1875 
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L1SBABY TABLE. 
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Hauper’s fob Jo'E contains “The Channel Islands,” an 
illustrated description of the picturesque islands that lie be- 
tween England and France, always a place of resort for artists 
and invalids. “Concord Books,” a catalogue with comments 
or famous writers, that grew to fame in the old revolutionary 
town. Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, are names that a towj 
may well be pioud of, though perhaps Concord may be like 
Capernaum. Parton's “ Caricature ” runs along pleasant if 
book-making, and the illustrations are naturally the better 
part. “Cape Cod, Nantucket and the Vineyard,” gives us a 
view of life in this nineteeth century, so simple and so unpro- 
gressive that it is hardly to be believed. But it is true. 
There are women and may be men on Capo Cod, who have 
never been in a railroad car. “The Stone .4ge in Europe,” 
continues the narrative of a prai-historic woild and helps us 
to an idea of what manner of man .4dain was. “The First 
Century of the Republic,” eighth paper by T. Sterry Hunt, is 
on the development of our mineral resources. “ Garth” is 
the beginning of a continuous novel, by Julian Hawthorne, a 
name that warrants hope of good things. John Bigelow be- 
gins a paper on “The Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians,” 
altogether a fair number, though not as bright as Harper's 
should be. 
Lippi.vcott’s for June is as readable as usual. “ Up the 
Parana,” is concluded. France lurnishes its topics in “A Tale 
of the Conscription,” a story that tells the private griefs 
borne for public safety, of which in the war time we had onr 
full experience, also a lighter, yet not less mournful subject in 
“the Bloiisard,” a sketch of Parisian low class life. “ Eight 
hundred miles in an ambulance,” a lady’s tale of travel on the 
Pacific coast. “ A meeting at Sea,” a highly dramatic story 
with a very strong situation. “A scene in the Campagna,” 
another of Mr. Trollopes Italian Sketches— with a critical 
article on “.Mill’s Essays on Religion.” 
Atlantic for June, opens with a poem by T. B. Aldrich, 
“Spring in New England,” a title that beguiles us into some 
political matters, which touching though their memories be 
belong to no season or to all seasons. “Political results from 
the Varioloid,” a queer title, but it serves— is another chapter 
that shows what great events from trifling causes spring. In 
this case, Mr. Fessenden's sickness changed the whole policy of 
the country. “Boring for Oil,” a contribution to the romance of 
Petroleum raising. “ The California Ranch ’ statistical and 
descriptive, with the zest of a novel and tlie facts of a report. 
‘•Cruise of the Rappahannock in Calais Harbor,” a war remin- 
iscence. ‘ Benjamin Jacques, ’ a bit of Adirondack bio- 
graphic legend of wliich wo do not know whether it is meant 
for truth or fiction, a doubt which will also apply to “tStory of 
a Contraband.” The brief, eventful history of a negro born in 
Guinea, stolen away and brought at last to New Orleans, who 
ran away to the North. “ Wise and unwise economy in 
Schools;” a suggestive article on a subject that deserves ma- 
ture consideration. Mark Twain’s “Old Times on the Missis- 
sippi,” and for a close, Lowell’s grand Centennial Ode which 
has already been clipped by almost every paper in the 
country. 
Scribner’s for June, is rich in illustration, and clever arti- 
cles. “ In the Latin Quarter,” by Albert Rhodes, another of 
the very pleasant sketches of Parisian life by the same writer, 
who by much study of French manners has caught a good 
deal of the wit and facdity of French composition. “Beds 
and Tables,” an illustrated art article on furniture from the 
competent pen of Clarence Cook. We have also “A Visit to 
Benares,” with illustrations iroiii pictures by Hindoo artists. 
This is full of information new to many, and gives an insight 
into the lite of Hiiidostan. “Recollections of Charles Sum- 
ner,” keeps its interest and we are here at that exciting epoch 
the murder of President Lincoln. “ Birds all of Maple- 
ton,” a story. The continuations are “The Mysterious Island,’ 
which is getting tedious. “ Sevenoaks,” which maintains its 
interest. “A Farmer’s Vacation,” and “ Some old letters,"’ 
with fac-similes. 
London Quarterly for April comes to us so late that it is 
almost superfluous to notice its contents. Two articles are 
specially worth reading however; “ National Education in the 
United States,” and “Dr. Newman Cardinal Manning and 
Monsignor Capel." The rest of the articles have for the 
most part occupied the pages of nearly all the magazines and 
reviews. They .are “Macready’s (the actor) Reminiscences;” 
“Indian Missions;” “Lord Shelburne;” “Ijast Journals of Da- 
vid Livingstone;” “The Statue of Memnon;” “The Transi- 
tion from .Medieval to Modem Pohtics;” “England and Russia 
in the East.” 
Canadian Fisheries Report for 1871 The Commissioner 
Whitcher gives us a volume of nearly 2UU pages with copious 
tabulated details of the progress and condition of the fishing 
interests in the Dominion. He generally affirms the utility of 
laws but deplores their ineffectiveness from a cause lime and 
again insisted ou in these columns, apathy of public opiiiioii. 
He bears strong testimony to the great gain resulting from 
active and untiring efforts lu the cause of fish protection and 
complimeuts our American Associations and their patriotic 
endeavors, in that direction. 
Dr. Elliott Codes and Mr. J. A. Allen, are engaged upon 
a treatise on the Rodeiitia of the World, which will be pub- 
lished nnder the anspicks of the United .States Geological 
Survey and deposited in the Smithsonian lustitutimi. 
Catalogue of Fishes on East Coast, of North America, by 
Theodore Gill,M. D., Ph. D. Smithtoiiiaii— is what it purports 
to be— for its minute exactness the name of the author u 
sufficient. The need of a proper nomenclature both scien- 
tific and popular is so universally recognized that it is need- 
less to dwell on tho point. The only thing is to have a suffic- 
ing authority. Here we have it. 

VVESTEBN STEMS. 
[by our own correspondents.] 
CiiirAoo.— About the middle of the week, oewd was received 
that the large pigeon roost in South Eastern Minnesota had been 
broken up, and that the birds had left for parts unknown, and the 
result of it is that those looking for birds for trap shooting feel con- 
siderably blue, and the prospect is anything but encouraging for 
much sport. For a week previous to tlie breaking up, the arrival 
of dead birds was enormous: as many as from 00,000 to 70,000 com- 
ing in, m a single day, and bringing fair prices. The Gun club, 
have arranged for a grand club shoot for the grade cups on the 22cl, 
one week from to-day, and although at their last shoot of the kind, 
some 900 birds were used up, yet they hope to gel through this one 
all right, though at the present time they haven’t even a feather! 
President Turrill arrived last Friday from Cleveland, looking 
unusually w ell, feeling happy and as gay as ever. From the way 
he feels, and the way the Chicago boys will back him up, he will 
have the largest tournament on record next month, and by the way 
of any of John Kleinman's friends meet him there, it would lot be 
amiss to ask him what his opinion is of Chicago policemen, and 
their abilities as runnists. John, you know, was on his way home 
from a trap shoot not long since, and after getting well inside the 
city limits, he saw large numbers of golden plover flying over a cer- 
tain point. So off he started for that location and commenced let- 
ting them have it right and left, just as fast as he could wish, knock- 
ing four or five at a lime; well, pretty soon he noticed a suspicious 
i(X)king personage, a hundred yards or so off, coming up and with 
sinking heart he recognized u reflection of light proceeding from 
said personage’s left breast, that could only come from one thing, a 
silver star, bearing the inscription ‘‘Chicago Police,” and that too 
when it was too late to get bailed out if arrested, and there would 
be no alternative but a night among the bugs, rats, and roaches of 
the station house, and a fine of $10 and costs in the morning for 
shooting inside the limits. But John is a man of nerve (try him 
back at 31 yards if you think not) and quick of eye. A glance con* 
vmced him that it was tw'o to one in his favor, if he ran for it, for 
the guardian of the law' iu question was stout and chunky, with 
very short legs, while John is blessed with a long slender body, and 
is able to lake such steps when he tries, that 80 of them would 
equal the Gun clubs’ new rule of Cook county for boundary, if 
taken as a guide at the trap. So Instead of starting off at once, he 
delayed and commenced picking up his plover, but before half of 
them were gathered, the distance now' being much decreased, John 
suddenly remembered what he once learned when a boy and at 
school, viz : that discreliouj beats valor, to remember was to 
do, to think was to act, and oh! my! how that mad did fly! But* 
the buggy was reached— the cop was distanced, and John, though 
out of breath was triumphant only to find two more workiug to cut 
him off. A little more mud, a violation of the ordinance regarding 
fast driving, a sudden tnrn around, a sharp corner, and the other 
two were dodged, and John was where the peelers cease from troub- 
ling, but he still mourns the plover, which the force of circum- 
stances had caused him to leave behind. Tuesday night the well 
know'u W. F. Milligan, was elected president of the Prairie club, 
and Charles Kerns V. P. The Kenuicotts are trying toget birds 
for their shoot for their handicap medal, which is to come off soon. 
May 22.— Nothing new for the pa.st week would be but a 
faint way of explaining the geueral dullness that prevails. The 
wild pigeons have moved their roosting place from' Bouth Eastern 
Minne.^ota to Bt. Croix count)*, Wisconsin, some hundred or two 
miles lurther north; and, as a consequence, are scarcer round here 
than ever, and the bird men seem to think that few birds and high 
prices will prevail the season through. What few' have been avail- 
able were secured for the Cleveland tournament; and since his ar- 
rival here a week ago. Manager Turril's heart has been made glad by 
a certainty that his birds will be all right for that occasion. A dis- 
patch from one of.his agents, received ou Monday, announces that be 
alone had procured some 400 dozen; aud, by the way, all Chicago is 
going to Cleveland about the second week in June. Hardly a shoot- 
ing man wiil stay at home, If other cities are as well represented, 
big will be no name for its success. 
The Calumet Hunting House, kept by Mr. A . M . Decker, is being 
entirely refitted, papered, painted and fi.xed up generally; aud 
a dozen or so well known Chicago duck hunters have put up an cx 
tensive boat house, complete in every particular, close by. Among 
the stockholders in it are Messrs. W. F. Milligan, J. J. Gillespie, 
E. C. Waller, H. E. Pickett and A. T. Martin. Abe Klcinniann is 
also building, and will have it finished in time for the fall shooting, 
a large hotel about three miles up the river from South Chicago. 
More dticks are nesting in the Calumet mar.shcs this year than 
for years before, and are of all kinds, from red h^ad and bine bill to 
mallard and teal: in fact, one can see more there now than could be 
found very often in shooting season lust fall. 
The trust in Providence, displayed by the Gun Club, seems to 
have not been misplaced, for a dispatch uiinoiiiices that the birds 
for their shoot to-morrow will arrive just two hours before they are 
nec*ded, and if they do, one of the largest club shoots ever held here 
w ill follow. A match came off on Wednesday, at Clinton, in this 
State, between members of the clubs at Clintou and Champaigne. 
Some very good shooting was done, and after n close contest the 
Clinton boys came out, as usual, a little ahead. Our poor State As- 
sociation seems about played out; it is W’cak; soveryweakl A 
sort of constitutional lassitude 1 fe^r, and unless w e administer some 
very vigorous medicine at the annual meeting in June it may become 
my painful duty to record, some fine morning, jis follows: ‘‘Died, at 
the early age of two years, the Illinois State Sportsman's Association. 
Said untimely dercaee was occasioned partly by the cruel treat- 
ment it received at tlie liand.s of its friends, and partly becaiiHC it 
was ton much trouble, and required too much exertion for it to 
longer draw the breath of life.” Anyway, should it live or die, de- 
liver me in future f^om a corps of high-toned officers whose sole ac- 
complishment consists in the fact of their being high-toned, and 
who expect that to do all the work, to accomplish all the results aud 
to do everything else, while they stay at nome, neglect the meei* 
iugs and the business of the association and not care a continentai 
anyway. And these are the general sentiments of the shooting 
men, aud our annual June tournament has fallen through simply 
because it w’as too much trouble for the association to get it up, 
Ves, even so; although w'e have in this city alone over a hundred 
shooters w'ho would flock in crowds to anything even bearing the 
semblance of a shoot. 
Messrs. A. M, Decker and E. T. Martin announce a two days* 
shoot on the 3d and 5th of July, Saturday and Monday, at South 
Chicago, some 12 miles from here, and offer about.$450 cash as 
prizes. 
Hannibal, Mo., Mai* 10.— Shooting matters are in a quiet state. 
Guns are put away to away to await summer cock shooting, w'hich 
will probably be continued in this section for some time to come. 
It must be done in July if at all, as it is very rarely that they arc 
killed here in the fall. Last year was a notable exception, a half- 
dozen braces falling to one gun in an afternoon’s shoot, but as a 
rule they are not hunted at all in the fall, now and .then one 
being picked up by the shooter while after qnail. Your corres- 
pondent stated in his last chat the next day would find him after 
the ‘‘long bills” (with a reservation), and it came in the shape of 
raindrops; but the day after we (myself and friend) sought the 
black, loamy, soft ground where Scolopax love to dwell, and 
although they were there in limited numbers, and suy and wary, 
we succeeded, kby bard work that evening and the next morn- 
ing, in persuading seventy as fine birds as ever graced a dish 
of toast, to come to bag. They were the rear guard of a countless 
army that has gone north this year. Never for years has there been 
so large a flight, and we would be anticipating fine sport next fail 
but for the disagreeable fact that in the fall there arc no feeding 
grounds to induce them to stop in their southern flight. I was 
pleased to hear the cheery whistle of ‘‘Bob VV^hite” lu every field, 
and also to not infrequently be startled by the load whirr of a 
gronee as it arose from nearly under my feet, aud more than once 
did my eye involuntarily range along the glistening barrel before I 
realized what I was doing. “Did your gun accidentally go off?” 
No, sir! 
gyiBIES ANSWERS. 
Ans.— The head sent is a willet {Symphetnia (■emi-polmaid) in 
spring plumage . It is one of the most common of the United States 
waders. 
Lyons. What fly is best for bass fishing, and where can I get 
them? Ans.— Salmon flies will do. Write to the fishing tackle 
dealers In our advertisement columns, tell them what you want and 
enclose the stamps. 
XI, W. D., Banqor — “Dogwhip,” speaking of setters at the De 
troit show, calls them ‘‘big, lumbering, overgrowm,” etc. Now how 
much should an English setter weigh to be about right? I read of 
some as low as twenty-five pounds and others as high as sixty-five or 
seventy-live. 2. How much does “Darf'weigh? A.S6.— 1. Weight 
varies with individuals, from fiRy to sixty pounds is the average. 
2. We do not know: will “Dogwhip” please answer this. 
J. S. W.— Can you give us directions for catching blackbirds 
with a net, and the best sorts, etc. We have formed a sportsman's 
club and want birds to practice on. Ans. We cannot give you the 
directions as netting blackbirds for such purpose is contrary to law. 
Yon had better wait for the opening of the season and practice iu 
the field, or get pigeons if you must shoot at the trap. 
J. E. M., PiTTSBUROH.— I have five fine setter pups about nine 
weeks old; their skinsare covered with small red pimples, they are 
soft and pliable, and very itchy; the hair is tight and does not 
come out in the least; appetite very good; is it the mange or what? 
Ans. It maybe mange or surfeit from overfeeding, try change of 
diet, giving principally bread, rice, vegetables; give each pup one 
drop of Fowler’s solution of arsenic once a day till cured. Have 
the bed ctiunged, and the kennel thoroughly washed and white- 
washed . 
E. E. 1. Where can I get the English Fields and what does a 
copy cost here? I used to take it and Bell's Life when 1 was In 
England. 2. Do you know of anything for bolting rabbits out of 
their holes except ferrets? I have ferrets, hot I saw in Bell's Life 
some years ago of something to bolt rabbits without ferrets; if so, I 
should like to know' what it is. Ans.— 1 The Fuld can be had of 
Wilmcr & Rogers, or Brentano, N. Y., about $12 a year. 2. We 
know of no other way than muzzling the ferret and sending it into 
the hole. 
Tub ‘‘De\yl-Hor8e ’’—E very farmer and gardener, at this sea 
son, should have his attention drawn to one very important little 
matter which oven our horticultural journals have overlooked. We 
mean the preservation of the eggs of a peculiar insect which are 
now to be found upon the stems and limbs of trees, on fences and 
under the eaves of out-buildliigs. The insect is commonly knowm 
ns the “devirs horse,” aud is a formidable enemy to almost all oth- 
er insects injurious to vegetation. It strikes its victims with a 
rather long, hard, sharp proboscis, and is sure in its aim. Even if a 
hand gets too close to a full-grown one it will receive a sliarp blow', 
W'hich, though it may not break the skin, bruises it, aud produces 
a pain very much the same as the sting of a wasp, and it will con- 
tinue painful for fifteen minutes, as we know from experience. 
The eggs are now to be seeu. They are in a hexagonal ma-^s, 
which is of a dark brown color and from a quarter to half an inch In 
diameter, glned together. The larv;e when young are of a dark sal- 
mon color. They commence feeding upon other insects w'hile in 
the larva state. The full-grown insect Is nearly an incli long iu iho 
body, has six legs ; is of a gray color on the back and a salmon color 
oil the belly. It Is peculiar in appearance and may be mistaken for 
a large spider, yet it Is to be regarded as one of the most useful in- 
sects we have. Its whole business is food-hunting, and we have 
often watched the sly, slow manner in which it approaches Us vic- 
tim. Our Immediate atteution has been called to the subject by i 
timely article in the April Report of the Department of Agriculture, 
furnished by Townsend Qlover. 
