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Rational 'astimqs . 
Carrier Pigeons. — Pigeon flying matches 
so popular in some countries abroad, are receiv 
ing some attention from a few fanciers in this 
country, particularly in New York and Penn 
sylvania. In the immediate vicinity of New 
York, Mr. J. Von Opstal, of No. 408 Madison 
street, and Mr. J. Waefelaer, of Garden street 
Hoboken, have given most attention to the 
sport: 
At a quarter to eight last Sunday morning 
two of Mr. Von Opstal's pigeons and three of 
Mr. Waefelaer’s were started from Steuben- 
ville, Ohio. One of the former's birds arrived 
at No. 4 Lewis street, this city, at six o’clock 
Sunday evening, and one of the latter’s ar- 
rived at Hoboken about the same time, making 
the distance— 352 miles— in lOh. 15m. The 
other birds arrived about eight o’clock yester- 
day morning. About the 24th of this month 
a great flight will take place from Columbus, 
Ohio, which is distant on a straight line 
about five hundred miles. Prizes of $100, 
$50 and $25 in gold are to be given, and the 
distance must be made within three days to 
secure a prize. 
Jack Gouldino’s Benefit.— The testi- 
monial benefit to Jack Goulding, the efficient 
trainer and track master of the New York 
Athletic Club took place at the Manhattan 
Grounds last Monday: 
Seventy-five Yards Run— Won by W. C France 
in 8^s.; R. Thompson second. 
Quarter-mile Hurdle— Won by W. J. Duffy in 
lm. 40s. 
One Hundred Yards Dash— W. O. Francis, 
on by D. Dampy in 5m. 
handicapped 25 yds., won in 10>£e. 
One-Mile Run— W 
46*s. 
One-Mile Handicap — Won by F. J. Mott in 7m. 
32s. 
One-Mile Walk for those who had never won a 
prize— Won by J. O. Williamson, Glen wood A. O., 
in 8m. 
One-Half Mile Handicap— Won by F. Banham 
in 2m. 2s. 
Foot Ball.— T he Minturn Foot Ball Club 
of Jersey City, defeated the Alert Foot Ball 
Club, of New York, last Saturday. 
Crioket. — The Onondagas, of Syracuse 
N. Y., last Thurday defeated the Bellville 
Can., club by a score of 44 to 32 on first 
innings, the second being unfinished. What 
other result could have been looked for on the 
Fourth? _ 
St. Georges vs. Paterson United Eleven. 
— The St. Georges Cricket Club, of this city, 
Saturday, defeated the Paterson United 
Eleven at Halcdon, N. J. 
of 
Short Hills Athletic Club.— The con- 
tests in the games of this club, at Milburn, 
N. J., last Saturday, were for handsome 
medals. The programme was as follows: 
One Hundred Yards, handicap— Thirteen con- 
stants; won by H. Inman, handicapped 6 yarde; 
Time, 10 3-5s. 
Half-Mile handicap — Six contestants ; won by 
O. De Kong6, handicapped 45 yards ; time, 2m. 
6s. 
One-Mile Walk— Six competed ; won by W. E. 
Barnes, handicapped 35s.; time, 7m. 43 3-6a. 
One Hundred Yards, special — Three competi- 
tors ; won by W. C. Wilmer in 10s. 
Two Hundred and Twenty Yards — Four start- 
ers ; won by A. Nael, handicapped 4 yards. 
Four Hundred and Forty Yards Run — Four en- 
tries ; won by E. C. La Montague in 532-6a. 
Tug of war between Manhattan A. C. and New 
York A C. teams resulted in favor of the latter. 
Valentia Boat Club Games. --I n the ath- 
letic sports last Saturday, on the St. George’s 
Cricket Grounds, Hoboken, the results were : 
The 100-yards dash, two entries, won by W. F. 
Snydam in 12J£s. In the standing high" jump, 
three entries, 'A. Scbulta cleared 3ft. Sin., and 
was also the winner in the running high jump, 
clearing 4ft. 2in. Snydam won the 440-yards run, 
two entries, in 62s. Shnlts was the winner in 
the running broad jump ; distance, 14ft Tin. F. 
Frummel was victorious in the one-mile walk, 
two entries ; time, 9m. 10s. The 100-yard hurdle 
race, two entries, was won by Suydam in 16>£8. 
A tug of war between teams frum the American 
Atbletio Club and the Valentia Boat Clnb was 
won by the Valenlias in 3m. 
Ten Bboeck vs. Mollie M'Carthy. — The 
long-talked-of race, which has excited so 
much interest from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
came off on the magnificent track of the 
Louisville Jockey Club, at Louisville, Ky., 
July 4. The result was disappointing, the 
California mare being distanced by the Ken- 
tuckian champion, who won the four-mile 
race in 8m. I9}s. 
Harlem Athletics. — The list of over one 
hundred entries for the Harlem Athletic Club 
Games, which are to be held on the Manhat- 
tan Grounds next Saturday, promises a fine 
display of muscle upon that occasion. 
Submarine Pedestrianism. — Captain John 
T. Quire, of Cincinnati, O., proposes to walk 
from that city to Cairo, a distance of 25 
miles, on the bottom of the Ohio river, in 25 
days. He is to be accompanied with a float 
filled up with an air pump and other neces- 
sary apparatus, and the Captain claims the 
privilege of coming up to the surface when- 
ever he shall deem it expedient. 
— In describing the very fine archery goods 
for sale by Messrs. Holberton & Co., of Ful- 
ton st., an error was made as to the number 
of this house. It is No. 117 Fulton st. The 
bows are very excellent. Dr. Carver tried 
some of them, breaking a great deal of valu- 
able property about Forest and Stream 
office with the an-ows, and ending by plant- 
ing one shaft almost up to the leathers in the 
ceiliDg. Fortunately Mr. Beard, the well- 
known caricaturist, who dweilB in the story 
aboye us, was not impaled. 
Zoological Bills of Fare. — The Philadel- 
phia Zoological Garden caterers have a com- 
pany of guests whose tastes are somewhat 
peculiar as well as expensive. There Is the 
rhinocerous, for instance, who always takes 
the medal when the boarders eat for a wager. 
His rations of hay are two hundred and filly 
pounds per day, and then he calls for a half 
bushel of potatoes for dessert. Within the 
last four years about ten tons of peanuts have 
disappeared down his cavernous and capacious 
maw. The boarding house keeper who took 
liim to board at $11 per week would just about 
clear expenses. He eats ten times more — pe- 
cuniarily — than the leopard and the jaguar. 
The seals betray the least regard for market, 
bills. Their daily allowance is eighty pounds 
fresll fish. The Chimpanzee brothers 
‘Jack and Gill Livingstone” are perhaps 
the most interesting, as they are the most 
human in their way of eating. The Philadel- 
phia Times thus describes their meals : 
Their bill of fare is as follows : Breakfast, 
weak tea, with abundance of sugar and plenty 
of milk, and bread thickly spread with honey. 
The honey, these strange people, whom the 
head keeper persists in regarding as only a 
little less than man and much more than 
beast, carefully remove, and when there is no 
more honey they dispatch the bread. At 
10:30 in the forenoon they lunch. This re- 
fection consists of fruit exclusively, chiefly 
bananas and oranges. About 3 o’clock they 
want theirdinner, which consists of rice, ta- 
pioca or some such farinaceous food, served 
with sugar and sherry wine. For supper 
they have the same bill of fare as for dinner, 
with the addition of tea, prepared as for 
breakfast. Their method of feeding indi- 
cates not only the possession of a wonderful 
degree of adaptability to civilized customs, 
but of a desire to make progress in the way 
of table observances. They feed themselves 
with a spoon, and drink their tea from a cup 
with a dpgree of decorum that it would be a 
pleasure to witness in many children. Their 
board approximates in cost to twenty cents 
each per diem. 
Where the Jack Rabbit is a Burden. — 
Take a grasshopper, magnify him, give him a 
stump tail and a coat of fur, and you have a 
jackass rabbit. If the farmer of the far West 
beholds with dismay the incursion of the 
hopping insects, the farmer of the farther 
West has equal detestation of the jumping 
hare. The Idahoans are devising all sorts of 
ingenious tricks for their capture. One man 
has a brush fence, three miles loDg, with traps 
so arranged that when a rabbit jumps over he 
goes down into a pit, whence there is no 
escape save at the hands of one of the seven 
men who do nothing but pull out the captives. 
The average catch per day is four hundred ; 
the ears are cut off, and the carcases then 
devoured, skin and all, by some three hun- 
dred hogs, who are rapidly fattening for the 
market. The revenue derived from four hun- 
dred pairs of ears per day, at a bounty of 
two cents each, will help pay expenses. 
The Bratton Motob.— This engine is a- 
dapted for use in small yachts. It is a hy- 
dro-carbon engine, and is started upon the 
application of a match.- The fuel used is 
crude petroleum, burned with atmospheric air 
under high pressure, power beiDg produced 
by a series of rapid explosions resulting. It 
has been generally approved, and awarded a 
premium at the Centennial. A 5 H. P. engine 
has a cylinder 8in. diameter, weighs l,6001bs. 
and costs about $500. An 8 H. P. engine has 
a cylinder 9in. diameter, weighs 2,5001bs., 
and costs about $600. These engines are 
manufactured in Providence by the Brayton 
Motor Co., and builders of small launches 
and yachts can get further details from them, 
so that they may compare weight, space and 
cost as well as running expenses, with the 
ordinary type of 6team engine. Having had 
no experience with the Brayton Motor our- 
selves, we cannot vouch for them, but their- 
performances will probably soon be placed be- 
fore the public. 
Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, 
Jewellers, and Importers, have 
always a large stock of silver 
articles for prizes for shooting, 
yachting, racing and other 
sports, and on request they pre- 
pare special designs for similar 
purposes. Their TIMING 
WATCHES are guaranteed 
for accuracy, and are now very 
generally used for sporting and 
scientific requirements. TIF- 
FANY & CO. are also the agents 
in America for Messrs. PATEK, 
PHILIPPE & CO., of Geneva, of 
whose celebrated watches they 
have a full line. Their stock of 
Diamonds and other Precious 
Stones, General Jewelry, Artis- 
tic Bronzes and Pottery, Electro- 
plate and Sterling Silverware 
for Household use, fine Station- 
ery and Bric-a-brac, is the 
largest in the world, and the 
public are invited to visit their 
establishment * without feeling 
the slightest obligation to pur- 
chase. 
UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK 
DR. CARVER. 
BALLS 
5,500 GLASS 
TO BE BROKEN 
IN 500 MINUTES WITH A 
RIFLE- 
Tlils most wonderful feat will be accomplished bv 
Dr. carver at the 1 
BROOKLYN DRIVING PARK ON 8ATUB. 
DAY. JULY 13. 
The Dootor will commence shooting at 11 o’clook 
a. m. ’ 
The Brooklyn Driving Park oan be reached by the 
Fulton and Atluntlo streetcars In Brooklyn, or by 
the Prospect Park and Coney Island and Manhattan 
Beach Railroads. 
The Great European Novelty 
HCNYADI JANOS. 
The Best Natural Aperient. 
THE LANCET.— 
“Hnnyadt Janos.— 
Baron Liebig affirms 
that its richness In 
aperient salts sur- 
passes that of all other 
known waters.” 
THE BRITISH 
MEDICAL JOUR- 
NAL.— " Hunyadl Ja- 
nos.— The most agree- 
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efficacious aperient 
water." 
PROFESSOR VIROHOW, Berlin. “ Invariably good 
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PROFESSOR BAMBERGER, Vienna. 11 1 have pre- 
scribed these Waters with remarkable success.’’ 
PROFESSOR SCANZONI, Wurzburg. •• 1 prescribe 
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PROFESSOR LAUDER BRUNTON, M. D., F. R. 8., 
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