118 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



| Auo. 38, 1889. 



THIRTY- FOOTERS. 



Elapsed. Corrected. 



Kathleen 3 4a 45 3 12 21 



Saracen 3 44 03 3 42 27 



Shark ....3 49 56 3 47 50 



Mr'gnon 3 58 09 3 51 27 



Harbinger 3 54 22 3 48 46 



TWENTY-SEVEN- FOOTERS. 



lone 2 42 07 2 36 24 



Sword fish 2 50 33 2 43 84 



Wanda ..3 01 37 2 42 41 



Moondyne 8. 53.32 2 43 51 



Posy, Echo, Madge and Agnes did not liuish. 



Aug. $6- -The 30 and 40-footers sailed over the triangular course 

 formed by Mar'olehead Roc*. Graves Whistling Buoy and the 

 markboat; distance twenty-four nautical miles. The 27ft. class 

 sailed sixteen miles out lo the first mark and return. 



The wind at the start was strong from the northeast, but 

 shifted to the east ward as the day advanced. It was a day of 

 accidents, and before the first, mark had. been reached half the 

 fleet was disabled. It was not the wind, but the bad sea that, 

 caused the mishaps. About twenty minutes after the start a big 

 wave struck tne fleet, and away went the Gorilla's topmast, snap- 

 ping off about four feet above tbe masthead and disabling the 

 yacht. 



Five miles from tbe start the Xara was holding a leading posi- 

 tion, Pappoose heing second and Cbiquita third. Heavy seas 

 were met and three more boats were disabled. The spreader of 

 Xara broke and left no support for her topmast. She lowered her 

 olubioptail and bravely continued the race, but having no show 

 tor a position withdrew after rounding the first siakehoat. 



The Minerva was the next to meet with an accident. Her port 

 rigging was carried away, but the quick work of iter trained ciew 

 saved her topmast. This set the Minerva back to last place. 

 Just then the spreader on the Alice broke, and, although she kept 

 on in the race, she was badly handicapped. 



During these exciting scenes the Pappoose had gone to the fore 

 and the boats rounded the first mark as follows; 



Pappoose . 12 10 38 Xara 12 13 20 



Cbiquita 18 11 19 Tomahawk 12 12 25 



Minerva 12 12 09 Alice 12 18 36 



In the run to the Graves the wind shifted to the eastward and 

 balloon ,iibs were set. The boats with larger sails drew up on the 

 Pappoose, and the Minerva passed her about a mile from the first 

 stakeboat. The time at the second mark wao: 



Minerva 1 30 57 Tomahawk 132 22 



Pappoose 1 31 17 Alice 1 38 09 



Chiquita 1 31 25 



The ] at t leg was a beat home, and the Minerva again showed 

 her superiority ovtr the American boats, and finished an easy 

 wiuner. The "Pappoose slipped into second place by corrected 

 time. 



The 30-footers crossed tbe line in this order: Saracen, Harbin- 

 ger, Kathleen, Shark and Mignon. Saracen led the fleet over tbe 

 course. The bad luck of the dav struck Shark, and her mast 

 broke lOf l above tbe deck. Slit saved her sails, and lashing uer 

 clubtopsad to tbe stump of tbe mast, put back to the harbor. 

 After turning the stake the Mignon and the Kathleen drew up 

 toward the front and passed tue Harbinger. On the windward 

 work the New York boat, ihe Kathleen, immediately began to 

 show her power ano took the lead of her class, but she did not get 

 out of htr time alio .vance, ana, alt ough sue finished first, she 

 was 'beaten on corrected t-rue by tbe Saracen and the Mignon. 



Tbe small boats ot the 27f>. class had a nard time in tne choppy 

 sea, but were generally well handled. lone and aiva were dis- 

 abled and withdrew. Tin summary is as follows: 



FORTY -FOOT fXASS. 



Elapsed. Corrected. 



Minerva. C. H. Tweed 3 57 11 3 53 15 



Pappoose, Bayard Thayer 4 07 29 3 57 29 



Tomahawk, E. D. Morgan 4 01 53 4 01 53 



Chmuita, A. Hemeuwav 4 05 12 4 tti 01 



Alice, O. A. Prince 4 11 52 4 07 58 



Xara, James Means Disabled. 



Go'iiiia, li. P. Carroll Disabled. 



THIRTY-FOOT CLASS. 



Saracen, W. P Fowle 4 23 07 4 20 36 



Mignon, H. Rabson 4 30 30 4 22 28 



Ratblern, W. Wmtluck 4 u.2 18 4 22 40 



Harbinger, ,1. H. Hooper 4 33 28 4 23 21 



Shark, Morton Prince Disabled. 



TWEXTV-SF.VES FOOT CLASS. 



Sword fish, J. B. Paine 3 10 21 3 07 03 



Mcpsa 3 14 14 3 07 58 



Moondyne. Shaw Brothers 3 55 87 3 23 16 



lone, J. S. Perrin. .Disabled. 



Siva Disabled. 



The result of to-dav's race makes a tie between Minerva and 

 Cbiquita for tbe Weld Cup. Sword fish wins tne Corinthian cup 

 iu the 27ft. class. Sai acen and Kathleen are tied in the 30fi. class, 

 unless the pr. test of yesterday is decided in favor of Saracen, in 

 winch case Saracen will get the cup. 



BEVERLY Y. C. 



THE 151st race, third open sweeps, was sailed at Monument 

 Beach, Aug. 24, in a light i.orthea.der. 

 The day open, d witb a dead calm, which prevented Climax in 

 first class and Hera (late Creole) in third class from arriving in 

 lime to si art. 



The boats got off in a light northeasterly air, which increased 

 till there was a decent breeze at the finish. 



Sirius, in first class, had an easy time in beating Mai tie with her 

 short rig. Tbe second class brought out < hampion Mi?t, her old 

 comr etitor Wildcat, Fau.t, from Fall River, Gymnote, Thyra and 

 Widgeon, a new boat just completed by Dunn for Mr. Williams. 

 The latti r's sail, just received from tbe saiJ maker, bad a tight 

 cloth in it, was baggy, and did not do her justice. 



On tbe run down the boats bunched up. Coming home it was 

 close v\o>k among the leaders. Widgeon did very well, while 

 Wildcat be^L th m all, and Mist was unable to hold either of the 

 leade. s. Gymnote broke racks and lost by it. 



In the third class, Daisy, with her big rig, fairly beat Eina, 

 gaining steadily »ll over the course, though in the last three miles, 

 whenitbieeztd up a little, she only gained Us. 



Result of races so far shows that in a breeze Eina is easily first 

 in her class, hut in a light, air Daisy, with her large rig, can beat 

 her right along. Summary as follows: 



Courses: First and second classes, leaving B Buoy 3, Scraggy 

 Neck Buoy and Bird Island Buoy on starboard and return; 11 

 miles. Third and fourth classes, leaving B Buoy 3, Abial's Ledge 

 Buov, judge's boat and B Buoy 3 on starboard and return: 8 miles. 

 Wind N.E., light. 



FIRST CLASS. 



Length. Elapsed. Corrected 



Sirius, M. N. Bray, B.Y.C 26 07 2 38 13 2 26 56 



Mattie, H. Stockton, B.Y.C 26.07 2 47 48 2 36 31 



Climax, K. C. Stetson, M attapoisett . 30.04 Did not start. 



SECOND CLASS. 



Wildcat, S. P. Hill, B Y.C 25.00 2 33 02 2 19 57 



Widgeon, Moses Williams, Jr., B.Y.C. .25.08 2 34 37 2 22 19 



Mast, Geo. M. Lyman, Jr., B.Y.C 25.06 2 36 08 2 83 38 



Thvra, Paul Bartholow, B.v.C 26.01 2 86 55 2 25 05 



Faust, E. S. Wrigbi, Fall River S5.05 2 37 11 2 24 35 



Gymnote, W. E. C. Eustis, B.Y.C 25.11 2 44 50 2 32 49 



THIRD CLASS. 



Daisy, Howard Stockton, B. V.C . . .21.00 2 25 51 2 12 24 



Eina", John Parkinson, B.Y C 22.00 2 27 39 2 15 16 



Petrel, Vice-Corn. Richards, B.', . ..'":;"i :va 23 ■< so 



Hera, Louis Bacon, B.Y.C 21.10 Did not start. 



FOURTH CLASS. 



Kitten, G.H.Richards et at. B.Y.C 18.01 2 45 47 2 28 46 



Dyonis, Eugene Johnson, Mon. Beach Not timed. 



Winners: First, class, Sirius; second class, Wildcat first, 

 WTdeeon second, Mist third; third class, Daisy; fourth class. Kit- 

 ten. Judge, W. Lloyd Jeffries. 



In the account I sent you of the Beverly Y. C. 150th race an 

 error of timing appears. Mosca's time was lm. slower than I 

 wrote; hence Kathleen taKes prize in third class sloops. 



Blttf. yvttft a Gold Castle. 



MARINE AND FIELD CLUB. — The firn annual yacht race of 

 tbe Marine and Field Club was sailed Saturday afternoon off the. 

 club house in Gravesetid Bav, There were twelve entries, con- 

 fined to second and third class si -ops and one class of catboats, 

 tbe first class of sloops not having been filled. Tbe course for 

 sloops was from the club house around the bell buoy at the junc- 

 tion of the swash and ship channel, keeping to the eastward of 

 buoys 11 and 13, then to and around buoy 15 and back to Btakcboa', 

 in all about thirteen miles. The catboats only went around 

 buoys 11 and 13, about nine miles. Tbe starting gun sounded at 

 2:06, and the boats went off with the wind«at sou'h southeast. It 

 was accordingly a beat out, then a run before the "Wind over the 

 second leg of Ihe triangular course and a reach over the third 

 leg. The Athlon was somewhat handicapped by having to sail 

 short-handed, while tbe winner in the class the Penguin, had a 

 decided advantage ove^ the others in being sailed by Capt. Joe 

 Ellsworth. Of all the boats entered the Penguin was the only one 

 sailed by a racing expert, the others being h ndled c tirelv by 

 their owner-: or amateur friends. In the cat boat class the Diodon 

 (a cabin cat with fixed ballast) had almost a walkover, there 

 being some confusion apparently in the minds of the skippers 

 of the other two boats as to 'he location of the stake- 

 boat and buov 11, both having louled at the stakeboat, but to 

 right themselves they both started over again, and laid their 

 course for Coney Island Point to escape tbe first of the flood, 

 while tbe winner trusted to and found 1 be ebb tide strong in the 

 channel. The race was a decide.! success, and t he prizes hand- 

 some, while the hospitality of the club was unbound 'd. It is to 

 be hoped that their next, or second, annual regatta will be still 

 more of a success, as iheir efforts are certainly in the right 

 direction: 



SECOND CLASS SLOOPS. 



Stan. Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 



Penguin 2 07 00 4 00 58 1 53 58 1 4!) 01 



Athlon 2 11 31 4 01 42 1 50 11 1 50 11 



Annie 2 07 07 4 17 08 2 10 01 8 06 51 



Amelia 2 07 54 4 30 41 2 22 47 2 15 21 



THIRD CLASS SLOOPS. 



Polly 2 11 10 4 19 31 2 08 21 2 08 21 



Guide 2 12 37 4 37 42 2 25 05 2 23 05 



Pastime 2 07 30 4 40 52 2 32 22 2 28 44 



Tourist 2 11 40 4 53 55 2 42 15 2 38 16 



CAT BOATS. 



Diodon 2 09 21 3 52 00 1 22 39 1 23 15 



Zilpha 2 07 45 3 41 00 1 35 15 1 33 15 



Manhattan 2 10 40 Did not finish. 



The judges were ex-<~nmmodore Rosenquest, D. E. Tu thill and 

 Charles A. l. eshon. J. B. White, E. C. Romans, F. B. Fiske and 

 W. 8. Elliott constituted the regatta committee.— H. C. Ward. 



WINDWARD Y. C— Jamaica Bay presented a lively scene on 

 the 25th Inst., when the last race of tbe fall serie a of the Wind- 

 ward Club was sailed. Two previous races had occurred on the 

 11th and 18th hist. The prizes were fine silver watches— two for 

 first and second in first class and two for the second class. In 

 the first class W. H. O'Donohue's C'ara D. won first, and R. and 

 A. McEvoy's Lizzie R. took second. In tbe second class H. T. 

 R ; gby's Sardine and L. A. McMillan's Martha were a lb , as each 

 had won one race. It was to decide thi« tie, and also to de- 

 termine the winner of the oonsolacion cup, that, the last race 

 was sailed. The cup isaneleg 'nt silver a 'id gold one. appro- 

 priately decorated, and was, by far, tee most desirable trophy. 

 The club course is from Ruffle Bar dock to the red can buoy at 

 RockavVny inlet, thence back, turning a stake boat at the Bla< k 

 Wall and" finishing at the dock— about twelve miles in all. The 

 Sardine and Martha were staried first and had a fairly tight race 

 of it all the wav; the Sardine finally winning by one minute and 

 forty seconds. About twentyminut.es after their start the gun 

 was fired, and all boats whicu failed to wiu in the previous races 

 w> re off for the consolation cup. There were nine of tnem, and 

 a pretty sight they made, heeled over to a south-east- rly wind, 

 with sanoh'gs and crews perched high up to windward. It was 

 a beam wind to the edge of Chaney Bar, and from that lo the 

 huoy sheets were Uftt d a trifle. It was nip and tuck between tbe 

 Lady Glenmore and tbe" Julita all the way down, and they turned 

 the 'buov almost together. As they hauled on the wind the 

 supremacy of Julita at windward work was very apparent as she 

 hoth out-pointed and out-footed the. Glenmore, and in less than 

 five minutes was a boat length ahead. This lead she steadily 

 increased, as it was a close haul back to the stake boat. Turning 

 the stake the Bertha B. followed tbe Julita, with the Glenmore 

 third. It seemed like a very close race on account ot the time 

 allowance given hy the Julita to both these boats, but. as she 

 started some seconds after them she won by thirty-two seconds. 

 All the boats are ca -rigged; the Julita being 21 feet 4 inches in 

 leugth and owned b Jos. Hatch, of Brookhn. Sue is a Wallin 

 boat, and in ber ability to point and work to wind ward shows 

 the. handiwork of her builder. The official time isg'ven below: 



Elapsed. Correeted. 



E^~No Notlne TaXen ot Anonymous Correspondent*. 



PRESIDENT ELIOT'S GIFT TO HIS PILOT.— President Eliot, 

 of Harvard, was one of the pioueer tourists to the :»:aine coast, 

 and spent many seasons cruising around Frenchman's Bay in his 

 yacht bt fere Bar Harbor obtained its world-wild celebrity One 

 year he bad a skipper from Watikeag Point, now known as Sor- 

 rento, to sail his yacht. In the fall the professor gave him as a 

 token of gratitude «or favors a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 

 which, as the man could neither read nor write, was as useful to 

 him as a side pocket would bo to a toad. The skipper receivi d it 

 with all due gratitude, and leftit for safe keeping with the village 

 doctor. Several Years passed by, when one day the skipper's wife 

 came to the doctor and said, " I guess I'll carry that ere book 

 home now, for Sammy's ben goin' to ecoool all winter, and he 

 knows enough to read the stories Jp. it n.qw!"-3f<?«nt mtm Herald , 



Sardine, H. T. Rigbv 1 13 50 1 13 50 



Martha, L. A. McMillan 1 17 39 1 15 80 



CONSOLATION RACE. 



Julita. Jos. Hatch 1 15 12 1 15 12 



Ladv Glenmor.-, Ft. and A. McF.voy 1 lo 34 1 15 44 



Bertna B., D. C. Bowker 1 Hi 36 1 16 16 



Aurora, A. Weisching 1 £0 05 1 18 10 



So So, D. Brinsley 1 19 1)8 J IK 18 



Siren, ijr. W. H. DeL ng 1.20 07 1 19 57 



Bert. .LO' Neil 1 27 47 1 22 17 



L anse, Jas. Spencer Not taken. 



Floreuce, Windward Club Not taken. 



MIRAMlCHI Y. C, AUG. 82.— The absence of Fisherman from 

 Thuisday's race deprived it of inteiest, as Kilbride was known to 

 be a sure ■winner in the moderate southwest wind that prevailed. 

 She started with a reef in her m»iusail but soon shook it out and 

 gained steadily to the turn. Kittocn mane a good tight and 

 gained half a minute on the run home. Bloody, with a iib con- 

 siderably too small for her. her own having been stolen by a sneak 

 thief, f Towed tne others pretty closely, considering the differ- 

 ence in size. Fedora was nowhere in the lignt wind, being dead 

 between the puffs, and was further iu the rear than usual. When 

 Kilbride was" leaving tbe wharf after the race was over, she c»me 

 in collision With her owner's steamer, Derby, and broke bcr main- 

 boom. Toe ni xt race for the Miller cup will be sailed Thursday, 

 Sept. 12, when it is expected Fisherman will be on hand to com- 

 pete for the cup. She has scored one for it, Kitfoch one, and Kii- 

 uride two. The starters aud timekeepers were Messrs. John 

 Sadler and L. J. Tweedie. Th.' following is the record: 



Klapsed. Corrected 



Kilbride ■ 2 11 20 2 11 20 



Kittoeh 2 17 40 2 16 48 



Blonoy • 226 10 2 2i 21 



Fedora 2 a9 15 2 3a 42 



Saomoue Did n t finish. 



The distance was ten miles and tbe wind light and puffy. The 

 race was started from Chatham wuile the tide was still ebbing, 

 and it was flood tide at tne finish, the boats having some t.de 

 against them most of t he time. Tne time of the leader was there- 

 fore remarkably fast, ten miles to windward and back in 2h. 

 11m. 20s. 



A DISASTROUS ORCISE.-Saiilt Ste. Marie. Mich., Aug. 2.'.- 

 The pleasure cruise of the yacht Celt came to a sudden end 15 

 miles sou + .h of Siskowit Hainor. Isle Royal, and the pleasure- 

 seekers arrived here last night on the steam barge Samuel 

 Mather. The yacht sprang a leak, and %ank 15 inmutes after- 

 ward, giving those on' board scarcely time to take to their yawl 

 boat. Then began a long pull over Lake Superior for the Sattlt 

 passage, as the vicinity where the ship >vreek occurred is not fre- 

 uuented by vessels. After being on the lake several days they 

 were picked up off Ouier Island by the Mather. Tue occupants 

 of the yacht were P. M. Benser and wife, and N. G. Hodman. 

 They were bound for Ashland on a trip down the lakes. 



LARCHMONT.— The fall regatta of the Larchmonfc Y. C. will 

 be sailed on Saturday, Sept. 7. Members of the New Yoi-k, 

 Seawanhaka Corinthian, Atlautic, "New York Corinthian, Ameri- 

 can, Ojster Bay Coiinthian, New Haven. Ne w Rocbelle, Corin- 

 thian of Marblehead, Mass.. and New Bedford yacht clubs are 

 invited to enter their yachts. For lull paiticulars and entry 

 blanks address E. J. Greacen, Potter Building, Park Row; Otto 

 Sarony, Laichmont, or hesterC Monroe, <7 William street. The 

 club wiil give a special race for 40-footers Sept. 28. 



PHILADELPHIA, Aug 28.— A race between the tuckups Harry 

 Seigel and tbe Andrew Rivel, tut a pur?e of $100. took place Aug. 

 2fi on tne Delaware. T^e course was irom RiVerview to the buoy 

 off Bil ingpoi t and return. The stare was made at 11:22, lower 

 buoy 12:45, finish 1:57. The Rivel capsized off the Point House. 

 This ruled her out. Tne crew righted uer, bailed her out, and 

 finished three minutes ahead of Seigel— L. B. 



J. O. C. — For game seasons see our last issue. 



J. G. S.— Maynard Arms Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass. 



F E. N.— You were right if you did not mean to play it. 



X. Y. Z., who wrote for information about telescope sights, 

 will please send his address. 



W. J. M., Belmont, Mass.— The addresses of bench show secre- 

 taries are given in our kennel fixtures. 



S. V. W., Hackensack, N. J.— We gave all the game seasons for 

 New Jersey in last issue. For complete text of law apply to 

 Chas. A Shrincr, Sec'y Passaic County Fish and Game Protective 

 Association, Paterson, N. J. 



A. C. H., Hoboken, N. J.— Will ynu inform me through your 

 paper whether or no the American rifle team were ever beatetif If 

 so, when, where, an 1 by whom? Ans. Yes; the m'lbary team of 

 the N. R. A. was defeated at Wimbledon and at Creedmoor. 



E. W. Campbell, West Pittstoti,— 1. To organize a gun club go 

 first among your triends. and follow lin-s laid down in club con- 

 stiLUtion we send you. 2. There are no diseriuiinat'ons in privi- 

 leges of snooting game, with respect to citizens and foreigners, in 

 this country. 



H., Southwest, Pa.— Is it legal to use live pigeons for trap-shoot- 

 ing io Pennsylvania ? Can ou give me any plan for capturing 

 English sparrows alive tor trap-shooting? Ans. 1. No. 2. Send 

 to Dr. C. Han M-rriam, Ornithologist, U. S. Depai tment of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C, for the English Sparrow Bulletin". 



C. B. S.— What is the composition of the artificial targets used 

 in trap-shooting, and how ai e they made? Is either flu composi- 

 tion or process by which they are inanufact'irea patented? If 

 so, can you give me dates of patents? Ans. They are made of 

 clay, plaster, pitcu and other su'.xtauces. Targets and craps are 

 patented; we have not tbe numbers of pateuts, but the manu- 

 facturers would send them to you. 



G. F. S., Haverhill, Ma6s.— The Boston Journal reports: "The 

 largest brook, trout ever caught on this continent was lamied 

 recently at Spring Creek. N. \. The fish weighs six pounds aud 

 two ounces, and its proportions are perfeet. This is one of the 

 species of brown trout, the spawn of which was imported from 

 (Germany aud received at the Mew York State Hatch* ry on Feb. 

 18, 1884, so that its age cannot be m ire than between five and six 

 years. The large-t ever caught previously weighed a trifl-i over 

 five pounds." I made statement that a much larger specimen of 

 genuine brook trou'. was preserved in Smithsonian Iustitute, and 

 was laughed at. Was 1 wrong? Aas. The Spring Creek flan Was 

 a orowu trout. Tue record on specxled broo < trout runs up to 

 lHbs. You were nghi iu your statement respeetiag weight. 



Californian, Lcb Angers, Cal.-Oau you tell me what a jew 

 fish is? They freq rent the waters about the islands off the coast 

 of southern California, also 1 believe the waters of Florida. 1 

 wi nessed the catching ot several inthela^t week off Cataiina 

 Islano, Los A ugeles county, Cab I he largest weighed 3001b-;. If 

 was caugnt with live bait, rock bass. The fish is v- ry gam-- and 

 the largest one took the boat for quite a little tow bef .re it got 

 exhausted enough for tne fishers tu pass a rope t hrough it- gills 

 and tow it to shore. The fish is shaped veiy much like a perch 

 of immense size. There are lots of tuem round the island and 

 they afford good spore. Ans. The jew fish of the Calitornia 

 coast is catalogued as tue Steredlepis gigaa; it is sometimes cailcd 

 tbe black sea bass, is the largest food ush on ti e coast, someiimes 

 reaching 5001 bs., and ranges from the Farralones to below San 

 Diego, The jew fish of the Florida coast, also nam«d "'Warsaw" 

 and "black grouper," is known to science as he Promicrops guami 

 we have seen a specimen in Florida weighing 3301bs.. and it re cues 

 a weight in Cuba, of 60010s. It is perhaps the adult of tue black 

 grouper or some closely allied specimen. The name je.w r fish is in 

 Florida also applied to tue black grouper l&pfnetpJvus niQrttus). 

 Tne tarpum is sometimes called jew fish. 



F. E. A., Waterbury, Vt.— We have a good-sized river here, 

 which was well stocked with oass ah >ut five vears ago, and we ate 

 taking a good many now, nut never hear of auy very large ones 

 being taken or at least very rarely. Tnev grow larger, as s- veral 

 large ones have been seen at one time or another. The general 

 belief among our local anglers is that tbey run down the liver 

 and over the falls in tbe, spring. The fall.- are tour miles oelow 

 here, and are impassable to any fish coming up ureain, and 1 be- 

 lieve no bass would go down. The river rushes througu a narrow 

 gor^e, over huge r icks. etc., and in one or two places has a per- 

 nendicitlar fall of. say, 10 to l5t't. The whole volume of cue river 

 runs I ttrougb a narrow split m the solid rock, and for quite a dis- 

 tance above and below tne perpendicular fall the water runs at a 

 steep angle. The water is churned into loam all ihe. way through, 

 aud it oeejis impossible that anv fisn coald go Lhrough alive. 

 The river falls quite a distance iu a few rods— certainly no flsb 

 could live there, or go up stream— but, some thiuklhe oass run 

 down during high water. They have a free rim of ab mt 10 miles 

 of river— a dam above here keeping them below lr. D,i yon think 

 it at all probahle that large hass would shoot fall's su b as I have- 

 described? Ans. Bass could descend these falls safely, but it is 

 extremely doubtful whether they could ascend them. 



hw Mnh\xmtion$. 



BOURGOYNE'S Invasion OF 1777, with an outline sketch of the 

 American invasion ot Cauada, 17<5-76. By Samuel Adams Druke. 

 Boston. Lee & Sbepard. 50 cent.-,. Tins is one of tue eerie.-, of 

 "Decisive Events in American History" and rue turning point iii 

 the great drama of American Independence. No novel issued 

 from the press during the current year can rival if in intensity 

 of romant ic interest . 



An Alien from thk Commonwealth, The Romance of an Odd 

 Young Man. B> Robert Tiinsol. Boston. Cupples A> riurd. $1,50 

 Tnis is a fancv biographical sketch of a young • Virginian of 

 broken fortunes during his college and early professional and 

 literary career in Nort hern and Western States. Tbe apparent 

 ohje- t "of the author is to show that while fastidious sentiments 

 of honor are all very well to t h a possess or of a million, they are 

 fatally m the way of a young man engaged in the battle of life. 

 Tne author has, nevertheless, a high tip reciation of such im- 

 practicable sentiments out of business hours, and after showing 

 that Ins hero is unfitted for the duties of active life in a narrow 

 sphere ne endows him with an inheritance of a million by way of 

 giving him a suitable environment. 



Beecham's Pxi/LS cure bilious and nervous ills.—v(dt). 



In "Sain Lovel's Camps" Mr. Robinson has written a 

 series of very interesting, clever aud even valuable sketches 

 which take the reader back to tbe great period before the 

 beginning of the railroad era, and iuto a village life which 

 can no longer be studied, because it has ceased to exist in 

 the region here exploited. Nor are there any of the queer, 

 people introduced whom we should not be sorry to have, 

 missed knowing, for there is a freshness, a quaintness en- 

 countered in even the brightest of what are called dialect' 

 stories. In the last chapter of "Sam level's Camps" there, 

 is an indication ot a half formed purpose to bring old Uncle. 

 Lisba back from the uncongenial West, and we hope Mr. 

 Robinson will carry out the idea, aud thus obtain the justi-j 

 fication for a third instalment of his remarkably bright andt 

 interesting papers.— New Yorli Trihvve. 



The Leading Journal.— Mr, .Tas L, Davison, the welli] 

 known naturalist of this city, has furaisned FOREST] 

 and Stream with a complete list of the birds seen here, the 

 time ot their arrival, departure, and other interesting factaj 

 about them, as the result of his observations, and it wilf'l 

 shortly be published in that popular journal. While wej 

 are about it, we may as well report as the. result of oui-i 

 obset various, that of all the .journals of field sports, fishing, 

 m-.ur il history, etc.. that come to Locbport, Forest andI 

 STREAM is the most popular and wieleiy react.— Luckpurt, 

 (N. Y.) Uxprcxs. 



Boy (to his friend who has fallen down the hole)— Say, 

 Tommy, if you should never come out of dere erfive, can 1 

 have your bull purp?— Life. 



