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‘Lookee here, where is Linus Pond, anyway? They asked me 
were it was and ITtold them it was upin the north part of 
Hancock county. Then they got a map and wanted me to 
ow it to them, and for the life of me I couldn't find it. Just 
1 me where itis and Pll go home and fix them. Confound 
bei hearts, Vl tell them where Linus Pond is, and give them 
nough of it,” Then the marketman led him gently outside 
fhe shop and pointed to his sign. It read: “Linus Pond. Fish, 
Oysters and Game.” 
_A summons has been issued against Lonoon Druilliard, of 
Dog Point, for fishing without alicense. The manner in which 
Driilliard breaks the fishing law is rather curious. Instead of 
taking a net. and fishing he has a flock of 30 geese. To the legs 
of these fowls he has a line and baited hooks attached. The 
fiock are driven into the water and are followed by Druilliard’s 
two sons, who drivé them up stream, thus making them troll. 
‘As soon as & goose gets a bite it becomes frightened, and with 
a great fapping of wings and squawking flies to the shore, 
where the fish is taken from the hook,—Loekport Journal. 
George A, Smith, a resident of Wooden Valley, in this 
mnty, was in town Tuesday, and had in his possession 880 
quirrel and 6 rabbit scalps—the squirrels having been poisoned 
ear his home all in the space of one week, Justice Hunt 
certified to the fact of the scalps, and afterward, according to 
daw, burned them in the presence of the claimant. The Board 
of Supervisors allow five cents apiece on squirrel scalps, thus 
netting Mr. Sraith the handsome sum of #44 for seven days’ 
work. We understand that a war of extermination is going 
on against these little pests, and thousands of them have been 
Be See the county law went into effect.—Nupa (Cal.) 
eporter. 
d aA Sport,” who is desirous of information on the subject, is 
informed that we do not run what is generally termed a 
“sporting” department. Prize-fishters, boxers, and others of 
“that class call themselves sporting men, and with such we 
have nothing to do. We believe in, and shall encourage, 
decent, refined “‘sportsmanship,” such as embraces gunning, 
“angling, the use of setters and pointers in connection with the 
gun, archery, etc. The spurious is 
fruit.of low associations—we abhor. No, ours is not a ‘‘sport- 
ing” department, as you wnderstand the term, but a sportsman’s 
“department.—Sacramento (Cal.) Capital. 
eissonier, the painter, had a gardener who was a 
reat botanist and a sreat wag. He knew the seeds of all 
sorts of plants, and Meissonier was always trying and always 
failing to puzzle him. “I have got him now,” said Meissonier 
to some friends at a dinner party, and he showed them a 
package of the roe of dried herrings. Then he sent for the 
gardener. All the guests smiled. The gardener arrived. ‘Do 
you know these seeds?’ Meissonier asked. The gardener 
examined them with great attention. ‘‘Oh, yes,” said he at 
last, “that is the seed of the polypus fluximus, a very rare 
tropical plant.” A smile of triumph lighted the face of 
Meissonier. “How long willit take the seed to come up?” he 
asked. “‘Fitteen days,” said the gardener. At the end of the 
article—which the 
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Ore 
fifteen days the guests were once more at table, After dinner 
the gardener was announced, ‘‘M. Meissonier,” he said, ‘‘the 
plants are aboye the ground.” ‘Oh, this is a little too much,” 
said the great painter, and all went into the garden to behold 
the botanical wonder. The gardener lifted up a glass bell, 
under which was a little bed carefully made and in which 
three rows of red‘herrings were sticking up their heads, The 
laugh was against Meissonier. He discharged the gardener, 
but took him back the next day.—Foreign magazine. 
The last canine martyrdom to science operated by M. Brown- 
Sequard was of a peculiarly sensational character. That experi- 
menter wanted to see-whether life after a violent deathis sus- 
ceptible of being recalled in an animal killed in a healthy state. 
He therefore beheaded adog tamiliar with his voice. The blood 
of another dog was beforehand prepared to be transferred into 
the arteries of the head. No sooner was it injected than the 
inert head became animated, the eyes opened, and on the pro- 
fessor calling the dog by his name, an attempt was made to 
answer by a caressing look, When the arterial blood was 
exhausted life disappeared. This painful experiment was 
suggested by one made by Dr. Laborde on Campi’s head an 
hour and a half after execution, and when presumably the 
cerebral matter had greatly lost excitability, Nevertheless, 
when arterial blood was ejected into the head the mouth ap- 
peared to take a living character, the eyelids were raised, the 
pupils contracted when light was flashed upon them, and by 
an orifice in the skull it was seen that circulation was momen- 
tarily established in the intellectual convulsions. Dr. Lam- 
borde wanted to operate on Campi’s head directly it fell in 
the basket, but the rule in virtue of which the form of a 
Christian burial was gone through at the Champ de Navets 
stood in the way.—London Daily News. 
SENATOR THURMAN’S FISH StoRY.—Once upon a time, when 
crowded about his Presidential aspirations, Mr. Thurman re- 
plied, “Lreally have no ambition in that direction.” A look 
of incredulity on every face was the only response. The Judge 
took in these looks and related a little story. ‘‘One summer 
I was at the Oakland House, Maryland, spending a little yaca- 
tion upin the cool mountain region. We got telling fishing 
stories. I related something of my own experience when I 
was present and saw caught a catfish weighing ninety pounds, 
When I told the weight there was a general laugh, and I was 
humorously awarded the prize for telling fish stories. I quietly 
remarked to my incredulous friends that I hoped soon to con- 
vince them of the correctness of my story that in Western 
waters there were catfish of ninety pounds weight. When I 
returned to Columbus I went tc the leading restaurateur and 
instructed him to procure me the largest catfish that covld 
possibly be secured. He reported in a few days that he had 
one, 1 walked over, and found an excellent specimen, weigh- 
ing seventy-five pounds. 1 had him boxed and carefully 
packed in ice, and shipped him by express to my disbeleving 
friends at the Oakland. From the restaurateur I got all the 
recipes I could for catfish chowder, catfish steaks, stuffed cat- 
fish, roast, etc., and sent them on by mail. I telegraphed as 
follows: ‘Skin your fish before you cook him,’ a catfish’s skin 
being so rank as to spoil the fiesh when the fish is cooked with 
iton. They got my telegram and were puzzled. When the 
box arrived, dripping from the melting ice, they were more 
puzzled. The letter, which arrived by the same train as the 
fish, explained all. They had a fine feast, and at it formally 
organized with a president and secretary, and passed the fol- 
lowing resolution, which was sent to me: ‘Resolved, That the 
truth of Allen G.. Thurman’s statements should never be 
questioned; that his fish stories are always absolutely true, 
especially his catfish stories.’”—Cleveland Press. 
Tt is cheering intelligence that the London courts have 
decided that a man is not at liberty to keep in his back yard a 
dog that barks and howls, and consequently that long suffer- 
ing neighbors have at length a legal remedy against this 
nuisance. The aceompanying remarks of the Hnelish judge 
that a small dog inside is a better protection than a large one 
without, may or may not be borne out by the facts, but in the 
main point is a genuine and tangible boon to long suffering 
humanity. No more shall Smith be forced to toss sleepless 
night after aight irritated to the point of madness by the 
yelping with which Brown’s dog salutes the moon, while from 
afar the detestible curs of Jones and Robinson join in the 
inharmonious chorus. No more need he fruitlessly rave and 
protest, endangering health of body and soul by nocturnal 
curses and daily recriminations, since the law has tardily 
come to his aid against the nuisance which was the bane of 
his existence. As civilization becomes more and complex and 
more and more complicated, the liberties of the individual are 
more exchanged for social blessings. Brown may feel himself 
agerieyed that he is restrained from keeping a deep-mouthed 
hound melodiously to bay the moon and sonorously salute 
stray and unwary cats; but Brown must reflect that while 
called upon to sacrifice this pleasure, he is by the same power 
which restrains him, protected from sundry and diverse 
annoyances which might otherwise render his life a burden to 
him despite the joy of a whole pack of nocturnally yelping 
curs. Smith, for instance, might please himself by nourishing 
a thriving donkey whose hideous bray would bring Brown to 
the verge of suicide; Jones might in turn indulge in shrill- 
yoiced chanticleers, with clarion crow to wake the morn at 
hours most unseasonable; while the fancy of Robinson might 
incline him to the maintenance of an entire menagerie; all of 
which would tend to the stbyersion of Brown’s peace and 
tranquillity. If Brown is a philosopher he will easily console 
himself when his howling hound is reft away from him with 
these and kindred reflections; stating the whole matter in 
some epigram embodying the law of compensation and the 
great principles of political economy. What-is lost In one 
direction is gained in another, and meanwhile we who do not 
keep curs for our own pleasure or the offense of our neighbors, 
can not but be rejoiced at the prospect of a restraining of the 
wads crew of nocturnal howlers and yelpers.—Boston 
ourter. 
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m=. MLATASA, 35 Broadway, N. Y:, 
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