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tog .And cruising is now undertaken from the sounder 
Htofrid point 0 f the sailor and Corinthian, who follow the 
sJVort for the love they bear it, and not as a means of 
-''spending suddenly acquired wealth, or as an exhibition 
of nouveaux riches, who own yachts simply because fash¬ 
ion calls it en regia, without caring a button for the un¬ 
derlying benefits and science of this noble recreation. 
A comparison of the figures in the following table will 
show the rapid strides made in racing during the past 
five years, and'exhibits the transfer of the yachting cen¬ 
tre from New York to Boston and Eastern waters, as 
well as the development of sailing in Philadelphia, the 
South dnd upon the Great Lakes :— 
Total number of stavt- 
Totai number races 
sailed. 
Total number prizes 
won.. 
Total number prize 
Winners. ... 
Average entries per 
race. 
Av. number of races 
by each winner __ 
Races iu Boston ami 
Bast. 
Races in New Yi 
waters —. 
Races in Philadelphia 
waters.. 
Races to . Southern 
waters . 
Races, Lakes, West 
and Old Dom. 
Clubs represented to 
races. 
Number winners over 
40 ft. w.l. . 
Number winners 
der 40 ft. w. 1. 
Number racers cat- 
rigged . 
Number racers sloop- 
rigged . 
Number racers schoon¬ 
er-rigged. 
Number racers other 
rigs and unclassified 
Club sailing most races 
and number. 
Eva, Bev 
Y.e. 
IS starts. 
146 
R.N.S.Y.8. 
9 races. 
48 starters. 
Panov. 
Bev. Y. C. I 
P.Grant.Jr. | 
20 starts, & i 
Psyche,Bev f 
Y. C. 
King&Ci’rk 
20 starts. 
508 
Pi 
I Bev. Y. C 
i 10 races. 
( 177 start'r 
Fancy, 
Bev. V. C 
1 \Grant,.! 
18 starts. 
A CASE OF TRUE HYDROPHOBIA. 
A N interesting case has just transpired in New Castle 
County, Delaware, furnishing another example of 
the danger to the community at large from allowing 
rabid dogs to range unrestricted through a country dis¬ 
trict. This particular section appears to have been spe¬ 
cially selected for the visitations, as four cases of the 
disease have occurred during the current year. Mr. R, 
G, Alexander was- the last victim. Early in December 
last a strange hound, whose muzzle and shoulders were 
covered with bloody froth, appeared in the village, at¬ 
tacking and biting all of his tribe that he met. Seeing 
Mr. Alexander nursing a little pet dog as he sat with him 
in his lap on a bench by the door, the strange dog rushed 
at the victim and fastened his teeth in his cheek and 
mouth. Resuming his course, dogs and horses were bitten, 
and the rabid animal only met with his death at a distance 
of four miles from the scene of his assault upon Mr. Alex¬ 
ander. This gentleman appears not to have realized that 
the animal was mad, and his friends jealously avoided 
the subject in conversation. A week subsequently a 
physician cauterized the wounds, and he took freely and 
assiduously a mixture of elecampane root, much thought 
of by country people as a remedy for dog bite. 
Other remedies having similar supposed virtues were 
taken in the prescribed doses and at the regular inter¬ 
vals. During all this time he had no symptoms of nerv¬ 
ousness or apprebeusion. On the forty-second day the 
fatal issue was ushered in by a slight chill, followed by 
pain in the back. This was upon Tuesday the 11th Inst. 
On "Wednesday his nervousness and anxiety became 
marked. On Thursday he showed a disinoliuation to 
take his morning bath and refused his cup of coffee with 
abhorrence. The side of the cheek and nose that had 
been bitten became swollen and sensitive to pressure, 
indeed they evoked spasmodic contractions of the mus¬ 
cles. Relief was at first obtained by the ebolition of 
morphine, the bromides and chloral, which were admin¬ 
istered by tlie mouth, Soon, however, the spasms of 
the muscles concerned in swallowing and bi'eathing* 
made the task of giving his medicines in this way so 
great that the hypodermic needle was resorted to. Par¬ 
tial ana temporary relief was obtained, but it was found 
that Woornri, the famed South American poison, which 
has the power of annulling muscular spasms, only ag¬ 
gravated the symptoms. As is usual in the cases, chlor¬ 
oform and morphia were found the sheet-anchors. The 
days of mental and physical agony terminated finally 
in death from physical exhaustion. This case is another 
instance of the fact that true hydrophobia is uniformly 
fatal. No remedies have ever been known to arrest the 
terrible disease when once it 1ms been fairly under way. 
While our readers should remember that rabies has 
such a terrible record, it is even more valuable to 
know that there are other diseases which imitate it’and 
are of a purely nervous character. When the case is one 
of real hydrophobia there are always severe spasms of the 
muscles concerned in breathing and swallowing ; there 
is unnatural excitability of muscles in parts distant from 
the injury ; and the attacks are paroxysmal. Lyssopho- 
bia, or imaginary hydrophobia is not uncommon after 
dog bite. So, too, hysterical and epileptic persons may 
and will at times give all the symptoms of hydrophobia, 
imitating the symptoms they have seen or heard de¬ 
scribed. It is all important after a dog-bite, even 
from a rabid dog, that persons should not be needlessly 
alarmed. The first thing to do is to sack out the poison 
with the lips ; it is an old method which in certain parts 
of France is pursued by women, who receive ten francs 
for the first operation, and five for each succeeding one. 
Then the actual cautery (a bit of red-hot iron) may be 
applied, or some strong mineral acids, such as nitric or 
muriatic. It is a matter of common knowledge that the 
vast majority of dog-bites, being by animalst hat are ex¬ 
cited, produce no subsequent trouble. 
THE “ASIAN.” 
T HE sun never sets upon the lodge of the English 
sportsman; the crack of his rifle follows the dawn 
around the globe. That is not just what "Webster said, 
but hi3 famous sentence about the vastuess of England’s 
possessions was not more true. Your Englishman is a 
sportsman all the world over. He flies his burgee in 
every sea; his tent has whitened the mountain side of 
every range on the globe ; there is no fish in the seas and 
rivers which has not been caught by a Briton’s hook ; no 
fowl of the air or beast of the forest which has not fallen 
at the report of an English gun. The rifle and fishing- 
rod form part of every mercantile or diplomatic outfit. 
The Englishman, too, not only practices sport in the 
field. He talks it and writes it. Lord Dufferin, Gov¬ 
ernor-General of Canada., contributed an elaborate paper 
on Moose Hunting to the Nineteenth Century, one of the 
“heavy” periodicals, and James Anthony Froude, in an¬ 
other of the ponderous reviews—the National Quarterly 
—devoted the rare talents of a great historian to the dis¬ 
cussion of the cruelty of fox-hunting. Charles Kingsley, 
clergyman, novelist and poet, never wrote more charm¬ 
ingly than when describing the winter woods and the 
wild excitement of the chase. This passion for writing 
and publishing is as much a test of your true Briton as 
it was to have been bom within the sound of Bow Bells. 
There comeB to us every week from Calcutta the 
Asian. This is to India what the London sporting papers 
are to England, and what the Forest and Stream is to 
America, It is the representative of the guild of sports¬ 
men, and its pages, filled with notes from hunters, anglers 
and naturalists, are so thoroughly characteristic of the 
craft that we shall for a moment imagine the reader of 
the Forestand Stream looking over our shoulder while 
we turn over these pages of our Eastern contemporary. 
First and last of course come the advertisements. The 
cut of the waterproof hunting pants is strikingly like 
that which appears in our own advertising columns, and 
then follows the regulation notices of guns, rifles and 
fishing-rods, But they advertise everything in a sport¬ 
ing paper in Calcutta, as they do in London. That’s where 
they are ahead of New York. 
A large proportion of the Asian is devoted to the turf, 
and just how salutary an influence a sound journal may 
exert in India, as in America, is indicated by the vigorous 
editorial leader on “Turf Reform in India.” Then fol¬ 
lows an appreciative memorial note by one of the Asian 
contributors : “A man of iron frame and undaunted 
courage, who perhaps met death in the form most ac¬ 
ceptable to him, when he was shot down while leading a 
charge of the gallant 44th up against the Naga’s strong¬ 
hold at Konoma.” The standard of true manliness is the 
same in England and America ; its possessor is honored 
and beloved, there or here alike, in the field of sport and 
amid the sterner duties of the campaign. 
The “ Sporting Notes” are a curious collection of news 
from all the four quarters of the globe : Indian steeple¬ 
chases, a Java buffalo-tiger show, turf; gossip from Aus¬ 
tralia, England, Ireland and America; the Hanlan-Couvt- 
ney fiasco , Brodie’s walk against a horse in San Fran¬ 
cisco, Daft's cricket team in America, and boating notes 
from Oxford and Cambridge. 
In the column of Shikar, ‘ * A Poacher ” relates an amus¬ 
ing incident of tiger hunting. The method employed 
was to build a frame over the carcasB of a bullock, 
slain where the tracks of the tiger had been discovered ; 
upon this frame the hunters perched and awaited the ap¬ 
proach of their victim. But instead of coming just as they 
bad planned, his majesty jnade his appearance from the 
rear, and stationed himself so near that his breathing was 
plainly audible, and for four hours those luckless hunts¬ 
men lay with baled breath awaiting his spring. But the 
brute did not sup on Englishman that night; he slunk off 
with ominous growls, and our friends came down from 
their perch, stretched their cramped limbs and did their 
tiger shooting thereafter on paper. 
The “ Correspondence ” column is very much like our I 
own, being made up of questions in rifle shooting, the 
care of dogs, shooting grounds, etc., etc. One man 
wants to Imow whether all horses have the faculty of 
swimming instinctively ; another broke both fore legs of 
a buck which afterwards ran forty yards on his hind legs, 
and the writer wants some one to inateh the incident; 
and another writes about- the method of making a bam¬ 
boo spear shaft for sticking wild boars. And here too 
is our old friend who wants to know, you know, if row¬ 
ing developes the muscles; we are glad this fellow has 
gone to India; he used to send hia queries to the Forest 
and Stream. 
The angler who is versed in the points of his craft in 
India could certainly give points to a novice. Here is a 
bit of characteristic instruction, of which good old Sir 
Izaak makes no mention 
Do you see those monkeys moving- about, feed ing to those trees 
down there ? Mark the place, for we must fish it carefully when 
we come to it. My impression is, that when monkeys aremoviug 
to trees overhanging the water, the result Is that more fruit and 
more insects drop down into the water than ordinarily, aDd that 
Uieilsh congregate more or less from the neighborhood to watch 
for them. As you get nearer, and the monkeys notice you, they 
will commence vociferating and violently shaking the boughs, 
which will still further Improve the position. 
The writer’s guide, Kuti, is a jewel—albeit an ebony 
gem. "When he says there are fish in a pool, the fish 
are there. He never makes a mistake, and when com¬ 
plimented on the superiority of his attainments, naively 
explains, “I have eaten blows from many gentlemen.” 
This Kuti, by the way, is no chicken. He could run a 
boat down a rapid with as much dexterity and frontier 
skill as the most daring of the guides and canoemen 
whose feats are comem morated in the pages of the For¬ 
est and Stream. 
The sportsman is always a naturalist. No resemblance of 
our own columns to those of our Asiatic contemporary 
is more striking or more gratifying than the evidence on 
every page that the writers are intelligent and inquiring 
men, whose only thought is not of bagging tlieir game. 
The readers of the Asian have opportunities for natural 
lnsiory study In many branches not open to the American; 
nor are these opportunities always of the most enviable 
character. "VVe confess that for determining one question 
mooted by the Asian’s correspondents, namely, the height 
of tigers, we are content with the facilities afforded by 
the stuffed specimens in the Museum of Natural Histoiy 
at Central Park, and we are perfectly resigned to hand 
over the tape measure for our friends to use in the 
jungle. 
The hunting customs of savage nations are among the 
most curious subjects encountered by the student of the 
early history of mankind. It is not strange that those 
tribes which live by the chase should carry it into their 
religion, morals and social rites. There are some queer 
notions among the Andamanese who live on the Anda¬ 
man Islands in the Bay of Bengal, concerning whom a 
writer in the Asian quotes from a paper contributed some 
years ago to the Asiasic society. We may premise the 
quotation with the hint that if Mr. Blaokford or some 
other enterprising fish dealer should import a supply of 
Gaom-dah, he would soon Vfin fame, fortune and the 
gratitude of his country; or, possibly, this comes within 
the scope of the Fish Commission :— 
They marry as soon as they are able to support a wife, and I un¬ 
derstood that, the rule was only to have ono. The faithful swain 
eats a. peculiar kind of ray fish, termed Guom-tlah, which gives 
him the title to the appellation of Gonra-ma, signifying- a biiehe. 
lor desirous of marrying. Girls arriving at a marriageable age 
wear certain flowers to distinguish themselves by- Before 
marrying, youug men take a species of oath, after which they sit 
very still for several days, scarcely taking any food. Those who 
have been pig-hunters refrain for ono year— commencing- in 
April from eating pork, using turtle, tortoiso or fish Instead ; but 
they do not cease hunting pigs, as they are neoessary for the food 
of thetribe. The turtle hunters, In like manner, use pork during 
this probationary year, and during- this period honey must 
not be tasted. This is apparently done for the purpose of 
ascertaining whether the individual Is able to support a family. 
The writer then tells us how the monkeys in the Saaid- 
arbans catch crabs, and with this quotation we must 
close our review:—“The crabs are generally found in 
holes in the ground, under water, where these monkeys 
are unable to lay hold of them. They therefore adopt 
this ingenious expedient: They place their tails into the 
holes, and as the crabs oatch hold of the caudal append¬ 
ages, the monkeys spring forward and bring their un¬ 
wary victims out of their hiding-places.” 
Creedmoor Matches.— The report of the matches at 
Creedmoorfor the past season, published in a compact 
form in our rifle columns, will enable a comparison to be 
made of the scores on this mother of the ranges and those 
made on other ranges the country oyer. The conditions of 
each match are given that readers may judge what stylo 
of shooting is open to the marksmen at Creedmoor ; tlia 
winning-rifle is in all cases gi ven with the record of the 
shooting. Iu all cases each of the matches was kept 
upon the monthly programme and open for members, 
and in very many cases the matches failed to get the ton 
entries required by the rules of the Association, The rn 
in this respect was changed, and late in the year cornpe 
titions were held with two contestants, and should it oc¬ 
cur that but one entry should present himself at the firing 
point he would he entitled to a walk over, It will be 
