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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1878. 



To Correspondents. 



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Business Manager. Western Manager. 



Bloomtnq Gf.ote Paek Association Ball. — This event 

 took place on Thursday night at the Hoffman House, and for 

 brilliancy, quality, and numbers of guests present was a 

 marked success. Composed chiefly of members and their in- 

 timate friends, it partook strictly of the character of a private 

 social reunion, and for this reason was most enjoyable. Be- 

 tween 200 and 300 persons were present, end the number of 

 ladies and gentlemen distinguished in literary and official 

 positions was very considerable. Some of the toilets were 

 very tasteful and elaborate. Mr. C. II. Reed, the proprietor 

 of the Hoffman House, who is a member of the association, 

 placed the dancing hall and several reception rooms at the 

 disposal of the party, and furnished a most bounteous and 

 elaborate collation, which was really perfect of its kind, doing 

 credit to the ingenuity and good taste of the caterer. The 

 association has reason to acknowledge its obligations to Mr. 

 Reed. The arrangements throughout for the comfort of all 

 concerned were most perfect. 



The occasion included a reception to its first President, 

 Fayette S. Giles, Esq., who has recently returned from a 

 three years' absence in Switzerland. Simon Sterne, Esq., 

 delivered an eloquent and fraternal address of welcome im- 

 mediately after the supper, in which he set forth what Mr- 

 Giles had done for the preservation of game in setting apart a 

 natural park of 12,000 acres for its propagation and protec- 

 tion ; in providing a delightful resort for ladies, gentlemen, 

 and children, and in cultivating a taste for aesthetics. The 

 event has done much to bring the association and its objects 

 into more popular notice. 



Our Agent West of the Rocky Mountains.— Mr. B. B 



Porter is our duly authorized agent west of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains for the Fores r md Steeam and Rod and Gun. and 

 also for the sale of "Hallock'a Sportsman's Gazetteer." Mr 

 Porter's address is at San Francisco. Mr. Porter is well 

 known to many of our readers as a fishculturist of large ex- 

 ponent, having contributed numerous articles to this paper. 



Bogaedus' ScoRK.-We have published an extra edition 

 this week, ; nd can supply copies to all persons wishing to 

 preserve the full record of Bogardua' wonderful feat 



A Card to Conteibctoks. — We have on hand an accumu- 

 lation of miscellaneous sketches which give us much anxiety. 

 Most of them are of considerable interest and literary merit, 

 and many are from writers of prominence. Of course the 

 authors expect their prompt publication. We are therefore 

 persuaded to print a list of the same for the guidance of those 

 concerned. As their average length usually precludes the 

 possibility of our printing more than two in any given issue 

 of our paper, it can be easily calculated how long it will take 

 us to run through the list, supposing that it receives no in- 

 crease. We will do the fair thing in our selection, and if any 

 contributor has not patience to wait for the publication of his 

 article, let him kindly notify us and we will return it free of 



COSt : 



Perkins* Pilgrimage ; From the West Eastward ; The 

 Coyote and a Chase or Two ; A Christmas in Peril; Voyaging 

 on the Upper Missouri (a series), by Ernest Ingersoll ; Notes 

 of Shooting in Virginia ; Sport in Minnesota ; Breeches Lake; 

 Itinerary of the AUeghanies ; Bear Hunt on the Sunflower 

 River; An Alligator Story; Spirit Lake; Squirrel Stew ; 

 Swan Shooting on the Potomac, by Page McCarty ; Richard- 

 son Lakes in Winter (three papers), by Chas. A. J. Farrar j 

 Catching Deer in the Snow; Bears in the Great Dismal 

 Swamp, by Ned Buntline ; On Bay Chaleur ; Hunting Remi- 

 niscences, by F. G. Skinner j Moose Hunting in Nova Scotia 

 (two articles) ; Roughing It in the Wilds of Maine (64 pages); 

 The Tent in the North Woods, by E. H. Litchfield ; A Model 

 Camp (58 pages) ; Marine Monsters of Tradition and Fact, 

 by C. F. Holder ; Brown's Tract, or New York's Hunting 

 Park ; Something About Bears ; Treed by a Panther ; 

 Sketches in the Choctaw Country. 



Sporting Clubs and Sportsmen in Russia.— We call at- 

 tention to an exceedingly interesting letter from our corres- 

 pondent, which gives an insight into the methods of hunting 

 employed in the neighborhood of St. Petersburg. It seems 

 that within a short distance of 'the new capital of all the Bus- 

 sias, game is found in abundance. Our correspondent, having 

 participated in many hunting expeditions, relates his experi- 

 ences. The capercailzie, as our readers have been informed, 

 is a noble bird, a prize much sought after by Russian sports- 

 men. That ruling epidemic, "striking," seems to have even 

 reached Russia, since our correspondent tells us that the beat- 

 ers struck. Can these be Nihilists, such as Wallace talks 

 about among the Russian Mujicks? We trust soon to pub- 

 lish further communications from the same correspondent. 



Sheep Raising in Texas.— The attention of a great many 

 persons in the United States has been directed toward sheep- 

 raising in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, and in the 

 Forest and Steeam and Rod and Gun we have published 

 quite a number of letters from persons directly engaged in 

 sheep culture. In the great future of this country the sec- 

 tions of the United States above indicated will become the 

 wool producing districts of the wcrld. Of course, an indus- 

 try of this kind, like any other, requires thrift, economy and 

 judgment ; but for a small amount of capital, sheep-raising 

 probably produces more rapid and certain results than almost 

 any other enterprise. Tfiere are innumerable people in our 

 midst, either tired of cities or whose businesses have been un- 

 fortunate, who might find a healthy life and a lucrative busi- 

 ness in sheep-raising. Until future railroads are developed, 

 we would recommend Texas as the best place for sheep-rais- 

 ing. 



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The New Y r OEK Horticultural Society.— The annual 

 dinner of this flourishing society was held Tuesday evening, 

 Jan. 8th, at its rooms, 55 West Thirty-third street, and was a 

 most enjoyable event, being attended by a large number of 

 amateurs interested in horticulture, as well as by the trade 

 generally. The tables were elaborately decorated by a num- 

 ber of the New York and Brooklyn florists, while Messrs. 

 Buchanan, Such, and Paterson sent beautiful groups of rare 

 orchids, etc. , that gave an exceedingly rich appearance to the 

 tables. After the substantials of the dinner were disposed 

 of the President, Mr. Jas. M. Paterson, in a neat speech, 

 gave out the regular toasts of the evening, as follows : " The 

 Horticultural Society of New York ; " " The officers of the 

 Society for the past year ;" " The Gardeners of the United 

 States ;" " The Florists of New York ;" " The Horticultural 

 Press," and " The Ladies,-" which were eloquently responded 

 to by the following gentlemen in order: William Elliott, 

 John Henderson (the late President), Peter Henderson (who 

 claimed that American gardeners were as fully accomplished 

 as those of Europe, instancing Messrs. Smith and Saunders, 

 of Washington, as examples), Walter Reid, James Hogg, and 

 John Laird Wilson. Eloquent, interesting, and telling 

 speeches were also made by Messrs. Parsons, Such, Acton° 

 Northrup, Nelson McDonald, and others, followed by a statis- 

 tical statement from the President comparing the success of 

 the Horticultural Societies of Boston, Philadelphia, Cincin- 

 nati, and New York. The " feast of reason and the flow of 

 soul " was kept up with undiminished vigor until the closing 

 song, " Auld Lang Syne." 



Stanley's Portrait in "Harper's."— Harper's Weekly 

 of the 19th inst. contains a most excellent portrait of Henry 

 M. Stanley, the African explorer. Aside from its timeliness, 

 the picture is a noteworthy instance of the perfection of the 

 engraver's and printer's art. 



The First Snow.— On January 3 the first snow of the 

 winter of 1878 fell in New York City. It was about a half 

 inch thick. One hundred years from now the fact may be 



of interest. 



HYDROPHOBIA AND RABIES. 

 In the Nineteenth Century, an English monthly review of 

 the highest rank, Sir Thomas Watson contributes a paper 

 with the above caption, which we consider the ablest and the 

 most common-sense review of these topics we have yet seen. 

 We will endeavor to give our readers an abstract of it, 

 although the paper itself is remarkable for its clearness and 

 terseness. 



The rapid increase of hydrophobia in England is cited. In 

 the twenty- four years prior to 1844 only two (2) cases of this 

 disease had been admitted into St. George's Hospital, but 

 since the beginning of the present year thirteen (33) deaths 

 from hydrophobia have been recorded in the London registra- 

 tion. 



As to the time of incubation of rabies in the dog this period 

 is variable, as that of hydrophobia in the man. A cat which 

 had been bitten by a mad dog inflicted wounds on two per- 

 sons within a few minutes. The respective outbreaks of 

 hydrophobia were separated by an interval of two weeks. As 

 to dogs, the best known case is that' of Lord Fitzwilliam's 

 kennel in 1791, a mad dog bit six of the hounds. The dis- 

 ease developed itself at widely different intervals from the 

 8th of June, namely in 23, 56, 67, 81, 155 and 183 days. Sir 

 William Giell is authority for a case of hydrophobia which 

 was the result of a bite from a dog received five years before. 

 One apparently well-determined case was of a lad who died 

 of hydrophobia after having been bitten by a dog on the hip 

 after five years. For twenty-five months before his death the 

 lad had been in close confinement in prison, and out of the 

 way of dogs entirely. 



Sir Thomas Watson imagines that the virus implanted by 

 the rabid animal may remain lodged in the bitten spot shut up 

 perhaps in a nodule of lymph before general absorption and 

 dispersion takes place. Sir Thomas Watson says : 



"The symptoms of hydrophobia, stated in broad outline, 

 are these : Excessive nervous irritability and terror, spas- 

 modic contractions of the muscles of the throat, excited by 

 various external influences, and especially by the sight or 

 sound of liquids, and by attempts to swallow them, and some- 

 times absolute impossibility of swallowing them, earnest at- 

 tempts to do so notwitstanding. When fluids are offered to 

 and pressed upon the patient he will take the vessel contain- 

 ing them into his hand, but draws back his head to a distance 

 from it with a repelling and apparently involuntary gesture ; 

 meanwhile he makes a succession of lurried gasping sighs 

 and sobs, precisely resembling those which occur when one 

 wades gradually and deeply into cold water. The sound of 

 water poured from one vessel into another, gusts of air pass- 

 ing over his face, the sudden access of light, the waving of a 

 mirror before his eyes, the* crawling of an insect over his 

 skin— these are things which, in a hydrophobic patient, suf- 

 fice to excite great agitation, and the peculiar strangling sen- 

 sation about the fauces. He goes on rapidly from bad to 

 worse ; in most cases more or less of mania or delirium is 

 mixed up with the irritability. Illusions of the senses of 

 sight and of hearing are not uncommon. The sufferer is 

 very garrulous and excited. In some cases, but not in all, 

 there is incontinence of urine. Foam and sticky mucus 

 gather in his throat and mouth, and he makes great efforts by 

 pulling it with his fingers, and by spitting, blowing, and 

 hawking to get rid of it ; and the sounds he thus makes have 

 been exaggerated by ignorance and credulity into the foaming 

 and barking of a dog. In the same spirit the palsy of his 

 lower limbs, which sometimes takes place, rendering him un- 

 able to stand upright, has been misconstrued into a desire on 

 his part to go on all fours like a dog. Vomiting is a frequent 

 symptom. The pulse in a short time becomes frequent and 

 feeble, and the general strength declines with great rapidity. 

 Death occasionally ensues within twenty-four hours after the 

 beginning of the specific symptoms. Most commonly of all, 

 it happens on the second or third day; now and then it is 

 postponed to the fifth day ; aud in still rarer instances it may 

 not occur till the seventh, eighth, or ninth day." 



Sometimes all paroxysms cease, and there is no apparent 

 disquiet. A case is cited of a patient in Middlesex Hospital, 

 who was apparently improving, both to the surprise of the 

 doctor and patient, but in half an hour he sank and expired. 



Between tetanus and hydrophobia there are these marked 

 differences : In tetanus there is a rigid and abiding form of 

 spasm, which relaxes gradually and slowly, whereas in hydro 

 phobia the spasms are sudden and frequent, such as are 

 known as convulsions. In tetanus there is no thirst, seldom 

 any vomiting, no accumulation of tough and stringy mucus in 

 the mouth and throat. In tetanus the mental faculties seem 

 unimpared. 



Youatt's description of a dog affected with rahies is well 

 known. One peculiar trait worth noticing is the tendency of 

 the animal to swallow bits of thread or silk from the carpet, 

 hair, straw, and even duug. A flow of saliva about the second 

 day is noticeable. Palsy often affects the loins and extremi- 

 ties, and the animal staggers and falls. Mr. Y^ouatt fancies 

 the dog is subject to what we call spectral illusions; his 

 bark is hoarse ; respiration is affected ; often breathing is 

 laborious, and inspiration is attended with a singular grating, 

 choking noise. But dogs with rabies do not shun water. 

 They have no dread of water, but unquenchable thirst which 

 they cannot satisfy, from a paralysis of the lower jaw, which 

 prevents their shutting their mouths. It does not appear to 

 be true that healthy dogs shun mad ones ; they do not mani- 

 fest any fear ; nor is it at all apparent that the mad dog ex- 

 hales any peculiar and offensive smell. It seems that the 

 disease may be imparted by a dog who has been bitten by a 

 mad dog before rabies is manifested in the first animal. A 

 case is cited of a small terrier who was bitten by a mad dog. 

 The terrier was almost immediately killed, but not before he 

 had licked the cropped ears of a bulldog puppy, which puppy 

 went mad eight weeks after his ears had been licked. 



Some time ago, in the Forest and Stream, we cited some 

 cases of other animals than doga having rabies, but stated 



