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EASTERN Y.C. SLOOPS AND CUTTER RACES. 
2 prizes of $300 and $200 were offered by Commodore Hovey, of 
the Hastern Y. C., fora race for firstand second cisass sloops 
and culters, and seyen yachts met at Marblehead on Monday, Sept. 6, 
tosailfor them, The entries included Jleen, éxtreme cntter; Huron 
aud Isis, wide cutters; Oviva and Maggie, medium tutters; Valkyr, 
compromise, and Shadow, deep sloop, a representation of all the 
conipeting types except the shoal sloop. 
The wind was light from southwest fora greater portion of the 
day with a fab calm thrown in fora while, making anything but a 
‘cutter day,” and the results are interesting. Neen beats all, allow- 
mg them time; Oriva beats Huron by &min. 37sec, on corrected time, 
aud Valkyr 8imin, 40sec, corrected, while Maggie nob only beats her 
eld rival, SLadow, by 26min, 6sec.. but comes in next to Oriva and 
ahead of Huron, Valkyr and Isis. the latter making but a poor show- 
ing in seventh place, Beam was etyidently at & discount, anu lead, 
though low down, at a premium, 
The course was from Marblehead Rock to Halfway Rock, thence 
around Harding’s Bell buoy, thence around Ege Rock to start, 28 
miles. At 11:20 A. M. the gun was fired aud the yachts crossed with 
Huron ahead at 11:22:20, Neen 11:28:49, Valkyr 11:24:03, Maggie 11:24:08, 
Oriva 11:24:24. Isis 11:24:58, Shadow 11:86:17. Leen soon took first 
place, and Oriva soon worked up to third, but the wird died out en- 
tirely for some time, When it came it blew harder than in the morn- 
ing, making fine sport to the finish, Teen rounded Bell buoy at 2:31; 
#5, Oriva 1;45:15, Huron 2:46:45 and Maggie a little after 3 P. M., the 
rest nol being timed as they were far astern, Down the wind Heen 
left the others. Huron and Oriya bad 9 close fight for the entire 11 
miles, and Maggie kept on bravely. The full times were: 
PUNTING ON THE THAMBES.—There haye been a good many 
yacht tages on this week, and at Southsea there were one or two 
events of considerable interest, On the Thames, too, the regattas are 
beginning to occupy the public attention. Those at Reddington and 
Twickenham would have possessed some interest for people unac- 
uainted with a kind of exercise which is aJmiost unknown away trom 
the Thames, Those who have had no experience of punting might be 
apt to think it a mere exertion of rmde strength. The very contrary is 
the case. The deft use of a punt pole is as pretty an exhibition of 
downright skill as rowing in an outrigger: The difficulties are to keep 
the cay on the punt between the pushes of thé pole, to steer to 
right or left while working at one side of the plint only, and to pass 
sately over deep places. The objectis attained by a vigorous shove 
at the very end of the stroke. In his first attempt to do this, thé tyro 
almost invariably takes an involuntary dive into the water. Steermg 
is effected by changing the angle of the pole, anil by pressing the pole 
against the side of the punt, using the bottom of the river as a ful- 
erum, Just because so much skill is required there is more fascin- 
ation in punting than might be supposed, and many amateurs, especi- 
ally in the upper reaches of the Thames, niake it their favorite form 
of exercise. It must, however, be said that the best amateurs are 
immeasureably inferior to the professional fishermen. Inthe recent 
championship contest Beesley, of Oxford, was the winner, This is 
really an interesting fact with regard to hereditary aptitudes. The 
Beesley family, as most Oxford men know, have supplied champion 
punters from time immemorial.—Cor, Toronto Globe. 
“PODGERS” REPLIES TO “CUTTHR,”’—And now comes a cutter 
man who is not satisfied with beating the skimming dishes in the fluke 
of a race for the Goelet cup at Newport, but wants it all. Some 
Finish, Actual. Cotrected : raft ‘ 3a T sai 
1. o -| péoplé are neyer satisfied. Heis very touchy because I said the 
“ial Bae Mu node nannies a aac ten sti 4 ibe 40 4 ex 51 447 51 | cutters got the best position and got fh wind, what there was of it, 
eae dies RECO DOGS eee ans 45 Dai) a 4 57 05 | from the south, and were able to lay a better Course than the sloops, 
aie meena teehee tesa cede cies 4 30 33 OBE 3 05 32 | but wants to prove that the favorable slant had nothing to do with it, 
isi yr 5 36 21 5 28 35 but that if was all the superior sailing of the cutters, “I say no,” 
ae Bo catpertarcrtmmnorne pest sees BF 6 vt 1 55410 | put don’t care a tinker’s red cent about the matter either way, Iwas 
ae ae : AS ee 2 nA 2 : ee a HOS. there to report the race for anybody, and gaye my version of if 
The Regatta Committee was as follows: Daniel Appleton, George asIsawit. As for the insinuation that I was not there at all, and if 
I was probably don’t know much about such matters, I will merely 
state that I was within a few hundred yards of the Block Island buoy 
when the eutters rounded it; and as for not knowing much about 
yachting, I have owned not less than twenty yachts of all sizes, must 
of which I modeled and planned and sailed without the aid of a dry 
(or wet) nurse in the shape of a sailing master, which I imagine is more 
than “Cutter” can say. As for newspaper controversy, ‘‘Cutter” 
says he don’t want any. Me too, Rut I would like to test our relative 
knowledge of yachts and yacht sailing by a little controversy on the 
water, each man atthe helm of his own yacht, with the ‘“Cutter’s” 
dry nurse ashore. That would be much more satisfactory. What do 
you say, “Outter?’’—Poperas. 
PORT AND STARBOARD IN THE FRENCH NAVY.—The terms 
‘babord” and ‘‘tribord,’’ equivalent to port and starboard, have 
beén formally banished from the French navy, as far us steering is 
concerned, by a circular lately issued by the Minister of Marine, and 
the terms ‘‘a droite,”’ or to the right, “a gauche’ to the left, substi- 
tuted in their places. The order to put the helm amidships is 
now ‘“zero,”? and “comme ca’’ signifies to keep the vessel on her 
course. When itis desired to moye the helm as quickly as possible, 
the command 1s repeated several times, aud when the change is to be 
made slowly, the words “en douceur”’ are added, the command for 
helm hard oyer being given by adding the word ‘‘toute”’’ to ‘a droite” 
or “agauche.”’ Allordery are to be twice repeated by the steersman, 
once as a signal that they are understood, and again when the order 
is executed. In addition.to the spoken orders, signals are made with 
the hands, to starboard for ‘‘a droite,’ to port for ‘a gauche,” and 
vertically for '‘zero.”” The terms ‘‘babord” and “‘tribord” are still em- 
ployed for the usual commands not connected with the steering of 
the ship. Ivis a long time since “Jarboard” was discarded on account 
of its similarity to starboard and port substituted for it among En- 
glish speaking sailors, and it is strange that the change noted above 
has not been made before. 
A SWEDISH TORPEDO BOAT.—A new torpedo boat has been 
recently added to the Swedish navy, named the Hugin. The vessel is 
built of steeland is of the following dimensions: Length over all, 
116ft.; width, 12.83ft.; draft of water aft, 6.67ft., and forward, 2.05ft. 
The screw is a single one, and the engines, which are of 650 indicated 
horse-power, are expected to give her a speed of 19 knots per hour, 
The vessel is fitted with two steam rudders, For the ejection of tor- 
pedoes there is an apparatus for discharging Whiteheads 19ft. long 
and 14ft. in diameter, the launching tubes being two in number, one 
on each side, a little above water. The yessel is further armed with 
a four-barrel Palmcrantz machine gun, and fitted with electric light 
apparatus. In the stem and stern are water-tight compartments, 
which may also be used for storerooms. The boat weighs, fully 
equipped, 54 tons, and cost $40,000,—Tron. 
YAOBTING ON THE LAKES—.On Wednesday, Sept. 17, a race 
will take place between the Norah and Atalanta for the Fisher cup 
for the championship of the lakes, won by the latter at Chicago last 
year, Mr. R. J. Bell, ot the Norah, having challenged the Atalanta, 
The race will be over the regular course of the Bay of Quinte Y. UO, 
The third of the matches for the championship of Burlington Bay 
was won by Brunette, on Aug. 30, beating Cacique and Coquette by 
15 minutes. The breeze was very fresh and all of the boats shipped 
a good deal of water, 
BEVERLY Y. C. SWEEPSTAKES,—-In the account of this race in 
last week's ForESsT AND StREAmM the tollowing misprints occurred} 
Cruiser did not have to turn back to round buoy No, 6, Comus was 
the boat named. All boats marked B, Y. C, in the list belong to the 
Beverly Y. 0. All those marked By. Y. C. (a misprint for Bo. Y. C.) 
belong to the Boston Y.C. None of the protests were allowed— 
Buun witH A GoLD CASTLE. 
A. Goddard, H. B. Jackson, B. H. Hayen and F. B. Peabody, 
FINE ENOUGH FOR A YACHT.—New Hayen, Conn., Sept. 4,— 
Preparations are going forward here with rapidity for the immediate 
launching of the monster new and elegant three masted schooner 
John H. Tingne. She is intended for the merchant service, and is a 
handsome vessel named after Mr. Tingue, of Seymour, this State, the 
eecentric and wealthy plush manufacturer. Mr, Tingue has a mon- 
opoly in the manufacture of plush, and has become rich by it. He 
was a poor boy when he began, Now he works hard to spend an in- 
come of $80,000 a year, Heis very generous, He it was who set the 
women of the country at work collecting old shank buttons, no two 
to be alike, and after he had accumulated several hundred thousand 
of them from all parts of the country he presented them to the State 
of Connecticut in elegant cases. He has built up the pretty village of 
Seymour, and is well liked there. One of his latest exploits was the 
uniforming of the Seymour Brass Band in red plush from helmets to 
over-gaiters from his factory. The peculiarity that created much 
talk about the launch of the schooner John H. Tingue is the style of 
regal magnificence in which Mr. Tingue has fitted up ber cabins in 
consequence of her haying been named for him. He has expended 
thousands of dollars in the work, and her accommodations are so far 
from the plan and usual style as to rival the fittings of the finest 
yacht. Capt. J. M. Seaman, her commander, a jolly old sea dog, 
walks about the luxurious cabins as awkwardly as a man in a milli- 
ner’s store. The Tingue cost $36,000. The cabins contain large fore 
and after saloons, captain and mate’s room, three spare rooms, 
closets, bathroom, pantry and storerooms. Mr, Tingue covered the 
thresholds of the doors with polished copper, took up the Brussels 
carpet in the after cabin and put down a gem in olive velvet, and had 
an elegant raw silk parlor suit putin the room. The yelyet backs 
ot some of the chairs are jvorked with figures of the heads of Angora 
oats, which Mr, Tingue was the first toimport, and the wool of which 
eusesin his plush, One chairback has Jobn d. Starin’s Glen Island 
worked init. Mr, Starin is a warm friend of Mr. Tingue. The cap- 
tain’s fine stateroom is hung with rich, heavy, raw silk curtains, on 
massive brass rods, All of the rooms are finished in hard wood. The 
pantry is supplied with beautiful wine sets of Dresden glass and 
ehinaware, The whole exceeds in elegance anything ever seen on a 
vessel in this harbor. Mr. Tingue has given the ship a full set of 
colors and a set of mbternational code signal flags, all of the finest 
make, More than’ 500 invitations. printed on crocodile paper, haye 
been issued for the launching, which will occur next Saturday noon, 
Aregular banquet will be seved by a New York caterer, and the 
Tingue Brass Band will be aboard, Miss Maud E. Seaman, the pretty 
daughter of the captain, will crack the champagne bottle over the 
bow and will christen the John H. Tingue as she strikes the water. 
By the by, the State Legislature will be applied to next winter to 
change the nameof Seymour to Tingue. in honor of the lavish plush 
manufacturer. 
A FLOATING COFFER DAM.—Until the erection of the largedry- 
docks at the Erie Basin the facilities for repairing vessels have been 
entirely disproportioned to the immense commerce of New York, and 
even now the following device which has been in use for some time 
bothin New York and Boston, is a most valuable auxiliary to the 
large docks, as many repairs cai hé made more quickly and at much 
less expense. We copy the following description from the Boston 
Commercial Advertiser- ‘Tts use is in the repair of yessels which are 
damaged either at bow or stern, When it is remembered that nearly 
nine-tenths of all marine mishaps occur at these points of a vessel, it 
will be seen that its field of usefulness is large. Nearly half of the 
aecidents occurring aré about the propeller and rudder post, Hereto- 
fore when such an accident was at all serious the repair bill has been 
yery burdensome both in direct expense and delay. Such repairs 
were necessarily made in dry dock, which necessitated the shifting 
and storage of cargo meantime. The floating coffer dam is nearly 
square in shape, and is constructed throughout of the best hard pine 
Jomber. This 35ft. long, 82ft. beam at the gate end, and 24ft. beam at 
the closed end, whileits depth is 24ft, It will thus be seen that its 
eonstruction must be sufficient to stand the enormous strain of 24-foot 
head of water. It is flat on the bottom and three sides are as square 
asa box. The gate side is built V-shaped half its hight, while the 
upper half of the yast inclosure is shut in by huge gates, which swing 
on massive hinges and are so arranged as to offer no obstruction toa 
ship’s propeller, The dam is towed alongside the injured vessel and 
suulk at either bow or stern, as the case may be. Itis then fitted to 
the vessel so that the keel rests upon the bottom timbers of the dam 
and the vessel’s sides ft nto the V-shaped open end. Planking and 
layers of felting are fitted around the vessel, which is thus made to 
form the fourth side of the coffer dam. The dam is then pumped 
out, and being relieved of its immense weight of water lifts the end of 
the vessel out of the water aud leaves the injured portion as high 
and dry for repairs as if ip were ina dry dock. It has the advantage 
over a dry dock that in cold weather it. can be temporarily roofed over 
and heated so that it will serve all the purposes of a workshop. ‘This 
ig an important consideration in the repair of iron vessels in the win 
ter season.” 
MORE STHAM YACHT RACING.—As will be seen by the following 
amusing correspondence another steam yacht race (is promised, we 
hope with more satisfactory results than the last ones: 
New Yor«, Sept. 1, 1884. 
Mr, H. A. Taylor: 
DAR Sir—1 hereby challenge your boat, the Sphinx, to a series of 
three races, to he sailed between Sept. 5 and 15, over the New York 
Y. GC. course—/, e,, from Bay Ridge to and around the Scotland light- 
ship, start to be made each day at1l A. M., prize to be a cup of the 
value of $250, to be paid to the winner by the loser; each yacht to be 
allowed to carry as mnch steam as its captain may think proper. The 
prize to be awarded to the yacht winning two oub of the three races, 
T nnderstand you have not a high opinion of the steaming qualities of 
thé Petrel. 50 lissue this challenge fn hopes that we may hayea 
race which will settle the question beyoud any doubt. Hoping to re- 
ceive an carly reply, I ae yours truly, Ovrus W. FIELD, JR. 
Mr. Taylor veplied as follows: j 
5 : New York, Sept. 4, 1884. 
Capt. C. W. Mield, Jr.: , 
y Dar Sir—Your fayor of this date received, and your challenge 
to the Sphinx note. IThavelong been desirous for the enconnter, 
but it seems to me that ib wou’t take me three days to beat the Petrel, 
Life is short for such a prolonged encounter, and besides my wife 
won't let nie stay away so long from home onso hazardous 4 mission, 
But I will race the Sphinx on some day to be agreed, prior to the 15th 
of September, for a $200 cup, and will endeavor to meet you within a 
day or two to see if we cali agree On the details. MORES hee ee laaty 
MICHIGAN ¥. C., SEPT. 4—The Michigan ¥. C. held their first 
regalia on Thursday last, the prizes beiug club pennants. The course 
was 25 niiles for first and second classes, and 6 miles for third class. 
The first class comprised the schooners Louise and Ives, the Bereut 
schooner Annie K., yaw! Leila, sloops Annie $., Adele, Petre] an 
Jennie J.; third class, Michigan Central, Madeline, Sunset and Frolic. 
The race was sailed in a fresh wind. The Ives won the first class pen- 
nant in 4h. 43m, actual time. Annis §. lost her tupmasb, bub won in 
second class in 5h, 26m.i5s, Madeline won in third class in 2h. 
56m, 45s, 
A CATAMARAN RACH,—A sweepstakes race for catamarans will 
be sailed on Sept. lo, from Communipaw Docks to Southwest Spit 
buoy and return, 35 miles. The boats already entered are the Rocket, 
of Noank, Mr. Humphries, owner; Hermis, Yonkers, Mr. Thomas 
Fearon; Duplex, Jersey City, Com. Longstreet, and the Cyclone and 
Jessie, owned by Fred Hughes. A steamboat willgo over the course 
with the boats. The entrance fee is $25. 
TORONTO RACHS.—The race of the Royal Canadian Y. C., at Tor- 
onto, set for Saturday last, was postponed until Monday on account 
of calm weather. On Monday the ealm still prevailed, so the race, as 
wellas the Toronto Y.C., which was to have been sailed then, was 
postponed until Tuesday. 
SPEPRANZA.—The first vessel built by the Bay Ridge Construction 
Company, was launched on Sept. 10, from their yard at Bay sete 
She isa keel schooner yacht for Mr. H. W. Collender, and will be 
named Speranza. 
THE NEW GATLING GUN. 
HE Second Machine-gun platoon is composed of Lieut. 
A. L. Howard, Sergts. F. Bailey and E, Cooper, Corps. E. 
H. Tieknor and W. H. Forsyth, and Privates EK. B. Hotchkiss, 
John R. Hall, F. Heaney and W. Grohowsky. Tlis platoon 
took charge of the new Gatling battery gun which reached 
this city yesterday. The gun now stands in its room directly 
opening in the Union few The room opens from the cor- 
ridor at the entrance of the building, In front of the gun 
room are the parlors for the platoon which mans it. ’ 
Barly last evening the gun was examined by crowds, which 
completely filled the room at times. Lieut. Howard and the 
men of his command were present and explained the working 
and action of the machine. Ten barrels, about the same size 
and shape of rifle barrels, having a caliber 45-100 of an inch, 
are fastened at the muzzles to 4 circular perforated plate, m 
the center of which is a pivot on which the cluster of barrels 
revolves, In the center of the cluster is a long shaft which 
pivots at the breech as at the muzzle, This shaft is supported 
at the muzzle end by a cross-piece which rests on two long 
steel bars, which enter from the carriage on both sides 
of the barrels, to which they are parallel. Turning a 
crank at the breech of the gun causes these barrels 
to revolve very rapidly. The breech back of the 
barrels is of brass. On the top of the breech is a slot which 
connects with a cylinder inside the breech. When the crank 
is tuned this cylinder revolves also. On the outside of this 
cylinder are ten grooves to correspond with the ten barrels. In 
each of these grooves is a sliding steel breech-plate, on which 
is a shell extractor and a central firing pin with hammer. 
the limber which accompanies the gun are about 100 tin cases, 
about two feet long aud three inches by:one. On one side of 
each tin case is a groove, in which slides the handle of a metal 
| valve, which moves up and down in the case. Each case holds 
sixty rounds of government cartridges. The end of this case 
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fits into the slot on the breech of the gun, When the case is 
full the valve is on top of all the cartridges, and a man pressing 
down on it can shove the cartiidges into the slot of the gun. 
The United States tactics for the Gatling gun furnish a man- 
ual for ten men, but Lieut; Howard will probably rearrange 
the tactics for six men, At the command “Ready,” one gtun- 
ner steps forward and unloosens the crank at the breech, an- 
other places a case of ammunition into the breech, and the 
death-deating machine is ready. The sergeant sights the pisce. 
On the order to fire, gunner No, 1 turns the crank and 1,000 
bullets a minute fly from the barrels, When the cartridze 
drops into the revolving slot it is caught by one of the sliding 
breech blocks and pushed forward into one of the barrels, On 
the right hand frame-bar, which is parallel with the barrels, 
are two sighting-pins. No barrel is discharged until it comes 
around to this frame bar where the sightine-pins are. When 
that barrel teaches the place to be discharged, a hammer 
strikes the firing-pin in the sliding-breech block, which moyes 
in pee barrel’s corresponding groove, ahd the cartridge is ex- 
pioded, 
There is a shell-extractor in every sliding breech block, 
which pulls out the cartridge into the revolving sroye again, 
and the empty shell is again carried around in the groye until 
it is on the lower side of the cylinder, when it drops on the 
ground, There is very little or no noise made by the mechan- 
ism when in motion, except the rapid click of the hammer as 
ib strikes a firing-pin about twenty times a second. The 
breech of the gun is eleyated or depressed by ascrew. By 
moving a little key the turning crank wil! cause the breech of 
the gun to keep moving to the right and left, thus spreading 
the leaden storm over a wide space. 4 
_The gun is mounted in about the same style as an ordinary 
six-pounder, and the circumference of the circle formed by 
the ten barrels is about the same as that of the brass six- 
pounders in the Guilford battery. Two horses will draw the 
gun and its limber, which carries 5,000 rounds of ammunition. 
Although the mechanism seems to be complicated, Lieut. 
Howard can take the whole thing to pieces and put it fogether 
again with no other tool than a wrench and a screw-driver. 
The breech is of brass and the barrels are to be nickel-plated 
to protect them from the salt and damp air at Niantic, The 
machine gun and its platoon will probably do terrible exeen- 
tion during the impending engagement near Camp Couch next 
week,—New Havemw Palladium. 
POT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 
THE willows wave in noontide glare 
To meads that sniile beyond, 
The beetles droue in the sleepy air, 
And all seem lost in the dreaming where 
IL seek the pickerel pond. 
Ah, dear old pond! *tis many a year 
Since last Dtook my pole 
And wooed fatizues of wold and weir 
To try a bout with fortune here 
Where thy calm waters roll. 
How well I recollect each day 
In those sweet times of yore— 
I toiled the sweaty hours away, 
Alluring the coquettish prey 
From thy dark depths ashore. 
So now I come with hook and line 
And mem’ries ever fond, 
To live again the auld lang syne 
And taste once more the sweets of thine, 
O yeteran pickerel pond,—Chicago News. 
Thirteen hundred and eight wolves were killed last year in 
France, mainly on the border lands of Belgium and Germany. 
A fisherman at Santa Barbara, Cal., the other day hooked a 
fish weighing about two pounds, and in drawing the same to 
the boat it was swallowed by a large rock cod weighing twenty 
to twenty-five pounds, and he sticceeded in landing both safely 
in the boat. - 
The small prices obtained at the Liverpool sale of wild 
beasts have created something like a panic on the continent, 
The Monde Iltustré announces it as a new horror—‘le krasch 
des faunes.” What seems to have Specially alarmed the 
French financial mind is the fact that a tiger which had eaten 
two keepers consecutively was sold for 1,200 francs—‘only 600 
franes a keeper.” 
“Mariar,” said an Allen county peasant to his other half, 
“have you enny idee how many young uns we have?’ “Wich 
onto leven, I guess,” ‘*And how many dogs are they round 
yere?”” “Most a dozen, I guess; there’s Tige, an’ Bruce, an’? 
Growler, an’ her four pups, an’ the hound, an’ the terrier, an’ 
them others o’ Hank’s that loaf ‘round y’ere.” “Say “leyen 
children and only a dozen dogs. Mariar, don’t ye think we 
have most too many children? Times is most tarnation hard, 
yelnow. Say, can’t we put out some o’ our chunkiest gals to 
work? I low that they could make enough in a spell for us to 
buy another dog or two.” “Jist as you say, Hezekiah.” **Wall, 
I‘low *f we could swap two of our young’ ‘uns for four more 
dogs we'd be fixed, I guess Vl try it.’—The Hoosier. 
“War were you fishing with—bent pins andsh'ings? asked 
Justice Duffy as he frowned down on four trembling boys in 
front of the bar of the Yorkville Police Court yesterday, 
‘Wes, sir,” tearfully assented each urchin. “Well, don’t you 
know it’s against the law to fish in the park, If you catch all 
the fish out there won't he any for other boys to look at. 
Which one of you caught a fish?” “T did,” said Harry Capler 
ashe raised his hand. ‘You didn’t raise your right hand,” 
said the Judge; “doitagain. I shall be yery severe on you. 
Two months is what you will get. One month each for you 
other boys. Officer, take them to jail.” As this sentence was 
given a wail arose from the four enlprits. “Hold on,” said the 
Judge as they reached the door, “come back here. Will you 
ever do it again?” ‘No, sir.’ ‘“Well, then you are discharged. 
Run home.”"—N, Y. Herald. 
Tt is asserted on the anthority of persons who have recently 
visited Marlette Lake that the prodigious increase of trout in 
its waters has overstocked thelake. At times they can be 
seen massing themselves in the small streams which are tribu- 
tary to the lake, and on these occasions they have been 
crowded out on the grass growing onthe borders of the 
streams, Thousands could be thrown out with a pitchfork, 
A piece of bark thrown into the lake will cause a dozen or 
more of troutto leap forit. The coyotes haye caught the 
knack of fishing, and sit by the shore watching for leaves to 
fall into the water. ‘The instant a leaf touches the water the 
fish rise, and like a flash the coyote bounds into the thick of 
the fish, and is certain to bring out one or twoin his mouth. 
The coyotes are shot whenever any ot the lumbermen see 
them, but by stealing up in the underbrush they generally 
manage to escape observation,—Carson (Nev.) Appeal, 
Those of our citizens who haye studied the fish supply of 
Western Maryland have become alarmed at the results which 
have been produced by the introduction of bass into the Poto- 
mac and the neighboring streams. The bass are very vora- 
cious in their habiis, and attack all kinds of aquatic life for 
food. They haye either devoured or driven away most of the 
fallfish, the sunfish, the catfish and other native fish, and they 
have very greatly diminished the number of eels, and have 
even destroyed many of the turtles and watersnakes. If this 
wholesale slaughter continues it will not belong before the 
bass will be almost the only fish in our waters, and then the 
question ag to their future food will be difficult 10 decide, 
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