THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
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Price-Iiist of Pet Animals, etc. 
All young persons, at some time or other de- 
velop a fondness for living pets of some kind. 
Boys frequently evince a strong liking for ponies, 
dogs, rabbits, squirrels and similar animals, 
while the girls delight in caring for little dogs 
of fine breeds, cats, birds and aquarium fish of 
all kinds. This trait in young people is a laud- 
able one and worthy of encouragement, as it 
cultivates a feeling of kindliness and good will 
towards animals in the minds of young people, 
that might otherwise remain undeveloped. In 
order to inform our youthful readers of the prices 
paid for pet animals we have arranged a price 
list by which the retail cost of any animal maybe 
seen at once. These prices, it must be under- 
stood, arc the selling ones for the city of New 
York and neighborhood, but we do not think they 
will vary much from prices given iu other large 
oities. 
Of course, our readers are aware that there 
exists a large difference between the retail and 
wholesale prices— sometimes amounting to one- 
half or more; this difference is but just, as the 
dealers sometimes have to keep and care for the 
animals a long time before getting any returns, 
and frequently deaths take place, hxsses against 
which the dealer must insure himself by making 
the difference between the wholesale and retail 
price sufficiently large. 
This price list or amateur "M'^rket Report" 
will be continued from montli to month and 
will be enlarged and corrected from time to time 
in accordance with the changes in actujil prices. 
We will also try to give early mention of n-ny 
novelties that may be worth noting. 
IMPORTED CAGE BIRDS. 
Canaries, Ri'lginn, per pair $3.oo to 15.00 
" Frefich, each 8.00 to 15.00 
" G('7-mnn, Hartz Mts., each 2 50 
Gold Finches, each $i-5o 
Gold Fin h (mules), each , 2. 50 to 5.00 
Bull Finches, each 1.50 to 2.00 
Bull Finch'-s (tuned), each 5.00 to 30.00 
African Finches, per pair 2. 50 to 5.00 
Chaf Finches, each 1.50 
Linnets, each 1.50 to 2.00 
Linnets (mules), each 1.50 to 2.00 
Green Linnets, each 1.50 
Java Sparrow (blue), each 1.50 
Java Sparrows (white), each 3.00 to 4.00 
English Sparrows, per pair j.oo 
Siskins, each i.oo 
Gray Cardinal, each 5.00 
Nightingales, each 8.00 to 25.00 
Thrushes, each 5.00 
Skylarks, each 5.00 
Troopials, each 5.00 to 15.00 
European blackbirds, each 500 
Black-caps, each 4.00 
Starlings, e. ch 2.50 to 50.00 
Ring Doves, each 
AMERICAN CAGE BIRDS. 
Canaries, each 
Mocking Birds, each $1 00 to 10.00 
Robins 2.50 to 50.00 
Blue Birds ("Blue Robins ") each $1.50 to 2.00 
Indigo Birds, each 1.00 
Nonparlel. each 1.50 to 2.00 
Virguiia Cardinal, each 2.50 
Bobolinks, each i.oo 
Yellow Birds, each 1.00 
QUADRUPEDS. 
Terriers, black and tan, each $5. 00 to 30 00 
Terriers, Scotch and SAyc, each 5.00 to 30.00 
Newfoimdland Pups, each 10.00 to 15.00 
Pomeranian or Spiiz " 5.00 to 15.00 
Greyhoxxwdi^, Ejiglish, " 10.00 to 25.00 
Greyhounds, " 10.00 to 30.00 
Guinea-Pigs, toin77wn, per pair 1.50 
Guinea-Pigs, all white, " 2.00 
Guinea-Pigs, African, " 3.00 
Squ'irr els, g'ray and Hack " 3.00 to 10.00 
Squirrels, all white " 15.00 to 25.00 
Squirrels,_/7y/«^ " 3 00 to 4.00 
Squirrels, small red " 2.00 
'R:ihhit9; CO nnnon per pair i.oo to 2.50 
Kahhhs, y,.fic_y dreed, according to age and 
purity of breed, per pan-. 3,00 to 15.00 
Ferrets, E->iglish, " i5-0o 
Raccoons, each 4.00 to 5.00 
Cats, Maltese (males), each 5.00 
Cdiis,, Albinos, p/nk or Hue eyes, e:\ch 3.00 to 5.00 
Rats, white China, pink eyes, per pair 1.50 
'Ra\s, piebald, yer pair 1.50 
yWce, white, pink eyes, T[>^T pair 0.50 
Mice, piebald, \->ev \>3i\r 0.50 
Nature has her language and she is not un- 
veracious, Imt wo don't know all the intricacies 
of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we 
may happen to extract the very opposite of her 
real meaning. 
■Wood-carving- is an industry which is carried 
to considerable perfection among the Germans, 
and is fostered by the establishment of carving 
schools, particularly in districts where the wood 
used for the work— Spanish walnut, the best 
walnut the Germans have— is plentiful. There 
are now 80 such schools in Germany. 
Speed of Cannon Balls. —The highest velocity 
that has been imparted to shot is 1,626 feet per 
second. This is equal to a mile in 3.2 seconds. 
The velocity of the earth at the equator, due to 
rotation on its axis, is 1,000 miles per hour, or a 
mile in 3.6 seconds. Therefore if a cannon ball 
were fired due west, and cotild maintain its initial 
velocity, it would beat the sun in its apparent 
journey round the earth. 
How Small Birds Migrate in Europe.— Ac- 
cording to a writer in Nature, the small migratory 
birds that are unable to perform the flight of 3.50 
miles across the Mediterranean Sea are carried 
across on the backs of cranes. In the autumn 
many flocks of cranes may be seen coming from 
the north, with the first cold blast from that 
quarter, lying low and uttering a peculiar cry, as 
if of alarm, as they circle over the cultivated 
plains. Little birds of every species may be seen 
flying up to them, while the twittering songs of 
those already comfortably settled upon their 
backs may be distinctly heard. But for this kind 
provision of nature, numerous varieties of small 
birds would become extinct in northern coun- 
tries, as the cold winters w^ould kill them. 
