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Haifftting and Routing. 



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DANGEROUS VOYAGES. 



When one reads of voyages made across the 

 ocean in a cockleshell one must at least give the 

 adventurous mariner credit for pluck and sea- 

 manship, though sensible people do not look 

 at. such dare-devil exploits in the same light. 



Hardships which lead to no permanent good, 

 though they may call into play individual hero- 

 ism, may he regarded as so much loss of time 

 and energy. Looking over the list of those 

 foolhardy people who have navigated the oeean 

 in small crafts, we may make one notable ex- 

 ception, and that is in regard to the trip made 

 by the Bed, White and Blue. This was a life- 

 boat, and an experiment of a crucial character 

 was to be tried. This cylinder raft determined 

 the fact that the system was an excellent one, 

 was adapted to the end intended, and the re- 

 proaoh of foolhardiness cannot be advanced 

 against those who sailed her across the Atlantic. 



We now give briefly a short account of these 

 voyages in modern times. Some twenty years 

 ago a Cunard steamer met in mid-ocean a wee 

 boat with two men on board. That the people 

 on board of her wanted no aid was positive : 

 they simply signalled latitude and loDgitude, and 

 having obtained this the crew in the boat, stood 

 on their way. Who they were, where they came 

 from, what they were after never was known. 

 This boat and crew is one of the mysteries of 

 the ocean. In 1850, threo Cornish fishermen— 

 and a brave, hardy, but not foolish set of men 

 are they— took a long voyage. These mariners 

 Bailed from Penzance to the Cape of Good Hope. 

 One would think that when they had a taste of 

 the seas and winds off the Cape of Good Hope 

 that they would have had enough of it. Not at 

 all. They staid a short time at the Cape, then 

 they trimmed sail and struck out boldly for the 

 Indian Ocean, and hauled up finally all safe and 

 sound at Melborne. 



In 1866 a lugger of twenty tons, hailing from 

 Dublin, cleared for Liverpool and New South 

 Wales, and made the run safely, some sixteen 

 thousand miles, in 160 days. As they could not 

 have sailed in a straight course, the average of 

 speed must have been fully 130 miles a day. 



The trip of the Bed, White and Blue we have 

 already adverted to. She sailed from Sandy 

 Hook on the 9th of July, 1866. All hands ar- 

 rived in England safely, save one poor dog, who 

 died of sea-sickness. 



It was Alfred Johnson who, iu 1876, was idi- 

 otic enough to sail from Gloucester in a boat 

 with himself as Captain and crew. About one 

 hundred miles from the coast or Ireland captain 

 and crew were upset in a gale, and Mb escape 

 was miraculous. After having suffered terribly, 

 Johnson landed at Abercastle, off Pembroke- 

 shire, after being 77 days at the meroy of the 

 waves. 



The last lunatic was Thomas Crapo. Now a 

 man has a right to drown himself— perhaps his 

 mother-in-law— but not his wife. We cannot 

 pretend to solve the question how Thomas Cra- 

 po induced his wife to Bail with him. It might 

 have been for affection sake, or because he 

 wanted ballast or something to argue with. 

 Anyhow, this adventurous couple put out from 

 New Bedford on the 28th of May, and reached 

 Penzance on the 21st of July. So ends the list 

 of hair-brained people. We sincerely trust we 

 may not have to chronicle any more such esca- 

 pades. There are so many simpler methods of 

 committing suicide that one wonders at this com- 

 plicated way of courting a miserable death in a 

 email boat. 



— Capt. Pugh's steam yacht Passport, 85 tons, 

 from New York for Jacksonville, blew her boiler 

 out on Frying Pan Shoals on the 21st inst., and 

 put into Wilmington for repairs. 



Hanlon. — Hanlon, the champion oarsman of 

 Canada, has challenged Soharff, of Pittsburg, 

 for a race next June. 



Half a Ton of Wild Fowl.— Mr. E. 

 Clementi Smith and Dr. Hanford, of Winni- 

 peg, Manitoba, recently returned to that city 

 from Dakota and Minnesota, three weeks of 

 ■which time were spent iu active hunting. 

 They were successful in winning a wager that 

 the result of their tour would be half a ton 

 of wild fowl alone, whereas considerably over 

 that weight was bagged. 



tew §uhHmtions, 



The Amours of Phillifpje ; a history of Phil- 

 Mppe's love affaire, by Octave PouiUet, trans- 

 lated from the French, complete and unabridg- 

 ed, by Mrs. Mary Meal Sherwood. Published 

 by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia. ' 

 It can be said of Octave Peuillet, as of very 

 few contemporary French novelists, that he writes 

 for the world and not simply for Paris. He writes 

 of French life, but of a life which Americans can 

 understand, and not in that ghastly melodrama 

 which is so foreign to all our natural sympathies, 

 but which is brought before us again aud again 

 in the work of all the Parisian novelists of the 

 day. This, his latest romance, has just been 

 completed in Is Revue des Deux Mondes, in 

 raris, and charmingly translated for Peterson's 

 American edition, and is as strong and as ear- 

 nest as any of the stories that have made Octave 

 Feuillet's world-wide fame. It must have a 

 large sale, as the price of it is but Fifty Cents a 

 copy, and it will ba found for sale by all book- 

 sellers, and on all Railroad trains, or copies of it 

 will be sent to any one^ to any place, poBt-paid, 

 on remitting Fifty Cents in a letter to the Pub- 

 lishers, T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 



New Yohk Athletic Club.— The first annual 

 winter meeting of this club will be held at Gil- 

 more's Garden, Jan. 4 and 5. There are a large 

 number of entries, and the various contests 

 promise to call out some of our best athletic 

 material. 



Police Athletics.— The Police Athletic Club 

 has developed a great deal of latent athletic 

 power.- The police gymnasium is filled each af- 

 ternoon with a large number of muscular young 

 fellows, training for the competition games, 

 which are to be held at Gilmore's Garden, Jan. 

 7th. The sportB will consist of walking, run- 

 ning, wrestling, boxing and fencing. A byciole 

 race for the championship of America is to be 

 the novelty of the evening. 



Virginia Fox Hunting.— Mr. Page McCarty 

 writes to us from Richmond, Dec. 21 : 



I went out twice during last week or so, and 

 saw some good riding in Hanover and Chester- 

 field countieB. On one day there were forty- 

 four dogs (the Ashland pack, the Hanover and 

 one private one). You would be surprised to 

 hear from gentlemen who have hunted in Eng- 

 land, that the hounds and the general style and 

 boldness of th» hunting here is much better — 

 only lacking the scarlet coats and stylish make- 

 up. 



— A very old but good story has just been 

 rehearsed in the columns of the Land and 

 Water by Mr. W. H. Webb. In substance 

 it is as follows : Dr. Fothergill, an English 

 botanist and physician of note in the eigh- 

 teenth century, successfully treated a ship 

 Captain who arrived at London ill of yellow 

 fever. The doctor would take no money for 

 his services, but requested the captain to bring 

 him two barrels of earth from Borneo. At 

 length the earth was brought, and the doc- 

 tor, having burned the surface of a piece 

 of ground very thoroughly, sprinkled the 

 Borneo earth upon it. The result was that 

 100 different sorts of new and curious plants 

 sprung up. These novelties in floriculture, 

 including geraniums, have since been diffused 

 throughout the gardens of England. In these 

 days when the introduction of new plants is 

 so sedulously pursued, it is surprising that 

 the method of Dr. Fothergill has not been 

 more extensively tried, as communication 

 with tropical regions of germ-charged soil is 

 infinitely more frequent now than then. 



Snoring Metaphysically and Phoneti- 

 cally Considered. — We print the following 

 from the Burlington KawJeeye as a fair ex- 

 ample of genuine American humor. Who 

 else would ever have thought of spelling a 

 snore? Phonetics have won.— Ed. F. and S.J 



It was in tbe Cedar Bapids sleeper. Out- 

 side it was dark as the inside of an ink bottle. 

 In the sleeping car people slept. Or tried it. 



Some of them slept, like Christian men and 

 women, peacefully and sweetly and quietly. 



Others slept like demons, malignantly, 

 hideously, fiendishly as though it was their 

 mission to keep everybody else awake. 



Of these, the man in lower number three 

 was the "boss." When it came to a square 

 snore with variations, you wanted to count 

 "lower three" in, with a full hand and a 

 pocketful of rocks. 



We never heard anything snore like him. 

 It was the most systematic snoring that was 

 ever done, even on one of those tournaments 

 of snoring — a sleeping car. He didn't begin 

 as soon as the lamps were turned down and 

 everybody was in bed. Oh, no. There was 

 more cold-blooded diabolism in his system 

 than that. He waited until everybody had 

 had a little taste of sleep, just to see how good 

 and pleasant it was, and then he broke in on 

 their slumbers like a winged, breathing de- 

 mon, and they never knew what peace was 

 again that night. 



He started out with a terrific 



" Gn-r-r-r-t 1" 



That opened every eye in the car. We all 

 hoped it was an accident, however, and trust- 

 ing that he wouldn't do it again, we all for- 



gave him. Then he blasted our hopes and 

 curdled the sweet serenity of our forgiveness 

 by a long-drawn 



"Gw-a-h-h-h-hah!' 



That sounded too much like business to 

 be accidental. Then every head in that sleep- 

 less sleeper was held off the pillow for a min- 

 ute, waiting, in breathless suspense, to hear 

 the worst, and the sleeper in " lower three" 

 went on, in long-drawn, regular cadences that 

 indicated good staying qualities. 



"Gwa-a-ah! Gwa-a-a-h ! Gahwahwah! 

 Gahwah wah ! Gah wa-a-a-ah ! " 



Evidently it was going to last all night, and 

 the weary heads dropped back on the sleepless 

 pillows, and the swearing began. It rumbled 

 along iu low, muttering tones, like the distant 

 echoes of a profane thunderstorm. Pretty 

 soon " lower three " gave us a little variation. 

 He shot off a spiteful 



" Gwook!" 



Which sounded as though his nose had got 

 angry at him and was going to strike. Then 

 there was a pause, and we began to hope he 

 had either awakened from sleep or strangled 

 to death, nobody cared very particularly 

 which. But he disappointed everybody with 

 a guttural 



"Gurooch!" 



Then he paused again for breath, and when 

 he had accumulated enough for his purpose he 

 resumed business with a stentorious 



'• Kowpf !" 



He ran through all the ranges of the nasal 

 gamut, he went up aud down a very chromatic 

 scale of snores, he ran through intricate and 

 fearful variations until it seemed that hi3 

 nose must be out of joint in a thousand places. 

 All the night and all night through he told 

 his story. 



" Gawoh ! gurrah ! gu-r-r-r ! Kowpff 1 

 Gawawwah ! ga-wah-hah ! gwock ! gwarrt ! 

 gwah-h-h-11-whoof !" 



Just as the other passengers had consulted 

 together how they might slay him, mr.rniDg 

 dawned, and "lower number three" awoke. 

 Everybody watched the curtain to see what 

 manner of man it was that had made that 

 beautiful sleeping car a pandemonium. 

 Presently the toilet was completed, the cur- 

 tains parted, and "lower number three" 

 stood revealed. 



Great heavens ! 



It was a fair young girl, with golden hair, 

 and timid, pleading eyes, like a hunted 

 fawn's. 



An Epistle From the Man of Uz.— A 

 Virginia correspondent, who has been slightly 

 under the weather, sends us the following 

 plaint of his unhappy condition. We are 

 very sorry that he did not apply to us sooner. 

 We know of several very effectual remedies, 

 all of them vouched for by elderly unmarried 

 aunts, which we should be only too happy 

 to suggest did our space allow. We shall, 

 however, publish our correspondent's address 

 in full, with the request, that each one of our 

 readers may contribute every remedy known 

 to himself or friends : 



"Unfortunately I have not been able to 

 shoulder arms this fall. I had billious neu- 

 ralgia in the head in luly, then typhoid fever, 

 and that left me with a breech-loading choke- 

 bore concentrated neuralgia in the left hip 

 joint, which prevents me from rising over 

 the flats and far away. Hope soon to "be 

 clear of it. If I had tried all the remedies 

 suggested I should have been on the outside 

 of two druggist shops, six lemon trees, and 

 had on my outside a few square miles of 

 plaster, a James Kiver freshet of cold water, 

 a box of wet towels, three horse hair gloves, 

 one electric batte^, and now, confound it ! I 

 suppose you will, in the interest of your ad- 

 vertisers, be poking prairie or sod oil at me. 

 Say, mister, did yer ever have a misery in 

 your chist ? I tried to-day to get up a club 

 of twelve to divide aches and pains with 

 me, but they all said it was more blessed to 

 give than to receive, and they didn't feel like 

 receiving." 



[We relent, and withhold the address. — Ed.] 



— M. C. Husson gives the following test for 

 butter suspected of having been adulterated 

 with fatty matters: A given weight of 

 butter and 10 parts of a mixture of equal 

 measures of ether at 66 deg. C. and of alcohol 

 at 90 deg., are formed into a solution in a 

 water bath raised to a temperature between 

 35 deg. and 40 deg., and then cooled down to 

 18 deg. After the solution has been standing 

 for twenty-four hours, pure margenne will 

 be deposited. If the deposit does not exceed 

 40 per cent, or fall below 35 per cent., the 

 butter is genuine ; but if is larger than the 

 higher percentage, tallow has been used as 

 an adulterant, and if it is smaller than the 

 lower percentage, the presumption is that the 

 natural butter had been sophisticated with 

 lard, goose-grease, or some similar substance. 



— Cockroaches, it appears, have become ex- 

 ceedingly numerous in some parts of France. 

 So grievous is the plague of these insects 

 that the people have adopted some singular 

 expedients for relief. Toads have been in- 

 troduced into not only the gardens, but the 

 dwellings, and ladies are said to have even 

 made pets of toads for the protection they 

 afford. But one of the best results of the 



plague is that the people have taken to the 

 rearJDg of the nightingales as an ally against 

 the cockroaches. 



MESSRS. TIFFANY & CO., 

 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK 

 City, have made extensive prep- 

 arations for* the approaching 

 HOLIDAYS. 



Their Stock of Diamonds, 

 Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, 

 Bronzes, Pottery, Stationery 

 and Fancy Articles, is the larg- 

 est and most varied in this 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. 



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