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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 



ING WEEK. 



Thursday, Oct. 12th.— Racing: Jerome Park. N. Y.; Kingston, 

 Canada. Trotting: Kingston, N. Y.; Lowell, Mass.; Point Breeze 

 Park, Philadelphia; Waiseka, 111.; White Plains, N. Y.; Frederick, Md. 

 LoubatCup, New York Yacht CInb. American Rifi- Association matches. 

 Glen Dake. Inter Staie match, Cretdmoor. Pitjeon toun-ament at 

 Louisville, Ky., and Dayton, Onio. Base ball: Chelsea vs. Olympic, at 

 Brooklyn; Orange vs. Enterpiise, at Oranjze, N. J. 



Friday, Oct. 13th.— Trotting at Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia; 

 Watseka, 111.; White Plaiu*, N. Y.; Frederick, Md. Base ball, Enter 

 prise vs. Chelsea, at Brooklyn; New York Nine vs. Oljmpic, of Paterson, 

 at Jersey City. 



Saturday, Oct. 14th.- -Racing: Jerome Park, N. Y. TroUine: 

 Frederick, Md. Athle ics. Amherst College. Turf, Field and Faun 

 badye Creedmoor. Y<«le Fa*l Races. .bake daltonstall. Base ball: New 

 Yoik Nine Vs. Orange, at Jersey City. 



Monday, Oct. 16ih.— Employes' rifle meeting, Cretdmoor. 



Tuesday. Oct. J7th.— Trotting. Woodbury, N. J. Empire State 

 Rifle Association meeting, Syracuse, ^. Y. 



Wednesday, Oct. 18th.— Trot t'ng: Woodbury, N. J.; Brooklyn 

 Driving Paik, L. I. Empire State Rifle Association meeting, Syracuse, 

 N. Y. " 



"Al FuEbCo" as a Good bAMAKiTAN.— It was a pleas- 

 ant lecoguition of the medical skill of Dr. 0. J. Ken- 

 worthy, known to our readers as "Al Fresco," that the 

 authorities of Jacksonville placed him on the Board oi 

 Health soon after he located in that city. Dr. K. was for 

 several years connected with the Government hospitals in 

 Australia, and is reputed quite as skilltul in plying the 

 scalpel as in wielding the fly -rod, to which he has devoted 

 the leisure of his later years. They tell a good story of 

 the Doctor's adventures while looking afier the sanitary 

 condition of the City of Jacksonville. A suspicious dame 

 in the suburbs mistook him for a tramp, and sent for a 

 policeman to eject him from the premises, which consti- 

 tutes an amusing episode in his Florida expeiiences which 

 ■we shall leave him to record in the circumstantial detail it 

 deserves. Our special object now is to refer to some of 

 his recent acts of heroic benevolence which would never 

 reach the public through any word of his. We are in 

 formed that he has raited $o00 for the yellow fever suffer- 

 ers in Brunswick, and that he has tendered his professional 

 services gratuitously in their behalf. Such acts of devo- 

 tion ought not pass unnoticed. 



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— Frequent inquiries are made for books of instruction 

 in artificial fly making. Those who are anxious to learn 

 the art can now avail themselves of the services of a com- 

 petent instructor, see advertisement elsewhere. 



GOOD hunting is at present scarcely to be found east 

 of the Missouri river. West of that stream, how- 

 ever, there is a wide extent of territory, in many parts of 

 which large game of all descriptions may still be found in 

 considerable abundance by those who are sufficiently ac- 

 quainted with the country to know where to look for it. 

 There remain on the plains and in the mountains seven 

 species of ruminants that are sufficiently abundant to make 

 it well worth while that the different State and territorial 

 Governments should attempt before it is too late to protect 

 their game by severe laws— buffalo, elk, white-tailed deer, 

 mule deer, antelope, mountain sheep and moose are still to 

 be found in considerable numbers in various portions of 

 the trans-Missouri Slates and territories, but owing to a 

 savage and indiscriminating warfare which has been in- 

 augurated against them within the past few years their 

 numbers are decreasing more rapidly than ever before. 



Most of us remember the good service done some years 

 ago by Gen. Hager in bringing before the public the facts 

 in regard to the wanton destruction of the buffalo along 

 the line of the Smoky Hill Road in Kansas and Colorado. 

 The discussion at that time resulted in the adoption of 

 some measures to protect the buffalo, though it is to be 

 hoped that ere long still more stringent laws may be enacted 

 and enforced. But we have just now to speak of a coun- 

 try distant from the railroads, out of the way of the 

 average tourist, and fir from the haunts even of the gentle- 

 men sportsmen; we refer to the territory lying between 

 the Missouri river and the main divide of th> Rocky 

 Mountains north of the Union Pacific railroad. It is in this re- 

 gion that the most abundant supplies of wild game are to 

 be found, and it is here that these animals are slaughtered 

 for their hides alone by the professional hunter. 



Buffalo, elk, mule deer and antelope suffer most, and in 

 the order in which they are here mentioned. They are 

 destroyed without regard to season; the hides only are 

 taken and the meat left to feed the wolves, or to rot when 

 the spring opens. We know directly of thirty-four cow 

 elk killed out of a band of forty, about the middle of 

 April, 1875, by one man. The snows were deep, and the 

 butcher followed the poor animals until all but six were 

 slain. Each of these animals, if allowed to live, would 

 have produced a calf in a little over a month after the time 

 of its slaughter. Here there were sixty-eight elk killed by 

 one man in a day and a half. It is estimated from reliable 

 information that in the winter of 1874-5, during the deep 

 snows, over three thousand elk were killed for their hides 

 in the valley of the Yellowstone between the mouth of 

 Trail creek and the Hot Springs. For the Territories of 

 Wyoming and Montana the destruction must have been 

 twenty times as great. An elk skin is worth from $2 50 to 

 $4, and to secure that pitiful sum this beautiful life is 

 taken and the 300 to 500 pounds of the most delicate 

 meat is left on the ground. 



A buffalo hide is worth $1.50 iu September and $2 in 

 October, and $2.50 in November, and at those prices many 

 men can be found to do the work of butchery. For, as 

 many of us know by experience, a man without any pre- 

 tensions to being a sfcillful hunter can slaughter a dozen or 

 two buffalo in a day wherever they are numerous. Mule 

 deer and antelope are more difficult to kill, but in these 

 days of breech-loading rifles a fair shot can kill several 

 out of a band before the rest can get out of reach. It is 

 a melancholy sight to see as we have seen iu a morniug's 

 march, half a dozen fresh doe antelope carcasses stripped ol 

 their skins, with the milk still trickling from their udders; 

 and it is sad to think that in addition two little kids must 

 starve for each of these. 



Mountain sheep and moose do not suffer to any consider- 

 able extent from these skin hunters. They are too wary to 

 be successfully pursued by these men, many of whom are 

 vagabonds of the most worthless description. There are 

 siime good hunters and good fellows among them; men 

 who would gladly relinquish the business could it be 

 wholly stopped, but who think and say that if the game is to 

 be exterminated they must make the most of it while it 

 lasts. Taken as a whole, however, they are a miserable 

 set, and many of them do not kill more than enough io 

 keep themselves in provisions and ammunition from month 

 to month. If all weie as good hunters as Yellowstone 

 Kelly there would now be scarcely an elk or an antelope 

 left in Montana. 



This skin hunting is quite a new thing in the territory, 

 having been initiated, as has been said, only three or four 

 years ago. In 1872 or '73 a firm of Fort iJenton tiaders, 

 who have since achieved an unenviable notoriety by selling 

 arms and ammunition to the hostile Sioux, conceived the 

 idea of fitting out parties to kill game for the hides, and 

 the result was so successful that the trade in wild hides has 

 been increasing ever since. 



What now can be done to remedy this state of affairs? 

 Stringent laws should be enacted, and not only enacted but 

 enforced. Game should not be killed except for food, and 

 then only during the autumn. Iu other words, no more 

 game should be killed than the hunter can use, and indis- 

 criminate hunting at any and all seasons should be pie- 

 vented. But we know that legislative bodies move slowly, 

 and that knots in red tape are as difficult to untie as that 

 of Gordius of old. In the mean time much, very much, 

 may be done by the officers of the aimy who are stationed, 

 on the frontier. The skin hunters who, of course, violate 

 the laws of all the territories which have game laws, may 

 be warned off, arrested, and so annoyed that tbey will in 

 future sedulously avoid the vicinity of posts where they 



have received such treatment. Action to this end at Camt>' 

 Baker, by Major H. Freeman, Seventh infantry, has quite 

 driven the skin hunters out of the country. The little ex- 

 ertion entailed by this course will be amply repaid by the 

 increase of large game in any section of the country where 

 its wanton and unnecessary disturbance is prevented. 



As things stand at. present the country where game mo«t 

 abounds is that which is now, or has lately been, infested 

 by hostile Indians. The red fiends know enough to pre- 

 serve their game from excessive and continual persecution 

 and it is where the white man dare not go that it is found 

 most abundant and most unsuspicious. The Indians are 

 the only real preservers of game in the West. 



Will not every officer and every western man to whom 

 these lines come think seriously on this matter and en- 

 deavor to do his part to put down terrible butchery? 



We observe that the Manitoba Free Press has authen- 

 tic information that the vanguard of migratory bui- 

 alo herds moving eastward has arrived on the western 

 boundaries cf that province, where they have not appeared 

 before in years. It says: "The Sioux Indians residing at 

 Devil's Lake in Dakota, have already been on a great hunt 

 and have returned to their homes with an abundance of 

 buffalo meat and numbers of robes. 



"The party of Mounted Police, who came into the city yes- 

 day from Fort McLeod and the Cypress Hills, passed in> 

 mense herds during their journey, the last seen being 

 about seventy miles west of the Mounted Police post afi, 

 Qu'Appelle, heading eastward." 



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INSECTS AS FOOD. 



AN article in a late number of the Scientific Farm'p 

 points out some of the insects used as food in va- 

 rious parts of the world. It will be remembered that Prof,, 

 C. V. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, cooked grass- 

 hoppers in various ways and found them palatable audi 

 nutritious. He advised the prairie farmers to give up the; 

 idea of starving and eat their pests. Locusts have always. 

 been a relished dish among the natives of Africa, having ai 

 strong vegetable taste, the flavor varying with the plants. 

 on which they feed. Diodorous Siculus and Ludolphus. 

 both refer to a race of people in Ethiopia supporting them- 

 selves upon locusts. Ludolphus remarks: "For it is a, 

 very sweet and wholesome sort of diet, by means of which 

 a certain Portugese garrison in India that was ready to yield; 

 for want of provisions held out till it was relieved another 

 way." Maddern states in his "Travels:" "The Arabs dry 

 them and grind them to powder, then mix this powder 

 with wa*er, forming them into round cakes, which serve 

 for bread." Dr. Livingstone consi lered them palatab'e 

 when roasted. They are eaten also by the Ptrsians, Egypt- 

 ians and Arabians, and many others. The South Airieans 

 also make food of spiders, white ants and their larvae, as 

 well as the larvae of the flesh-fly, and various catapillars, 

 which last were considered dainties by the ancient Romans. 

 Moths of several varieties are eaten by the natives of Aus- 

 tralia; one species called Bugong, is said to be more prized 

 by the Australian than any other sort of fond. The bodies 

 of these insects, it is stated, are large, and contain a quan- 

 tity of oil; they are sought after as a lucious and fattening 

 food. Grubs of all kiuds also are eaten by the natives of 

 Australia, and the chrysalis of the silk-worm by the Chi- 

 nese. The inhabitants of New Caledonia are said to 

 be fond of spiders, and ants are said to be sour and good 

 by those who have tasted them. Bees are eaten by various 

 people. The. Moors in West Barbary eseem the honey- 

 comb, with young bees in it, as delicious; but by one wit^ 

 ness it has been spoken of as insipid to his palate, and as. 

 having sometimes given him heartburn. Probably he had 

 neglected to extract, the bees' stings, as a bird or a toad 

 always does before eating ihem. Several species are eaten 

 by the Egyptian women, cooked with butter, to make them- 

 selves fat, and certain species are supposed to make th<-nu 

 prolific. The women of Arabia and Turkey also eat a 

 species of Tenebrio, fried in butter, to make themselves, 

 plump. Some of our Indians, especially in the Southwest,, 

 feed extensively iu the winter and spring on dormant in- 

 ^ecls, when they can find nothing better, and among 

 civilized persons tbey are us«d to some extent as medicine* 



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The Aquarium.— The JNew York Aquarium was for- 

 mally opened on Tuesday night with a reception a' tended 

 by at least fifteen hundred people. Hon. Robert B. Roo e- 

 velt delivered the opening address, in winch he described 

 the progress made by fish culture during the past thirty 

 years and argued its importance. Mr. Roosevelt drew upon 

 his large experience as Fish Commissioner of this 

 Slate for facts aud data regarding the productions of fishes 

 and the ease with which their numbers could be increased 

 by means of artificial invention. He was followed by Prof. 

 Ward who explained the mode of const lucting and regula- 

 ting the aquarium. After the addresses, the company 

 partook of a supper identical as to the menu with 

 that given by the Fish Culturists Association in Phila- 

 delphia last week, and which is described else- 

 where. The white whale from Labrador, which had 

 arrived that morning, disported in the large circular tank, 

 and the little seals attracted great attention. Mr. P a ? t J? ' 

 of Detroit, had also just arrived with a number of one 

 specimens of lake fisti. Fred Mather was ahno-st broken 

 down with the care of the whale and his pet salmon 

 eggs (brought by Mr. Livingston S'one from IhePacinc), 

 and the bur-ting of a small tank about finished him- I 11 

 Aquarium promises to be a favorite report. 



=~"How Gambler's Cheat at Cards" is the title of a ; verv 

 interesting article in the current number Of Tha $ 

 Weekly. .' 



