FOREST AND STREAM. 



$j!nij}\im$ and Routing. 



HIGH WATER FOR THE WEEK. 



Date. 



Boston. 



New York. 



Charleston 



Jan. i 



H. M. 



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41 



1 20 



1 67 



2 81 



3 0T 

 S 45 



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8 49 



9 84 

 10 IT 



10 58 



11 38 

 04 

 42 



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Jan. 5 



Jan. 6 



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8 49 



9 29 

 10 OS 





10 39 



Jan. 9 



11 16 



Jan. 10 



11 66 







The Rowing Season of 1878.— The rowing 

 season opens with a series of challenges to cham- 

 pionship match, which, with others likely to suc- 

 ceed them, will make the year 1878 memorable 

 in aquatic annals. Courtney having accepted 

 the challenge of Triokett, the Australian oars- 

 man, will meet that formidable rival on Ameri- 

 can waterB in a match for the championship. 

 In the meanwhile a number of contests will in 

 all probability come off, the result of which 

 may materially affect this world-championship 

 matoh. Boyd and Higgins meet shortly on the 

 Tyne for their third and final contest for the 

 English championship. The winner proposes to 

 meet Triokett for the world's championship, and 

 should he come out the better man, it would 

 provide a new oponent for our American Soulier. 

 We agree with the Herald that this match should 

 come off on American waters instead of the Eng- 

 lishman going to Australia, expending time and 

 money in the long journey there. Then there 

 axe other complications on this side of the Atlan- 

 tic. Courtney pulled as an amateur at the Oen 

 tennial, and consequently did not then meet 

 Hanlon, of Toronto, who won the American pro- 

 fessional championship. A match between these 

 two should be rowed before the metch with 

 Trickett, or, in case he is defeated, with Boyd or 

 Higgins as the case may be. Then there are to 

 be meetings of Hanlon with Soharff and Morris, 

 and the result of these must, of course, be cal- 

 culated as affecting the final match. Of one 



New York Athletic Club.— The athletic 

 tournament which is to be held under the au- 

 spices o f this club at Gilmore's Garden to-mor- 

 row evening and Friday evening, comprises six- 

 teen contests, for each of whioh the list of en- 

 tries is remarkably full. The programme for 

 each evening has been so arranged as to afford 

 a varied and attractive entertainment. There are 

 in all one hundred and eighty-two entries, repre 

 senting all the prominent athletic clubs of the 

 vicinity. The numbers of contestants in each 

 match are : Half mile run, 15 ; one mile run, 13 

 seventy-five yards hurdle, 4; sparring, light 

 weight, 5 ; middle weight, 5 ; heavy weight, 5 ; 

 fencing, 5 ; seventy-five yards, special, 4 ; one 

 mile walk, special, 5 ; one lap hurdle. 11 ; seven- 

 ty-five yards, handicap, 38 ; amateur tug of war, 

 5 teams of 10 men ; professional tug of war, 4 

 teams of 5 men ; four hundred yards, handicap 

 21 ; mile walk for those who have never beaten 

 8:30, 27; two-mile walk, handicap, 16. 



Police Athletic Tournament at Gilmobe's. 

 —The programme of the coming Policemen's 

 Athletic Meeting at Gilmore's has already been 

 referred to by us as unusually large and attrac- 

 tive. The prizes of the various contests are to 

 to be competed for by a number of keen 

 contestants. Of course, some fine display of 

 muscle may be expected; for what is a po- 

 liceman if not athletic, and when one goes 

 to witness the best phyeioal development of 

 men who are, from their calling, supposed to 

 be unusually muscular, he is warranted in 

 expecting some extraordinary feats. We are 

 tempted just here to urge that the tournament 

 be attended by all the vast multitude of gentle- 

 men who earn their subsistence by the sweat of 

 their brow, it is true, but still in a vocation not 

 always recognized as legitimate by society and 

 which frequently brings them into personal in- 

 tercourse with the police. We are confident that 

 it would be of fascinating interest for them to 

 witness the displays of running, wrestling, box- 



monkey. In the male also there is a 

 bare spot, in shape like an inverted T, upon 

 the breast, which is of a bright pink color, 

 becoming red and expanded into an inverted 

 heart-shaped patch upon excitement. The 

 tail is long and like that of a lion, having a 

 bushy tuft at the extremity. The color is a 

 sooty, dark-gray brown, verging upon black ; 

 the hands and feet are black ; the nails are 

 powerful and long. The size of the male is 

 about that of a chimpanzee four years old ; 

 the eyes are close together and the snout 

 prolonged. The living animal has a habit 

 of everting the whole upper lip when irritated, 

 and thus exposing its formidable array of 

 teeth.— Nature. 



—How to make a catfish— Leave her alone 

 J,in a room with an aquarium. 



A Faithful Dog's Rkwaed.— The Jeffer- 

 son (Mo.) Tribune says : " A gentlemen who 

 lives in Vernon county tells a remarkable 

 story of the sagacity of a dog which accom- 

 panied him on his travels. While in the 

 Short Creek timber, on his way to Joplin, the 

 dog jumped and caught the horse by the bridle 

 rein. Mr. Ewing drove the animal off, but 

 it persisted in catching the horse by the reins, 

 until the gentleman concluded it must be 

 mad. Under the impulse of the moment he 

 pulled his revolver and shot the animal, which 

 then ran back along the road over which he 

 had come. In a few minutes Mr. Ewing 

 missed his overcoat, which had been tied to 

 the saddle. He turned back to find it, and 

 after riding about a mile, not only found his 

 coat, but his faithful dog, which was lying on 

 the garment dead." 



thing at least may we be confident: the man m f and other accomplishments. But then we 



who proves himself the best oarsman will have a 

 hard-won victory, and will richly deserve all the 

 honors attaching to that distinction. 



Oodbtnes Challenges America.— Courtney 

 has Bent out a challenge to any oarsman in the 

 United States or Canada for any amount of 

 money and the championship of America, the 

 race to be rowed prior to the Triokett matoh in 

 July next. 



Courtney and Triokett.— These two oarsmen 

 are likely to row together. Courtney has accepted 

 the latter's challenge to row a three-mile race, 

 straightaway, for £1,000 a side, £250 forfeit, on 

 any neutral water in the United States, and has 

 named Owasco Lake for the meeting. 



Columbia in England.— Columbia's crew now 

 proposes a European tour. They go first to 

 England to engage in the Henly races on the 

 Thames, and from there to Paris. The six men 

 from whom the fiual four are to be chosen are 

 Messrs. Goodwin, Boyd, Sage, Colgate, Timpson 

 and Ridabock. Captain Goodwin and Mr. Timp- 

 son, it will be remembered, have a record running 

 back to the University race of 1874. Messrs. 

 Boyd and Sage were in the '75 crew ; and the 

 others have pulled in the past season. The 

 orew have been very successful in this last sum- 

 mer, beating picked fours of the Atalanta and 

 Argonauta clubs. From England the crew go to 

 Paris to participate in the Exposition races. 



—Hon. Oscar Jasigi, the Ottoman Consul Gen- 

 eral at Boston, was reported off the Wekawacha 

 Biver, west coast of Florida, Gulf of Mexico, on 

 Dec. 21st, in his beautiful yacht "Al Fresco." 

 He is on a pleasure tour, and is accompanied by 

 Mr. Fred L'Estrang Hart. 



Boat fob Flobida Waters.— We intended to 

 inform our correspondent M., in a recent issue 

 by a foot-note to his letter in our Yachting 

 column, that Dr. Kenworthy ("Al Fresco') has 

 more than once taken great pains to give the 

 specifications and working plans of a boat whioh 

 long experience has taught him is the best 

 adapted for use in Florida waters. An article 

 which enterB into the subject in detail will be 

 found in a former issue. 



St. Louis, Dec. 27, 1877. 

 Editor Forest and Stream: 



I am deeplv interested in the articles on boat 

 building by "Nautieus," and have been able to 

 follow him easily with but one exception — that 

 iB: how does he obtain the water lines in the 

 half -breadth plan? (See diagram on page 256, 

 tssue Nov. 1st.) He says, " Mark on each oross- 

 timber the points where the water-lines orosa 

 them." How does he get the proper distances 

 at which to mark these points ? An early an- 

 swer will oblige. W. B. S. 



refrain from our proposed suggestions, for these 

 gentry never read Forest and Stream. We, 

 however, trust that there may be a full attend- 

 ance of all lovers of genuine athletic sport next 

 Monday evening. 



Queen's County Hunt. — There was a special 

 meet of the Hunt at Garden City New Years Day. 

 The ground was hard and frosty and properly 

 there should have been no hunt, but twenty 

 ladies and gentlemen were on hand with poor 

 Reynard, who had been brought in a bag on the 

 train with the hunters . There was a long drag 

 ohase before the fox was turned out. When those 

 in charge of the drag had reached East Meadow 

 Brook, and the field had become pretty well 

 thinned out, Reynard was set free in a field where 

 he lay down and sullenly waited for the hounds 

 to come up. The chase was ingloriously termi- 

 nated when the leading huntsman came up to 

 where the men in charge were warding off the 

 hounds, and despatched the cowering creature 

 by knooking him on the head. 



Love and Ddty. By Mrs. Hubbaok. Philadel- 

 phia: T. B. Peterson & Bros. Price $1. 

 This is the twelfth volume of the "Dollar 

 Series." Love and Daty are interwoven through 

 the pages in a natural and effective style keep- 

 ing up the interest of the reader to the end. 



The American Cbicketer.— This little paper is 

 devoted to the game of cricket and the interests 

 of cricket players. It is filled with a variety of 

 matter, and appears each month. In the cricket 

 season it becomes a weekly. 



An Origin at, Suioidee. — The suicidal ma- 

 nia assumes strange forms. Here is one of 

 the latest methods : 



In Placerville la&t Sunday a young German 

 named Charley Roth committed a dreadful 

 suicide. Procuring a giant powder cartridge 

 and two feet of fuse, he retired to his sleep- 

 ing apartment. In a minute or two a loud 

 and sharp explosion was distinctly heard 

 several blocks away, and when people from 

 the street hurried into the room they found 

 him lying on the pallet entirely headless, an 

 immense cavern hollowed out of the upper 

 part of his chest, and his teeth and frag- 

 ments of his skull scattered in every direc- 

 tion. From the middle of the neck upward 

 all was blown to atoms, not a vestige of his 

 head or face remaining. The presumption 

 is that he lay down upon his pallet, took the 

 end of his cartridge into his mouth, connected 

 the fuse with the cap, lit it, and deliberately 

 awaited the explosion. — Nevada Territorial 

 Enterprise. 



• 



—It has recently been discovered in France 

 that wine may be injured through the glass 

 of the bottles in which it is contained being 

 too alkaline. According to analyses given 

 by the Revue Industrielle, glass for wine bot- 

 tles should yield per 100 parts: ailex, 58.4; 

 potash or soda, 11.7; lime, 18.6; clay and 

 oxide of iron, 11 ; other ingredients, 0,3. 

 Glass in bad bottles has been found to con- 

 tain: silex, 52.4; potash or soda, 4.4; lime, 

 32.1 ; clay and iron, 11.1. The wine suffers 

 principally from excess of lime. Thus, in 

 glass composed of silex, 45 ; soda, 15 ; lime, 

 30 ; and clay, 15 ; for example, the wine be- 

 came thick, and lost its aroma. The best 

 bottle glass contains from 18 to 20 parts of 

 lime, and 59 to 60 silex ; the worst, 50 to 52 

 silex, and 25 to 30 lime: 



How the Anaconda Evades the Law.— Prob- 

 ably few passengers on one of the Jersey City 

 ferry boats the other day were aware that that 

 quiet man had an anaconda in his carpet-bag. 

 But that's exactly what was there. The great 

 Aquarium constrictor refuses to eat any food 

 which she has not killed herself. But Mr. Bergh 

 decrees that she shall not be fed on live animals. 

 So when the time comes for her meal her keeper 

 puts her in his bag, takes her over to Jersey, 

 gives her a square meal of live rabbits and doveB, 

 and brings her back to her Aquarium case. 



The Gel ada.— Several living specimens of 

 this extremely rare Abyssinian monkey, first 

 described by Dr. Ruppell in 1835, have quite 

 recently reached this country for the first 

 time, and are being exhibited at the Alexandra 

 Park. The exact affinities of the species 

 have never been fully detemined, different 

 biologists placing it, some with the Macaques, 

 others with the baboons. It is peculiar in 

 that the male is covered with very lengthy 

 hair, like that of the wanderoo, whilst the 



An Anecdote of Daniel Webstee. — 

 Webster was out one day on the marshes near 

 Marshfield, busily shooting birds. It was a 

 hot afternoon in August. The farmers were 

 getting in their salt hay on the marshes. 



He came, in the course of his rambles, to 

 the Green Harbor River, which he wished to 

 cross. He beckoned to one of the men on 

 the opposite bank to take him over in his 

 boat, which lay moored in sight. The man 

 at once left his work, came over, and pad- 

 dled Mr. Webster across the stream. He 

 declined the payment offered him, but fing- 

 ered a moment with Yankee curiosity to 

 question the stranger. He surmised who Mr. 

 Webster was, and with some hesitation re- 

 marked : 



" This is Mr. Webster, I believe." 



" That is my name," replied the sportsman. 



"Well, now," said the farmer, "lam told 

 that you can make from three to five dollars 

 a day pleadin' cases up in Boston." 



Mr. Webster replied that he was sometimes 

 so fortunate aa to receive that amountfor his 

 services. 



" Well, now," replied the rustic, "it seems 

 to me, I declare, if I could get as much in 

 the city pleadin' law cases, I would not be 

 a-wadin' over these marshes in hot weather 

 9hootin' little birds!" 



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A speeial department has been 

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 York, and any one known to the 

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 of Cruelty to Animals has prosecuted 525 

 cases of cruelty in New York and Brooklyn, 

 Of these, 487 resulted in the conviction aud 

 punishment of the offenders. Special agents, 

 or street patrol, turned out of harness 1,961 

 horses that were lame and sick. The 

 agents humanely destroyed 1,202 horses, and 

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