheek containing 

 no blood vessel by which the poison could 

 be carried to the rest of the system. 



— Fruit is kept in Russia by being packed 

 in creosotized lime. The lime is slacked in 

 water in which a little creosote has been dis- 

 solved, and is allowed to fall into powder. 

 The latter is spread over the bottom of a 

 deal box, to about one inch in thickness. A 

 sheet of paper is laid above, and then the 

 fruit. Over the fruit is another sheet of 

 paper, then more lime, and so on until the 

 box is full, when a little finely powdered 

 charcoal is packed in the corners and the 

 lid tightly closed. Fruit thus enclosed will, 

 it is said, remain good for a year. 



Chloride of Lime. — Among the things 

 which should always be kept in the house is 

 a small quantity of chloride of lime in a 

 tightly corked bottle. This is to be used in 

 case of wounds inflicted by dogs or rabid 

 animals, in the following manner: Mix thor- 

 oughly two tablespoonsful of lime with a 

 half pint of fresh water and bathe the wound 

 almost without cessation until the physician 

 arrives, or u\.til the poison is neutralized. 



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 Coastwise Router of Travel. 

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 Game Fish of Florida. 



Three Months in Florida for One Hundred Dollars. 

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 Fort Capron. 

 Fishing at St. Augustine. 

 Black Bass Fishing on Sprace Creek. 

 Hunting the Panther. 

 The Environs of Tallahassee. 

 Private Dougherty and the Bass. 

 Pet Birds of St. Augnstine. 

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 Among the Seminoks. 

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