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unusual drift of a currant, the varying tempera- 

 ture of Bea or air, the nebulous condition of the 

 sky, are all incidents of seemingly little import, 

 but which serve as important data for scientific 

 deduction ; hence the observant navigator be- 

 comes a uo-Jaborer with them, for upon his fa- 

 miliarity with the laws governing atmospheric 

 chauges as affecting the movement and force of 

 wind and the course of storms largely depends 

 the safety of his vessel.— T. Robinson Wauhen, 

 in IMtrpi'r's Magamte for November . 



Rational gastUms. 



New York Athletic Club.— The final games 

 of the season were contested on the club grounds 

 at Mott Haven last Tuesday. There was an ex- 

 traordinarily large list of entries, though the num- 

 ber of starters was not so great-. In the first 

 trial heats of the 100-yard raoe there were forty- 

 three entries and the heats— eight in number — 

 were ran off promptly, the wind blowing down 

 the track and favoring good time. The first heat 

 was won by J B Elliott in 1<>, 4-5b, R D Neeson 

 second. Second heat, M II Burch, 10 3-5s, A 

 Davies a good second. Third heat, Jos Lafon in 

 lo 4-5s, with C Sonuyler second. Saportas took 

 the fourth heat easily in 10 3- 5s, \V A Douglass 

 second. The fifth heat brought out H ParBOlia 

 as winner in 10 3-6s, and Win B Thornhill sec- 

 ond. In the sixth heat J Murray was first- in 

 10 4-5s. with J W Arthur eecpnd. " In the sev- 

 enth heat C W McCorkiudal ajeajp A in first in 10- 

 4-6s, with B Knapp toqII up^TJie eighth was 

 a "walk-over for Emil Eotabj^tio timo being 

 taken. 



In the second trial heats wore entered the first 

 and second in the first trial heats, and the four 

 heats were won as follows, the running being 

 close and good in neaily every instance : The 

 first was won .by Burch, of the H A C, in 10 3-5.-<; . 

 the second by C Schuyler in 10 2-5s; the third 

 by H Parsons, of the Kerens Boat Clnb, in 10 

 3-5s, and the fourth by G W McCorkiudale in 10 

 3-5s. The final heat brought out the four win- 

 ners of the secon d trial heats : Elliott, of Green- 

 point, 5 yards allowance ; Schuyler of New York, 

 20 yards ; Parsons, of the Nereus Boat Clnb, 25 

 yards, aud McCorkindale, of New York, 25 yards. 

 Parsons won by sis itiches, McOorkindale sec- 

 ond, Elliott third and Schuyler fourth ; time 10, 

 2-5s, 



iu the two miles walk there were twelve start- 

 ers, the most noticeable among them being mi- 

 nute of a pedestrian, Johnny Hargraves, who 

 hails froni Yonkers, is eight years old, weighs 

 sixty-five pounds and gots around the track in a 

 shape that would do credit to Weston. The 

 effect of his passing some of his giant competi- 

 tors was ludicrous in the extreme, aud when with 

 live minutes handicap, Jobnny came in second 

 lie was perfectly overwhelmed with applause. 

 The walk was won by O. I). Phillips (2 min. al- 

 lowance), in 17m 25a. HargraTos' first mile was 

 ■Jm 51}-<a, and his two miles 19m 40s. 



The nfth-of-a-rnile race, over ten hurdles, was 

 run off in heats. First heat won by Drew, of 

 the N. Y. A. C, iu GS^s. The second heat 

 ■was taken by Pierson, tfaverley A. C, Liv- 

 ingston, H. A. O, second — time, 55s. The final 

 heat brought out Pierson (20 yards allowance), 

 Drew (15 yards), Prazier (15 yards), and Living- 

 ston (8 yards). Pierson won in 51 2-os. Drew 

 s cond. 



The four hundred and'forty yards race was run 

 in heats. The first was won by Childs, of the 

 Nautilus B. C, in 55 3-5s, W O Wilkinson second. 

 The second heat was taken by the already famous 

 Morritt by a foot in 30s, with Wm II Stewart so 

 close that many thought it was a dead heat. The 

 third heat fell to Richard Berger, of the Eclectic 

 A. C, with C E Chapman, of itidgewood, well up. 

 The final heat was a good one, and was won by 

 Stewart in 53}-^3, with Chapman second. 



Mr, E. N. Armstrong, who was to have at- 

 tempted 8 miles in one hour, owing to the bois- 

 terous weather, finally decided to attempt one 

 half the distance only, and succeeded in doing 

 the four miles in the very creditable time of 20m 

 4)4-5s._ 



The one-mile walk, open only to members of 

 the H. A. C, was won by E Schliehting (55s al- 

 lowance) in Sm 34s, with L A Berte (5m 15s al- 

 lowance) second. 



The half-mile run was won by EG Gunser, of 

 Station F Poat-Office, an allowance of 20s, beat- 

 ing Chas W Turner (30s), of the N. Y. A. C., a 

 short foot for first place. 



For the grand steeple-chase, the track marked 

 out was something less than a half of a mile, and 

 passed by a circuitous route from in front of the 

 grand stand out of the inclosuro aud over ''dead- 

 bead hill," returning again to the starting point. 

 The entries were Edward Merrit, scratch ; A W 

 Anderson, 20 yards; Wm It Stewart, 25 yards, 

 and T E Bates 40 yards. Bates got off well, and 

 putting on a good gait kept well within himself, 

 taking water jump and bush hurdle with ease. 

 The rest followed in the order named, but Her- 

 ri tt put on a great burst of speed and came near 

 catching Bates, who let out a Ink and came home 

 a good winner in 2:11— Merrittsecoud. 



Obion Bowing and Athletic Association.— 

 This club engaged in a seiies of sports at the 

 West Side Driving Park, New Jersey, Oct. 7. 

 The 100 yard handicap dash, first heat, won by J 

 H Van "Loan, scratch; time lis. The second 

 heat won by J H Drew, 12 feet start; time lis. 

 The third heat, W Wilson, 15 ft start; time 12s. 

 The fourth. C J Rooiiey, 10 ft start ; time ll^a. 

 (J Hoe, 15 ft start, won the fifth in ll}£s. The 

 final heat, John Van Loan, Drew second, Rooney 

 third. Time lOJi's. 



in the one mile walking handicap, with .sixteen 

 entries, H Bowly, 140 seconds start, proved the 

 winner ; W E O rattan, ISO seconds start, second; 

 W Goodson, 100 seconds start, third. Time, 9m 



Bainmer Throwing— W E Myers, 53ft lOin: D 

 W Lawrence, 51ft 3in, and J H Van Loan, 47ft 

 4in. 



One Mile Walking Match between P J Mott, 

 of the Harlem Athletic Club, and S D Phillips, 

 of the Hudson Boat Club, was won by the for- 

 mer. Timo, 17m &l}i* . 



Quarter-Mile Handicap— Won by J H Drew, 10 

 yards start; W P Myers, scratch, second ; C Hoe, 

 10 yards start, third. Time, 50s. 



The Tug of War was won by Capt, Lawrence's 

 team. 



Three-Legged Race— Won by Myers and Van 

 Loan, distance 100 yards. Time, 141s. 



The Strangers' lialf-milo Race was won by E. 

 Hough, of the Hudson Boat Club; C Myers, sec- 

 ond. Time, 2m 23 Js. 



New York College Athletic Club.— The 

 contests in the games last Tuesday resulted as 

 follows ; One mile walk— first, E "E Delamater; 

 second, F S Williams. There were ten entries. 

 The time was not taken. One half mile ruu, 

 seven entries — Won by G Upton in 2m 55s. Ono 

 hundred yard dash, final heat, six entries— Won 

 by M B Palmer ; second, E H Shethar, time lljs. 

 Previous to these the championship contest was 

 decided. The Senior team who beat the Juniors 

 and Freshmen on October 27, were to pull 

 against the Sophomores, but as the latter with- 

 drew from the contest the '78 team, composed 

 of Messrs. Boehne, Cohen, Doring, Nordlinger 

 and Shumway, were deolared champions of the 



Gchuusge Foot-ball Matches— Harvaud vs. 

 Pkinceton. — This game was played at Hoboken 

 last Saturday. The game was d'ivided into two 

 parts of 15 minutes, and played according to 

 Rugby rules. The 15 players trorn Harvard Col- 

 lege were Mr. L Cushing, the captain, and Messrs 

 Thayer, Littan, Perry, Holmes, Swift, H AV Cush- 

 ing, Austin, Blanchard, Harrington, Houston, 

 Holden, Lumbard, Bacon and Wethersby. The 

 Princeton men were : Dodge, captain, Messrs. 

 Cults, Bradford, Ballard, Miner, Stevenson, Clark, 

 Devereaux, Loney, Lee, Enos, Wiloy, living, 

 McNair aud Van Dyke. The hour sot down for 

 the game was 2 o'clock. Toward the close of the 

 first 45 minutes Harvard gained a touch-down ; 

 during the second half Princeton won a goal, and 

 as no other points were made, won the game. 

 Both sides showed some excellent playing. 



Habvabd vs. Columbia.— These two teams 

 met on the St. Georges' Cricket Grounds, Hobo 

 ken, last Monday. The Harvard men soon showed 

 that the game was theirs, and by some handsome 

 playing made the following score : 



Harvard— Cushing, captain. Rushers— Thayer, 

 Littaner, Perry, Holmes, Swift, 'H Gushing. Half 

 backs— Holden, Austin, Harrington, Bacon, 

 Houston. Backs — Weatherby, Sheldon, Lombard. 



Columbia — Browor, captain. Rushers — Train, 

 Potts, Lawrence, Bnnkerhoff, Rhodes, Burton. 

 Half baoks— Pryor, Morgan, De Forest, Ledaux, 

 Hammond. Backs — Randall, McCosh, Connover. 



Empires- Messrs. Seamans and Brown. 



Referee— Mr. Cutts, of the Princeton team. 



Goals from placed kicks— Harvard, 5 ; Colum- 

 bia. 0. 



Goals from straight kicks -Harvard, 1 ; Colum- 

 bia, 0. 



Touch-down yielding goals — Harvard, 5 ; Co- 

 lumbia, 0. 



Touch-down yielding missed goals — Harvard, 

 5 ; Columbia, 0. 



Touch-downs for safety— Harvard, 0; Colum- 

 bia, 7. 



Pouls from throws — Harvard, 13; Columbia, 8. 



Touch-downs by Holmes, 3 ; Latteaux, 2; Cush- 

 ing, 2 ; '1 hayer, 1 ; Perry, 1. 



Kicked goals — Bacon, 1. 



Goals from placed kicks — Cushing, 4 ; Lat- 

 teaux, 1. 



Rushes by Harvard, 21 ; Columbia, 13. 



Scrimmages, 23. Pieid kicks, 31. 



Cricket. — The last game of the Manhattan 

 Cricket Club last Tuesday was played with the 

 disadvantage of a high wind and a soft ground. 

 The contest resulted in a victory for the married 

 men by the following score : 



MARKIED. SINGLE. 



Love, b Hooper: 8 Scott, b Hosford 6 



Hosford, bGreig 7 W Scott, b Love 4 



Tilly, b Scott 8 Jeuk'uis, b Tilly. .... 8 



Oakly, b Hosford.... 8 Maken, b Hosford. . (J 



Mackenzie, b Scott... 10 Legge, b Tilly 5 



Low, b Greig -:... Reed, c and bLove. . 3 



Hiticliff, b Hooper... 3 Greig, b Hosford :i 



Barclay, c Scott, b Evans, b Tilley 2 



Greig 10 Extras 3 



Extras 2 — 



— Total 40 



Total 60 



ll w Mubltcdtions. 



Shooting and Pishing in the Rivers, Prairies 

 and Backwoods of North America. By R. 

 H. Revoil. Editor of the "Journal de Chas- 

 soiu's.'' TiauBlated by "The Chronicler.'' 

 Loudon, Tinsley Bros., 1865. 



M. Revoil, in his preface, gives the key note 

 to his book in the following quotation : "Sports- 

 men's stories are not Gospel truth," which we 

 think the American ro ader will consider an ap- 

 propriate introduction. 



He tells us that ho rosided in the United 

 States from 1841 to 1849, during which time he 

 hunted and fished from Maine to Florida, and 

 from New York to the Rooky Mountains He 

 consorted with Indians, trappers, squatters, 

 whites aud negroes. His Canadian Indians are 

 described as being dressed iu the skins of the, 

 buffalo and the peccary; he hunts in New Bruns- 

 wick with Esquimaux, and in Florida with 

 Caribs; and they all are of the conventional 

 sort, picturesque and statuesque, using language 

 the most poetical.* 



As to the negroes, his acquaintance with that 

 race may be inferred by the following quotation 

 from their speech, as used in describing the wild 

 cat: "As greedy as a pawubroker; as cunning 

 as a briefless barrister ; as fierce as a peccary, 

 and as hard as a tortoise." In the same way 

 does M. Revoil draw his descriptions of white 

 squatters and hunters from the depths of his 

 inner consciousness. 



Among the new and wonderful things which 

 this disciple of Saint Hubert,aB M. Revoil is fond 

 of calling himself, saw among the Indians, was 

 the sport of hawking, of which he partook with 



the Blackfeet and Oaages. Pew travelers have 

 Been this, but it waB reserved for M. Revoil 

 "to participate in a kind of sport which (except 

 in Holland and Scotland), is now quite extinct in 

 Europe— hawking for herons." The description 

 of the sport which follows might have been, per- 

 haps was, taken from one of Sir Walter Scott's 

 romances. 



Another remarkable instance of good luck 

 which bofel M. Revoil was the shooting of three 

 panthers in ono day " in the forests which ex- 

 tend along the Erie railway.'' With his usual 

 accuracy he describes the panther as about the 

 size of a large fox, 



M. Revoil is somewhat vague in his geography, 

 which is unfortunate, as it may prevent other 

 naturalists from profiting by his discoveries. 

 For instance, at the foot of the " Masseme 

 Mountains in the steppes of the New World," 

 he found ostriches ; and in a note he adds that 

 he saw in the posseBBion of a New York natural- 

 ist two ostriches which had been killed in Iowa ; 

 they were five feet in height, and had been sold 

 for $200— which was certainly a large price for a 

 sandhill crane. This, however, is not the only 

 disoovery of M. Rovoil in Zoology. He finds 

 the grizzly among the Alleghanies, and the roe- 

 buck in Virginia. The caribou, he asserts, in 

 his own observation, to be the largest and most 

 formidable of the deer of America ; and one of 

 the most ferocious and dangerous of the carniv- 

 ora of the United States, he thinks, is the coyote 

 or prairie wolf . 



The second volume of M. Revoil's book is de- 

 voted to the fishing of America, and here we 

 meet with adventures unparalleled in the pages 

 of Forest and Stream. 



Near Rochester, iu company with a beautiful 

 descendant of Amerigo Vespucci, he captured 

 forty-five trout, of which eleven weighed from 

 eight to nine pounds, three salmon and nineteen 

 bass. 



In 1846, M. Revoil met' at the Eagle Hotel in 

 Chicago one Simon Bergerou, a Canadian with a 

 nasal twang, who iuvited him to go to his sugar 

 camp on the Rock River, near Peoria ; and here 

 they killed iu one day fifty-seven salmon, and a 

 hundred and twenty-two trout. This was done, 

 however, with the help of Bergerou's negroes, 

 who hauled a seine. Many wonderful things 

 were done in those days, but this was the great- 

 est haul of all. 



There are, also, thrilling adventures with 

 sharks, astonishing alligator stories, and won- 

 derful tales of the devil-fish and the kraken ; 

 but most of them seem to be old acquaintances, 

 and the impression with which one closes the 

 book is, that, it has been ma'de up from various 

 sporting works, and represents a diligent use o 

 the scissors and paste pot, rather thau the rod 

 and the rifle. O. 



The Emigrant aud SportBinan in Canada. By 

 John J. Rowan. London, 1876. 

 The principal object of this book seems to be 

 to attract immigration to the Dominion, and to 

 waririmmigrants from going to the United States. 

 It does not appear that Mr. Rowan ever was in 

 our part of the Continent; he came from England 

 a typical John Bull, full of the insular prejudices 

 against Republics aud Republicans, and returned 

 home strong in the belief that the native born 

 American is " a slight, sallow, lanky man, with 

 poor muscular development, who comes of a 

 stock thatkas-had servants to do its work— from 

 Africa, from China, and from Ireland." "The 

 Canadian," he says, '•' is robust and strong, being 

 sprung from a well-grown and muscular parent- 

 age, he preserves the type;" and he evidently is 

 of the opinion that instead of Canada being ab- 

 sorbed iuto the American Republic, it is the Do- 

 minion that is to swallow up the United Statos. 

 As to the American woman, he admits " that she 

 is pretty, but is old at thirty, and has only, or at 

 moat, two children." Standing on the other side 

 of the St. Lawrence, Mr. Rowan has made other 

 remarkable discoveries, historical and political. 

 The territory of the United States has, he says, 

 not beon cleared and subdued by the Americans, 

 but by Chinese and IriBh labor. He has also 

 discovered Hat Worth America is too large to be 

 under one government, and believes that it will 

 bo divided into many republics or kingdoms. 

 It seems hardly worth while to notice such feeble 

 attempts at book making as these, but when Mr. 

 Rowan turns to subjects whioh he understands, 

 natural history and field sports, he is really an 

 agreeable and instructive writer. He well d<t 

 scribes the Fauna of the several provinces, and 

 has evidently hunted and fished from Ontario to 

 Cape Breton. He writes intelligently of moose, 

 caribou and. bear hunting, and gives the best 

 account we have met with of the duck shoot- 

 ing of the Provinces, as well as the sport 

 among the shore birds in summer. Upon ang 

 ling, Mr. Rowan writes well, but we do not agree 

 with him in his estimate of the black bass and 

 the muakalonge, which he will not inolude among 

 game fish. Probably he knows nothing of them, 

 or it may be that the fact of those fish being na- 

 tive Americans may have weight in the uvavlar 

 mind. Certainly if Mr. Rowan had ever had a 



four-pound black bass on a light rod in a swift 

 current, or had tackled a fifteen pound muska- 

 longe, he would have written more respectfully 

 of them. It has been said "that one touch of 

 nature makes the whole world kin," and most 

 men are friendly by the river side ; but our 

 author, even on a salmon river, still growls at the 

 hated Yankees, and finds merit even in the 

 musquitoes, which he says prevent the Canadian 

 lake* and rivers from being overrun by them. 



Mr. Rowan maiu tains that the angling in Canada 

 is the best in the world, and that the Restigouche 

 is the first of Canadian Balmon rivors. He is, we 

 think, the first writer who has noticed in a book, 

 the peculiar sea trout of the Nouvelle and the 

 Escuminac, two beautiful little rivers which 

 enter the Bay of Chaleurs opposite Dalhouaie, 

 which fish differ in color; size and habits from 

 those taken iu other waters. We have no space 

 left to notice in detail the directions to emigrants 

 which appear to be sensible and practical, stilt 

 warning the simple minded Englishman from the. 

 wiles of Brother Jonathan. C, 



Harper 'a.— With the November number, Har- 

 per's concludes its fifty-fifth volume. These 

 volumes form an exhaustless store-house of good 

 things. History, biography, wit, literature, fic- 

 tion, poetry, the scientific progress of the last 

 quarter of a century, and a variety of minor miB- 

 cellany— all are here represented by matter of 

 sterling worth. The current number h richly 

 illustrated and full of entertaining reading. Mr. 

 H. W. Elliott tells us much ot value and interest 

 about the physical features of the fauna and people 

 of Alaska. Then from that dreary waste we are 

 transported to the strongly contrasted tropic 

 lands of Western Texas, where Mrs. Harriet Pres- 

 cott Spofford finds a theme in the historically ro- 

 mantic old town of San Antonio de Bexar. 

 "Yachting on Blue Waters," by Mr. T. R. War- 

 ren, has the tru dash about it. It is an excel- 

 lent treatment of an excellent subject. Mrs. 

 Gen. Fremont begins what promises to be a 

 valuable series of autobiographical papers. Olive 

 Logan has a paper on Houdin, "The King of 

 Conjurers," whose exploits, even when explained, 

 are mystifying. There are stories by E. E. nale, 

 Mrs. C. V. Hamilton, Henrietta Holdrich. Mr. 

 Blackburn concludes "Evema." The poems are 

 by Ellis Gray, Helen C. Conant, Kate Hillard, 

 Philip Bourke Marston and Fannie R. Robinson. 



ScrHner's.— The opening article this month is 

 one of the sporting series. This time Mr. W 

 McKay Laffon gives a description of the "Canvas! 

 back and Terrapin." Another out-of-doors pa- 

 per is " A Bed of Boughs," iu which Mr. John 

 Burroughs treats of tramping. Frank A. Stock- 

 ton haB a paper on the Island of Nassau. Col. 

 Waring begins a series of papers on the "Saddle- 

 horse," and Mrs. Herrick treats of "Bees." J, 

 G. Stevens predicts the abandonment of "The 

 Erie Canal." George M. Towle gives a sketch 

 of Thiers; and those who are familiar with her 

 portrait will be glad to learn something of th« 

 "Conntess of Potoka." Edward Eggleston be- 

 gins a serial story, " Boxy," of which the scene 

 is laid in the land of the Hoosier Schoolmaster ; 

 and readers of " Lodusky " will find a curious 

 counterpart of that character in Nancy Kirtley, 

 one of the characters in "Roxy." Henry James, 

 Jr., has a story; Bret Harte a poem; "His In' 

 heritance " is continued, and there are a variety 

 of other sketches, poems and stories. 



Appkton'.t. — Iu the first illustrated paper Mr. 

 J. W. Murphy describes, in a pleasant way 

 some "Summer Ramblings in Washington Ter-j 

 ritory." The author finds abundant material in 

 this almost terra incognita and has combined, 

 with graphic pictures of the great rivers, forests 

 and snow clad mountains, much that will enlaige 

 our knowledge of the great Northwost, and will 

 prove of value to future tourists. Wo have not 

 for a long time seen a more fascinating 

 subject than that treated by Mr. E. L. Bur- 

 hngame, who, in his paper on "Dead Magazines,'- 

 fittingly recalls the memory of the by-gone mag- 

 azines of America. In short stories the number 

 is strong. The sombre sketch, " A Whip of Scor- 

 pions," by Edgar Fawcett, contrasts with the 

 brighter and highly edifying idyl "Extra-Hazard- 

 ous," by Edward Bellamy, in which the tramp 

 figures prominently and makes a most favorable 

 impression on the reader. " The Game Knut 

 Played " is a cleverly told poetical version of a 

 clever trick, after the true orthodox order of the 

 disguised prince wedding the haughty but paci- 

 fied princess. The serial, "By Celia's Arbor," ia 

 continued ; " Concerning Autumn " is by B. E: 

 De Costa, and "Down the Valja," a bit of foreign 

 travel by David Ker. There are a score of other 

 good things, and the whole number is of excep- 

 tional merit. 



Lippiae.ott s opens with the concluding chapter 

 of Lady Blanche Murphy's "Chester and the 

 Dee," in which the old Roman ruins of that his^ 

 toric locality are described and illustrated. Then 

 follows another illustrated paper on Baden and 

 Allerheiligen, by T. Adolphus Trollope. ,Thes§ 



