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FOREST 'AND STREAM. 



§acftting md §oating. 



HIGH WATER FOR THE WEEK. 



Date. 



Boston. 



New York. 



Cfcartoten 



Dec. 14 



h. a. 



6 12 

 T 03 

 1 53 



8 40 



9 28 

 10 15 

 10 02 



H. M. 



2 51 



3 40. 



4 32 



5 26 



6 12 



6 57 



7 45 



H. M. 



1 57 



Dec.15 



Deo. 16 



Dec IT 



2 47 



3 40 



4 84 



Dec. 18 



5 30 



6 33 



7 16 



Dec. 19 



Dec. 20 *... 



Voyage of the Paper Canoe.— This is the 

 title of a book by Mr. N. H. Bishop, whose con- 

 tributions to this journal have made him known 

 to onr readers. The volume, soon to be pub- 

 lished simultaneously by Lee & Shepard, Boston, 

 and houses in London and Edinburgh, will be de- 

 scriptive of Mr. Bishop's famous canoe cruise ; 

 and its value is to be enhanced by correct charts 

 of the coast contour, especially prepared for 

 Mr. Bishop by the U. S. Coast Survey Bureau. 

 We shall welcome the book as an important con- 

 tribution to its class. 



A Boat fob Elobiba- Waters.— E&Uor Forest 



and Stream — Everything here hinges ou the 

 wind. What we want is a boat drawing very 

 little water, will head well and not go sideways 

 like a crab. Will " ISauticus " give us a pi an for 

 a flat-bottom boat, something on the ' ; S harpie " 

 order, with two sails, length 21 or 22 feet and 

 narrow, with plenty of flare to the sides; bottom 

 to go on crossw&ys without knees so as to be as 

 light as possible ? We have on Indian Biver a 

 number of short " pumkin seed " yachts, li and 

 16 feet long, and if it blows hard and much sea 

 on they do nothing at all but pound when they 

 have to beat. They will be all day going nowhere. 

 When sailing before the wind they are so wrapped 

 up in canvas that you want a yoke of cattle 

 hitched to tae tiller to steer them. Your boat 

 articles take with all here, and I lend them out 

 and they are read and re-read till they are 

 re ad up. 31. 



Banana Hicer, Fla.. J\'ov. 28. 



—J. H. Eashton, the manufacturer of the best 

 light cedar boats in the country, ia ereeting a 

 new building on Water street, near the stone 



blacksmith-shop, to accommodate, the increasing 

 dem'iud of his business.— Fiaimlealer, Mctlone, 

 }f. Y. 



Columbia Yacht Club —The Columbia Yacht 

 Club held their annual meeting on Tuesday night 

 last for the purpose of electing offiuers for the in- 

 coming year. The gentlemen chosen to fill the 

 respective offices were the following : Commodore, 

 J. S. Baker: Yice-Commodere. B. McWhinnie ; 

 Secret try. Ofaariea H. Armstrong ; Treasurer, 

 Joseph A. Weaver ; Measurer, George Heap; 

 Steward, P. Bailsman; Trustees, John Frick, 

 Chairman; Peter Valentine, L. P. Wugmaa, A! 

 H. Rogers and A. T. Stephens ; Finance Com- 

 mittee. John Prick, Chairman, A. H. Rogers and 

 Lewis Fink, Jr. 



Net York Athletic Clus.— There will be a 

 grand winter meeting of this club at Gilmore's 

 Garden, on the evenings of Jau. 4 and 5. The 

 running, walking and other oontests are open to 

 all amateurs. Entries close Dec. 27. For all 

 particulars address the Secretary, A. H. Curtis, 

 P. O. Bos 3,101, New York City. 



NrBio's— The Thkee Guabps:iie>-.— At Niblo's 

 Garden Alexander Dumas' grand drama of the 

 Three Guardsmen commenced on Monday List, 

 and will be continued throughout the week. 

 D'Artagnan. Athos, Aramis and Porthos have 

 held their ground for many a year, and their 

 numerous adventures, their quarrels u 

 pades have furnished untold amusement for 

 almost a generation of play goers. The piece 

 ia admirably mounted; the performers play 

 their parts with spirit, and for those fond of 

 the romantic drarna, and a. play with no end of 

 action, we know of no place of amusement 

 where an evening can be more pleasantly passed 

 than at Niblo"a Garden. 



when circling round for a few minutes he 

 arts off with the velocity of a bullet in the 

 irection of his tree. Note the direction taken 

 y the bee, and stand (perfectly still timing 

 m m the meantime to see whether the dis- 

 ncebe loDg or short to the bee tree. It 

 kes him about the same time to deposit the 

 ney as it did to receive it, and if he is not 

 one more than six or eight minutes the dis- 

 tance to the tree is not great, for they fly with 

 great velocity. On his return' he, perhaps, 

 brings one or two companions with him, and 

 they go into the box. .Now shut down the 

 cover and start in the direction taken by the 

 bee in his first flight, carrying the box with 

 you in which the-bees are engaged in loading 

 up again. As soon as tney are ready, halt, 

 and open the door ; instantly the bees rise,' 

 describing the same circles in the air, and then 

 dart off again in a direct line for the tree. Go 

 in any direction you choose, north, east, south 

 or west the bee is never puzzled as to the 

 right direction. His instinct is unerring, and 

 no line can be drawn straighter than the bee 

 flies. ZSTow halt again till his return, when the 

 same operation is repeated ; the time of his 

 flight and return grow shorter and shorter, 

 and soon you are lead directly to the tree, 

 where in the hollow trunk lies stored the 

 luscious sweets. The tree found, with the 

 aid of sulphur smoke you destroy the oees and 

 take out the honey. Some fifty pounds were 

 taken from a tree near here this fall, and last 

 year a tree was found that yielded much 

 more. I have only given the above in out- 

 line, but hope some one will give us the sub- 

 ject more in detail relative to the habits and 

 hauDts of wfld bees in other sections of the 

 country- Bee Hunter. 



Tl -incisor, Conn. 



Slaughtering Cattle with DrsxurrE. — 

 The advantage claimed for the new method of 

 slaughtering cattle with dynamite are the in- 

 stantaneousness and certainty with which the 

 result is accomplished. The old methods 

 require a large amount of experience to be 

 practiced with dexterity, and even then are 

 not free from a certain degree of cruelty. The 

 dynamite method is coming into favor in some 

 of the European abattoirs, and experiments 

 have been made demonstrating its possibility. 

 The London Times has an account of recent 

 trials in London : 



To show the safety with which the ex- 

 plosive (Noble's dynamite) can be employed, 

 small quantities were first burnt without anv 

 explosion. The charge with which the cattle 

 were afterward killed consisted of about an 

 ounce of a pinkish pasty substance, into 

 which had been plunged a detonator on a fuse. 

 The bullocks bought that morning in the mar- 

 ket were led into jyir. Thomas Cross's slaugh- 

 ter-house, and tied up to posts there in the 

 ordinary way. The operator, fondling them, 

 passed across the forehead a fillet of string 

 secured round "the horns, and so arranged 

 that mid-way between the horns and eyes 

 and thus in the centre of the forehead', 

 the charge of dynamite was placed, which 

 formed the centraland only ornament of the 

 fillet. Then the fuse was fired, andin two cases 

 the bullock was killed at once by the explo- 

 sion of the ounce of dynamite. A hole was 

 made in the skull by the force of explosion, 

 but the concussion was entirely local, and peo- 

 ple standing close by felt nothing. They 

 heard a loud report. The dynamite rnav be 

 applied at leisure to the proper place, and the 

 operator ought to be able to count on keep- 

 ing it there. An objection to its use is in 

 the report which it makes. The second bul- 

 lock was obviously frightened by the noise of 

 the explosion of the first charge. The three 

 animals were killed in nine minutes at the 

 expense of about 3d. In the Black Country, 

 where dynamite is common as a blasting 

 material for mines, it is said to be already in 

 practical use in the si mghter-house. 



MESSRS. TIFFANY <5t CO., 

 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK 

 City, have made extensive prep- 

 arations for the approaching 

 HOLIDAYS. 



Their Stoek of Diamonds, 

 Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, 

 Bronzes, Pottery, Stationery 

 and Fancy Articles, is the larg- 

 est and most varied in tnis coun- 

 try, and includes novelties from 

 abroad and choice goods of their 

 own manufacture, not to be 

 found elsewhere. 



A special department has been 

 organized for sending goods to 

 persons at a distance from New- 

 York, and any one known to the 

 house, or naming satisfactory 

 references, can have careful se- 

 lections sent for inspection. 



They have lately published a 

 little pamphlet containing a con- 

 densed account of each depart- 

 ment, and lists of articles appro- 

 priate for presents, which they 

 will send to any address -on re- 

 quest. 



Sot gait, 



AVERY fine made-to-order Scott, lo-boi 

 loader, pistot-grip : weight, iu iba. 

 n«w; owner sells becaase lie wants a Ha. 

 Cost $125 with case. Will sell low for a 

 dress HENRY ALT ENB BAND, Sixth stre 

 North Seventh street, Brooklyn, E. D., N. ' 



FLORIDA 0UTFI1 



Send 10 cents for illustrated catalogue of 8Hl£ 

 ING, FISHING and CAMPING GOODS, with | 

 and directions for camping, shooting ancSI 

 Bogardus' rules for glass ball shooting, etci^U 



TENTS, CAMP STOVES, PORTABLE. H 

 RUBBER GOODS, JACK LAMPS, EflM 



Suits of all kinds, including velveteen, fl 

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 soft and pliable. 



Fox, Webley, Scott and other breeohfl 

 guns and rifles. Ammunition of all kinds. 1 ™ 



SPLIT BAMBOO RODS. 



I am able to offer to sportsmen a very e 

 article in split bamboo rods for fiv and baas 

 and trolling. Call and examine them, 

 rod warranted. With skeleton reel-bam« 

 solid reel-bands, $23, with tip case, extra 1 

 bag. 



These rods have keen well tested, w— 

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FLORIDA OUTFITS A SPECIALTY 



A supplement to my illustrated catalogi 

 ready thi3 week, containing a number of 

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Bee Lisisra. — Editor Forest and Stream. — 

 Perhaps some of your numerous readers may 

 have read Bee Hunter," and been 



v. in the mystery of bee tracking. If 

 so, it may interest them to know that lining 

 nue extent in the vicinity 

 > r, Gorm., and that often the hunters 

 arc rewarded ad many 



pouads of hor.. \ surpassing that 



of domestic bees. A bos with two compart- 

 ments is prepared, with sli. 



to the other. 



.-Lithe bee 

 .■. ■ ■ 

 the first 



8 quickly 

 Siting up 



3 to tJiiee miautes to load up. Now 



- to Sijeair, 



Catfish with ax Ear foe Music In an- 

 other column the seal's claim to a musical 

 taste is called into question. However that 

 may be, here is an unquestionable instance of 

 piscatorial horror of discord, which a corres- 

 pondent gives us : 



My lakhec constructed a pond near our 

 dwelling-house, and stocked it with fish, es- 

 pecially with catfish and sunfish. These 

 m time, by kind treatment, became so tame 

 that they would take food from our hands, 

 and even jump out of the water a short dis- 

 tance to obtain it. This pond was surround- 

 ed by a gravel walk. During many happy 

 hours my pole was employed in catching fish 

 in the creeks, which were carried alive in a 

 tin pan to this pond. On one occasion, hav- 

 ing placed the tin pan on the gravel walk pn. 

 km : - the : ; _ to the pond, 

 I moved the pan a few inches, which move- 

 ment was accompanied with a harsh, dis- 

 _ ; friction of the 

 tin on the graveL and also attended by a spas- 

 modic motroa o t the fish, which 

 jumped out of the water in the pan and fall 

 up on the ground. It was clearly demonstrat- 

 ed that t 



ant, music, nor did Q :. to testify 



I immediately put 



UBEl subsequently 



repeated the same operation severs! tiaw with 



No sportsman should be without " THE stpn 

 MATS BIART AND NOTE-BOOK:" Blanfc-I 

 for all kinds of shooting. Bnieg, etc boa 

 leather ;— a handy size for the pocke 

 eeipt of SO cents. 



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The Fibre Wad. 



Having made recent improvements In carting and 

 car wads, we can recommend them as 

 being equal to die twss imported felt wads. 



They will not take Or* nor biow to pieces, and 

 will no Id the charge securely in metallic sheila. 



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