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rale, tbe exhibits at our shows are very much mixed and 
lacking in quality. Dr. T. Cl Stettwagan, of Philadel¬ 
phia. has been breeding from an imported brace carefully 
selected in Halifax for the purpose. At the first dog show 
held in this city there were a l'ew very fine dogs exhibited, 
notably Leo, the property of Mr. E. B. d'Espinvllle Pieot, 
of Philadelphia, who has bred some very good ones. Some 
years ago a very fine brace of Newfoundland dogs was 
presented to Mr. Cyrus tv, Field by tbe citizens of New¬ 
foundland. The bitch, Fannie, was litter sister to Cabot, 
owing to the tendency to a short neck and weak loin. 
As a. consequence a symmetrical dog like Leo is highly 
to be approved of. 
10. The color (value 5) should be black, the richer rhe 
better ; but u rusty stain in it is so common in the native 
breed that it should by no means be penalized. Still, the 
jet black is so handsome in comparison with it that 1 
think, other points being equal, it should count above 
the rusty stain in judging two dogs. A white Star on 
the breast, is often met. with. The white and black color 
exhibited in tbe Landseer type never occurs in tbe true 
Newfoundland. 
Capt. W. H, Kirby, of Gloucester, Mass. It belongs to 
the new genus Lopholtttilus ; has an adipose fin on the 
top of the head ; the dorsal extending from about twe* 
thirds of tbe fish to the caudal; the under fin on the 
belly continuous. It is yellow, with spots; hence its 
uame. There have been quite a number of them caught, 
the fishing ground being fifty miles south by east of No¬ 
man’s Land, in seventy-five fathoms of water. Cod bait 
and hook are used. The fish is pronounced to be 
excellent eating, and may have commercial value. 
11. The eottf (value 5) of the Newfoundland is shaggy, 
without much undercoat, and at first sight it would ap¬ 
pear unfit For much exposure to wet. It is, however, so 
thick and oily that it takes some time for the water to 
reach the skin through it. There is often a natural part¬ 
ing down tlio back, and the surface is very glossy. 
12. The tail (value 5) is long and gently curled on one 
side, but not carried high. It is clothed thickly with 
long hair, which is quite bushy, but ofteu uaturally parted 
down the middle. 
Mr. Mapplebeclc's Leo, whose portrait accompanies this 
NEWFOUNDLAND DOG LEO. 
article, is tire finest Newfoundland I have ever seen, ex 
hibiting all his best points in proportion, without the 
short neck and weak back which are so often met with. 
He is by Windle’s Don, out of Meg of Maldou, and is a 
great grandson of Mr. Robinson's Carlo, a first-prize win¬ 
ner at Birmingham and Islington in 1864 and 1865. 
TBE Gordon Setter, Don. —In our report of the Roch¬ 
ester dog show it was stated that the judges passed over 
tho Gordon setter, Don, entered in the puppy class, prob¬ 
ably because they thought he was over twelve months 
old'. His owner. Mr. E. A. Van Valser, of Oneida, for¬ 
wards us a letter from Mr. A. F, Mullin, of Mount Holly 
Springs, Pa., breeder of the dog, in which it is certified 
that Don was whelped on the 6th of September. This 
settles the question as to the dog’s age, and removes from 
his owner any imputation, although we believe none was 
made, of having misrepresented it. 
_ ... „_ _ . slped o 
20th of July three dogs and one bitch pup, by his dog 
Young Trap, 
j |m mtd $islting. 
FISH IN SEASON IN AUG. 
Salmon Trout, Salmo coni 
Land-looked Salmon, Sal 
Pike or Pickerel, Esox lacliw. 
Yellow Pereh, Perea, jla-nercem. 
“ Iliac' 
Grayling, ThyimMm Irlcolcr. 
Blae kDass, Microplerue salmotdes'.; AT. nigricans. 
SALT WATER, 
Sea Bass, Ccntroprlstls alrarixus- 
Slieepslioad, Arehbsargua proba- 
taeephalm. 
Striped Boss, Iioccits Ihmeatus. 
White Perch, Moroncanicrtcana. 
Weaklisb, Ci/noaolon regalia. 
Blueflsh, Pomatmnus aattrltr-, 
Spanish Mackerel, Ogbium rune— 
Htotitm. 
Cero, Cybiurn regale. 
Bonito. Sarda pelamva. 
English, Menltoirnis nebuUmis. 
trout FLIES FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 
Gray Corn*. No. 16 and 11.— Body, silver-gray mohair tlbped 
with orange silk ; feet, light gray huckle wound over peacock's 
herl; wings and setae, hyaline. 
Brown Coflin, No. 10 and 11.—Body, gray and bright olarot mo¬ 
hair mixed; feet, dark gray hackle wound over peaeook's herl; 
wings and se tie, gray hyaline. 
The gnat flies named for April. 
The Quaker for evening and moonlight. No. 7 and 8. Body, 
gray wound with honey-yellow hackles; wings, made of feather 
from an owl's wings, 
The wlfite moth, for dark nights, No. B and 7. Body, feet and 
wings a pure white. 
Tbe stono flieB continue ou the water until the olose of the season 
At this season use the small flies for day fishing, and tho large 
flies for evening and night. 
The Leopard Fish.—T his is the name given to a new 
ish, of which the first specimen was caught recently by 
Sport Around Fort Laramie.— An army surgeon sta¬ 
tioned at Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, sends us 
notes of a little excursion up the Laramie river in com¬ 
pany with Mr. John P. Collins, a fish culturist, to a locali¬ 
ty some thirteen miles above the poBt, where they caught 
one huudred and forty-nine wall-oyed pike with minnows. 
The lot weighed over two hundred pounds, and were all 
taken in one clay. These fish afford very good sport. 
The Senile Sea Serpent Seasonably Seen,— The sea 
captain with a penchant 
for visions of the sea 
serpent (usually beheld 
through the bottom of 
a small glass darkly), has 
been sadly derelict this 
year. The patient-wait 
mg, long-expectant pub 
lie, which always de¬ 
mands more sea serpent 
than the most accom¬ 
modating mariners can 
reasonably supply, had 
been shading its eyes 
with its hand and gazing 
afar out to sea all this 
summer; but no huge 
reptile of the deep had 
rewarded its vision, until 
last week a dispatch was 
sent from Halifax to the 
New York Herald, an¬ 
nouncing that Captain 
Sampson, of tbeschooner 
Louisa Mantgomer-y, had 
when ten miles east of 
Pictou Island sighted the 
long-lost monster. It was- 
one hundred feet long 
(regulation length), and 
“ about the size of a bar¬ 
rel ”—flour barrel or gun 
barrel not specified. The 
serpent “ was going 
straight along at the rate of seven knots an hour.” It isa 
pity that the crew of the Louisa should lose a fortune by 
neglecting to capture this Pictouresquemonaier which ties 
itself into seven knots an hour. A real, live sea serpent 
like this, one hundred feet long, dadinared shirt, its nose 
suitably colored with sour mash, sailing around a saw¬ 
dust track in Gilmore’s Garden in a six days’ go-as-you- 
please pedestrian match-witli Old Sport, would bring 
in more half dollars to theLouisa's crew than all the 
profits of the lumber trade of Nova Scotia. 
The public’s thirst for sea serpents, however, has abated. 
Let ns hope, in the interest of science and pedestrian 
managers, that the next high old sea’s son, who sails the 
seas on, in the serpent season, when next he sees one, 
will not cease un-til he doth it seize on and lug it into 
port. 
Indian Fishing Methods.— From the subjoined com¬ 
munication it will be seen that the pound net is of very 
early origin in this country. We can hardly agree with 
our correspondent, however, in ascribing its adoption by 
the white man to an imitation of aboriginal methods. 
The pound net existed long before the mound builders, 
and long before the first canoe brought to the sands of the 
Pacific shove the progenitors of the so-called American 
races. It is altogether probable that the net method of 
fishing was adopted at a very early stage in the history of 
man. Its principle of construction involves no scientific 
attainments, nor any refinement of mechanical skill. 
Certainly, every expert angler will uphold us when we 
venture the hypothesis that the conception of the net was 
evolved from the savage brain long before the first rude 
suggestion of a hook was baited. The piscator primeval 
who went out with the fish-hawk and the otter to satisfy 
his craving for something to eat, we may safely assume, 
captured his breakfast in the easiest possible manner. And 
it required little ingenuity of invention and very limited 
manual dexterity for this hungry savage to drive his fish 
into a hole or shallow, and there “scoop him in." Tbe 
next step, there being no hole, naturally was to make one; 
and we may discover in this primitive, Hide bark contri¬ 
vance of withes and rushes, the original of our perfected 
net of to-day wrought of steam-spun lines. The fisher¬ 
men of the Nineteenth Century have improved the de¬ 
vice in construction only, they have not altered its prin¬ 
ciple. 
As the pound net fisherman of the present day is using 
precisely the same methods of work that were employed 
Value. 
1. The Head . 30 
2. Ears and Eyes. 3 
-B. Neck. .. . ... ID 
4. Cheat—. . .... 5... .. . 
fi. Back. 10 11. Coat 
C. Legs . 10 112. Tail 
1. The head (value 20) is very broad and nearly flat on 
the top in each direction, exhibiting a well-marked occip¬ 
ital protuberance, and also a considerable brow over the 
eye, often rising three-quartern of an inch from the line 
of the nose, as ib well shown in the case of my present 
illustration, Mr. Mapplebeck’s Leo, in which it exists to 
a greater extent than usual. Tho Labrador shows the 
brow also, but not nearly in so marked a manner. There 
is a slight furrow down the middle of the top of the head, 
but nothing approaching to a stop. The skin on the fore¬ 
head is slightly wrinkled, and the coat on the face and 
top of the head is short, but not so much so as in the 
curly retriever. Nose wide in all directions, but of aver¬ 
age length, and moderately square at the end. with open 
nostrils ; the whole of the jaws covered with short hair. 
2. Eyes and Ears (value 5.}—The eyes of this dog are 
small and rather deeply set; but there should be no dis¬ 
play of the haw or third eyelid, They are generally 
brown, of various shades, but light rather than dark. 
The ears are small, clothed with short hair on all hut the 
edges, which are fringed with longer hair. 
3. The neck (value 10) is often snort, making the dog 
look chumpy and inelegant. This defect should always 
he attended .to, and a dog with a sufficiently lengthy neck 
should have the full allowance ; but on the other hand a 
short, chumpy one is so ofteu met with that oven if pres¬ 
ent the possessor of it should not be penalized with neg¬ 
ative points. The tlil’oat is clean, without any develop¬ 
ment of frill, though thickly clothed with hair. 
4. The chest (value 5) is capacious and rather round than 
fiat; back ribs generally short. 
5. The back (value 10) is ol ten slack and weak, but in 
some specimens, and notably in Leo, there is a fine devel¬ 
opment of muscle; accompanying this weak back there 
is often a rolling and weak walk. 
0. The legs (value 10) should be very bony and straight, 
well clothed with muscle on tbe arms and lower thighs, 
Elbows well let down, and neither in nor out. Both the 
fore and hind legs are thickly feathered, but not to any 
great length. There is also often a double dew claw. 
7. The/e:t (value 5) arc largo and wide, -with thin soles. 
The toes are generally flat, and consequently this dog soon 
.’becomes footrsoro in road-work and cannot accompany a 
.horse or carriage at a fast pace. 
8. In size (value 10) the Newfoundland should, be at 
least twenty-five inches in height, and if he is beyond tbis 
it is a merit rather than a defect, as explained in the 
above remarks. Many very fine and purely-bred speci¬ 
mens reared in this county have been from thirty to thir¬ 
ty-two inches high. 
3, The symmetry (value 10) of this dog Is often defective, 
a dog presented to the Prince of Wales. The dog’s name 
was Cresar. Two of his progeney were exhibited at the 
show mentioned above, but both were beaten by Leo. 
The Leo, of whom we print a portrait, is a celebrated prize 
winner in England, and was selected by “Stonehenge” 
to illustrate the breed in his recent edition of “Dogs of 
the British Islands,” 
In addition to the large breed which appears to he pecu¬ 
liar to the island of Newfoundland itself, there is a smaller 
breed which is scattered 
over Labrador.and which 
is now known as the Lab¬ 
rador, or Lesser New¬ 
foundland, and is. some¬ 
times also called the St, 
John. It is stated that a 
dog over twenty-six in¬ 
ches high at the shoulder 
is almost unknown in 
Newfoundland, but pup¬ 
pies bred and reared 
in England from pure 
strains will attain a 
height of thirty or even 
thirty-two inches. One 
of the most striking char¬ 
acteristics of this dog is 
the benevolent expres¬ 
sion of his countenance. 
HU feet, particularly the 
fore ones, should bo en¬ 
ormous. Dr. Stables says 
that his Theodore Nero 
would take a No. 9 glove. 
The following are the 
points for judging as laid 
down by “Stonehenge." 
A careful analysis of 
them will show what 
goes to make up a per¬ 
fect dog of this varie- 
