FOREST AND STREAM. 



eral yotrhg may have room at the same time, hence tbey are 

 disposed over both thorax and abdomen ; such generally lie 

 down when supplying their offspring with milk, in order to 

 afford them the most favorable situation. From this it does 

 not seem to he from any particular fitness of the parts that the 

 breasts are placed as we find them in the human race, but 

 rather from that of the situation being the most convenient 

 both for mother and infant. 



The sternum is very narrow, and consists of a great num- 

 ber of small bones, moveable every way, as is always the case 

 with animals thai have great mobility of the spine. The ribs 

 are straighter and by no means so convex as in man, whereby 

 in respiration the motion forward but very slightly enlarges j 

 the thorax, which is compensated by the greater mobility of j 

 the .diaphragm. The want of clavicles and the consequent j 

 falling in of the anterior extremeties upon the chest, probably | 

 contributes somewhat to the straigutness of the ribs. 



The mediastinum is pretty broad: The pericardium is not 

 here contiguous to the diaphragm, but there is an inch of space 

 between them, in which the small lobe of the lung lodges; by 

 this arrangement the liver, though perpetually pressing upon 

 the diaphragm, cannot interfere with the motion of the heart. 

 The heart is situated with its point _ almost directly down- 

 ward, according to the posture of the animal, and is but very 

 little inclined to the left side. Its point is much sharper, and 

 its shape more conoidal than with man; and the names of the 

 rigid and left ventricles are proper enough, though not so with 

 us, when they would with greater propriety be called anterior 

 and posterior or superior and inferior. The vena cava is of 

 considerable length inside ot the thorax, having to pass nearly 

 the, whole length of the heart ere it reaches the sinus Zoioeri- 

 nnus dexter, "in man, so soon as it pierces the diaphragm, it 

 enters the pericardium, which is firmly attached to it, conse- 

 quently immediately enters the sinus, which, by the oblique 

 direction of the heart is almost contiguous to the diaphragm. 

 This situation of the canine heart evidently best agrees with 

 the shape and position of the thorax, it being lower than the 

 abdomen. 



The egress of the blood vessels are also somewhat different, 

 as the right subclavian of the dog is given off first ; and as a 

 large trunk is continued some way upward before tint left 

 carotid is formed, and divides into the carotid and subclavian 

 of the right side, then the left subclavian is sent off— hence, 

 properly speaking, there is no aorta, ascendeus any more than 

 in man. 



From this special distribution of the vessels of the right 

 side, which happens though in not so great a degree in man, 

 we may perhaps account in some measure for the greater 

 strength, readiness, or facility of motion generally observable 

 in the limbs of that side. Upon measuring the sides of the 

 vessels, the surface of the united trunk of the right subclavian 

 and carotid is less than that of the corresponding arteries of 

 the left side, as they are separated ; hence the resistance to the 

 blood must be less "in that common trunk than in the left sub- 

 clavian and carotid. 



But if the resistance be smaller, the absolute force with 

 which the blood is sent from the heart being equal, there 

 must of necessity be a greater quantity of blood sent through 

 them in a given time ; and as the strength of the muscles is, 

 caeteris paribus, as the quantity of blood sent into them during 

 a given time, those of the right side will be stronger than the 

 left. Now, children early become conscious of this superior 

 strength, and use the right arm on all occasions ; thus from 

 use comes the great difference which is so observable. That 

 this is a sufficient cause seems evident from fact, for what a 

 difference there is between the right and left arm of that 

 modern Vulcan, the blacksmith ? An examination will con- 

 vince the most skeptical that the difference must arise from 

 use. But if by any accident the right limb is kept from ac- 

 tion for any time, the other, from being used, stimulates a 

 greater flow of blood, and soon develops and gets to be the 

 better. It is not to be imagined that the small difference in 

 the original formation of the vessels should be sufficient to re- 

 sist the effect of use and habit : instances to the contrary 

 occur every day. it is enough for our argument that where 

 no means are used to oppose it, the odds are sufficient to de- 

 termine the choice in favor of the right. Observe a dog at a 

 trot how he bears forward with his right side ; or look at him 

 when scraping a hole in which to deposit the bone he carries— 

 you will perceive that he uses his right foot much more fre- 

 quently than the left. Something analogous to this may be 

 observed in the pawing of the horse. It was formerly the 

 opinion of anatomists that left-handed people, as well as those 

 distinguished by the name of ambidexter (who use both hands 

 alike), have th- two carotid and entclavian arteries coming off 

 in four distinct trunks from the arch of the aorta ; but examt 

 nations made for the purpose of determining this— though, in- 

 deed, but few— failed to confirm the hypothesis. 



Andrew Fuller. The same large, heavy, menacing, combative, 

 sombre, honest countenance, the same deep, inevitable eye, the 

 same look— as of thunder asleep, but ready— neither a dog or 

 a man to be trifled with. 



Rab.— Did you ever read Dr. John Brown's " Hab and His 

 Friends?" If not, do so at once. It is published in handsome 

 and convenient form by the Osgoods (price 50 cents), 

 and also forms one of the Lakeside Library num- 

 bers (price 10 cents). It is one of the most ex- 

 quisite sketches ever written, an admirable piece of artistic 

 work, and as a portraiture of a noble dog simply unsurpassed. 

 Here is the description of Bab, the hero t 



I wish you could have seen him. There are no such dogs 

 now. He belonged to a lost tribe. As I have said, he was 

 brindled and erav like Eutwaaw granite? his hair short. 

 Hard and close," like a lion's; his body thick-set, like ahull— a 

 sort of compressed Hercules of a dog. He must have been 

 ninety pounds' weight, at least ; he had a large blunt head; 

 his muzzle black as night, his mouth blacker than any night, a 

 tooth or two— being all lie bad— gleaming out of his jaws oi 

 darkness. His head was scan'ed with the records of old 

 wounds, a sort of series of fields of battle all over it j one eye 

 out ; one car cropped as close as was Archbishop Leightou's 

 father's ; the remaining eye had the power of two; and above 

 it, and in constant communication with it, was a tattered rag 

 of an ear, which was forever unfurling itself, like an old flag; 

 and then that bud of a tail, about one inch long, if it could in 

 any sense be said to be long, being as broad as long— the mo- 

 bil'itv, the instamaneousne.-s of that bud were very funny and 

 surprising, and its expressive twinklings and winkings, the 

 intercommunications between the eye the ear and it were of 

 ihe oddest and swiftest. . ,. . 



Rah had the dignity and simplicity of great size ; and hav- 

 ing fought his way along the road to absolute supremacy, he 

 was as mighty in his own line as Julius Cfnsar of the Duke of 

 Wellington, and had the gravity of all great fighters. 



You must have often observed the likeness of certain men 

 to certain animals, and of certain dogs to men. Now I never 

 J.ioked at Rab without thinking of the great Baptist preaher. 



A Dog Catcher Gomes to Grief.— Martin Geiszler, of 

 One hundred and fifty eighth street, was awakened at an 

 early hour by the howling of his Newfoundland dog in the 

 back yard. Throwing opeu the window a curious scene met 

 his gaze. On top of the fence, sat James Fay, assistant dog- 

 catrher for the Twenty-third Ward, vainly endeavoring to 

 hoist the dog by means of a rope and noose, which had been 

 slipped around the animals hind legs. Mr. Geiszler aimed a 

 revolver at Fay and bade him depart, which he endeavored to 

 do, but fell into the arms of a policeman, and was taken before 

 Justice Wheeler and held to answer at the Special Sessions. 

 Fay argued that he. was discharging his duty. 



It is to be hoped an example will be made of this scoundrel. 



Destruction of Sheep by Dogs. — Nearly three million 

 of sheep wore destroyed by disease or the depredations of 

 dogs ami wolves during the hist year, representing a money 

 value of nearly $8, 000J300. The loss is greatest proportion- 

 ately in North Carolina. Florida and Louisiana, and ranges 

 from seventeen per cent, in the former State to three and 

 seven-tenths in Nebraska, the average being about eight. 

 The lowest rate is in the States having dog laws, and the high- 

 est is confined to the South, where almost every negro is the 

 owner of one or more curs. 



— This is a true story, for the Pittsburg GazeiU says it is : 

 At Hawkins Station, Pa., a day or two ago, a dog attempt- 

 ed to pass under a 1 rain, but was not quick enough, aud the 

 tip end of his tail was caught and cut off. He whirled around 

 to see what was the matter with that extremity, and almost 

 instantly his head was cut off. 



— E. F. Mercellott's orange and white bitches. Pet and 

 Grace, have recently whelped — Pet nine, five bitches and 

 four dogs ; Grace, eight, five dogs and three bitches ; the for- 

 mer byTTheo Morforcis dog, Don, the latter by Morris's Pete. 

 Ail orange and white with black points. 



Name Claimed. — I hereby acknowledge the receipt of a 

 Moll II and Rufus II, pup from Mr. Von Culin, of Delaware 

 City, Del. , for wdiick I claim the name of Bruce. He is en- 

 tirely red, with not one white hair on him, and black nose 

 and lips. Geo. Is. Bed with. 

 . — «.. - 



The New Tork Kennel Club have three puppies for sale, two by 

 " Rake " (half Laverack), out of "Flirt" (Irish): Information may be 

 had from Dr. Strachan, 51 East Twenty -third street, N.T— [Adv. 



h% mid MitM' 



FISH IN SEASON IN AUGUST. 



FRESH WATER. 



Trout, Salmo fontinalis. 



Salmon, Salmo solar. 

 Salmon Trout., tiahuo mnfinis. 

 Land-locked Salmon, Salmo gloveri, 

 Grayling, Thymallus tricolor. 

 ^laek Bass, Micro pier vs salmoides; 



M. nigricans. 

 Mascalonge, Esox ixobilior. 

 Pike or Pickerel, Esox Lucius. 

 Yellow Perch, Percajlavescens. 



8ALT WATER. 



8ea Bass, Sciamops ocellatus. 

 Sheepshead, Arcltosargtis probata- 



cephahis. 

 Striped Bass, Hocctis Hnneatus, 

 White Perch, Slornne americana. 

 Weakflsh, Cynoscion rajali-s 

 Blueflsh, EomattfiiiuN naltatrix. 

 Spanish Mackerel, Cybium inacula- 



tum. 

 Cero, Cybium regale. 

 Bouito, Sarda jielamye. 

 Kingtlsh, Menticirrus nebulosws. 



Fish in Mahket. — Our quotations for the week are as fol- 

 lows: 



Striped bass, 18 to 25 cents per pound ; blueflsh, 10 

 cents; salmon, green, 40 cents; frozen do, 30 cents; mack- 

 erel, 25 cents: weakfish, 12 cents; white perch,15 cents; 

 Spanish mackerel, 60 cents ; greCn turtle, 12 cents ; 

 halibut, 18 cents; haddock, 8 cents; king- fish, 25 cents; 

 codfish, 8 cents; blackflsh, 15 cents: herrings, 6 cents; 

 flounders, 8 cents ; porgies, 10 cents ; sea bass, 18 cents ■, 

 eels, 18 cents; lobsters, 10 cents; soft clams, 30 to 60 

 cents per 100 ; Long Island trout, $1 ; Canada do., 50 cents ; 

 hard shell crabs, $4 per 100 ; soft crabs, $1 50 per dozen ; 

 frog legs, 35 cents per pound. 



Vermont. — Lake Champlain is now resorted to by black 

 bass fishermen, who report excellent catches. 



Rhode Island. -Perry Ralph caught seven hundredweight, 

 of blueflsh near Point Judith, July 25, and six hundredweight 

 July 26. 



Connecticut. — South Vernon. — Black bass fishing in the 

 Connecticut now affords excellent sport. 



Swrabwrg. — There was killed, recently, a night her- 

 on, eighteen inches high, with neat glossy plumage, and hav- 

 ing three white cylindrical feathers, six inches long extending 

 back from its head. H. 



"Mystic Island. — On the 4th ultimo friend Herbert and your 

 humble servant, packed traps for a few days sport, and 

 took scuts in the New Haven aud Shore cars for Noank, 

 Conn. A few days stay in camp induced us to strike tents 

 and go over to Mystic Island, a beautiful cool and inviting 

 spot, free from that pest, the mosquito, lying one mile out 

 from shore. On the island we found a good hotel and good 

 fishing. Our take was as follows, viz.: 



July 9 2 lines 3 houre' Ashing XJflsh 



July in 41 Inns 6 hours' tithing I 'A' li-li 



July 21 1 line 2 hours 1 fishing 2(1 Ush 



July 23 2 1 ines hours' fishing 53 fish 



Tipping the scales at 10 lbs., 6 lbs., 4^ lbs., 4 lbs., down to 

 1 I ll.s. 



This island is situated on Fisher's Island Sound, and is about 

 one hundred miles from this city, and the salubrity of Ihe 

 climate, the constant cooljireews, the shady walks, the ex- 



cellent anchorage for yachts, and its accessibility to the main 

 land should make it a favorite, summer resort. Waltox. 



Massachusetts,— Newhuryport, July 30.— E. F. Hunt and 

 J. M. Eaton captured a horse mackerel ten feet long, seven 

 Feet girth, and weighing about eight hundred pounds. He 

 had several tins, varying from a foot to eighteen inches long, 

 a large head which resembled that of a mackerel, and skin 

 very hard and of a silvery color. 



Movements of the Fishing Fleet,— During the past week 

 34 fishing arrivals have been reported at this port, 10 from 

 Bank trips, 47 from Georges, and 27 from mackereling voy- 

 ages. Halibut have been in light receipt. 185,000 lbs." Batik 

 and 24,000 lbs. Georges, and prices have ruled high. The re- 

 ceipts of codfish have been about 425.000 from 'Georges and 

 400,000 lbs. from the Banks. Mackerel have been in light re- 

 ceipt, and there is no slock of consequence on the market. — 

 Cape Ann Advertiser, Aug. 8. 



New Yoke— The Adiromh^ks.— Warren P. Brady, Charles 

 Trotter, John M. Prophet and "Wm. Gage Brady'have just 

 returned from a two weeks' trip among the. lakes in the south- 

 ern part of the Adirondacks, and report the black bass fish- 

 ing in these parts excellent. They caught great numbers in 

 Lake Paradox, some weighing as much as 3jr pounds. The 

 bass and pickerel fishing in Schroon Lake is also good. [front- 

 ing in these parts is not as good as in former years, owing to 

 the heavy rains. 



New Jersey.— Beach Sawn.—^ Sleepshead fishermen com 

 plain of the wholesale destruction of these fish by the jndis 

 criminate use of nets. Such numbers are taken that great 

 quantities spoil before they can be disposed of. The hook 

 and line fishermen have lost their vocation, and extermination 

 of the fish is threatened. 



Pennsylvania.— Black bass fishing is unusually o-ood this 

 season at the Falls of the Schuylkill. ° 



WiscoNBm.— Memsha, July 31.— Fishing has not been as 

 good as usual this season thus far, on account of unusual low 

 water and high winds. But our fall fishing is always the 

 best. The low water, however, is the cause of an immense 

 wild nee crop, larger than ever before, and that means difcks! 

 ducks! ducks ! g ' 



A Dipsey.— The editor of the Buck's County (Pa ) Gazette 

 informs an inquirer what a dipsey is, as follows : 



Deep-sea Line (pron. dipsey), n. (Naur.) A line with a plummet »t 

 the end, called a deep sea lead, used for taking soundui raltaS itl 

 deep water.- ZelVs Encyclopedia. iuuui t » at &ea in 



"When used in fishing a bow of whalebone or steel havioe- 

 long snoods of horse hair or gut, to which are attached from 

 four to six hooks, is fastened to the deep sea line about a fool 

 above the deep sea lead. The lead rests lightly nnon the hot 

 torn of the stream, the current carries the snoods at a rirfit 

 angle from the line, so that the baited hook is some distance 

 from the line and bow. The jerk of the. fish when bit'ine at 

 the hook is communicated by the elastic bow to the line «r! 

 that each nibble is distinctly felt, by the fisherman in the boat 

 above. This is called a bow-line. The deep sea line is ofm, 

 used without the bow, having the snood attached direct v t- 

 the line, but the bite of the fish is not as plainly fdt as with tie 

 bow. A. gravel bottom is best for white catfish and perch 

 and a muddy bottom for yellow catfish and eels The com- 

 bination of the fish hook with the deep sea line was the in 

 vention of the river boatmen, who use the line and lead for 

 their soundings m foggy weather, and who ascertained that bv 

 fastenmga short line wiih a baited hook at a, little distlnr'I 

 above the lead, they could have excellent sport with bottom 

 hsh in deep water. The apparatus has of course been ore-it h* 

 improved since The word ' 'dipsy, » or ' 'dipsey, » is meWJ v I 

 corruption of the original. ** wa 



[The editor of the Gazette devotes two columns of Ms 

 paper each week to shooting, fishing and the like just as 

 Brother Freas, of the Germantown Telegraph has clone for 

 many years. This department is well edited.— En. J 



Shad Fishing. --About a mile west of Point Judith Point 

 there is a bend in the shore called Sand Hill Cove, ail in 

 cove, feeding among the eel grass, I have seen more ihan 100 

 sharks at one lime, ranging from the length of a man's a-m to 

 that of a good-sized row-boat. Thirty-hve years "^nce 

 catching sharks was regarded rare sport, as well as profit fw 

 during the days of tallow dips and whale oil as illuminators 

 the oil extracted from sharks' livers was looked upon brW 

 shoremen as ot no mean quality, since it; burned in a lamii as 

 well as the best right whale oil. One day in 1842 a friend hv 

 the name of Jacques and myself proposed to c i ear San. t 

 Cove of sharks, aud to that end armed ourselves with 1™ 

 hook linked to about four feet of chain, a seine wa p fe 

 line, part ot a cedar fence-ra.1 for a clobber, ftn olfl l 'l£ 

 bayonet secured to a rake-handle for a lance, stron^ Ssfl 

 double-pronged barbed spear), a good laree row w,< ? ( 

 bushels of bunkers, and a stot/e fortm anfe ^ no or rJ on 

 the ground we placed in a net-hag twenty of £33 

 bunkers, and hung them over the bow ,o elm n u an dmv, 

 with the motion of the boat; we also placet on thhoE ' 

 couple of fish and threw out for a nibble. Soon tie MnL 

 scales, etc., from the bunkers began to raise astir ■, , ' 



fish, and they came-large sharks, small S^ffSSS 

 lean sharks, and sharks by the hundreds; somelaimiektei™ 

 slowly, almost touching the boat; others darting a ml v h 

 the speed ot an arrow. Our hook proved too In- r, 

 small fry, they bothering us by picklng'off 'the Sif- ^ 

 made sad havoc among the moderate-.ized fellows wi ,he 

 grains. After catching a dozen or more of the s.mtllc - " 

 old 14-footer swallowed the hook, and to hold I, , I, 3 i- 

 trying to hold a steamboat. We, howev er. got aSnToS 

 thestam-post and checked him. uhen he walked oft wtuTthe 

 boat, anchor-stone and all. After a prolonged tussk ™fc 

 nm within reach ot the lance, with which we soon sett k d n s 

 hash and owed him to the shore. During the Xy we took 

 sixty-eight with grams and three with hook. ?L ^J 

 this catch would yield more than one barrel of oil, and the\ 

 nety was made up of blue, shovel-nose and mapSshS 

 It is almost needless to say that the. seventy -one sh, kf ',"' 

 lured did not dimmish the numbers that frequented tl e "< ,t " 



Sharks when 1^ m a boat are ^ n hy ^ ( ^ : 



and have to be killed, which is conveniently donl by leverins 

 the spine, or tapping :them just above the root, of llie pVctoi'd 

 fin with a knife. They are regular ocean hawks, rnWmS 

 about, pouncing upon, and eating multitudes of v, u ble fiup 

 and a crusade against them would confer a £ 

 upon the human species. For twenty years I Lva li^ 

 bv the sea and amused myself in catching sharks and o her 

 hsh, and notwithstanding the former are numerous and i , , 

 pie are constantly exposed, [never knew one to attack Cn 

 aud never saw a person that had witnessed such an occur 

 ence ' Straighx-L. 



