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FOKEST AND STREAM. 



goods to a Columbus merchant, forwarded some Sicily 

 oranges to try 'what he could do with them.* He has ship- 

 ped them to a bad market certainly, for there are now 

 hundreds of boxes from Florida, the sweetest and best 

 varieties known, offering at a cent per orange. A sale'can- 

 not be found in any of the principal cities. The orange 

 market is glutted, and there is no demand for them. A 

 large dealer told us yesterday he had telegraphed all around, 

 seeking purchasers at a cent apiece. The best he received 

 was an offer of $3 50 per box of a certain number from 

 Knoxville. It would cost $3 75 to get them there so they 

 did not trade." 



Whips. — Jockey and riding whips are made o f whale- 

 bone and pieces of cane spliced together, rounded to the 

 shape required, and plated over with catgut. Whalebone 

 cut in thin slices is also sometimes used for park whips in- 

 stead of catgut. 



A very pretty and expensive riding-whip, suitable as a 

 present for young ladies, is manufactured from strips cut 

 from the back of a rhinoceros hide, clarified, so as to look 

 like amber, and set in silver or gold, and, if expense is no 

 object, adorned with turquoise or other precious stones. 

 Rough strips of rhinocerot hide are commonly used in 

 Egypt to beat the famous donkeys, and at the Cape to flog 

 bullocks, where they are called gainbacks. 



Hunting whips are now made of a variety of woods, 

 and of thick solid whalebone, as well as covered with cat- 

 gut, like jockey whips. In English woods, blackthorn, 

 oak, holly, and yew are used. The last makes a very neat 

 light bunting wbip for ladies. Hunting whips have for 

 private use a buckhorn crook, on the thicker end, with a 

 steel stud let in the under side of the horn, to stop a gate 

 when needful ; on the other end is a loop of leather, called 

 a keeper, for attaching the thong. Hunting thongs are 

 made of horse leather cut in strips, and ptatted by hand. 

 The fashions of thongs loosely platted, and of colored 

 brown are comparatively modern. Among foreign woods 

 in favor for hunting whips are Malacca cane, a smooth red, 

 stiff cane, with a very hard bark or natural enamel; rattan, 

 which is jointed, smooth, and of a yellow color. Manilla 

 cane is smooth, cream-colored, and very inferior to the 

 other two. Bamboo is too brittle for hunting stocks. 



Small light whips are the modern fashion for those not 

 engaged in hunting professionally, like masters of hounds, 

 huntsmen, and whips. They have come into favor with 

 improved farming ana light field gates, that open easily. 

 The hunting whip, it must be noted, should rarely be used 

 to chastise a horse; spurs should be enough for any noise 

 capable of becoming a hunter. A thong is often of great 

 use to hold a gate back, and to lead a horse over an un- 

 jumpable place, or to retain for a time the over eager horse 

 of a lady by an impromptu leading rein. — British Mail. 



Taming Prairie Chickens. — Mr. James A. Storm fur- 

 nishes some information regarding pinnated grouse or prai- 

 rie chickens. He says that of all the birds of his acquain- 

 ance they are the most easily tamed. He has had them 

 eat from his hand in the space of live or six days from the 

 time they were caught. They will also breed I while con- 

 fined, if provided with a suitable run. He proposes this 

 year to try the experiment of domesticating and breeding 

 them, and thinks they can be raised to great advantage. 

 One object of his experiment is to obtain a cross between 

 them and the bantam. This, he thinks, will give the ban- 

 tam more stamina and hardiness, making it less liable to 

 disease, as well as tending to keep it of the diminutive 

 size so much sought after. If crossed with the Dominique 

 bantam he thinks the original markings of the prairie 

 chickens will be thereby retained. 



r iht MenneL 



Dogs at the Custom Hoose.— The Customs officers 

 last week seized for non-payment of duties five &k} e terriers, 

 brought over on one of the English steamers. This is quite 

 right, as those dogs are brought over merely for profit. 

 There is a difference, however, in the case of high bred 

 pointers and setters. The law admits free of duty all 

 animals imported for breeding purposes, as an encourage- 

 ment to improving the stock of the country. We trust 

 the Custom House people will bear this fact in mind in 

 dealing with dogs, and make the distinction when neces- 

 sary, without giving importers too much trouble. 



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Pittsburgh Bench Show.— We are indebted to A. H. 

 Lowe, Secretary of the Western Pennsylvania Poultry As- 

 sociation, for a list of awards at the Bench Show, held at 

 Pittsburgh from the 10th to the 17th of January. Un- 

 fortunately, however, reporters have an idea that if the 

 name of the owner is given, that of the winning dog is of 

 secondary consideration, so that we are without the names 

 of any of the dogs exhibited. The fortunate owners in the 

 sporting classes were as follows: — 



J. W. Knox, Pittsburgh— First premium English Imported Setter Dog 

 first premium English Imported Setter liitcu; first premium Native 

 English Setter Dog. 



J. S. Margarum, Washington, Pa.— Second premium Native English 

 Setter Dog; first premium native English Setter Bitch; second premium 

 Native Irish better Dog. 



Theo. Gray, Allegheny City— Second premium Setter Bitch; first pre- 

 mium Gordon Setter Dog. 



J. K. Duncan, Allegheny City- Second premium Gordon Setter Dog; 

 second premium Cordon setter Bitch; Native English Fointer Bitch. 



Thos. C. Periue, Pittsburgh — First premium Native Irish Setter 

 Bitch. 



JohnS. Speer, Allegheny City— Extra Special Pair Irish Setter Pups. 



J. P. O'Neil, Pittsburgh— First premium Red Irish Sutter Dog. 



William Martin, Pittsburgh— First premium Gordon Setter Bnch. 



Daniel Arenheim, Allegheny City- Second premium Setter Bitch and 

 Dog Pup. 



Chas. Richardson, Allegheny City — Extra Special best collection 

 Pointer Dogs. 



D. Dyer, M. D.— First premium Pointer Do_e\ 



Joseph J. Snellenburgh, New Brighton— Second premium Pointer 

 Dog. 



Joseph Watson. Pittspurgh— First premium Native Pointer Bitch. 



Edward H. Aclcley, Pittsburgh— Fust premium Pointer Bitch Pup. 



R. H. Dalzell, Pittsburgh— First premium Cocker Spaniel Dog; first 

 premium Cocker Spaniel Bitch. 



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A Good Point.— The "point" in our spirited illustra- 

 tion this week will be recognized by all sportsmen. A fast 

 dog catches the scent and stops in his stride with his head 

 over his shoulder in the direction of the birds. 



Poor Doll ! Have you seen her? Just before the picture 

 was taken she must have been jammed "end on" between 

 a locomotive and a stone wall. It beats the dachshunds, 

 if that were possible. Now all we want is a portrait of the 

 Otter hound, and Tom Bowling's pedigree to make the 

 "Only Illustrated" perfect. We'll tell the pedigree joke 

 if "Mohawk" don't let Dom Pedro rest on his "Highly 

 Commended" and Centennial honors. 



St. Louis Kennel Cltjb.— It will be seen from our adver- 

 tising columns, that the St. Louis Kennel Club offer for 

 sale their dogs Rock and Elcho. These dogs are so well 

 known as almost perfect types of the highbred English 

 and Irish setters, that it is needless to say a word in com- 

 mendation of them. Their progeny have so far proved 

 equally good, and to any gentlemen desiring to establish a 

 kennel under most favorable auspices, here is an opportun- 

 ity such as is seldom offered. Elcho has lately visited 



Loo II. 



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Dog Poisoned.— Mr. W. H. Wallace, of Titusville, Pa., 

 has our sympathies in the loss of his fine setter Snow, who 

 was poisoned by some miscreant last week. Snow was con- 

 sidered the finest dog in that part of the State, and was by 



old Bismarck out of Hammet's Kate. 



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Fox Terriers.— Mr. Robert Hume, of Richmond, Va., 

 is establishing a Kennel of these game little dogs. He 

 writes under date of January 26th: "Knowing your inter- 

 est in those game little fellows, fox terriers, I think you 

 will be interested to hear of my rising kennel. "Fitch," 

 by Jester II, is doing well; he was bred by Mr. Portei\ of 

 Durham, a prize winner at English Shows. "Lilly," by 

 Jester II, bred by Sir Geo. Wombwell. "Faith," bred by 

 Earl de Grey, is by Jock out of Nell. Jock was owned by 

 II. R. H. the Prince of Wales, and Nell is by that, 

 good dog Blucher. Yours, very faithfully, 



Robert Home. 



Spratt's Dog Biscuits.— The growing popularity of 

 this healthful and compact food for dogs is shown by the 

 fact that Mr, F. D. de Luze, the agent has received by a 

 consignment per S. S. Holland, this week, no less than five 

 tons of the biscuit. Bench Shows have had much to do 

 with the increase in the use of Mr. Spratt's preparation, 

 and few sportsmen visit the plains for "chicken" shooting 

 without taking a supply. 



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Death op Forte. — All visitors to the Centennial Bench 



Show will remember the fine pointers exhibited by Rev. 



H. C. Berg, among them Tell and Forte. We regret now 



to have to announce the death of the black and tan bitch 



Forte, a regret that will be shared by all lovers of fine 



dogs. 



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Fine Dogs for Sale.— In another column will be found 

 an advertisement from Mr. G. Lowe, Secretary to the Eng- 

 lish Kennel Club, offering for sale two splendidly bred 

 bitches, one a pointer and the other a setter. We are in 

 possession of more particulars regarding these dogs than 

 could appear in an advertisement, and will be happy to im- 

 part it to any of our readers who may think of purchasing. 



— We regret to learn from Hartford of the death of Mr. 



T. Sedgwick Steele's fine setter dog Jeff. He strayed from 



home last week, and was killed by a passing train on the 



H. P. and F. Railroad. Finely trained, affectionate dogs 



are not so abundant in this country but what their loss is 



hard to replace. 



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Mr. W. J. Wright, of Duxbury, Mass., claims the name 

 of Marquis for his black and white Gordon setter out of 

 Mr. Ellerton Dorr's Don and Lady; born October 30th, 

 1874. 



A GOOD POINT. 



— Sun dogs are very common in the Arctic regions. They 

 are more docile than the common Esquimaux dog, and are 

 never known to bite anybody. 



The Duties op Judges.— The following letter from 

 Capt. John M Taylor, of Virginia, whose long experience 

 in, and intimate knowledge of, canine matters, entitles his 

 opinions to great weight, contains some very pertinent 

 suggestions regarding judging at bench shows: — 



My primary object in this letter is to urge the necessity 

 of keeping performances and tricks of dogs of every kind 

 from off the show bench. What difference should it make 

 to a judge whether a dog can bring a dozen eggs without 

 breaking them? Can he (the judge) tell if the animal can 

 transmit this amusing trick to his get? If a spaniel can 

 retrieve twenty birds in succession from land or water, the 

 bench show is not the place to test it. If a terrier can kill 

 one hundred rats in seven minutes that is none of the 

 judge's affair. The bench is exclusively the place to show 

 the quality of dogs (which, by the way, is a very compre- 

 hensive word in fancier's parlance) and it should be infer- 

 red that if an animal shows this "quality" in marked and 

 undisguised form, it is fairly to be supposed that it can 

 transmit this "quality" to its progeny. This high class 

 condition and symmetry being equal in two dogs, the 

 points having been judged alike, the best bred dog of the 

 two, which means a champion of champions, like Palmers- 

 ton, the Irish setter, or old Blue Dash, the Laverack, or 

 Rattler, the fox terrier would be placed first. 



I notice the letter of your correspondent "Roamer" in 

 last week'*! issue, on Bench Shows. It is very much to the 

 point with, I think, one exception. He says, in substance 

 — "Why not give and publish the points as judged to ev- 

 ery dog in the show?" Taking the Baltimore show as an 

 example, a 1 though the entries were not large, yet the 

 judges would have had to write down some 7,000 extra 

 figures and a multitude of words. These figures in the 

 coming New York Bench Show would most probably have 

 to be quadrupled. Therefore, I trust the exhibitors will 

 be satisfied at present with the points in judging of "firsts," 

 "seconds," V. H. C. and II. C. Jno. M, Taylor. 

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The Gjrondin Disinfectant for Kennels. — Mr. Chas. 

 Lincoln, Superintendent of the Baltimore Dog Show, writes 

 a letter to Messrs. James Meyer <te Co., in which he says:— 



"I used your "Girondin Disinfectant" and found it an 

 excellent remedy, fulfilling, as far as the Dog Show was 

 concerned, all that you claim for it, and I shall confidently 

 recommend it to all shows where I go. Yours truly 

 Chas. Lincoln, Supt. Baltimore Bench Show. 



SANTONINE VS. WORMS. 



CASE 2. 



Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 15th, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and stream:— 



Joe, a vigorous setter pup of English antecedents, aged 

 four months, was taken sick about the middle of December 

 last. The symptoms were: loss of appetite, nausea; oc- 

 casional vomiting, and a short hacking cough. These con- 

 tinued individually or in the aggregate, with the addition 

 of occasional diarrhea, until Jan. 4th. He was then con- 

 siderably emaciated, hair standing on end, back humped 

 up, abdominal muscles retracted and constipated. His 

 breathing was labored, the expirations being protracted 

 and wheezing, which could be heard across the barn. He 

 labored like a wind-broken horse, or a human subject af- 

 fected with a severe attack of asthma. These symptoms 

 had been present for three days. 



I gave him one and a half grains of santonine in a little 

 sweetened milk in the evening. The next morning his 

 breathing was considerably improved. The santonine was 

 repeated morning and evening on the 5th. On the morn- 

 ing of the 6th his breathing was natural, and during the 

 night had an operation from his bowels, the discharge be- 

 ing hard, white, and contained one or more round worms; 

 the mass was frozen so that I could not determine definite- 

 ly as to the number of worms passed. On the morning of 

 the 7th I gave him an ounce of castor oil, which operated 

 several limes freely. Several round worms were passed, 

 and a multitude that I could or did not number of ascari- 

 des, or small thread worms. Nausea and vomiting, after 

 taking food, continued for a day or two, but when this 

 was given to him in small quantities it was retained, and 

 all symptoms of disease gradually passed away. He is now 

 feeling well, and is fast regaining his flesh and vivacity. 



Remarks— The remarkable feature of this caso was the 

 derangement of the respiratory functions. I never saw a 

 more marked case of asthma. The prompt relief 

 to these symptoms following the administration of 

 the antonine was striking. The case is interest- 

 esting id showing the great diversity of symptoms 

 that may be produced by worms. AUhenmeatics, or 

 worm remedies, are simple and easily administered, and in 

 all cases of sickness of young dogs that cannot be traced 

 to some direct and sufficient cause,, it would not only b© 



