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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 find our columns a uusirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stbeam aim to merit and secure the 

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 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

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New Yokk Press Club.— The New York Press Club 

 will give a literary and musical entertainment in behalf of 

 the Relief Fund, at Steinway Hall, on Tuesday evening. 

 February 6th. Mark Twain, who will read a humorous 

 story, Charles A. Burbank, and Charles P. Roberts, elocu- 

 tionists; Madame Pappenheim, soprano; the New York 

 Glee and Madrigal Club (G. G. Rockwood, Director,); 

 Messrs. George Werrenrath and Wm. Castle, tenors; Mr. 

 J. G. Lumbard, Bass; Mr. Boscovitz, pianist; the Young 

 Apollo Club, and others, will contribute to the evening's 

 entertainment. 1 ickets may be had of members of the 



club, or at the hall on February 5th and 6th. 



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Homosassa. — The following persons are boarding at the 

 favorite establishment of Alfred P. Jones, Homosassa, 

 Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Jones had one spare 

 room at latest accounts : Mr. and Mrs. Greene Smith and 

 Henry C. Wilson, of Peterboro, N. Y. ; Thos. J. Higgins, 

 of Chicago, 111.; Theodore V. Johnston, Floy Johnston, 

 and Geo. McLean, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; Mr. and Mrs. 

 J. Hopkins Smith, nurse and child, Geo. Giles, Louis Giles, 

 Geo. Curtis, Francis Endicott, and Dr. Ferber, all of New 

 York; Bishop Beckwith, of Atlanta, Geo.; Rev. T. G. 

 Weed, of Atigusta, Geo.; Mr. and Mrs. Wood, nurse and 

 three children, of Philadelphia, Pa. 



— One of the most unique and elegant calendars of the 

 year for counting house and office use, is that issued by 

 the well-known printing establishment of Martin B. Brown. 

 201, 203 and 205 William street, and 15 and 17 Frankfort, 

 this city. It is an artistic novelty in color printing, the 

 heading being a beautiful wreath of" flowers in eleven dif- 

 ferent shades, from stereotype plates in close imitation of 

 chromos. Another exquisite design by a different process, 

 grouping a most effective boquet of mo&s roses, daisies, 

 forgetmenots, etc., has been presented to us by Dr. J. H. 

 Schenck, of Sixth and Arch streets, Philadelphia. 



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—Messrs. Thomson & Son, whose specialty is the manu- 

 facture of Sportmen's good3, have sent us a copy ot their 

 new illustrated catalogue, which contains cuts and prices 

 of almost everything pertaining to shooting and fishing 

 gear. We presume a like favor will be bestowed on all 

 applicants. Their address is No. 301 Broadway, this city. 



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—The Faculty of Harvard College, it is reported, have at 

 last consented to receive applications from women for ad- 

 mission to the full privileges of the university „ 



Many cosmetics have been launched upon the world in 

 quest of public favor, and alas for human nature, have 

 gained it. One will make the complexion clear, another 

 renders it transparent, a third imparts an otherwise in- 

 describable pearly whiteness to the skin, a fourth gives the 

 very hue of health, and a fifth will beautify, even for 

 ever. In two respects they resemble each other very 

 closely. They were and are alike in the appeal they make 

 to human vanity. They are also— as we might expect 

 from the fact of their being one and all designed to take 

 advantage of a weakness — very delusive whenever com- 

 plexions cannot be reached by constitutional remedies; let 

 the owners look for a lotion which will cure vanity, a 

 something which will give them strength enough to resign 

 with becoming grace their places among the sons of health 

 or daughters of beauty. 



For the sake of illustration, we may here introduce a 

 few facts relative to a kindred topic, which were brought 

 under our notice 1he other day. It appears that among the 

 Hindoos, the girls are remarkable for graceful carriage and 

 finely moulded forms. The explanation is to be found in 

 a very simple although slightly laborious habit. They are 

 accustomed from their earliest years to carry burdens on 

 their heads, and the result is increased symmetry and 

 strength in both back and chest, and greater elasticity of 

 gait. Apropos of this subject we have the following 

 medical recommendation: "The exercise of carrying small 

 vessels of water on the head might be advantageously 

 introduced into our boarding schools and private families, 

 and it might entirely supersede the present machinery of 

 dumb-bells, back-beards, etc. The young lady ought to 

 be taught to carry the jar, as these little Hindoo women 

 do, without ever touching it with her hand." It is not 

 likely that, in our day, the water pail will be substituted 

 for the "pile stupendous" of capillary attractions on the 

 head of the typical modern belles, but the above facts 

 teach a very good moral. They remind us that, better 

 than any of the modern appliances for developing and 

 improving the figure, are the good old-fashioned expedi- 

 ents of exercise and fresh air. 



Coming back to cosmetics and the complexion, no ex- 

 ternal application can be permanently effective, no matter 

 what a vitiated taste may make out of their temporary re- 

 sults. A clear, healthy complexion, can only result from 

 healthy habits. If ladies will persist in indulging in late 

 suppers and later parties, if they resort to any means of 

 creating a fictitious appetite, if they dawdle away their 

 mornings in bed or on the lounge, if, in short, like the 

 immortal Foley: — 



They lose there regular estate of sun, 

 By borrowing too largely of the moon, 



all the cosmetics in the world will never do other than 

 throw a thin disguise over their real unhealthiness. All 

 that they can do is to give a very poor semblance of 

 health, and a beauty not even skin-deep. The best cos- 

 metics, let us repeat, are pure air and exercise. There is 

 no reality about any other. They are the only ones men- 

 tioned i» the pharmacopaia of nature, and the enly ones 

 which we can conscientiously recommend. Let it further 

 be borne in mind that they ought to be applied together. 

 In-door exercise is better than none, but it is under the 

 open canopy of heaven, under the light of the sun, and 

 among the free, fresh breezes, that exercise should be 

 taken if its fullest benefit would be reaped. 

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THE MUSK-OX. 



NO one of the larger mammals of our continent is less 

 known than the musk-ox {Ooibos moschatus). Not- 

 withstanding the fact that its existence has been established 

 for so long a time, and that it is the largest ruminant in- 

 habiting the extreme northern part of the continent, 

 but little has been added to our knowledge of its 

 structure or habits since Pennant published his 

 admirable description in 1784. All Arctic trav- 

 elers speak of the animal, and in many cases star- 

 vation or scurvy, that almost equally dreadful scourge of 

 Polar exploration, has been warded off by the timely dis- 

 covery and capture of a herd of Musk-oxen. The species 

 is frequently mentioned in the recently published report 

 of the British Polar Expedition, and as it is so little known 

 we believe that a brief description of this animal will be 

 of interest to many of our readers. 



The Musk-ox is about the size of a small two-year old 

 cow, and when fat is said to weigh about 700 pounds. It 

 measures from the nose to the tip of its short tail about 

 five and a half feet. The horns are broad at their base, 

 covering the brow and crown, touching each other for their 

 entire basal breadth, and are bent abruptly down against 

 the cheeks, the points being turned up. Tho muzzle is 

 covered with short white hairs, instead of being naked, as 

 in the deer or ox. Except on the legs the animal is wholly 

 covered with long hair— so long, indeed, that it almost 

 touches the ground, and gives to the creature an appear- 

 ance of being very short legged and clumsy in its move- 

 ment. The tail is very short, >md is wholly concealed by 

 the long hair of the rump. The color of the hair is in 

 general brownish black, but it fades on the neck and 

 shoulders to light brown, and on the centre of the back 

 passes into a patch of dirty white. The . 7 ight colored 

 mark was aptly termed by Capt. Parry, the saddle. Pen- 

 nant tells us that the hair on the lower parts of the body is 

 no less that seventeen inehes long, and it will readily be 

 conceived that with his oddly shaped horns, long hair, and 



parti-colored hide, our Musk-ox is a comical looking fel- 

 low. 



There was for a while some doubt among naturalists as 

 to the relationship of the Musk-ox. Cuvier referred it to 

 the genus Bos, thus making it a near relative of our buf- 

 falo and the domestic cow, but Mr. Blainville formed for 

 it the genus Ovibos, indicating by this name its intermediate 

 position between the sheep and the ox. As remarked by 

 Dr. Richardson, however, "it is remarkable among the 

 American animals for never having had more than one 

 specific appellation, whilst other animals of much less in- 

 terest have been honored with a long list of synonyms." 



The first notice which we have of this species is that by 

 Jeremie, in his "Voyage au Nord." This traveler brought 

 to France a quantity of its wool, which he had 

 made into stockings, said to have been more beautiful than 

 those made of silk. Pennant, however, was the first naturalist 

 who gave anything like an accurate description of the animal. 

 In his Arctic Zoology (London, 1784,) he gives a full and de- 

 tailed description of the species, accompanied by a most ex- 

 excellent figure. He mentions among other things that the 

 Esquimaux make ops of its skin, the long hair of which, 

 falling down over their faces, serves effectually to protect 

 them from the mosquitoes. The interesting acooiMit of its 

 habits given by Dr. Richardson in his "Fauna Boreali 

 Americana" is perhaps the best, as it is, the latest detailed 

 information respecting it. 



"The districts inhabited by the Musk-ox are the proper 

 lands of the Esquimaux; and neither the Northern Indians 

 nor the Crees have an original name for it, both terming it 

 bison with an additional epithet. The country frequented 

 by the Musk-ox is mostly rocky and destitute of wood, ex- 

 cept on the banks of the larger rivers, which are generally 

 more or less thickly clothed with spruce trees. Their food 

 is similar to that of the caribou— grass at one season and 

 lichens at another— and the contents of its paunch are eaten 

 by the natives with the same relish that they devour the 

 'nerrooks' of the caribou. The dung of the Musk ox 

 takes the form of round pellets, differing from those of the 

 caribou only in their greater size. When this animal is 

 fat its flesh is well tasted, and resemble* that of the cari- 

 bou, but has a coarser grain. The flesh of the bulls is high 

 flavored, and both bulls and cows, when lean, smell strong- 

 ly of musk, their flesh at the same time being very dark 

 and tough, and certainly far inferior to that of any other 

 ruminating animal exisiing in North America. * * *" 



"Notwithstanding the shortness of the legs of the Mesk- 

 ox it runs fast, and it climbs hills and rocks with great 

 ease. One pursued on the banks of the Coppermine scaled 

 a lofty sand cliff having so great a declivity that we were 

 obliged to crawl on hands and knees to follow it. Its foot 

 marks are very similar to those of the caribou, but are 

 rather longer ar d narrower. These oxen assemble in herds 

 of from twenty to thirty, rut about the end of August and 

 beginning of September, and bring forth one calf about 

 the latter end of May or beginning of June. Hearne, from 

 the circumstance of few bulls being seen, supposes that 

 they kill each other in their contests for the cows. If the 

 hunters keep themselves concealed when they fire upon a 

 herd of Musk-oxen, the poor animals mistake the noise 

 for thunder, and forming themselves into a group, crowd 

 nearer and nearer together as their companions fall 

 around them; but should they discover their enemies by 

 sight or by their sense of smell, which is very acute, the 

 whole herd seek for safety by instant flight. The bulls, 

 however, are very irascible, and, particularly when wound- 

 ed, will often attack the hunter and endanger his life, un- 

 less he possesses both activity and presence of mind. The 

 Esquimaux, who are well accustomed to the pursuit of this 

 animal, sometimes turn its irritable disposition to good ac- 

 count; for an expert hunter, having provoked a bull to at- 

 tack him, wheels around it more quickly than it can turn, 

 and by repeated stabs in the belly puts an end to its life. 

 The wool of the Musk-ox resembles that of the bison, but 

 is perhaps finer, and would no doubt be highly useful in 

 the arts, if it could be procured insufficient quantity." 



The Musk ox is at present found only north of the 60th 

 parallel, and seems to find its most congenial range of 

 country between 65 deg. and 80 deg. It has been noticed 

 as far north as travelers have been able to penetrate. The 

 species, although at present confined to this continent, 

 seems, at some time in the past, to have been an inhabitant 

 of Siberia, as the bones of this, or a nearly related form, 

 have been found there. It is, however, possible that these 

 remains have been carried thither from the North Ameri- 

 can coast by floating ice. 



In Post Pliocene times the Musk-ox ranged over North 

 America at large, at least as far south as Kentucky, where 

 its bones have been found associated with those of the 

 many wonderful and long since extinct forerunners of our 



present fauna. 



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—The Blooming Grove Park Association has a system ©f 

 Deer Traps leading into the wire enclosure of the Breed- 

 ing Paddock, something like the fnnnels of a wire mouse 

 trap, by which the game keepers report three wild bucks 

 have been caught since the snow fell. This is a cheap and 

 easy method of procuring stock. In the fall, during the 

 rutting season, bucks frequently press their way in, to 

 make the closer acquaintance of the does. 

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—A Malay boy near Singapore was herding some water- 

 buffaloes when a tiger sprang out of a jungle, and seizing 

 him, would have carried him off, but two old bull buffaloes, 

 hearing his cries of distress, charged upon the tiger and 

 compelled him to drop his prey, thus saving the boy's life. 



