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their distinct and established rates and classifications. 

 tws whether boxed or not boxed, do not come under 

 merchandise class, but as live stock— a class much higher— 

 nd ia many instances come under the same rate of fare as 

 a nassenger, because dogs, as well as other animals, while 

 in transit entrusted with Express Companies, their em- 



ployees 



must feed and water, and receive the same atten- 



tion as a helpless person. Hot only this, but whether fero- 

 cious or tame, boxed or chained in an express car, they are 

 hv no means agreeable companions. Nothing can be 

 Placed near or upon them, and occupy very important 

 room which otherwise could be used for packing boxes, 

 bundles etc. For these reasons and many others, Ex- 

 res3 Companies are compelled to make such rates on 

 does as will pay in a small measure for their trouble and 

 responsibilities while in their charge. Sportsman. 



We think that our correspondent is wrong in some re- 

 spects. He says "that when a "hunter" on board of a 

 traic, not wishing to be burdened by the care of his dog, 

 turns him over to the Express Company, etc." Now, if 

 we know the wishes of sportsmen on the subject, there are 

 none but who would be only too glad to have the "burden" 

 of their dogs if they could, but they have no option but to 

 pay either the Express Company or the baggage man . 

 And again, as to such each and every railroad and Express 

 Company having their distinct and classified rules, we 

 Know that this is not so as regard dogs. Most roads 

 have no classification at all, and we have paid half a dozen 

 different rates on as many trips over the same road. If all 

 the great trunk roads would do as the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road do, allow their baggage masters to charge a fixed 

 reasonable sum, there would be no trouble. A baggage 

 master on that road is allowed to charge 50 cents for a dog 

 to Philadelphia. We have been charged $3 by a baggage 

 master for bringing a brace from Sufferns, distant thirty 

 miles from this city. As for express agents and station 

 masters being compelled to pay the same rates over their 



loads as outsiders— whew! 



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DOGS OF CHINA. 



Editok Forest and Stream: — 



1 cannot conscientiously agree with you in your theory 

 as to the abscence of rabies in the dogs of the East, by at- 

 tributing it to a fish and rice diet. Personal observation 

 of the habits of these animals has led me to believe it more 

 owing to an entirely distinct cause, and presumably trace- 

 able to climatic influences. An equable temperature the 

 year round, has, I fancy, far more to do with the general 

 health of our Eastern canines, than supposable at first blush. 

 Of course, in an empire so thickly populated as China, and 

 where poverty in all its stages among the lower classes is 

 visible it cannot be expected that dogs subsist upon the 

 same diet as natives, &nd when fish and rice are obtainable 

 it goes to satisfy the cravings of a human stomach rather 

 than that of the dog. Nevertheless these animals are not 

 delicate in regard to food and will eat anything, and are 

 usually found by the dozen about the stands of intinerant 

 resterateurs and fish marts, where they eagerly devour all 

 offal and garbage thrown aside, thereby benefiting the pub- 

 lic by acting as scavengers and satisfying the pangs of hun- 

 ger. I verily believe that were it not for the fact of these 

 brutes filling the capacity of a well appointed sanitary de- 

 partment, that some of the Chinese cities would become 

 u a inhabitable, or be depopulated by disease arising from 

 want of drainage or a vitiated atmosphere. Acting in the 

 light of a benefactor, the dog of China is, therefore, an al- 

 most necessary appendage To every household, and is no 

 doubt as much an object of family solicitude as paddy's 

 pig, although the same stricture is equally applicable to the 

 pig of the Celestial Empire, who, like the dog, knows not 

 from where or whence his next meal will come. Of- 

 fal eating is attendant with its long train of diseases, the 

 most prominent among which is Chorea, and with this 

 complaint these animals suffer dreadfnlly. Aside from the 

 diseased portion of their race, the average Chinese animal 

 usually looks in fair condition, and generally manages to 

 escape that scourge with which his cogener of the Western 

 world is afflicted— distemper. Tojin. 



January M y 1877. 



KENNEL DISINFECTANT. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



t In giving the prescription for the disinfectant in your 

 issue of January 4th, I see you used the letter z to desig- 

 nate quantity. When I wrote it did not strike me that you 

 might not be provided with the proper signs. As it now 

 stands one is as liable to take it for drachms as ounces. 

 Ihe prescription should read thus:— 



Tinct. Camphorse, oz. iij. 



Tinct. Mjrr&je, oz iij. 



Tinct. Saponis Camph., oz. ij. 



Acini Acetici Glaciaha, m. clx. 



Oleii Picis, oz. j. 



Mix. &dd ia the above order. 

 , -Now I wish to give a hint in the use of areca nut. On 

 xne day that it is given, the dog should fast. Give three 

 times a day, following with a dose of castor oil early the 

 louowing morning; a little turpentine added to the castor 

 on will do no harm. If this does not prove successful, 

 give twenty grains of areca nut three times, every other day, 

 until nine Coses have been taken— the dog fasting the days 

 on which the nut is given-, the days succeeding the ad- 

 ministration of the nut the dog is to be well fed, and also 

 eceive the dose of castor oil and turpentine early in the 

 «7°l n ]*' * n case of failure— as will rarely happen— after 

 such administration, I will speak of another time. 



Archer. 



f T ?* E . Cast Iron Dachshunds.— The Chicago Field de- 

 j-enas its celebrated pictures of these dogs, and publishes 

 wh- h £ from Dr. Twaddell, the owner of the dogs, in 

 vnicii he says in reply to those who think the engravings 

 thJ 1 c ^ ricatui 'es of the dogs, they may be, but if they are, 

 lueaehneator alone is to blame, for with the exception 

 end fh %h r. en S ravin g 3 the tails are a trifle thicker at the 

 fur • ? e J P^icago Field gave accurate copies of the sketches 

 to tw Tlle credit of the sketches is thus transferred 



"the artist and Dr. Twaddell, for caricatures the sketches 

 t)ph oerta * a ly ar o. It is curious to see how American ex- 

 the t- n ° e P orroborates tnat ot English breeders in regard to 

 of H-! me u takes to correctly appreciate this peculiar breed 

 <» *o&.~F<tmm' Gazette. J 



TREATMENT OF DISTEMPER. 



Philadelphia, Jan. 83,187?. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:-— 



While shooting in Maryland this fall, a friend of mine had two setters. 

 One eighteen months old, and the other two years. Both were taken 

 with distemper in a very violent form, and it looked very much as if he 

 would lose both. The only course of treatment he pursued was a tea- 

 spoonful of honey three or four times a day, and tar in the roof of the 

 mouth once a day, about the size of a hickory nut, using a small paddle 

 for the tar. At first he kept them near the fire, but they got so much 

 worse he removed them to the barn, where they had a warm bed in the 

 straw. In ten days both dogs were perfectly well and able to do their 

 work. I do not know if you know of this remedy, but as it worked so 

 well with both dogs I thought it might be of use to others. 



P. S. My friend has cured several dogs which had the distemper, 

 using no other treatment, as he always has one or more young dogs 

 coming on. Morse. 



SKATING. 



In the forcible language of our city boys the rain of 

 Monday night and the rise in the temperature of Tuesday 

 "knocked spots out of skating,' 5 at least so far as sport on 

 the ice was concerned, but it decidedly improved business 

 at the new Valley Skating Kink in Brooklyn, which, under 

 excellent management, has just been opened as a sort of 

 American model of the London and Paris skating rinks. 

 This week has been set apart for a series of school recep- 

 tions at this establishment which include the Polytechnic 

 and Packer Institutes, the Adelphi Academy and other 

 prominent schools of Brooklyn. The floor of the rink has 

 been laid with Parisian asphalt, and a model surface for 

 the Plympton roller skates has therefore been provided. 

 In the evening band concerts add to the attraction pre- 

 sented by the lively scene on the floor. 



— Races on skates are now a feature of every Saturday's 

 doings on the Capitoline Lake, Brooklyn. 



— The new Skating House at Prospect Park has been 

 thrown open to the public, and it is much admired. 



—The fashionable skating resort in the metropolis is 

 McMillan's Skating Pafk on Madison avenue. 



— Over $100,000 worth of skates have been sold in the 

 metropolis this season. 



BASE BALL. 



— The International Professional Association is to be or- 

 ganized at Pittsburg at the Convention to be held there on 

 February 20th. 



— The Chicago nine for 1877 will be McVey, • Spalding, 

 Bradley, Barnes, Anson, Peters, Glenn, Hines, and Waite. 



This is a strong team. 



♦ 



Bangor, Me., Jan. 12th, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



If "Mr. Micawber" can answer the questions about Pi- 

 quet I asked you I should be under obligations to him. I 

 see that in the hurry of writing I misstated them. They 

 should be thus : 1— A is elder hand, holds all the clubs 

 and a quart major in spades. B holds all the hearts and a 

 quart major in diamonds. A counts 10 for inchs and 40 

 for the capot— 50. Does he also count a "pique?" 2— A 

 and B both are at 90. A is elder hand and holds only a 

 quartorze of aces. B has a good quint. Which wins the 

 game? Wm. H. S. 



§f &ch ting nnd Ranting. 



HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 



Date. 



Jan. 18. 

 Jan. 19. 

 Jan. 20., 

 Jan. 21.. 

 Jan. 22.. 

 Jan. 23.. 

 Jan. 24.. 



Boston. 



New York. 



H. M. 



H. M. 



I 52 



10 55 



2 25 



11 3.1 



3 00 



mid. 



3 30 



85 



4 22 



1 15 



5 12 



1 58 



6 08 



2 47 



Charleston 



H. 



10 

 10 

 11 

 11 

 



1 



2 



36 

 14 

 56 

 20 

 12 

 16 



Brooklyn Yacht Club.— Last Wednesday the annual 

 meeting of the Brooklyn Yacht Club was held at the rooms 

 of the club, corner of Montague and Court streets. The 

 chair was occupied by P. W. Ostrander. The Treasurer's 

 report showed that the year's receipts had been $4,209, and 

 the expenditures $4,058 36. The nnmber of yachts now 

 owned by the club is fifty — of which twenty-two are 

 schooners, twenty-four sloops and four steamers. Thirteen 

 yachts were added to the club during the past year. 



The following officers were elected to the club for the 

 ensuing year: Commodore, John S. Dickerson, of schooner 

 yacht Madeline,- Vice Commodore, James D. Smith, of the 

 schooner yacht Estelle; Rear Commodore, R. H. Huntley, 

 of sloop yacht Niantic; President, P. W. Ostrander; Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer, William T. Lee; Assistant Secretary, 

 George G. Dunning; Measurer, John K Sawyer; Fleet 

 Surgeon, J. G. Johnson, M. D.; Judge Advocate, John 

 Oakley; Trustees, Robert Dillon, W. R. Wadsworth, Chas. 

 W. Blossom, S. McElroy, and the President, Secretary and 

 Treasurer ex-offieio; Committee on Membership, A. L. 

 Blood, William N. Ringwood and Edgar F. Grout; Regatta 

 Committee, Henry W. Turner, William Bishop, and John 

 F. Ames. 



Quaker City Yacht Club. — At the annual meeting of 

 the Quaker City Yacht Club, of Philadelphia, held on 

 Wednesday evening, January 20th, the following •flicers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: Commodore, Charles 

 S. Austin, yacht Coquette; Vice Commodore, A. F. Ban- 

 croft, yacht Lillie; Rear Commodore, John Mintz, yacht 

 Goddard; President, N. B. Boyd; Secretary, Charles S. 

 Salin; Treasurer, Robert Baird; Assistant Secretary, J. G. 

 Baughman; Measurer, Samuel Taylor; Regatta Committee, 

 J. S. Pomeroy, J. L. Wills and Charles B. Magee; Trustees, 

 Alexander Wood, D. W. Murphy, E. S. McDowell and J. 

 L. Wills; Membership Committee, Charles Mihlbauer, A. 

 F. Bancroft and Charles Mason. 



The Amateur Association — Detroit Selected for the 

 Regatta of 1877.— The Executive Committee of the Na- 

 tional Association of Amateur Oarsmen met on Saturday 

 at the Knickerbocker Cottage. After the transaction of 

 some routine business the committee went into consider- 

 ation of the time and place for holding the regatta of 1877 . 

 A, letter was read from the Excelsior Boat plub, of Detroit, * 



and also one from the Detroit River Navy, requesting the 

 association to consider favorably a proposition to hold the 

 leeratta on the Detroit river. Mr. W. C. Stoepel, Secretary 

 ofthe Excelsior Boat Club, of Detroit, and Mr. James 

 Johnston were named by the Commodore of the Detroit 

 River Navy to represent their association at the meeting. 

 Both gentlemen were present, and Mr. Stoepel addressed 

 the committee on the facilities for holding the regatta 

 there, and the majority of the committee seemed to favor 

 the idea. When put to a vote it was unanimously decided 

 that the regatta of 1877 be held at Detroit on the 15th and 

 16th of August. Ed Smith, of the Augonauta Boat Club, 

 who took part in the Centennial regatta, was disqualified 

 as an amateur. A resolution was adopted to the effect 

 that any disqualified amateur shall be regarded as a pro- 

 fessional, and that competing with such disqualified 

 amateur shall be deemed a violation of the constitution. 

 The Argonauta Club, on account of the decision in the 

 case of Ed Smith, tendered its resignation from the Na- 

 tional Association. 



—The annual meeting of the Seawanhaka Boat Club, of 

 Brooklyn, was held last Wednesday evening. Mr. Robert 

 H. Orr in the chair. The report of the Treasurer showed 

 that the club was at present in a sound financial condition, 

 and after the transaction of some unimportant routine 

 business, the following officers for the ensuing year were 

 elected: President, Frederick A. Fox; First Vice Presi- 

 dent, Daniel A. Moran; Second Vice President, James F. 

 Bendernagle; Treasurer, William A. Kelly; Secretary, 

 William H. Goodnow; Captain, Robert H. Orr; Lieutenant, 

 John M. Ranken; Investigating Committee, A. Harris, Jr., 

 J. Moller, T. MeFarland; Board of Trustees, W. Wilson, 

 C. Searles, C. D. Jones, A. W. Fisk, J. M. Ranken. 



Schuylkill Navy. — The Schuylkill Naval Board has 

 elected the following officers for the ensuing year : 



Commodore — Alex. Krumbhaar, Philadelphia Boat Club; 

 Vice Commodore, John Hockley, Jr., Undine Boa f , Club ; 

 Secretary, Wm. C. Brown, Crescent Boat Club ; Treasu- 

 rer, Calhoun Megargee, College Boat Club ; Log Keeper, 

 Wm. R. Tucker, Undine Boat Club.— Sculls. 



A Busy Editor.— Mr. D. G. Smith, Editor of the Mira- 

 raichi Advance, published in Canada, is an active coal 

 dealer, agent of the Anchor Line Steamship Company, 

 proprietor, of an extensive book and stationery establish- 

 ment, a job printer, agent for four insurance companies, 

 and agent for Hall's Safes, and yet finds plenty of time to 



devote to snowballing. 



— .^»»i 



All About Florida in Florida New Yorker, 21 



Park Row, New York. Specimen copy 10 cents. — Adv. 



Ambition is rarely satisfied with any attainment. The greatest men 

 have been the most restless in achievement. Another example is found 

 in B. T. Babbitt's Toilet Soap, his latest invention. In this are com- 

 bined delicate, natural scent, and the purest material to be i onnd. 

 As a result it is [unequalled, and will soon become the great popular 

 favorite.— Adv. 



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The February Galaxy will be an unusually bright num- 

 ber. In this number will be commenced a new serial story by Justin 

 McCarthy, called "Miss Misanthrope." It will run through the year. 

 Henry JameB, Jr., will contribute on article called "The Letters of 

 Honore de Balzac." Walter Burlingame writes on the "Murder of Mar- 

 gary.'" Secretary Welles's articles on ''Lincoln Administration" will be 

 continued. "Applied Sciences" will be treated on by Chas. Barnard, 

 Poems by Bret Harte, W. Winter, and MaryAinge DeVere will be 

 found in this number. 



The Illustrated Weekly. We observe thai the price of 

 our spirited contemporary, the Illustrated Weekly, has been reduced to 

 five cents per copy, which makes it probably the cheapest Illustrated 

 paper published, and yet the material is excellent and the cuts equal to 

 any. 



Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, Jewelers, and 

 Importers, have always a large stock of sil- 

 ver articles for prizes for shooting, yachting, 

 racing and other sports, and on request they 

 prepare special designs for similar purposes. 

 Their timing watches are guarantee! for ac- 

 curacy, and are now very generally used for 

 sporting and scientific requirements. Tiffany 

 & Co., are also the agents in America for 

 Messrs. Patek, Philippe & Co., of Geneva, of 

 whose celebrated watches they have a full 

 line. Their stock of Diamonds and other Pre- 

 cious Stones, General Jewelry, Bronzes and 

 Artistic Pottery is the largest in the world, 

 and the public are invited to visit their estab- 

 lishment without feeling the slightest ofoliga- 

 uon to purehag#. Union 9qfeUa*£^N©w York, 



