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man's time was 8m. 15s. The last race was between six- 

 oared shells, the crews being selected from the college and 

 the School of Mines as follows: College— Sprague, bow; 

 Eldridge, No. 2; Brown, No. 3; Colgate, No. 4; Griswold, 

 No 5; Goodwin, stroke. School of Mines— Seeley, bow; 

 Newberry, No. 2; Murphy, No. 3; Ward, No. 4; Boyd, No. 

 5; E. E. Sage, stroke. From the start the race belonged 

 to the college six, who rowed in much better form and 

 swing than their opponents. They led all the way and 

 won by three lengths in 5m. 20s., the six from the School 

 of Mines crossing the finish eleven seconds later. 



Boating at Hakvabd. — The students of this university 

 are working with a will this autumn to perpetuate the 

 boating traditions and to regain, if possible, Harvard's 

 laurels of victories scored in past years. Bancroft '78, the 

 present captain of the university, is making every effort to 

 secure able men to fill the vacancies in the eight-oared 

 boat, which have been made by graduation and desertion. 

 Besides the "variety" crews there are four club crews in 

 regular practice for the approaching fall races and conjec- 

 tures as to the respective chances of each club of winning 

 are now the order of the day. The Freshmen, as yet, have 

 not taken any decided steps toward the formation of a class 

 crew. 



On Saturday last the regular faU scratch races took 

 place. The entries were numerous, the men in tolerable 

 condition, and the water all that a boating man could de- 

 sire. The crews were drawn by lot, and after a few min- 

 uies practice were called into line and sent off over a course 

 about a mile in length. The first race was for pair-oars 

 and was easily won by LeMoyne, '78, and Jacobs, '79, the 

 second placeO was taken by Sheal'e, '79, and Weld 

 '79; Morgan, '78, and Shillito, '79, dropping out. 

 The next race was for sixes, with the following 

 crews, Weld — Page, captain and stroke; Trimble, '80; Tay- 

 lor, '77; Tuckerman, '78; Hastings, '78; Bull, '77, bow. 

 Hokoorthy— Hitchcock, '77, stroke; Morgan, '78; Weld, 

 '79; Brown, '77; Hooper, '80; Brownlow, L. S., bow. 

 Hotyoke— LeMoyne, '78, Captain, stroke; Denton, L. S. 

 S., Parker, '78; Donaldson, '78; Stiles, '77; Miller, 

 '78- Mathews— Keyes, stroke, '78; Harwood, '77; Shillito, 

 '79; Corey, '80; Sloane, '77; Griswold, bow. After a hotly 

 contested struggle between the first three boats the crews 

 crossed the line in the order named above. The last race 

 was for four-oars, with the following entries: First crew, 

 Jacobs, '79; Denton, L. S. S. ; Sloane, '77; Miller, '78. 

 Second crew, Keyes, '78; Bull, '77; Taylor, '77; Townsend, 

 '80. Third boat, LeMoyne, '78; Morgan, '78; Parker, '78; 

 Miller, '79. Fourth boat, Shillito, '79; Trimble, '80; 

 Hooper, '80; Brownlow, L. S. It was anybody's race 

 until the boats were a hundred yards from the finish 

 when the Jacob's crew and the Keyes crew had an 

 exciting tussle and drew away from the others. The 

 Jacobs crew won by half a length. This closed the 

 races for the day. On the 28th prox., the regular fall races 

 for the Beacon cup takes place on the Charles river course, 

 when some good sport may be anticipated. The prizes in 

 these races were pewter tankards. 



— The single scull race between Brayley and Wallace 

 Ross came off on the Kennebecassis at St. Johns, on the 

 19th inst. The distance was two miles and turn, and the 

 stakes $1,000. Brayley took the lead and held it until near 

 the turning point, when Ross passed him and made the 

 turn first. He gradually drew away, beating Brayley with 

 ease by five lengths. Time, 28m. 30s. There was very 

 little betting here on the result. 



The Single Scull Championship. — The single scull 

 race between W. Scharff and E. Morris, for the champion- 

 ship and $2,000, was rowed at Pittsburgh on the 21st. The 

 race was closely contested throughout, Scharff getting the 

 lead at the start, but each leading alternately until the 

 turning stake, which Scharff turned first, and not being 

 again lead won by a length, doing the five-mile course in 

 35m. 35s. The course selected was on the Monongehela 

 river. They started opposite Salt Forks Station, went two 

 miles and a half up the river to the turning boat opposite 

 Miller's Landing and then returned. This course is nearly 

 three eights of a mile longer than the Brown-Coulter one, 

 and is 300 yards further up the river. The referee and 

 judges accompanied the men over the course. 



THE BOND BOAT. 



Cleveland, Ohio. October loth, 1876. 

 Editok Forest and Stream:— 



In the letter of John J. Palmer, in Forest and Stream October 

 l*th, there is a part which might lead to mistake. The sentence, '"The 

 advantage it (my boat) has over all other canvas folding boats," etc., is 

 wrens? . Canvas is not used in the construction of my boats at all. In 

 addition to the very nattering acknowledgements of K. O. Daw, I wil 

 say, that for all shallow water uses my new model has repeatedly beaten 

 the best wooden boats that could be produced. I must disagree with 

 you in regard to the suostitution of iron for wood in the bottom of 

 my boats. The plan adopted by experienced sportsmen of hauling their 

 boats out of water and turning over when not in use will stop the 

 "Teredo." And my late plan of using harder wood than white pine or 

 cedar, and making it still tougher by immersion in an oil cement, to- 

 gether with a little care on Uie part of the users, will greatly prevent 

 injury from coon oysters. I have built light iron bottom boats and see 

 objections to their use, but want of space prevents explanation here. 

 Very Respectfully, W. E. Bond. 

 .*«.»_ . 



— It is calculated, we are told, says the London News, 

 that every time the 81 ton gun is discharged, something 

 like 25 or 30 pounds sterling vanishes in smoke, and when 

 complicated shell and delicate fuzes are employed, instead 

 of simply an iron bolt of 1,750 pounds, which usually does 

 duty as a cannon ball, the cost of every round is greater still. 



lew gubUcxtioM. 



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—The carpet bug which has lately wrought great havoc 

 with carpets and woollen clothing (and is even said, though 

 this is doubtful, to attack cotton fabrics) in Schenectady 

 and TJtica, is the larva? (or worm stage of a small beetle, 

 prettily variegated with brown, red and white, the anthrenus 

 scrophularia, familiar in Europe, but hitherto unknown in 

 this country. It is much more destructive than the carpet 

 moth, and no effectual exterminator of it has been dis- 

 covered. The larva; is about 1-8 inches long, egg-shaped, 

 covered with fine bristles and hard to catch. 



A Guide to Church Furnishing and Decoration : A. H. 



Andrews & Co., Chicago. Price, 50 cents. 



This little work is unique. The publishers, who are manufacturers of 

 church furniture, have prepared a series of articles which give, in a con- 

 cise and readable form, a summary of the information most valuable to 

 those engaged in building, furnishing or decorating churches. An 

 opening article on "The Canon of Taste in Church Architecture and 

 Furnishing," occupies 45 pages. In it, the author says that church ar- 

 chitecture, to be in good taste, must be new, useful, and not inappropri- 

 ate; must be approved by the usage of the Apostles or the Primitive 

 Church ; must be connected svith other time- honored and hallowed asso- 

 ciations; or it must be an appropriate symbol of some article of Christain 

 Faith. The article on Gothic Architecture comprises a concise sum 

 mary— including vocabularies of architectural terms— of the history 

 of the development of the arch and of the architectural styles which 

 culminated in the Gothic. Following this is a series of special articles 

 on Wood Work, Stained Glass, Fresco Painting, Decoration in Wall 

 Papers, Encaustic Tiles, Metal Work, Steam Heating, Hot Air Furnaces, 

 Organs, Belt and Tower Clocks. These articles bear evidence of careful 

 preparati n, and comprise the theories and general information and sug- 

 gestions with which all persons ought to to be familiar before undertak- 

 ing to expend money for goods or work in those departments. 



To avoid any possible suspicion of making their articles to suit their 

 own work rather than the requirements of true Art, the publishers have 

 caused the articles to be written by disinterested and competent persons. 

 A large portion of the book is devoted to advertisements of church 

 goods, and it will be sent free on application, to members of any congre- 

 gation which desires to purchase auy work described. 



Prof. J. D. Whitney has another one of his interesting 

 articles on physical geography as the leader in the October American 

 Naturalist, this number being entitled "Plain, Prairie and Foiest, Fart 

 I.'* He discusses the reasons why some portions of the country are 

 well wooded and others free from trees, but confesses that he has to of- 

 fer no explanation of the formation of the prairies. Prof. W. J. Bead 

 gives a short general account of carnivorous plants, Dr. Packard (the 

 editor) traces a century's progress in American zoology, and concludes 

 that its future progiess "will in part depend upon the attention paid to 

 it by medical students, to whom we may look for treatises on history 

 and embryology. When professorships of zoology alone are established 

 at our colleges (at present mineralogy, botany, zoology and geology are 

 often taught by a single person) competent seience teachers wiU arise 

 for our higher schools, and the science, we may hope, will be cultivated 

 with somethiug of the thoroughness of the German methods. At pres- 

 ent we are not so greatly behind France and England as we were 20 

 years ago. There is. however, danger that Russia will outstrip us, and 

 we are about on a level with Scandinrvia and the Dutch." Dr. Packard 

 thinks that her eafter we may hope even to compete with Germany, but 

 says our need is of specialists, the tendency in this country being to- 

 wards mediocrity. Other articles of especial interest to our readers are 

 "The Missing Link between the Vertebrates and Invertebrates," sketch- 

 ing the views of Dr. Anton Dohrn; and "Aquaria: Their Past, Present 

 and Future," by Wm. A. Lloyd of the Manchester Aquarium, England, 

 which should be carefully read by everyone interested in the subject. 



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No Notice Taken of Anonymous Communications, 



We have seen some exquisite specimens of bills for out-of-door post- 

 ing from Samuel Booth, pictorial printer, 199 Centre street, which almost 

 rival the primitive chromos. They are almost too fine to put out in the 

 wet. 



Richmond Despatch and Whig, of Virginia, will please accept our 

 grateful recognition ol their repeated courtesies extended to this jour- 

 nal and its editor. 



G. W. S., Boston.— In the Philadelphia awards was any notice taken 

 of articles exhibited in your Hunter's Camp, individually? Ans. Alas! 

 no. The »oor Hunter's luck is much like the Fisherman's. 



G. A. W., Brisrol, N. H.— Please give me the price of a work pub- 

 lished by you entitled "Camp Life in Florida." Ans. Price $1.5(J pp. 

 350, postpaid by mail . 



T. S. R., Minneapolis, Minn.— Will you please tell me through your 

 paper where and at what price I can obtain a copy of the second part of 

 Vol. VL of the "Proceedings and Contributions of the Essex Institute?" 

 Ans. Address Editor Essex Bulletin, Salem, Mass. 



G. C. P., New York.— Please advise me in the next issue of your pa- 

 per if No. 7 grain of Carrie & Harvey powder is too large for a 32-inch, 

 10-gauge barrel (breech-loader), and also the best quantity to use. The 

 gun weighing eleven pounds. Ans. No. 7 Curtis & Harvey's powder 

 will answer well for your gun. Use 5J drachms powder, 1 i oz. shot. 



A. C. B., Marysville, Cal.— Why do you not publish the list of win- 

 ning dogs at the Centennial Bench Show? Ans. They were printed in 

 our issues of September 14th and October I5ta. As your papers of those 

 dates must have miscarried we send you duplicate copies. 



C. C. H. W.— Will you please favor me with information where I can 

 procure the right kind of paper for making gun wads? Ans. The paper 

 for Ely.s chemically prepared wads, we think cannot be piocured here. 

 For common cut wads old pasteboard boxes are as gocd as anything. 



Geo. H., Grantville, Mass.— I have afuD-blood Gordon setter fourteen 

 months old, weighing about 45 pounds. He seems to be afflicted mlh a 

 humor taking the form of quite large pimples. I would say that I have 

 applied sulphur ointment made from a formula spoken of in one of your 

 former issues, and it seems to effect a cure in the places applied, but 

 breaks out anew. Ans. In addition to using the compound sulphur 

 ointment give him some flour of sulphur; enough to move his bowels, 

 feed little or no meat, give plenty of exercise, and wash him occasionally 

 with carbolic soap. 



Car, Rockland.— 1. What do you think of the following target for a 

 No. 12 breech-loading, 7i pound 1 oz., 30-inch barrel. No. 7 shot, 3 drs. 

 powder, 40 yards, 30 incn circle: Riant barrel, 90; left, 118? 2, What 

 charge for a 10-gauge, 9-pound, breech-loading gun for sea shooting? 

 3. What effect would two wads over the shot have? Ans. 1 Very 

 good for the charge of shot. 2. 5 drachms powder 1J oz. No. 4 shot. 3. 

 Very bad effect, but very effective over the powder. 



T. E. D., Hartford.— 1. I have a young setter, and around his mouth 

 and eyes are sores, and the hair comes off. Can you give me a cure? 

 2. Also can you tell me of a way to break an old dog of mouthing birds 

 when he retrieves? Ans. t. See answer to "Geo. H." in this column. 

 2. It is a very difficult thing to break an old dog from mouthing birds. 

 The best remedy is to pass through a dead bird three or four wires sharp- 

 ened at both ends, projecting about a fourth of an inch, and compel him 

 to retrieve it. 



Tyro, New York.— In the article "Early Days in Pennsylvania" in the 

 last number of your paper, your contributor mentions Nock, Patrick & 

 Manton as being among the best makers of guns forty or fifty years ago. 

 Having recently become possessed of a double gun, muzzle-loader, 

 modern make and finish, marked S. Nock, Regent Circus, London, 

 please tell me how said Nock's guns are regarded by sportsmen, if known 

 at all now, and oblige. Ans. Yours being of modern make and finish 

 cannot be a Nock gun. It is not an unusual thing for gun makers to 

 have the name of celebrated makers engraved on their guns. 



E. P. L., Quebec— W T ould yon kindly through your valuable 

 columns answer the following: 1. Wh-,t is the proper charge for a 

 Lefaucheux pin -fire, single barrel, duck gun? length of barrel 45 inches, 

 weight 11^ lbs., bore 8. I want to kill wild geese, which are plentiful 

 here now. 2. What number of shot do you think would be more advis- 

 able to use? Ans. The proper way to load a gun is to use just as much 



powder as the shoulder will comfortably bear, about five drachms ton 

 such a gun as yours. 2. TJseB. B. shot. 



L. W. I., North La Crosse.— 1. I have a dog, and one of Ms ears has 

 been running for about a month, will you be kind enough to tell me what 

 I can do for him? 2. Also would you please inform me what kind of a 

 breech-loading shot gun Remington makes? Ans. 1. Make a solution of 

 sulphate of copper, 8 grains totl oz. water— after washing the ear on 

 with Castile soap and tepid water, pour some of the solution well into 

 the ear, twice a day for two days, keeping the ear well cleansed. Feed 

 little or no meat and give the dog exercise. 2. The Remington breech- 

 loaders have a good reputation and deserve it. 



X. Y. Z., Lynn, Mass.— "Triangle," in his excellent communication, 

 "Dressing and Packing Deer," says: "After having seen that your deer 

 is well bled, next, cut entirely round the arms, working your knife care- 

 fully well inward, until the intestines are clear of all connection with 

 the fiesh through the hams." I do not understand this part of the per- 

 formance, which he tells us to do, before he has hung the carcass up, or 

 skinned the forelegs, or cut the skin down through the belly. Will he 

 please explain? Ans. We did not clearly comprehend this part of his 

 instructions, either. 



An Old Un, Danbnry, Mass.— A and B are beating for quail. A's 

 dog finds a covey; the birds rise; A has his shot, and they go to cover in 

 a neighboring wood. B follows them up, but A claims that the game is 

 his exclusively, and that B has no right to meddle with them. Judg- 

 ment requested. Ans. If A and B were shooting in company we can- 

 not understand how such a difficulty could arise, as it is thj duty of ev- 

 ery sportsman to divide the shooting with his companion equally. But 

 if A and B accidentally met in the field, not intending to shoot toge'er, 

 and A's dog found a covey of birds, it would not be sportsmanlike fjr 

 B to follow and shoot in the covey thus found by A. 



Jones, Syracuse, N. Y.— In the letter of JohnH, Fitchet, on the nee o 

 the "Areca Nut for Puppies," (page 149) he says "I have always given i 

 when the first symptoms were shown." Now, what I want to know' 

 and I presume many others would also like to know, is, what are the 

 first symptoms of worms? My dog is sick quite often, will not eat then, 

 wants to curl up in a warrJ^lace, keeps swallowing and sometimes after 

 a good deal of an effort throws up froth? Ans. Your dog has evident 

 symptoms of worms. Sometimes dogs afflicted with with worms are 

 ravenous for food, yet keep low in fles-h, hair rusty, nose hot and dry. 



W. C, Blossburg.— I write to you, as I am a subscriber to your paper. 

 I am about buying a W. C. Scott breech-loading shot gun, double barrel . 

 1. What weight of gun? 2. What length of barrel? 3. What calibre? 



4. Is it best to have a modified choke-oore or not? 5. What is the 

 proper charge? Ans. 1. About 8J- pounds weight. 2. 30-inch barrels. 

 3. 12 calibre. 4. Not choke-bored, but use Kay's concentrating cartridg- 

 es for long shots. 5. Use 3£ drachms powder, 1} oz. shot; for ducks, 4 

 drachms powder, same weight of shot. Rebounding locks are general- 

 ly preferred. 



D. W., Ithaca.— Gun, muzzle-loader, 32 inch, 12 gauge, 8* pounds; 

 distance, 4u yards, 30 inch circle; 3 drachms Hazard powder, 1} oz. No. 

 G shot. Before choke-boring-average, left barrel, 100; right, 77. Left 

 gnu with Edwin D. Harris, 177 Broadway, N. Y., to be choke-bored: on 

 return— average, left, 105; right, 88. Sent gun back for improvement 

 and again on return-average, left, 93; right, 109. What do you advises 

 in the matter, and will the present reaming ont near the rnuz/.le pre- 

 clude the operations of anyther gunsmith? Ans. Unless there is suffi- 

 cient metal ia the barrels to permit of an entire re-boring of the gun, 

 we fear you will have to be content. But we would advise yon to take 

 your gun to some practical gunsmith; say Lefever, of Syracuse, and ask 

 his opinion. 



A, B. C, New York — 1. What do you consider the best charge For 

 ducking for use in a 12-gauge breech-loader (7^- pound, 30 ioche?) includ- 

 ing size of shot and also number of powder (Curtis & HarveyV)? Would 

 you advise using a concentrator, and if so, what would be the charge? 

 The gun is not a choke-bore in the sense that Greener uses it. 2. It ia 

 made by Charles Schilling, of Luhl. Prussia. Do you know the make, 

 and what is your opinion of it? What, ia the best manual for duck and 

 upland shooting for the instruction of a novice? Ane. 1. Your gun ia 

 too light for ducking, yet with 8* drachms of No. - Curtis & Harvey's 

 powder and 1 oz. No. 5 shot, ducks within 50 yards could be killed. 

 Kay's concentrating cartridges would be effective with such a gun. 2. 

 The reputation of the maker is good. 3. Long's "Wild Fowl Shooting" 

 Capt. Bogardus's "Field, Cover and Trap Shooting," and Dinks, Hutch- 

 inson & May hew: can supply you with those works. 



Jaco, Turner Junction, 111.— 1. Will you please to inform me through 

 the columns of your paper if there is a breed of dogs without tails. I 

 have a small fawn-colored female, and supposed that she had been de- 

 prived of her caudal appendage until she had a litter of pups, one of 

 which also lacked that expressive member. 2. Sores have recently ap- 

 peared on various parts of her body; one on the inside of her fore-leg 

 near second joint, and one on the side of her mouth. There is first a 

 swelling, then the hair drops off and the flesh becomes raw and bleeds. 

 Her diet has been principally meat. Ans. 1. There id no breed of tail- 

 less dogs. Yet from a freak of nature pups of all breeds of dogs are 

 occasionally born without tails. Many years ago, at Trenton, N. J., 

 we saw two of three of a litter of very fine high bred white pointer pups 

 which were born without tails. At Princeton, N. J., now, Mr. James 

 Lyons has a thoroughbred setter bitch born with only an apology for a 

 tail. 2. Dogs fed principally upon meat, and having little exercise, are 

 liable to skin diseases. Give yours a gentle purgative, feed little or no 

 mmt, washing him occasionally with carbolic soap, and give him ex- 

 el cise. 



W. H. S., Bart, Lancaster Co., Pa.— I take the liberty of asking yon 

 a few questions about Florida, trusting thai you will kindly reply. 1. 

 Can good land in healthy districts be bought or rented low? 2. Will 

 orange or sugar culture piy, or even general farming? 3. Can a person 

 unacquainted with the manner of growing the different products of 

 Florida succeed? 4. Must a man have plenty of money to succeed there? 



5. Could I (being a fair shoi) make any part of the expenses of a trip to 

 Florida this winter by disposing of f,ame killed? 6. What is the proba- 

 ble cost of a trip there, of say two weeks, and the best month to go? 

 I would like, to settle there provided I could do so with some certainty 

 of laying up something for a rainy day. Ans. We would advise you to 

 address the publishers of the "Florida New Yorker," at 34 Park Row, 

 this city. They are agents for Florida lands, and we believe can be de- 

 pended upon. Orange culture and syrup manufacture do pay, and can be 

 made to pay handsomely. There is no syrup to compare with the Florida 

 syrup, which, if once introduced into market, would supersede all others. 

 But yon must first learn to cnltivate the land before you can expect to 

 succeed, as the soil requires different treatment from western and eastern 

 soils. A man with not less than $1,000 can do very well. You can 

 always sell game, especially venison, to the hotels, some of which em- 

 ploy regular hunters to supply ! hem. Make your trip in December or 

 January. It will cost about"$95 if you rough it, and $20 more if you. 

 board in good style. 



Dartmouth Athletic Sports. — The athletic sports of 

 Dartmouth College were held on the 11th and 12th insts. 

 The following list gives the events and -winners:— 



FIRST DAT. 



Throwing a 171-Pound Hammer.— 0. W. Stevens; distance, 61 feet § 

 inches. 



Quarter of a Mile Race.— F. W. Farnsworth, Milford, m o9£ seconds. 



Best Three Jumps.— C. W. Stevens. 30 feet 3} inches. 



On« Hundred Yards Dash.— C. H. Cogswell, in 11} seconds. 



Putting 18f-Pounds of Shot.— O. S. Pleiffer, 27 feet 7f inches. 



Throwing Base Ball,— C W. Spring, 323 feet 5 incites. 



One Mile W T alk.— Louis Parkhurst, in 7 minutes 71 seconds. 



One Mile Run.— E. M. Victum, in 5 minutes Si seconds. 



Professor Taylor, of Woodstock, ran ten miles in 58 minutes 

 onds on a wager. He had sixty minutes in which to do it. 



SECOND DAT. 



Running Long Jump.— O. W. Stevens, 18| f**et ; 

 Standing Long Jump.— C. W Stevens. v $ f -i 

 Running High Jump. — Staoa, 



