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FOREST AND" STREAM. 
A Bbaxd-New SroBTiNG Story.— T he fol- 
lowing is found in Lysippatus, a very little 
known Greek writer of the second century : 
A huntsman with spear and bow intent on 
sport, met a countryman, who was gazing 
in a listless way on a herd of pigs. , 
•• What wil'st thou make me nf 
man, if I launch a shaft aniul that herd of 
swine ?" asked the hunter. 
“ Four pieces of copper for all thou cans t 
kill,” said the lout. ...... .... 
“Then by Apollo!” cried the hunter, it 
is a bargain. Nerve my arm. oh Hercules ! 
and speed my arrow, oh Diana!" Thereupon, 
drawing bis bow string to his ear, he let fly a 
shaft and transpierced with one arrow' three 
P ' “ 3 Here is thy money, old man,” said the 
hunter ; “but never didst thou think 1 should 
have had so cheap a bargain as three swine for 
four pieces of copper." 
"True,” said the countryman, “but the 
swine were not mine.” 
We think we have heard this little joke 
before. 
Another Version of the Same Joke.— 
While the above was in the hands of the 
compositor the following train of incidents 
actually took place in this city. Besides 
being a noteworthy coincidence and a com- 
mentary upon the prescient management of 
this Journal, this modern epic of the goose is 
an admirable illustration of Scblegel'a pro- 
found remark that “ History repeats itself,” 
and Solomon's reflection that “ That which 
lias been shall be." Now for the goose : 
On Thursday afternoon Gustave Schmidt, 
who is noted for the interest he takes in rifle 
shooting, entered the saloon of John Lutz, 
and drew from bis pocket a fine revolver 
which he had recently purchased, and which 
he exhibited with pride to Lutz and to those 
of his friends who were in the saloon at the 
time. Schmidt spoke boastingly of his own 
powers as a marksman, aod offered to make a 
bet of §10 that he could hit a mark at the 
other end of the room. 
" Do you see that goose, " said Lutz, con- 
temptuously, pointing to a fowl that could 
be seen through the open doorwaddling about 
the back yard ; “ you give mea dollar and I'll 
let you fire three shot9 at her, and if you hit 
her once you can have her ." 
Schmidt accepted the offer, and fired from 
where he was shmdiDg, bringing down the 
goose. A roar of laughter greeted his achive- 
ment. He walked proudly into the yard and 
took the goose, supposing that the merriment 
was at Lutz’s expense. As he re entered the 
saloon with the fowl in his hand, the side-door 
of the saloon was thrown violently open and 
an angry man ran into the saloon. This was 
Henry Steinberg, the owner of the goose. 
Hi 9 first act was to knock Schmidt down, and 
his second was to explain his reasons for 
doing so. When Schmidt understood how 
he had been taken in, he knocked Lutz down 
and demanded the return of his money, Stein- 
berg in the meantime busying himself in ask- 
ing both of them to pay for the goose. The 
noise attracted the attention of Officer Wheel- 
er, who entered the saloon. After some dis- 
cussion he arrested Lutz on the complaint 
of Schmidt, who charged him with obtaining 
$1 by false pretenses; Schmidt, on the com- 
plaint of Lutz, on a chargeof assault aDd bat- 
tery, and Steinberg on a similar charge, also 
made by Schmidt. 
When the prisoners were teken to tlio sta- 
tion-house, and the sergeant heard with won- 
dering eyes the various complaints, he turned 
to Wheeler and asked if that were all. 
‘Why, no," was the answer; “Lutz was 
selling liquor without a license, Schmidt 
hasn't a permit to carry that pistol, and then 
that other man, Steinberg, hasn't got any per- 
mit from the Board of Health to keep bis 
goose." 
When the three prisoners were taken be- 
fore Justice Flammer, in the Essex Market 
Police Court, recently, a long investigation 
wa 9 held, and the court room was crowded 
by the friends of the three prisoners. Lutz 
said it was all a joke, and gave back the dol- 
lar, withdrawing his charge against Schmidt. 
The latter, touched by this spirit of concilia- 
tion, withdrew his charges againt Lutz and 
Steinberg, and the owner of the g009e forgave 
the marksman, when the latter and the saloon 
keeper each promised to pay half the value of 
the goose. Their misunderstandings being 
over, they expected to be allowed to go. But 
just then officer Wheeler and his charges 
loomed up like grim fate. Justice Flammer 
required Lutz to give §100 bail on a charge 
of violating the Excise law, held Steinberg in 
the same amount for keeping geese without 
a permit and fined Schmidt $5 for carrying 
a pistol without a permit. 
days. They get painter's colic and keel over. 
There isn't much use for cats, however, for 
the rats and mice don't find it comfortable 
here either, for we never see any.” 
Happy proprietors of lead works, we thought, 
who never hear any caterwauling ! The reme- 
dy, evidently, for the householder plagued 
with cats in his back yard i9 of the simplest 
character. Let him convert his mansion 
into a pipe, shot and sheet lead factory. 
• 
Snakes and Houses’ Eyes.— Whole vol- 
umes have been written upon the well- 
known phenomenon of horse-hairs which, 
immersed in water, turn into snakes. But 
here is anew field of study: What would 
be the effect upon the equine race if all had 
SDakes in their eyes ? A Penn Yan, N. Y., 
horse has a snake in his left eye. When 
the snake squirms the horse winks his eye. 
The winking iB so frequent as to induce 
sleepiness. We might, then, reason that an 
ophidian-eyed variety of horses would be 
sleepy, sluggish and lazy. But Philadelphia 
street-car horses have snakes in their eyes, 
and lions and tigers, too. This menagerie In 
the eye of a Philadelphia horse, however, it 
has been observed, instead of making him 
Blow and sleepy, induces in him frhkiness, 
spirit and mettle. The way of it is this: 
When a horse falters and dies in Philadelphia, 
he is straightway carted away to be devoured 
by snakes, lions and tigers in the Zoological 
Garden. Such a fate is ever before him, 
staring him in the face. By these snakes in 
his eye the horse is impelled to suffer the 
woes of an outrageous fortune a year or two 
longer than would otherwise be possible, and 
the result of this is a breed of Philadelphia 
horses which will probably before loDg be- 
come famous in the great horse marts of the 
world. 
Sealing Steamebs. — Why do not some of 
the Arctic exploring parties equip an iron ram 
and fight their way through to the pole, “ if 
it takes all summer?” The Newfoundland 
sealing vessels are in their way something like 
what is wanted for a North Pole campaign 
According to the Toronto Globe they are armed 
with iron pro W8, with which they attack ice 
fields with the grit and pertinacity of bull 
dogs : • 
“The iron prow acts like a huge wedge 
driven by steam. Saw9 are used in making 
a way through thick ice, especially when an 
approaching iceberg threatens a catastrophe. 
Tlielong, sloping stems of these vessels are 
built of solid oak and covered with inch 
thick iron plates, forming a ram of great 
weight aud strength. The rest of the hull i9 
sheathed four inches thick with a New Zea- 
land wood almost as hard as metal. ” 
Fish Damaging Submarine Telegraphs. 
—The German Fishery Gazette is authority 
for the following : 
The submarine telegraph cable laid down 
between Portugal and Brazil, aDd along the 
eastern coast o'f the South American Conti- 
nent, has been repeatedly subjected to the 
attacks of the saw-fish. Splinters of hone 
belonging to this fish have been found within 
the gutta percha and outer coverings of the 
cable, embedded so deeply as to damage the 
electric wire. Five such accidents have been 
reported, from which it seems probable that 
the saw fish, running with his full strength 
against the cable, and being of a hot temper, 
getting angry, had attacked the cable with his 
saw. A yet more strange story is reported 
from Persia, where a short time since the 
submarine cable laid down in the Persian 
Gulf, suddenly ceased its functions. Upon 
examination it was found that a large whale 
had got entangled in the cable and broken it. 
The monster was covered all over with paia- 
siles, and it seems not unlikely that the whale 
in his attempts to rid himself of them, rubbed 
his body against the cable, and using his 
6trong tail to sweep them off, had accidentally 
broken the cable, which immediately had 
coiled itself spiral like, round the body of the 
whale. The monster in trying to escape got 
yet more and more entangled and finished 
his efforts by beiDg suffocated, his body pre- 
senting a terribly lacerated appearance. 
No Cats, no Rats, no Mice.— V isiting 
the large lead establishment of Messrs. 
Tatham, we overheard the foreman commiser- 
ating & cat. 
“She won’t be here long,” he said; “only 
came here yesterday.” 
“Why?” we asked. 
“Because cats are gonners here." 
“How ?" 
»» Lead poison. They don’t stand It five 
Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, 
Jewellers, and Importers, have 
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articles for prizes for shooting, 
yachting, racing, and other 
sports, and on request they pre- 
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