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ness, such as those of Maine, Canada or the 

 Rocky mountains. 



The exhibits of the Canadian provinces 

 will be especially novel and impressive. The 

 Canadian people realize that of late years 

 some of our game ranges have become so 

 over crowded with hunters that a man liter- 

 ally takes his life in his hand when he 

 enters them and that he stands about as 

 good a show of being killed as of killing 

 game. Canada has thousands of square 

 miles of unbroken forests in which scarcely 

 a camp-fire has ever been built. It is the 

 purpose of the Canadian people to show the 

 resources of these forests to the New York 

 people, in so far as it can be done in such a 

 building. 



Look out for future announcements of 

 the '99 show. They will interest you. Yes, 

 they will surprise you. 



ANOTHER BICYCLE SHOW. 

 Mr. Frank Sanger, manager of Madison 

 Square Garden, announces a Bicycle Show 

 to be held in that building Jan. ... to. . . . 

 1899. The announcement runs in part as 

 follows: 



At the suggestion of a number of leading manufacturers 

 of bicycles, the Madison Square Garden Company has ar- 

 ranged with the National Cycle Exhibition Company to 

 give an exposition under the management of Mr. Frank W. 

 Sanger. The popularity of the bicycle has increased largely 

 within the last few years. There are thousands of new rid- 

 ers who have never attended a Cycle Exhibit nor had the 

 opportunity to see and examine the latest improvements 

 under the favorable conditions afforded by a National Ex- 

 hibit. 



The great interest shown by the public during the last 

 two years in auto-mobiles is well illustrated by the marked 

 success made by the auto-mobile show in Paris last year, 

 when more than 1,100 models of horseless carriages and 

 auto-mobiles were exhibited. Therefore, the management 

 of the proposed exhibit feels fully justified in adding this 

 most attractive feature. 



It is well understood that when the Mad- 

 ison Square Garden people undertake to 

 give a cycle show it will be a good one. 



NOTES. 



Richard Harding Davis has published an 

 article in Scribner's Magazine, criticising 

 General Shafter's management of the San- 

 tiago campaign. The General, in an inter- 

 view, explains why. He says Richard came 

 to him and proclaimed loudly that he was the 

 greatest newspaper warrior on earth; that 

 for this reason he should be allowed to land 

 with the first troops and to have all the ad- 

 vantages possible for getting scoops on the 

 other correspondents. General Shafter says 

 he told Davis he knew nothing of his abil- 

 ity and that he would be treated the same 

 as the other newspaper men. 



Anyone who knows Richard will readily 

 believe the General's statement. Richard 

 could not have a greater opinion of himself 

 than he has, unless his head were larger. 



The Dover, N. J., " Index " prints a re- 

 port of the arrest and prosecution of Ed- 

 ward Kelly, Superintendent of the Wharton 



Furnace, at Port Oram, for polluting the 

 waters of the Rockaway river. Mr. Kelly 

 was arrested at the instigation of George 

 Riley, Fish and Game Warden for that 

 district. He was charged with allowing 

 poisonous matter to run from the furnace 

 into the river, which caused the death of a 

 great number of fish. Mr. Kelly was ably 

 defended by Congressman Pitney, but after 

 a careful hearing of the evidence and argu- 

 ments in the case, Justice Brown imposed 

 a fine of $100 and costs. 



Here is another valuable lesson to man- 

 agers of manufacturing plants, who so fre- 

 quently poison the streams with their refuse, 

 thus destroying great numbers of valuable 

 food fishes. 



Some one has sent me a circular issued 

 by a man in Ohio, advertising ferrets for 

 sale. There should be a law in every state 

 making it a penal offense for a man to own, 

 have in possession or offer for sale a ferret. 

 Some states have legislated severely against 

 these little brutes already, but in no case is 

 the penalty as severe on the offender as it 

 should be. 



John T. McNamara of Hillsboro, Ore., 

 was arrested for shooting pheasants before 

 the opening of the season, and on examina- 

 tion before Justice W. D. Smith was fined 

 $100 and costs. He was unable to pay the 

 fine and was sent to jail. Next year he will 

 wait until the legal season opens, before he 

 goes after game. 



I wish business men, when writing on 

 business, would use flat paper and write only 

 on one side of it. Nothing makes a busy 

 man so weary as to get a communication 

 written on folded note paper and the pages 

 mixed up in such a way that he must em- 

 ploy a detective to find out which page is 

 to follow the previous one. 



A man in Pierre, S. D., writes to the New 

 York Zoological Society, offering for sale 

 a buffalo bull which he claims is 8 feet high. 

 If he or any other man will produce an 

 American bison of that height, I will give 

 him $5,000 for it. 



That beautiful book, " Birds that Hunt 

 and are Hunted," sells at $2. Treats of all 

 the principal game birds and birds of prey. 

 The book and Recreation one year $2.50. 



" Bird Neighbors " sells at $2. With Rec- 

 reation $2. Both books and Recreation 

 $4. This applies to renewals as well as to 

 new subscriptions. 



Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffet 



Mending her bicycle chain, 

 When along came a spider and sat down be- 

 side her, 



But it never will do it again. 



