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FOREST AND STREAM. 



lOcT. 29, 1885. 



yAOHTING NOTES.— Sir. Richard Sutton's scbooner Elmina, 350 

 tons, lias lately replaced her old masts with new ones and is row lit- 

 iag out for a C'-uise lo Suakim . . . The Amy, 84-3 ions, W v. K. B. Stew- 

 art's new steaoi yacLit, is also fitting out for a cruise to Madeira and 

 the West Indies. She has proved herself reinarlcably fast this season 

 ....The 30ft. length class boat Curtsy, Major Forster, lias made a 

 good record this season, racing: 30 times and Tvinniug: 23 firsts, one 

 second, and also leading in three other races in which she was dis- 

 qualified as being over length . .The sloop Genia has been .?oId to 



Dr. Maodeviile, of Newaric, N.J Intrepid, so Qooner. is laid up at 



Sixth street and Lizzie L., sloop, at Seventh street. South Brooklyn. 

 ...Ill Manning's Basin is the sloop Winona, lately returned from a 



long cruise on the Lakes Entei'piisc and Orocodile were lately laid 



up in the Atlantic Basin . . . Mr. Fainuau Rog-ers's. steam yacht Magno- 

 lia has lately been compleielv overhauled by Herrcshotf and will 



leave shortly on another cruise to Florida Oneagb, schooner, is 



reported as sold to an American, Mr. Harvey Spencer .. Dauntless, 

 schooner, has been at Poillon's for a genera! overhauling preparatory 



to a winter cruise The Boston Y. C. has purchased the land and 



shop foi-merly btlongmg to Pieree, at City Point . .Smith has hauled 

 up at his yard in South (jostou Volauto, Kamilu?. schooner; Alcyone 



Cygnet, Juno and Esther Oitana, schooner, is hauled up at 



Mystic wharf, where she will be lengthened forward — Corsair, 

 steam yacht, is laid up in the Erie Basin, where she will be 

 completely refitted below. Atalanta is also in the Erie Basin 

 ....Sagitta, sloop, which was ashore off Fire Island last month, is 

 now hauled up at Islip for a general overhauling . JVIontauk will lay 

 up this year at New London. ...At Seventh street, South Brooklyn, are 



the steam yachts Day Dream and Norma Bertie, sloop, is laid up 



in iVIumm's Basin New Haven— Ariadne will lay up at Hunlington, 



L. I., Wild Duck at Portchester, Rival at Westport, Thistle at Green- 

 port, Trio at Jliddletown, Viking at Groion, Viola at Stony Ureek, 

 Flora at Brantford, Sophia and Nereid at Norwich, most of the others 



of the fleet will winter at New Haven Rajah, Stranger, Endeavor, 



Reamer and a few others are still in commission. 



KNICKERBOCKER Y. 0.— A meeting of the Knickerbocker Y. C. 

 was held on Oct. 23 to present ihe prizns won in the late fall regattji. 

 Much dissatisfaction has been felt in regard to the liming of the race, 

 which was to be sail^ within six hours. The time as announced by 

 the judges was a few seconds under the limit, but as timed by a 

 number of responsible parties, both on the boats and at the club- 

 house, it was tih. and 7min. Since the race the matter has been 

 much talked of, as there seemed to he no douht but that the official 

 time was incorrect, and by tbe club rules there had been no race. 

 Coraraodore Hobby pre.sirled at the meeting. Objection was made lo 

 the awarding of the prizes and evidence was offered to prove that the 

 time was incorrect. The Regal ta Oommiltee declined to question the 

 time given by the judges; one of the latter, Mr. W. J. Parker, de- 

 clined to give any decision, and the remaining two. Messrs Jackson 

 and Deane, declared that the race must stand, so the prizes were 

 finally presented. One of the winners— Mr. Smith, of the Rosetta A. 

 — said, on receiving his prize: "Gentlemen, 1 accept this prize, but 

 with no pleasure whatever, as 1 believe there was no race." 

 The prizes were awarded to Surf in the first class, Lena second, 

 Lizzie R. third, Rosetta A. fourth, Maggie fifth, Hornet .sixth, Bon 

 Ton seventh, Vaddie eighth. The steam launch prize was won by 

 Mystic. Lizzie R. won the pennant ior best elapsed time, and also 

 the Mott Cup, having won it three times. Dandy was ruled out for 

 using oai-s. The club are still divided over the question of the lime, 

 and, though the race has been sanctioned by the committee, the 

 matter is not yet finally disposed of. 



NO WIDE YACHTS WANTED. -The glowing pictures which some 

 enthusiasts on this side of the pond have painted of John Bull 

 throwing aside his timehonored rules and building Puritans does not 

 appear to be quite in accordance with facts. The performance of 

 the wide boat nas waked up many of tne chronic objecters to the 

 rule, but without mucli encouragement as yet. We lately quoted an 

 article from the London Field disposing of some fables of British 

 origin about Puritan ".s abOity. but .stating at the same time that such 

 boats would not suit their wants. In a later article on the subject 

 of the Y. R. A. rules the .same iiaper speaks as follows: "We last 

 week expressed an opinion that tliero did not appear to be at present 

 any m-gent necessity for altei-ing the Y. R. A. tonnage rule, although 

 we should like to see it somewhat easier on beam when the propor- 

 tion is four to one, and a little harder when the proportion is over 

 five and one-half to one. What should be done with such vessels as 

 Puritan, three and one-half to one, is a matter of small consequence, 

 as no one desu-es to build such yachts on this side of the Atlantic." 

 Undoubtedly the result of the races will hasten the death of the 

 present rule; but tliere is not the least indication that British yachts- 

 men will go back to the wide form of yacht or will add veiy materi- 

 ally to the beam even of the extreme racers. 



A NEW METHOD OF' PROPULSION.— The long narrow boat that 

 has been on the ways at Poillons' for some time is now nearlj' ready 

 for launching ind will soon make a trial of her peculiar machinery. 

 The motive power is gas, generated by a small machine on board, 

 and ignited in a cylinder to which compressed air is also admitted. 

 This cylinder is placed on the keelson, well aft. and communicates 

 with four oblong opt-uings near the keel, two facing aft and two for- 

 ward, the connections being such that any opening maybe put in 

 communication with the cylinder at will. To move ahead the two 

 forward ones are closed and the after ones ai'e opened, air and gas 

 are admitted to the cylinder and ignited, an explosion follows, and 

 the liberated gases act with great force by way of the openings on 

 the water, diiving the boat ahead. This impact is in practice almost 

 continuous, and the power exerted is very great. To reverse, the 

 two after openings are closed and the forward ones opened, thus 

 striving the vesst-1 .<i stern. To turn, one on each side is opened, swiug- 

 ing the vessel around. There are no rapidly moving parts, the mechan- 

 ism is simple, and it is claimed that a very large percentage of the 

 fuel consumed is reahzed in the final effect. 



A PROPHESY COME TROE.— In a review of the America Cup 

 races, the Berlin Washer sport has the following: "Jt cannot be denied 

 that the highest hopes and expectations, even the firm conviction 

 had seized the Englisli. that cheir chosen craft wouid achieve a 

 victory. Against this, however, stands out in astonishing contrast, 

 that out of the enemy's camp itself, one voice was rai.sed which fore- 

 told the Geuesta's probable defeat and maintained that the English 

 had allowed their chance to slip by. This voice emanated from a 

 person who had fought for the advantages and good points of the 

 cutter with a zeal almost frantic, and who claimed that in their day, 

 Florinda or Majorie would have had a sure thing. The result of the 

 recent races has been of a kind that we are obliged to concede sound 

 judgment to this critic, Mr. C. P. Kuuhardt, formerly of Forest and 

 Stream. For, the very condition which be insisted the English yacht 

 should possess, that the representative selected should be speedy in 

 the lightest of winds to insure success against the sloop, was the very 

 condition the Gene.,ta did noc f ulfll. But this warning voice went un- 

 heeded in the flre ot enthusiasm which had seized the English,- 



A PICTURE OF THE GREAT RACE -Messrs. L. Prang & Co., of 

 Boston, have just issued a largo and handsome chromo of the finish 

 of the final race, between Pi.riran and Genesta. It is a reproduction 

 of an oil painting by Mr. Wai. F. Halsalls. the marine artist, who has 

 produced a very spirited pictu-e ot the two yaciits. The sails of both 

 are very well rendered, the drawing being correct and the coloring 

 really giving an idea of life and motion ; but the hull of the Puritan is 

 incorrectly dra\ra, the sheer of the hull and the rise of the bowsprit 

 are both exaggerated to a degree tbat gives a wrong notion of the 

 boat. Another noticeable error is the coloring of Genesta's burgee 

 which IS given as biue and red, instead of the black and red which 

 have become .so well known. The state of the water at the time is 

 vei-y accurately depicted, and in all respects, but the very important 

 one noted, the picture is an admirable one. 



THE BROKERS- YACHTS. -When Mr. W. R. Travers was at New- 

 port last summer, a great many fine yachts lay in the harbor " Wh- 

 wno who whose yacht is th th-tha that?" he asked, pointing to one of 

 them. "Tbat belongs to Mr. Jones, the well-known broker." Mr. 



^"r-',-. "uau o inr. oiiuiu s Lne oroKer, ■ vv n-wn-wnose is that^ ' 



pointing out still anotber. "Tbat belongs to Mr. White, another 

 brokt-r. "W-w-well, wh-whwuere's the customers' yachts?" in- 

 quu-ed the great Wall street joker.-C7ifco(/o Mail. 



A R.ICING CUTTER FOR SALE.-The most promising class now 

 existing m our yacht fleet is that of 50 feet or thet-eabouis on water- 

 hue, including Isis, Athlon, Oriva, Daphne, Vixen. Gaviota, and 

 lastly Uara. The latter promiSFjs to set a pace next year that some 

 of the Ing ones may hud it bard to tollow. Her clais competitor and 

 ablest, rival ou Llie other side, tho 20 tonner Lenore, is now offered 

 tor sale and can be had at a reasonable figure. Here is a chance for 

 some racing man who wishes to be near the top of the class next 

 season. F urther particulars can be had at this office. 



RIVERSIDE Y. C— A race wUl be sailed on Nov. 15 between Ghee- 

 maun, formerly well-l;uowu about New York, and the Arthur B., also 

 a New York boat, botij no u being under the Rivort,ide. Y' O fl'ao- of 

 JackfOuviile, Fla, The Cheemaun is a jib and rnainsail boat iHfc lOin 

 long, o.vned by W. Fred Partsr, and the Arthur B. u mt., owned by 

 Vice-Commodere W. L. Davids. She sailed as a cat in the last race 

 but will be sloop ngged this time. On Oct, 17 a very high tide wrecked 

 the cluD hou.se and did some damage to the yachts hauled to '^lean 

 for the faU mi winter season. 



AMERICAN Y. C— A special meeting of the American Y. C, was 

 held on Tuesday last at the club house, Commodore De Cordova in 

 the chair. The report of the Regatta Committee was read and ac- 

 cepted, tne dispute between Atalanta and Stiletto being decided in 

 favor of the former. The prizes won in the regatta weiv on exhibi- 

 tion, and the proposed designs for an international challenge cup for 

 steam yachts were discussed. The owners of Stiletto proposed a 

 race for a $500 cup with Atalanta, from Fort idams to Sands Point, 

 the cup to be paid for by the owners of each boat and to remain a 

 challenge cup. The proposal was not accepted. 



MIZZEN STAY^SAILS ON YAWL8.-A correspondent in San Fran- 

 cisco writes that the mizzen staysaU has been tried on yawls there, 

 but with poor results. One on tne Enid elicited the comment from an 

 observer, "That staysail is drawing like a team of horses, but I'm not 

 prepared to say which way." One was tried on the little Sweetheart, 

 but her owner describes its principal duties as "keeping the wind out 

 of the mainsail, making back wind for the mizzen, and making it im- 

 possible to see anything to leeward. With these trifling exceptions it 

 was a marked success." 



PHOTOGRAPHS OP THE RACERS.-Chas. Miller & Son, No. CO 

 Nassau street. New York, have now rfiadv a number of good photos 

 of Puritan and Genesta, ranging in isize from 5x8in. to 14xl7in., and 

 in price from 40 cents to $3,50. 



THE SALE OF THE POLYNIA.— The steam yacht Polynia was 

 sold on Tuesday for $10,100, the purchaser bemg Mr. W. H. Starbuck. 

 She will probably be lengthened this winter. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 



Tim JoNEs.—We do not know the bore. 

 J. R., Toledo, O.— It is impossible to decide from the picture. 

 J. L. M., New York.— Write to P. H. Bryson, Memphis, Tenn. 

 C. B. D., Fall River, Mass.— It is not too late to register the dogs 

 now. 



R. H. C, Providence.— We expect to publish the lines of the Puritan 

 shortly. 



S. E , New Orleans.— See answer to another correspondent in this 

 column. 



G. F.— It is not against the law to h ound deer in West Virginia and 

 Maryland. 



W. S. D., Baltimore, Md. -Write to Wm, Graham, Newtownbreda, 

 Belfast, Ireland. 



B. W. S., Jackson, Mich.— The Gordon setter attains full growth 

 and feather wben about two years old. 



Beagle, Dover, N. H.— The Es-se-f County Hunt is m New Jersey. 

 C. A. Heckscher, Master, Orange, N. J. 



iNQCJiREB Providence, R. I. -Dutch, Jr., is owned by Mr. R. H. 

 Dudgeon, 24 Columbia street. New York. 



H. A. S.— The season ends Dec. 1. There is good duck shooting in 

 the vicinity. A.sk at the gun stores when you get there. 



R. H.— The address of HunVs Magazine is 119 Church street. Edge- 

 ware Road, N. W., London, England. We know of no other paper. 



T. R , Brooklyn, N. Y.— Baronet and Belle both ran in the All-Aged 

 stake of the Eastern field trials of 1881 on Robins Island, each win- 

 ning one heat. 



N. W., New Y'ork. — We know of no one who could train your 

 poodle. Read "Training vs. Breaking," and train him yourself by 

 the directions there given, 



L. B. R.. Maryland.— Try Monroe's "Florida Annual." The quail 

 shooting is good in winter. The different railroads have different 

 rates for dogs. Y'ou can lea,rn them only by application to each road. 



An Old Reader, Des Moines, la.— The double nose must come 

 through the dam. Many of the double-nosed pointers are good in 

 the field, but no better tiiau those without it. Most judges dislike to 

 award a prize to such. 



W. H. 0., Sardis, Miss.— We are unable to determine the species of 

 your snake from the fragment sent. It may be Faiancia- obscura, or 

 possibly a piece of Opheo. saurus ventralis. But why in the world 

 did you not send on the whole animal? 



J. O. F., Hornellsville, N. Y.— A short time ago I bad a snake here 

 15in. long, dark slate color or a blueish blacfi, with an orange band or 

 collar and orange belly. What was it, and was it venomous? Ans. — 

 Probably the ring-necked snake {Diadoptm pvnctatus). It is not 

 venomous. 



H. G. M— 1. GetMunroe's map of Florida when it is published. 

 2. Florida books are Henshall's "Camping and Cruising in Florida," 

 price ijil. 50; "The Florida Annual," price 50 cents, 8. The "Broken- 

 bone" fever is not likely to trouble you in cold weather. It is disa 

 greeable but not dangerous. 



L. E. W., Wilkesbarre, Pa.— 1. Why are Ught color dogs preferred 

 by most sportsmen— setters and pointers f 2 Is jet black with white 

 breast objectionable in a pun whose tire is a red Irish and dam blue 

 belton? Ans. — 1. Dogs of a light color can be more ivadily seen when 

 working in cover, and for this reason many sportsmen prefer them. 

 2. The color is legitimate. 



Trapt— Will you kindly explain in your next what is meant by class 

 shooting so as to settle and put an end to a long conti'oversy? Ans. 

 Y'es, for the nineteenth time. Class shooting is a form of shooting in 

 which the contestants are divided into classes according to the scores 

 made and the pi-izes are divided among these classes. If six men tie 

 on 9, five men on 8, four men on 7, etc., the six form one class, the five 

 another and the four another. Then if 9 was the highest score made 

 the first prize would be divided among the six men who tied on i>. or 

 else they would shoot off for it. and it would be given to the winner 

 of the ties. The second prize would go in the same way to those who 

 tied on 8, the third to the ties on 7, etc. 



PEBCYVAL.—Wfll you give proper dressing for bass flies: 1. Rube 

 Wood, 2. Gov. Alvord. 3. Whitney. 4. Cheney. 5. Also tell name of 

 fly I found last summer, very good bass fly: Body mouse color or 

 slate, wotmd with gray hackle, tail gray mallard, wings gray mallard 

 and I think woodduck, a gray feather with two blaclc and one white 

 bar at the end. Is it aWappingerV Ans. 1. R. Wood— White che- 

 nille body, brown mallard tail and' brown hackle, gray mallard wing. 

 2. Gov. Alvord— Peacock had body, red hackle, red tail, wings broa-n 

 and drab. 8. We do not know this fly. 4. Cheney-Body red and yel- 

 low-jointed, yellow part ribbed with sJlver unsel, yellow hackle, 

 green and woodduck tail, wing of woodduck's breast, with white stripe 

 bordered with black. 5. It is very like the Wappinger. 



W., Cleveland, O.— To brown gun baiTcls prepare a bath as follows: 

 loz. muriate tincture of steel, loz. spirits ot wine, 34oz. muriate of 

 mercury, ]4qz. strong nitric acid, J^oz bluestone, 1 quart of water. 

 These are to be well mixed, and allowed to stand a mouth to amalga- 

 mate. After the oil or grease has been removed from the barrels by 

 lime, the mixture is laio on lightly with a sponge every two hours. It 

 should be scratched off with a steel-wire brush night and morning 

 until the barrels are dark enough; and then the acid is destroyed by 

 pouring on th(! barrels boiling water, and continuing to rub them tiil 

 nearly cool. To stoin twist barrels black and white, it is usual, after 

 rubbing and coating v/ith the browning mixture as above, to put 

 them into an iron or block tin trough, with a smaU quantity of log- 

 wood and sulphate of copper and sufficient water to cover the barrels. 

 The barrels are then boiled in the water for twenty minutes or half 

 an hour. The barrels are then taken out and allowed to cool. When 

 cold, they are scratched oft" with a steel scraieh-brush, and scalded hv 

 pouring a kettleful of hot water over them. They must then be 

 rubbed down untfi nearly cool. The same^metbod of troughing is re- 

 qmred to brown them a dari£ brown; but when they are taken from 

 the trough they are coated with the browning mixture as at first, and 

 scratched off, and recoated three or four times. They are then flm- 

 ished off by pouring boiling water upon them and rubbing with soft 

 cloth until nearly cool. The process of browning takes fi-oin four to 

 eight days, according to the temperature of the browning-room. If 

 the barrelsare wanted quickly, they may be scratched off as often 

 as three times m twelve hours. 



THE WRONGS OF THE METIS. 



THE hanging of Riel will not exculpate vSir John Macdonald, 

 although it may satisfy some of his followers. The blood 

 of Riel will not wash out the stains caused by the lilood of 

 priests and settlers and volunteer.s shed becau^^e Sir John 

 McDonald chose to misgovern the Northwest. No attempt 

 was made in the House of Commons to reply to the charges 

 made by Mr. Blake or to weaken the value of the evidence he 

 adduced. The attempt now made but serves to show how 

 well-founded and how ci-ushing those charges were. So early 

 as 1878 the half-breeds felt chat it was necessary that th^e 

 claims which they had ma,de some time Defore should be 



settled ; that they should be secured in the possession of their 

 propel ties, and that their titles should be made good. 



What objections there could be to half-breeds, whose an- 

 cestors had" lived so many generations in the Northwest, settled 

 on any lands they prefen-ed, when people were invited to 

 come from all parts of the world and take lands without price, 

 no one can tell even now. 



The Northwest Council strongly lu-ged the Dominion govern- 

 ment to give the lands to the half-breeds, and thus attach 

 them to trie cause of stable, regular government. 



Mr. Dennis, their deputy head in the Department of the In- 

 terior, advi.sed that they should get what they claimed, and 

 argued tliat "by this means we should have the whole of this 

 element in sympathy with the government." 



Ar bishop Tache, to whom it appears this suggestion was 

 submitted, strongly advised the government to settle the half- 

 breeds firmly on the lands, and suggested the power to alien- 

 ate the lands assigned to them should be withheld for a time. 



Bishop McLean, of thg Church of England, gave similar 

 advice. 



But nothing was done. 



The Metis petitioned again and again, as Father Andre stated 

 at the ti-ial. Priests and others wrote to the government, urg- 

 ing, imploring that the people, who became more uneasy every 

 day, should be set at rest by having then- reasonable claims 

 satisfied. 



The only answer they could get was that their petitions 

 would receive consideration some time. 



Bishop Grandin, who we are now told had other business 

 also in Ottawa, pressed the claims of the people on the atten- 

 tion of the government and did all in Ms power to induce a 

 speedy settlement. 



He failed. 



The Metis subscribed the cost of the mission, aheavy amotmt 

 for them to raise. 



The delegates were assisted, we are told, by Bishop Gran- 

 din, 



They failed. 



They took back only promises that the matter would be at- 

 tended to— promises which proved futile. 



The Metis, uuea.sy and troubled, fearing, all the more be- 

 cause of the delay which seemed so unaccountable, that they 

 wotild lose then- properties, awaited anxiously the fulfilment 

 of the promises. They were not fulfilled. 



Years roUed on. Surveyors were sent into the district to 

 prepare the way for settlement of whites, and these survey- 

 ors, in utter disregard of the rights and wishes of the Metis, 

 ran their hues so as to cut up the farms, and in some cases put 

 a man's dwelling on one lot and his barn on another. It is 

 contended now that Sir John Macdonald should not be held 

 responsible for what his surveyors said or did. He should 

 have remembered how much his surveyors did to cause the 

 Red River rebellion. He might have rendered hannless what 

 is now said to have been the mere vaporings of those survey- 

 ors if he had kept his promise and given the Metis proper legal 

 titles to their lands. 



What the surveyors said and did seemed to the Metis to be 

 the explanation of Sir John Macdonald's conduct in treating 

 their petitions and remonstrances as he did. He did not give 

 them legal titles, they thotight, because he wished to give their 

 lands to others. 



And he did give their lands to others, so confirmtug their 

 worst fears, so convincing them that all his firomises made in 

 reply to their petitions and applications were false. 



They were threatened with eviction in many quarters. The 

 legal title to the lands held by the spttlei-s of St. Louis de Lan- 

 gevin was unquestionably given to the Prince Albert Coloni- 

 zation Company. 



Among the few hundred who actually rebelled were those 

 settlers. 



What fair-minded man will say that Sir John Macdonald is 

 not responsible for the mad acts of these people, ignorant as 

 children of the ways of the world, whom he drove to despair? 



As their last resort they sent delegates to Riel in Montana, 

 asking him to come to their help. He had succeeded in ob- 

 taiuing for the Metis on the Red River the recognition of their 

 rights to the lands they hold and they Imagined that he coidd 

 do as much for them. 



Riel came. Meetings were held at Avhich the wrongs of the 

 Metis were stated. Appeals for redress were renewed. All 

 professed a desire to employ peaceable means. The^^e appeals 

 were treated as all pi-evious appeals had been. Then came 

 rumors of disaffection, and rebellion began to be talked of as 

 possible, if not among the Metis, at all events among the 

 whites. All this would have satisfied prudent men, respo nsi- 

 ble for the peace and good government of the cotmtry, that it 

 had become absolutely necessary to do something to prevent 

 serious trouble. 



Sir John McDonald did nothing to prevent trouble. He rath- 

 er sought and courted it. The grant of the lands of St. Louis 

 de Langevin to his friends, Mr, John White and Mi-. Jameson 

 and their associates, the Metis natually regarded as his answer 

 to all their applications, and his defiance. But while defying 

 the Metis and provoking them by wrongs so great, he did 

 nothing to show them that he was as powerful as he was 

 unjust. He allowed Reil to remain among these wronged and 

 excited people and to do as he pleased without the slightest 

 check. His idea of the extent ef the danger and trouble his 

 injustice, his insolence and his disregard of the wishes, the 

 feelings and the rights of the people had caused, was shown 

 by his ordering the small force under Crosier to that Hudson 

 Bay Company's post. To send so small a force was but to pro- 

 voke the injured to rebellion, Major Crozier unfortunately 

 shared Sir John McDonald's contempt for the half-breeds. It 

 is now asserted that the order in Council appointing a commis- 

 sion for the settlement of the half-breed claims was passed in 

 January, ISS.'i, and that the Lieutenant Governor was informed 

 thereof. Why was that order held back undl the Metis had 

 actually taken up arms? Why were not proper means taken 

 to let the Metis know even then that the commission was 

 appointed or was to be appointed. — Toronto Globe, Oct, 24, 



Ithaca, N. Y., Oct. 37, 1885.— Interest was aroused in science 

 circles at Cornell University to-day by the intelligence that a 

 very nire specimen of the manatee or sea cow, shipped from 

 South America recently, had arrived here this morning and 

 would be exjiosed to view as well as lectured upon by Dr. 

 Wilder at 11 o'clock. At that horn- the lectm-e room was 

 crowded with professoi-s, students and visitors. Dr. Wilder 

 said that the manatee is one of the cases in which evolu- 

 lution has produced just the opposite of its usual effect. The 

 manatee is an animal belonging to a family that had evidently 

 seen better days. He continued ; ''I predict that not many 

 years hence there will be found more and more conclusive 

 evidences that the forms from which the manatee and its rela- 

 tives have been descended had arms and legs and a very much 

 smaller tail. The hind legs have been lost in the process of 

 evolution, the front legs have been degraded into tins, and the 

 tail has become one for swimming instead of one flapping 

 from side to side," The manatee will be carefully dissected, 

 with a view to demonstrating the bearing of its whole struc- 

 tiu-e upon the question of retrograde metamorphosis. 



It is to be devoutly wished that we shall not read this year 

 ot such revolting cruelties as took place last year in connec- 

 tion with what are called deer hunts. It is atrocious that in 

 a cotmti-y like England, where cock fighting, btill fighting and 

 the prize ring are by act of Parhameut declared illegal, a 

 noble animal hke the stag can be doggedly run down by sav- 

 age dogs and scarcely less savage mobs until his heart is 

 broken and he falls down dead. Why is not one crime as 

 heavily pimished as the other ? A costermonger who kicks his 

 donkey is heavily punished, but a lord can cause a deer to be 

 literally run to d.eatb and no one cao interfere.— Paris Segis- 

 ter. 



