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'. Thk Use of the Russian Bath as a Cuke fob Hydro- 

 phobia. — As we have been requested to introduce Professor 

 Buisson's cure for hydrophobia by means of the Russian bath, 

 we publish the account, -which is as follows. (This method 

 of cure appeared as early as 1865, and was published by us in 

 1875). Having contracted the disease from a hydrophobic 

 patient, after the symptoms were fully declared, Dr. 

 Buisson writes : 



" In this state, feeling that my course was preservative and 

 not curative, I took a vapor bath, not with the intention of 

 cure, but of suffocating myself. When the bath was at a heat 

 of 52 deg. centigrade (93.35 Fahrenheit) all the symptoms 

 disappeared as if. by magic, and since then I have never felt 

 anything more of them. I have attended more than eighty 

 persona bitten by mad animals, and I have not lost a single 

 case. When a person has been bitten by a mad dog he must 

 for several successive clays take a vapor bath a la Russe, as it 

 is called. This is the preventive remedy. When the disease 

 is declared it only requires one vapor bath, rapidly increased 

 to 37 deg. centigrade, ihen slowly to 63 deg. The patient 

 must strictly confine himself to his chamber until the cure is 

 complete. 



Eight Hundred Quail, Not Two.— We have to beg Mr. 

 G. S. Fowler's pardon for an error of the types. We re- 

 corded the astounding fact that Fan, liufus and Yankee had 

 been instrumental in the killing of some "two" quail. It 

 ought to have been 800. We suppose the written number, 

 800, was taken by the type setter for two. Once on a time a 

 man in England wrote to his correspondent in India for 

 " too " monkeys ; he meant two, but he did not spell very 

 well and had forgotten to cross his t, so he received 100 

 moukeys of assorted kinds and sizes. 



Jeff.— Horace Smith, Esq., kindly sends us the following, 

 as to the pedigree of Jeff, which a correspondent asks for : 



"The setter dog Jeff I sold to Capt. R. L. Ogden, of San 

 Francisco, Gal., was by Fritz, an extra fine Gordon setter, 

 now owned by Edward' Ho we, Esq., president of Princeton 

 Bank, N. J. ; and the bitch from which Jeff was bred was 

 Nell, the property of J. Q. A. Packer, Esq., also of Prince- 

 ton, N. J. Nell was known far and wide as one of the very 

 best in all that section of the country. Jeff and Nell are 

 both dead." 



Detroit Bench Show.— A bench show of dogs will be 

 held at Detroit, Jan. 8, 9, 10 and 11, under the superintend- 

 ence of Chas. Lincoln. 



—In our next number we will give the names of the point- 

 ers and setters prize winners at the Birmingham dog show. 

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Baltimore Dog Show for 1878.— The Baltimore dog show 

 will be held in April, 1878, commencing on the 23d and con- 

 tinuing 24th, 25th and 26th. It will be held under the 

 auspices of tke Baltimore Kennel Club. 



champion blue bloods and natives look to tfleir laurels. 

 While upon this subject I cannot resist mentioning a double- 

 nosed setter, owned by Mr. Jacob Trone of this place. 

 Although now about fifteen years old, stiff and deaf as a post, 

 yet his nose appears to be as keen as ever, and he finds and 

 stands birds almost every day for the son of his owner, who 

 is now serving his apprenticeship at the sport of which his 

 father has been so many years an earnest follower. " Tobe " 

 is the fullest double-nosed dog I have ever seen ; the nostrils 

 not only standing so far apart that a finger can easily lie 

 placed between them, but the two- front teeth of his upper 

 jaw are separated, giving him the appearance of having re- 

 ceived an injury. Indeed, often have I heard a farmer of the 

 neighborhood, in Pennsylvania Dutch, inquire— "i?* was* 

 fehltde. hundt" (What is the mailer will your dog?) And it 

 was difficult to convince him that it was natural I could 

 fill columns with incidents in his career, noteworthy and in- 

 teresting to every hunter. In pursuit of jack snipe, several 

 years since, " Tobe " suddenly came to a stand at the edge of 

 a pond of water, collected in an abandoned stone quarry. 

 Advancing to flush the game, a number of robins rose from 

 in front of the dog. His owner, angered at the supposed want 

 of good judgment of the dog, administered a severe chastise- 

 ment, and told him to " hie on," but " Tobe" wouldn't "hie" 

 worth a cent. On the contrary, assumed again the rigid po- 

 sition of the well trained dog at point, and on walking' to the 

 opposite side of the pond (fully twenty feet from the clog) 

 two Wilsonii were flushed and Killed. Never since has 

 "Tobe " been whipped for standing, for if robins or anything 

 else flew up before his point there was a certainty of game 

 being there also . Brush. 

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CLASSIFICATIONS AT BENCH SHOWS, 



Wanted a Deer Hound. — The owner of the two English 

 imported setters, advertised in the Forest and Stream of 

 the 6th inst., is willing to exchange one of them for a fine 

 deer hound. Address C. M. Dauphin, Dauphin Co., Penn. 



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—The Montclair H unt Club had a successful courshog run 

 on Christmas Day, the hares being caught about six miles 

 from the rendezvous. 



Carrie. —Jesse Sherwood, (Edina, Mo.) has sold to W. T. 

 Irwin, of Topeka, Kansas, his setter bitch, "Carrie." Carrie 

 was bred by E. F. Stoddard, of Dayton, Ohio, sire, his im- 

 ported "Mar," (Minx-Plunket); dam, his imported "Dutch- 

 ess." She is dam of "Carrie II," winner in the "Hampton 

 Field trials," 1877. Carrie was a prize winner at St. Louis, 

 1876. She is in whelp to Sherwood Champion, Gordon 

 "Rupert." He won 1st prize at Birmingham, Eng., and also 

 at New York and St Louis, 1877. Also 1st as best stock dog 

 at St. Louis. Came will be a valuable addition to Mr. Irwin's 

 konnel. 



Name Claimed— Newton, Kans. — I claim the name of 

 Cronin for my blear-eyed, lop-eared, big-nosed, white-and- 

 liver colored pointer pup, by Ned (Dickonsheets), out of Fan 

 (Lowe). A- D - Knowlton. 



—The Meadville Dog, Poultry and Pigeon Pet Stock Asso- 

 ciation, will hold their first show on the 25th, 26th, 27th, 

 and 29th of Jan., 1878, at Meadville, Pa. Premium lists will 

 be furnished on application to the corresponding secretary, 

 W. A. Logan. 



A Retrieving Bart.— Editor Forest and Stream and Rod 

 and Gun.— Last summer I amused myself with breaking a 

 voung setter dog, to the great edification of my eldest, a 

 youth of five years, who took a lively interest in my proceed- 

 ings Sitting in my room one afternoon, I heard the words I 

 used in training coming from the nursery, and thinking 

 Master Charles was spoiling the dog, stepped to the door to 

 see what he was about. The dog was not there, but as I 

 entered the room the baby, two years old, was retrieving the 

 towel which she had found in a corner where it had been 

 stowed by Charlie. Eddie, the second boy, was still hunting 

 " dead bird," not having observed the baby "find." 1 dis- 

 covered that Charles was in the habit of training the children, 

 and had them under quite good command, having broken 

 them to stand, down charge and retrieve. And now some 

 wicked slanderer asserts that 1 am so fond of dog-breaking 

 that I even train my children according to ducks. E. S. 

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An Old Dog's Point— Hanover, Pa. , Bee. 6.— The sportsmen 

 here own in many instances excellent dogs, which, although 

 not claiming any imported lineage, would make many of the 



Sea m\d $wer 



FISH IN SEASON - IN DECEMBER. 



Slack Bass, Micropterua taltnoidea; Yellow Perch, Perca flavencens. 



M. nigricans. 8br BasM, ScCatttops ocellauts. 



Pike or Pickerel, Esox lucius. White Perch, Morone avierieana. 



Mangorike, Kichmonb County, Va , Dec. 15, 1S7T. 

 Editor Fokebt and Stream: 



The ideas of "Y. A. K.," in relation to competition between im- 

 ported and native dogsat bench shows, as expressed in P. and S., of 

 Nov. 29, would probably be the same in regard to competition in the 

 field. Your correspondent. "Y. A. R.," eays that "all dogs bred in 

 America and whelped here should compec in native classes. This 

 will soon bring out the fact and dispose of the vexatiously disputed 

 question as to whether the importation of tetters is an improvement or the 

 contrary, by bringing the produce of importers into direct competition 

 with the natives ;" and that, " where classes are formed for imported 

 dogs they should he open only to such animals as are imported " As 1 

 unders' and "Y. A. E.," his suggestion is to drop from the classes of 

 imported dogs the " progeny of the first generation," and ho instances 

 the catalogues of the Westminster Kennel Club as being one of the 

 best, but. open to the change suggested as an improvement. If I breed 

 Imported dogs, will competition between them and their progeny snow 

 the relative merits of native and imported dogs? I should say not. 

 But as the ancestors of all our sporting dogs were imported, the nice 

 question comes as to just what degree of relationship marks the line 

 of demarkation, it such there be, between native and the "progeny of 

 imported" dogB. 



I have been shooting this season over two dogs that might be classi- 

 fied separately. The sire of one (Guy) was an imported Crystal 

 Palace prize winner, and Gny is the sire of the other (Cora II). Now, 

 Guy might perhaps be classified as " progeny of the first seneration," 

 while Con II. should be classified as native. Each possesses the same 

 temperament and disposition, nose, courage, gentlenesa, coat, color, 

 etc. In fact, mutual qualities for both bench and field, differing only 

 in one being a little more thoroughly broken than the other. One of 

 these dogs competing with the other, either on the bench or in the 

 field, would afford no just comparison of the relative merits of the 

 classes they might respectively represent. It is true that Guy's dam 

 (Cora) is not imported, but is a thoroughbred English setter, as is 

 shown so well by her characteristic head, which answers iu every 

 particular to the standard points of the breed. Now, Mr. Editor, I 

 would reverse your remark made in connection with "Y. A. E.'s" 

 letter, and say that, so far at least aB my own dogs are concerned, 

 there is no reason why native setters should not compete with tbose 

 classified as imported. But I would apply this remark solely to bench 

 shows, and not to Held trials. I do not think that the beet dogs of 

 this country are in any respects inferior to the Dest of Great Britain, 

 and therefore the best of the world, in desirable field qualities ; but I 

 do most emphatically declare that there is a vast difftrenoe in the de- 

 velopment by training of those qualiities as between America and 

 Greet Britain. In the latter country, probably, a very large majority 

 of the well-bred sporting dogs are well-broken ; but in America a very 

 large majority of the same class of dogs are not well-broken. By the 

 term well-broken I mean sometning more than standing game and re- 

 trieving, and the fact that my statement above Is indisputably correoi 

 is well known to those sportsmen who may have shot in different sec- 

 tions of both countries. I know that by saying this over my own 

 name 1 am likely to bring a storm about my ears, especially from many 

 personal friends, owners of fine dogs, and scoffer* at what they term 

 my " English ideas." Yet many of them to whom a dog in valued in 

 proportion to the game bagged can only kuow the difference between 

 a thoroughly broken dog and one that is not by the experience of re- 

 peatedly shooting over each, and measuring them by their own stand- 

 ard of "the bag." As a case in point, I would instance a late occur- 

 rence in my own experience witli a dog, which I daily endeavored to 

 teach in the field. I took the time that a friend thought migM be 

 more profitably, and certainly more enjoyably, spent in hurrying on in 

 search of more game. 1 showed this friend that by spending half the 

 season in assiduous dog-breaking I can count a better bag for the 

 whole season than could be made over half-broken dogs of greater ex- 

 perience. Not intending to write upon dog-breaking at length, I only 

 wi*h to give s me hints as to why I should consider the competition 

 between English and American dogs (imported and native), leas favor- 

 ing one over the other on the bench than In the field. And the differ- 

 ence In the field would not be shown at a public trial for which the 

 dogs have been specially trained, as It would be shown to a sportsman 

 shooting over the respective dogs and killing a variety of game. In 

 conclusion, I would ask why the dlstinotion made In classification be- 

 tween native and imported might have been made a few years ago, 

 but not now ?» Everett Smith. 



[In reply to our correspondent, whose interesting comments 

 we publish above, we beg to state that the suggestion made 

 by us as to the distinction made in classification between 

 "native and imported, which might have been made a few 

 years ago, but not now," refers to their progeny. To-day 

 we are rather given, so we think in bench shows, into making 

 too many classifications, from whence arises confusion. 

 There is enough infusion of the best English blood now in our 

 kennels in 1877, and there will be in 1878, for us to pit directly 

 the progeny of English stock with native; or, as " Y. A. R.' 

 has it " bringing the produce of importers into direct compe- 

 tition with natives. Even eight years ago this would not have 

 been possible, but to-day it certainly is,— Ed.] 



Pish in Market.— Bass, 25 cents a pound; smelts, 15 to 

 20; bluefish, 15; salmon, 30; mackerel, 25; shad, southern, 

 f 1; green turtle, 18 cents; terraken, $ 10 to $36 a dozen; 

 halibut, 18 cents a pound; haddock, 8; cod, 5 to 6- flanders, 

 10; lobsters, 10 each; sheep's head, 25; English lurbott, $1 a 

 pouud; scollops, ,$1 a gallon; soft clams, 60 cents a hundred; 

 white fish, 18 cents a pound. A very fine lot of red snappers 

 from Florida are in the market. Turtle, owing to the pestal 

 season, are scarce. 



Shad in the Hudson All tub Year Round.- Mr. A. S. 

 Briggs, of Tarrytown, informs us that two weeks ago lie 

 caught two roe-shad, weighing 8i and 4§ pounds. Mr. Briggs 

 says that there is not a month iu the year, save August, that 

 he cannot catch shad in the Hudson. In August he has no 

 nets. [This information is quite important, and is worthy of 

 future study. Ed.] 



Codfishing Near New York. — Last Sunday the Seth Low 

 made her sixth trip this wiuter out of New Icork with a party 

 of fishermen intent on cod . Two facts are evident here i that 

 there is no winter this December, and that cod are in abund- 

 ance. No end of cod, averaging six pounds, were caught. ' 



The Herring Fishery. — A great scarcity of herring is re- 

 ported on the north coast of Newfoundland, owing to mod- 

 erate weather and southerly winds. The indications are that 

 the fishery will prove a failure. 



Movements of the Fishing Fleet.— The schooner Ada 

 H. Terry arrived on Monday from Graud Menau, wiih a cargo 

 of frozen herring, being the first receipt for the season, and 

 ahead of the call for baiting purposes. On Tuesday there 

 was another arrival in the same line, the schooner Smuggler, 

 Capt. McLanc. These vessels are about a week ahead of' the 

 first arrivals last year. The number of Bank arrivals the 

 past week has beca small. The Chester R. Lawrence ar- 

 rived on Friday with about 25,000 pounds halibut. The Ed- 

 ward Grover arrived with 40,000 pounds halibut on Tuesday. 



Schooner M. H. Perkins arrived Wednesday, with about 

 6,000 pounds halibut. 



The other arrivals for the week have been confined to the 

 Shore and Georges fleets. The boat and dory fishermen have 

 continued to meet with good success, and prices have been a 

 trifle above the average. The number of Georges arrivals has 

 been four, bringing 36,000 pounds codfish. — Cape Ann 

 Advertiser, Dec. 21. 



The Maokerel Fishery.— The Boston Fish Bureau re- 

 ports the mackerel inspection of that city for the present year 

 at 20,139 pounds, against 36,384 pounds last year. 



— Miss Sara J. McBride, so well known to all devotees of 

 angling as a lady skilled in the manufacture of flies, has paid 

 us a visit. Among the many fishing implements at the Cen- 

 tennial in group V, none excited greater attention than Miss 

 McBride's show cases, in which her flies were exhibited. The 

 lady was honored with a Centennial medal. Miss McBride 

 just returned from a visit to England, Ireland and Scotland, 

 where she paid particular attention to the many varieties of 

 flies made abroad. As we may consider Miss McBride as an 

 authority, she assures us that we can much more than hold 

 our ows in this country in the delicate art of fly making, for 

 that English flies are generally clumsy as compared with those 

 of our best makers. In Redditch, England, where the best 

 hooks are made, Miss Mc Bride devoted some months personally 

 to the manufacture of hooks to be used in her business. Miss 

 McBride intends establishing an atelier for flies and angling 

 material in New York, and we shall shortly announce her ex- 

 act place of business. This lady's work is too well known to 

 all fishermen in the country to require any laudatory com- 

 ments. 



English Fish Culture. — The fish-culturists of England 

 are making strenuous efforts to improve declining or nearly 

 ruined fisheries, and render them of value as food producers. 

 The London Times in a recent article says : "A large and 

 very healthy consignment of salmon and trout eggs from the 

 Rhine, Lucerne and Geneva have lately been received m Lon- 

 don. The salmon eggs were all gathered from Rhine fish, 

 collected and packed under the advice of Herr Haack, of the 

 famous fish culture establishment at Huningue. The process 

 of packing is described as very simple. The eggs are count- 

 ed into thousands. They are then carefully inclosed in gauze 

 and lightly packed in some well cleaned soft moss. The 

 boxes^are tied up all together in handy parcels and sent off to 

 their destination, great care being taken in transit to prevent 

 the eggs from being shaken. In the present instance the ova 

 arrived in fine condition. " 



How the Cossacks Catoh Sturgeon. — In that most in- 

 teresting book of travel, " A Ride to Khiva," Capt. Burnaby 

 tells us of the sterlet, a fish caught in the Volga, and consid- 

 ered by the Russian ion vivants a great delicacy : 



"The bones are of a very glutinous nature and can be 

 masticated, while the taste of a sterlet is something between 

 that of a barbel and a perch, the muddy flavor of. the former 

 predominating. However, they are an expensive luxury, as 

 to be in perfection for the table they Ebould be taken out of 

 the water alive and put at once into the eookiDg pot. In 

 most of the restaurants in the capital the proprietors keep 

 sterlet alive in small ponds. The intending purchas er ^o es 

 there to select a fish for his dinner, the owner of the rfln> 

 ant dragging it out of the water with a landing-net farhis 

 customer's inspection. ' The Cossacks of the Lral have a 

 singular way of catching sturgeon,' observed my companion, 

 ' and it is a method, I believe, unknown in any other part of 

 Europe. At certain times in the winter the men assemble in 

 large numbers by tho side of the river, and, dismounting 



