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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

 Pish Culture, thk Protection of Game, Preservation op Forests, 

 and the Inculcation in Men and Women op a Healthy Interest 

 in Out-Door Bbchkation and Study: 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1878. 



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Grazing Range Wanted in Texas.— A gentleman with 

 $5,000 to $10,000 capital wishes to buy a ranche in Colorado 

 or Texas, for the purpose of grazing sheep or cattle. Will 

 buy the whole or join another party. Do our Colorado 

 or Texas friends know of an opportunity ? Address the edi- 

 tor of this paper.— [Adv. 



Whethee the Fobest and Stream and Rod and Gun 

 Fetches.— Fetches! It is not an elegant expression, but it 

 means that advertising in this paper fetches business. And 

 why ? Because our circulation is constantly increasiog, and 

 for the reason that we reach all the sportsmen in the country. 

 An advertiser writes us as follows : "I have been advertising 

 but a short time, but long enough to appreciate the Foeest 

 and Stream and Rod and Gun as an advertising medium, 

 having received letters from all parts of the country, and even 

 from British Columbia, with any number of letters from offi- 

 cers in the army." 



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Flowebs All Abound, 1877 and 1878.— The old year is 

 generally represented as a decrepit fellow— a snow man— all 

 ice-bound and muffled up, while the new year is a gay spring- 

 aid decorated with flowers. This year we think there has 

 been a mistake made about it. When dandelions sprout in 

 December, 1877, we don't see why both the old and the 

 young year should not be garlanded with flowers, and each 

 have a chaplet of its own. 



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Blooming Grove Pabe Reception and Bail.— This 

 much-talked-of affair will take place at the Hoffman House 

 on Tuesday next the 8th instant. It will be a characteristic 

 reunion of sportsmen and their families. Tickets, admitting 

 gentlemen and lady to the reception, ball and supper, can be 

 obtained of Charles Hallock, Esq., office of Fobest and 

 Stream, or of any of the other members of the Reception 

 Committee following : 



Dudley Field, Dr. E. Bradley, 



Dr. Geo. H. Glenney, Hamilton Busby, 



Col. tfauders D. Bruce, E. A. Buck, 



jarles Hallock, A. H. Wellington, 



Joseph Dore, T. W. B. Hughes. 



-. R. Wilbur, Simon Bterne, 



U.H Read, M.B.Brown, 



i * P. M. Wilson, Geo. a. Greene, Jr., 



u_. John Avery. 



THE PHOTOSCOPE. 



THERE was a time when themarrator of stories relating 

 to the sports of the field was listened to with a certain 

 amount of attention. "When I was in Bengal" — so would 

 commence the raconteur, "I went up to the country with 

 Colonel Plunger, of her Majesty's Onety-oneth, and we had 

 a tiger hunt." Here would follow some stirring incidents, 

 and as if to bring authenticity to the recital, the conclusion 

 might have been, "And that skin there, fourteen feet three 

 inches long, from head to tail, you have under your feet, I 

 shot. The biggest brute of the season I In fact, the animal 

 was the terror of Humbugwallah. " Of course the inspection 

 of a noble skin, with a bullet hole or two in it, settled the 

 matter. Suspicions of a fine hide bought at Gunther's was 

 out of the question. Guileless as we were, it was a pleasure 

 to be imposed upon, when a remarkable yarn, bristling with 

 impossibilities, was supplemented with trophies, photographs 

 and sketches. 



But this kind of thing, even with the visible proofs, will no 

 longer be alone of avail in launching a Munchausen. The 

 story of the future must be buttressed with something more 

 than material things. 



Next year the man who attempts to indulge in a tough 

 story (outside, of course, of the newspapers) will have to do 

 it something in this way : " It was near the Atlas Mountains, 

 and I was going for lions. Of course I use the plural, though 

 I assure you had I been able to bag one lion I should have 

 been quite contented. It was a quiet moonlight night, and 

 my Arab said to me (here a curious sound is heard in some 

 impossible language), which means, ' Oh, my Lord and Mas- 

 ter, here comes the Father of lions ; keep your eye skinned !' 

 I got to understand the lingo. I cocked my rifle. When near 

 me, quite near me, I heard (the room here absolutely rever- 

 berates with a deep booming) the roar of a lion. Frightened ! 

 Of course I was. You see we had tied a kid to a stake, and 

 the poor thing commenced bleating piteously (sounds of ba-a- 

 a and m-a-a are heard, of the most doleful kind). At last 

 the lion's flank was toward me, and drawing a careful bead, I 

 let him have it (the glasses in the room vibrate with the ex- 

 plosion of a gun). He had it right under the shoulder. That 

 one shot sufficed, for he fell dead in his tracks. My Arab em- 

 braced me. That night in the village there was feasting and 

 dancing (a twanging of some string instruments and the mo- 

 notonous beat of a tambourine sounds not unpleasantly). 

 Queer music, is it not ? I lost my heart just about that time. 

 Zobaide, the Scheik's daughter — you know. Such a lovely 

 creature ! all veiled and bundled up, but eyes that shone like 

 stars I When she lisped out 'Ra-ka-hout, ra-ka-hout'— that's 

 ' Dear Billy ' (the fair sound of a woman's voice is heard), it 

 was the sweetest music I ever listened to. Her father, a 

 grim old fellow, all long beard and hollow-eyed, his girdle a 

 perfect armory and arsenal, got wind of it somehow, and said 

 he, (' Gi—touto—atwince—yedi—vil,' is heard). Of course I 

 went. My Arab steed neighed for joy (a loud whinny is 

 heard) and scouring the burning sand— a week afterward I 

 was in Algiers." 



Is is the Photoscope, the last electrical invention, which 

 will do this kind of business. The sportsman will carry with 

 him a photoscope, and once catching the sounds, he will be 

 able to preserve them, and grind out the sounds again when- 

 ever the occasion presents itself. What delightful anticipa- 

 tions do not the photoscope permit. Our favorite horse has 

 thrown us, and we have a broken leg. Seated in the sick- 

 room, we can forget our pain, as the room rings again with 

 the joyous yelpings of the fox hunt. Pictures alone in the 

 ornithologist's books will no longer suffice. Songs of nightin- 

 gales we may listen to now, and the deep mysterious boom- 

 ing of the bell bird in tropical forests, just as Whittier has 

 written it, 



" A cry as of the pained heart of the wood, 

 The long, despairing moan of solitude." 

 We are to have the honking of the brant in our back par- 

 lor, or the gentle peeping of Bob White in the smoking 

 room. 



What a revolution that photoscope is destined to play in 

 theatrical business ! The manager of the future will want 

 now nothing more than puppets. Mr. Jefferson can be cen- 

 tupled, and may be heard in Bangor or Sacramento on 

 the same nights. Maybe, in time, the photoscope will be- 

 come so common that actual plays will be considered as 

 things of the past, and only pantomime be the leading busi- 

 ness. 



Philosophizing, however, somewhat more sagely over the 

 wonderful discovery of the photoscope, an instrument which 

 actually records sounds, and can reproduce them over and 

 over again, one is amazed to think how the possibility of the 

 creation of such an instrument has been, before this, at least, 

 imagined. Just as Swift wrote about the moons of Mars, two 

 centuries almost before their discovery, so has an American 

 story-teller, Mr. Perkins, in a weird tale called the Manufactory, 

 curiously detailed the possibility of just such a machine as is 

 now due to the marvelous inventive talent of Mr. F.dison. 



Returning, however, once more to where we started from. 

 If the photoscope does nothing else than to repress impossible 

 hunting stories, and if such are no longer to be credited un- 

 less supplied with vocal and audible proofs, this new instru- 

 ment, the photoscope, will have effected a noble purpose. 



The Woodbufe Scientific Expedition Abound the 

 Wobld. — The purpose of the expedition is to visit points of 

 general and special interest on a carefully considered route 



around the globe, to study the arts, ethnology, archceolobj 

 and present condition of the better known countries, and tne 

 geography, geology, fauna and flora, as well as the history 

 and character of the people of those less known, and to make 

 collections in various departments of science, paying special 

 attention to the collection of such specimens of natural his. 

 tory as will add materially to the present collections in the 

 National Museum, under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. An invitation has already been accepted by the 

 director of the Smithsonian Institution, and by the Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture to send, free of charge, a representative' 

 from their respective departments, for the purpose of making 

 such special collections. It is also intended that those who 

 wish to study navigation and the various collateral branches 

 such as astronomy, meteorology, and the higher mathematics, 

 may have a practical opportunity offered by this project; and 

 it is suggested that the studies of manufacturing, mining, and 

 commercial interests attainable throughout the various parti 

 of the world to be visited cannot fail to be of great import- 

 ance, not only to the student, but consequently to the country 

 at large. The expedition will be absent two years. In ordei 

 that these promised arrangements should be fully carried q% 

 and the departure be fixed— the date of May, 1878— it is neces- 

 sary that a substantial vessel should be found, and Congress 

 is to be asked to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to 

 grant for the purpose of the expedition an American register 

 to a foreign built steamship. This experimental floating col- 

 lege, combining pleasure with Bolid practical instruction, in 

 fact object teaching on a grand scale, is fully indorsed by 

 such distinguished names as E. P. Whipple, Oliver P. Hub- 

 bard, Charles P. Daly, E. J. Nolan, all the Professors oE the 

 University of Pennsylvania, Joseph Henry, Secretary Smith- 

 sonian Institution; the President of the Cornell University, 

 Professor Gray, of Harvard ; the Secretary of State and Gov- 

 ernor of Indiana, the President of the University of Michigan, 

 the President of the Rochester University, and all the Profes- 

 sors, with the President, of Yale College. The Secretary of 

 the Woodruff Scientific Expedition is Daniel Macauley, Esq., 

 who may be addressed at the St. Nicholas Hotel, New Yorfe,. 

 as to the business of the expedition. 



Columbia's Ceew to go Abroad.— Columbia having fallen 

 in her effort to secure a match with Harvard, has, with in- 

 domitable pluck, determined to enter the lists with far more 

 formidable rivals, and proposes nothing less than entering the 

 English races for amateur fours, open to the world, at Henl* 

 on-Thames next June. There the New York oarsmen will 

 meet crack crews from Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, the 

 London Rowing Club, and others. These rivals will demand 

 good work from their foreign competitors, and Columbia^ 

 good record in the past justifies the belief that she will acquit 

 herself with honor. Certain it is that the race will be watched 

 with far more interest in America than would be excited by 

 any inter-collegiate matches ; and Columbia's crew will carrj 

 abroad with them the good wishes not only of her own college. 

 but of all who are interested in American rowing. 



More Oeanoes.— We are indeed in luck. Santa C 

 has not forgotten us this year, that is certain ! We have 

 received a box of splendid oranges from the grove of an 

 correspondent, George F. Willis, at Bayport, Florida, 

 has just now fully 50,000 in his packing house. He givei 

 pleasing intelligence that he was never so busy aa at prei 

 from which, and other evidences, we infer that orange 

 ture in Florida is looking up. For ourselves, we believe 

 it w ill soon become one of the leading industrial interes 

 the State. 



Mr. Willis adds the following interesting bit of infoi 

 tion: 



"We had a pleasant call (Dec. 31) from two gentler 

 Mr. Oscar Jasigi and Frederick L'Estrang Hart, who cam 

 with their beautiful yacht, the 'Al Fresco.' They took din 

 tea and breakfast, and enjoyed our oranges. We weul 

 the Wekawacha on a hunt and fish with them, and ha 

 jovial time. They sent kind regards, and wished to be 

 membered to you, and, after selecting a few boxes of 

 choicest oranges, bade us good bye as they started down 

 coast in their beautiful craft." 



Mr. Jasigi is the Ottoman Consul General at Boston. 



Vanity Faib.— Not only we, but all our staff, are indebtfl 

 to the Messrs. W. 8. Kimball & Co. for numerous packagM 

 of their Vanity Fair. The office is redolent, with the perfunj 

 of this fine tobacco. If we are somewhat of an authority i 

 rifle matters, so is Sir Henry Halford, who, like us, is equi 

 ly learned both in rifles and smoking. Sir Henry sayi 

 " Vanity Fair is the best tobacco I ever smoked," and so i 

 we. Sir Henry smoked Vanity Fair in going West. M 

 have used it in going North, South, East and West, and i 

 matter as to latitude or longitude we always found it admi 

 able. There is no use of our puffing Vanity Fair ; thousani 

 of smokers do that graceful thing every day. 



The "Kansas Faemek. "— This well-known journal, tti 

 leading agricultural paper of the West, we always deei 

 among our leading exchanges. Established some fifteen yeal 

 ago, the Kansas Farmer has, by its enterprise and good judj 

 ment, secured a large class of intelligent readers. As a med" 

 um of advertisement for seedsmen, live stock breeders, agr 

 cultural implement makers, for commission dealers and i 

 estate agents — in fact for all business, we consider this pap< 

 as among the best. The American Young Folks is issued \l. 

 the same publishers, and occupies a prominent position. 



