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Xow for the tfoose. But I must iret in the B B slieli and I have 
only two and they are mixed up with the 5 and C's. Bully! now 
I've got it— ram it in— close the barrels— Hal my hammers are down. 
Ji-rk them up- the barrels are closed. I drew up quite delibi.rat»*ly 
at the old fellow— (he begins to look like my meat) and pull trigL^er. 
But it's no go; I’m only at hall cock. I rapidly cocked that gun 
and put two barrels after that loud mouthed bird. But he only 
winked at me over his left shoulder and said honk! honkl honk! 
The air turned blue, the* tussocks quivered, and all nature resounded 
w ith my wounded feeling'*. My dog turn d his nose up at me and 
lay down to sleep. 
I deliberated ov r that incident for fully an hour, trying to recall 
all the dciails of the loading and shooting, and at last came lo the 
conclusion that he was not too high but too low. I htid probably 
cocked and tired ihe gun at the same time and with the butt in the 
pit of my stomach. But let that pa-s— I don't know an\ thing about 
bis remeges or coverts or even his audubon. I won't say wc didn't 
kill much; but then it's a good deal (if trouble to pick a duck and 
besides that we were very fond of bacon. Bacon is nal good eat- 
ing in camp. And then we had some saner kraut- 1 was a little 
afraid to take it along because I did not know how long it would 
keep. I asked a German about it and he said it was good until rot- 
ted; but that was not d‘ finite enough. 
\\> enjoyed the trip hugely, game or no game, and came back 
with red faces and purple noses. 
Seth Gre(!n. 
The p;‘oplc of Xew York State are becoming aware of Ihe fact 
that Seth Green Is one of the greatest b»mefaAors of the age. There 
is a lake or river within five miles of every person’s home, and 
these water ways and basins are capable of affording a chcaj) and 
choice dinner to each one as often as he choscs to have it; and it is 
l() this philanthropic work that the great fisherman is devot(?d. One 
coinpararively recent instance will sutilce. Chautanqua lake has 
been stocked with bull-heads, although n-ne had ever been seen 
there prior to their importation by Mr. Green. And shad, white 
llsli. trout, bass and other choice varieties have be<n every where 
introduced and were heard from last yejir, showing his entire 
success. 
By far the greatest achievement, however, was concluded on 
Thursday, the result of wliich will be, that the Hudson river will 
again be stocked with sturgeon. It is not m.iny years since the river 
was full of this fish, and it was very popular us an article of food; but 
of late years they have become very scarce. Mr. Green has been en- 
deavoring lor some rime to procure sturgeon, in older to secure the 
spawn to hatch. Thin he finally siiccee.le.l in doing, and on Thurs- 
day some thirty or forty thou'uad sturgeon were hatched. The 
spawn was placed in the shad h.itching ho.xes. and hatched in four 
days, at a temperature of 7g degrees. The experiment was con- 
ducted at the New Hamburg grounds Mr. A. D. Marks, under Mr. 
(Jreeirs supervision. Several thousand more young sturgeon are 
coiifidcutly expec'ed, as the result of this movement ; and the ilud- 
eoii river will in a lew years again be full of this lUU. 
Not only will plenty of sturgeon fohow fr >ni this successful ex- 
pmiment, but plenty of shad, also Mr. Green has been lai>oring 
for some time to secure the passage of a Sunday law, to prevent 
shad fishing on that day; but the infiueuce of ihe New York ^lake 
fishermen has thus far been too strong for him. These fisherinen 
stick their stakes for from thirty or forty miles above Ne v York 
down into the harbor, and reaching entirely acrots the river. And 
these stakes are plante.i s > closely that their gill nets are sun- to 
catch the fish, so tliat scarcely any can pass them. But if Sunday 
fishing « as prohibited, they would have one day to escape these 
nets, and would subsequently be caught by the up river fisherinen. 
What cannot be accuinplislu'd by law, however, can sometimes be 
done by strategy, as the stake lisliermen will find: f«>r when the 
Hudson river once more ab unds in sturgeon, tlie fish will force 
their way through these iiet^, tearing them to p>eees and liberating 
the shad, thus saving the New York haroor police from doing it for 
them — Albany Argus, 
Tiik IClkton Whig has the following: 
A dose observer and an eDthiisia.stic naturalist, has for some time 
past been giving attention to the several families of birds which 
have built in the trees and slirubbery on ins grounds. To the cat 
bird he awards the palm of being the most industrious and succe^•ful 
worm destruyor of all the birds which have come under Uis obser- 
vation; which were the cut bird, ciiippiiig sparrow, wren and the 
English or house sparrow. The relative merits of these birds as 
worm eaters rank as follows, according to his observation: The 
cat bird would desiroy ten worms while the chipping sparrow 
would devour three and the wren two. The Engli^h sparrow was 
not ob.'iervtd making a meal of a s iigle worm. While these invcsli- 
grttious may not detract from the fa::\e of the English sparrow ns an 
insectivorous bird, for lie commits the gre ravaiies in the winter 
season, by seeking oat and devouring the eggs and larvai of insects 
foiiud in cocoons and deposited in the devices of the bark of the 
trees, tliey place the cat bird foremost as a summer insect eating 
bird. This bird is a very docile, almost domestic bird, and is very 
loud of being about the habitations of man. He builds iu the gar- 
den, yard or lawn, wherever a suitable bush or tree oilers a cou- 
veiiient place for his nest. He is uhooncuf the most lively, pry- 
ing and industrious members of the feathered family, and may be 
seen from curly moniing fill dusky eve searching among the leaves 
and grass of the yard or lawn for Ins favorite food. Barents sliould 
teach tlieir children to respect and protect this lillli* friendly visitor 
<»f our gardens and hedge row.'*. He is one of the farmer's and 
gardener's best friends, and is, all the time of his summer sojourn 
with us. busy devouring woriii.s uiid insects which pray upon and 
destroy the fruit and grain. While on this subject we slate that we 
heard of a little boy a few days ago who climbed up to t he nest of a 
Chipping sparrow and destroyed tln^ eggs, breaking up Ihe uesl ; and 
his silly, indulgent mother eucouraged him in this evil business. 
We had an eel In this office last week taken in a mill dam. It was 
three feet, seven inches long and weighed 5 lbs. and 14 oz. But 
this goes out of sight in presence of one reported caught in the 
Meriimack river, at Uookscit, Me., six feet long and fifteen inches 
in circumference^ which weighed thirty-five lbs. 
What is a Snipe?— Two cases have been before Judge Smith 
this week, of persons who had been violating the game laws. The 
last ca«e was defended upon the grounds of the birds killed not be- 
ing snipes. snipe being the term used in the statute. Tbis case oc- 
cupied the greaier parr of the day, attracted a crowd, and created 
much fun. Experts in birdology were called as witBc^ses, and all 
writers upon ornithology fully quoted to prove that the particular 
birds then and there lying dead in the court room w ers not snipes, 
blit cnrlevYs, or dough biid», a bird migratory in its hubiU, very plen- i 
tifil now and exce»dingly palatable and tempting to sportsmen. ‘ 
But this c ise was managed by able counsel, and the witnesses had 
to snear to their knowledge of many things tliat they perhaps had 
an dea they were well posted about until they got into the hands 
of the lawyers. One witness festifUd that the birds were snipe, or 
wereknovnin Uis neighborhood as snipe, and that they were 
quietly engaged picking awMy at the young grasshoppers when the 
guns of the enemy opened upon them. They were S(*en devouring 
the young hopper, and the birds sliould be protected as the fanners’ 
friend?. vVnolher witness who started to tifil what he knew about 
snipe, was asked by one of the lawyers if ho could tell the differ- 
ence between a snipe and a heron, collapsed the court and bar when 
he inquired if the attorney alluded to ‘ smoked herrings,” and he 
sidemnly believed that a brant was larger than a goose. An expert 
in ornitliolojiy testified that the birds were curlews, as before stated, 
and the question as to their eating grasshoppers could be easily 
solved by opening the birds. A post mortem examination was there- 
fore held in the court room, and the contents of the “crops” anal- 
yzed. No grasshoppers could be found, but on ^lie contrary the 
gizzards were found to contain some beetles that are known to de- 
stroy insects ilut prey upon ibo products of the faini Therefore, 
the birds instead of being the larmers’ friend'*, are really their ene- 
mies. The judge has this intricate case under advisement. In this 
connection, U it not proper to suggest that a commission be ap 
pointed, of men competent to judge, with full power to kill any 
number of birds necessary, and make an official report as to their 
habits and what they prey upon, and whose report could be taken 
as authority in deciding upon what birds are or arc not the farmers’ 
friends?— Jcwnal. 
Prof. Tynoall delivered a very interesting and instructive lec 
ture in the theatre of the Uoyal Institution, London, on the Whit- 
worth rifle. The lecturer opened hig subject bygiving a short biog- 
raphy of Sir Joseph Wliitworth. the inventor. lie had worked in 
his early life as a journeyman tool maker iii London, and he aitcr- 
wards set up in business for himself in Manchester. His work w’as 
always distinguished for iig perfect finiiih, and his first aim was to 
obtain true planes. In this he so far succeeded that on putting any 
two plane pieces of metal together their surfaces were so exact that 
they would cling to each oilier, altliuiigh with a weight of several 
pounds attached to the bottom one. Prof. Tyndall referred to the 
wonderful accuracy displayed by Whitivorih in tlie manufacture of 
his measuring instruments, two of which were shown, one measur- 
ing to the ten thou.*andth and the other to the millionth part of an 
inch. Having established a ivorld-wide reputation as a tool maker 
Sir Joseph was employed by the Government to make barrels for 
Enfield rifles in 18V1 — a circumstance that led to him making ex- 
periments upon the twist in the barrel and he eventually decided 
that at one inch in twenty gave the least deplexion. Numerous ex- 
periments were made to assist the lecturer in demonstrating the 
points of his discouise. 
Adam Shivery was driving a horse to a sulky on tlie public road 
in Elk Neck, Md., when a pheasant (the popular name in that sec- 
tion of the country for the ruffi d giouse) flew from the bushes by 
the roadside and lighting on the back of the horse, commenced a 
furious attack upon the animal by per kiii" and beating with its 
wings. Th’s on.'^laught from the feathered combatant frightened 
the liorse very much, and it required all the skill of the driver to 
keep him from running away, completely preventing him from in- 
terfering with the enraged bird, which continued its assault on the 
animars back, w'itli wings and beak, accompinying its blows with 
angry cries. The driver made several attempts to seize the grouse, 
but it kept just beyond reach, fluffing its feathers, and by it^ angry 
voice and dtunonstraiions thre-itening to attack him also. After the 
fight had continued for some time a boy came up and attacked the 
biid with a stick, when it flew off into tlie bushes. A few days 
b«'fore the above battle took place, two chicks from a brood of 
young pheasants had been captured, at or near this place, and it was 
believed ihat tlie young ones belonged to th(^ bird which assailed the 
horse in so violent a manner; whether in revenge for the capture of 
its young or from a pugnacious instinct peculiar to the spccic.s, it is 
impossible to determine, but probably from the latter cause.— Ceci/ 
Whig, 
Sea Turtles, those huge, stolid-looking reptiles on which alder- 
men are proverbially fed at the expense of tux-payers, possess an 
extraordinary faculty for finding places. Working their way out of 
reach of tide-watt*r with tbeir fiiiipers, quite a deep hole is cxca 
vated, ill which a batch of eggs arc deposited and tlieii carefully 
covered up. On reaching the water they not unfrequently swim 
three hundred miles out at sea. foraging for appropriate food. 
When another batch of eggs is developed, after a lapse of about 
fourteen days, they wiM return unerringly iu a direct line, even the 
darkest night, and visit the buried eggs. K* moving the sand more 
are deposited and secured ami away they go again as before. They 
know instinctively the day and hour when the young brood, incu- 
bated by the solar rays, will break the shell, and are promptly on 
the spot to lilHTate them from llieir prison. As soon as I'air'y out 
the mother turtle h'uils them dosMi the bauks and tlicre ends her 
purculal solicitude and maternal duties. 
Mr. John Fi her M i>tf(ELJ»s. in the parish of Auch'.erderran, 
Fifc'^hire, owns a black retriever which is quite a mirof/tle risu. A 
hen had been set with about a dozen eggs, and one of the chickens 
being before thr others, she leli the nnhalehed eggs nneared for and 
attended to the solitary bro id. The owner kei»t the eggs in a warm 
pi, ace until lustiffied. and then gave them in charge of tin? bitch, 
which never cca-’cd to walk with them bv day or to cover them as 
well as she could by night, until they are now able to find for them- 
selves. This remarkable dog on completing her fostering tusk with 
the chickens has taken under her care three young rabbits which 
she is nursing with motherly tenderness and care. Several years 
ago a cat in the same vicinity nursed a brood of chickens. 
(^UEBJES & AWSWEBS. 
H. S. S.— Canandaigua, wishes to hear from a brother sportsman, 
who w ill help him to lay out wild rice in the lake. 
WiiEELiNo— Please send me the address of some one who keeps 
fancy targets suitable for a shooting gallery. Ans.— S end to Cou- 
lia'e gallery, ttiO Broadway, N. T. 
Blub Hocb— W hen do yea ex])cct Plnnkct? Where will he be 
located? And w'hat fee? I have a Llewellin setter by Carlos, out of 
Cora; and Mr. Buckell writes me to breed to Plunket, as he is the 
most desirable cross for my bitch. Ans. — Plunket is supposed to be 
at sea. He will go to Vermont; his arrival will be announced. 
Hebron.— I have a pointer which has canker in the car; the dog 
by shaking his head, causes serious abscesses on the edge of the ear. 
I saw in the Rod and Gun a cure for the same. IIow long will it 
take to cure the canker? Ans.— The abscess on the outer ear is 
caused by the animal flapping his head about with probably some 
feverish irritation that accompanies the disease. The canker ought 
to heal with proper treatment in a month. 
Captain— Will some of my brother sportsmen, who know, tell me 
through the columns of Rod and Gun, what they think or know of 
the merits of the Tipping & Lawdon breech loading shot guns? So 
far as I have seen they appear to be well made and of excellent 
finish, and arc very reasonable in price, being from $75 to $100; the 
breech action is as perfect and strong as with the Scott, Henry or 
many of the other makes I have seen made with said action. 
G. B. E. — Be kind enough to give the name of the best work on 
Pisciculture and state w'here it can be obtained. I wish some of 
your correspondents, who are naturalists and also fishermen, would 
give a plain, practical description of the main points of difference 
between the Maskelonge and the Pike, clear enough for the young 
angler to decide between them at a glance. The definitions of most 
authorities are too vague ti; establish the distinction to the satisfac- 
tion of the unexperienced eye? Ans.— Norris’ American Angler, 
RLiOsevelt's Game Fish, and Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing can 
all be had at this office. 
L1BBABY TABLE. 
A. II. Boies, whose able pen is often heard from in these col- 
umns, has just got out a catalogue of the birds ascertained to occur 
in Southern Slichigan. lie tells us in his preface that the general 
plan is that of Mr, Robert Ridgway, and the classification after l)r. 
Cones, so that we are among friends. It is intended for the use of 
the sporting clubs of Southern Michigan, and will be followed by 
‘‘Boies’ Birds of Michigan.” 
The Penn Monthly for July makes a good show iu this number. 
” The Month,” ” The Political Outlook,” ” Indnstrial Education,” 
“Fourth of July,” “Women in Relation to the Professions and 
Skilled Labor,’* aud “ Sherman’s Memoirs” make up the list. The 
Penn political notes are always witty aud incisive, and this time w o 
have a good specimen of its quality, recent events abroad and at 
home furnishing texts for spicy comments. The suggestions for a 
more national way of keeping the Fourth are timely, if not particu- 
larly new. At present it is given over to the young people and the 
town councillors. 
Blackwood’s for June reaches us very late. The contents are 
“Thoughts about British Workmen,” a temperate article deprecat- 
ing strikes and demonstrating their unjust and unequal operation ; 
defective, how’ever, iu noc suggesting a remedy for the differences 
between the workman and the capitalist. “The Dilemma,” a con- 
tinued story of Anglo-Indian life. “In a Studio,” continued; a 
popularization of art principles interspersed with ” riticism and an 
cedote “Biisaud Bearing reins,” or, as we in this country call 
them, “cheek reins”— a blast against a detestable invention, the 
worst form of ignorant cruelty ever practiced on a domesth; animal. 
“Art iu May” reviews the London Academy. “France aud Ger- 
many,” a brief summing up of facts and argaments in European 
politics, which shows how’ iinniinent was another great war, and 
how near Europe still is to such a misfortune, w'alkiug on a powder 
mine, in fact. “Polar Exploration.” “Banking and Lord Gordon's 
Bill,” a brief exposition of British finance, its wants and condi- 
tions. 
Lii'I'incott's for July gives us its customary well filled tabic of 
contents. “ ‘May’ in June” is an illustrated satirical sketch of our 
watering places in general and Cape May in particular. “Three 
Meeliiigs,” excellently translated by Agnes Lazarus from the fa- 
mous Russian novelist, Ivan Tourgueneff, exhibits the power of a 
master hand in expanding an ordinary occurrence into a blood 
curdling mystery. “The Yares of the Black Mountains,” a story 
and a journey. “Searching for a grave in a strange land.” “The 
Romance of Birdseye.” “Eight hundred miles iu an ambulance,” 
by Laura W. .Johnson, concluded; a bright, clever narrative of a 
jonrncy on the plain.'« among frontiersmeu and Indians. “Aunt 
Cindy's Dinner,” by Sarah W. Kellogg; a bit of southern life, with 
a vein of genuine humor and excellent hitting off of negro peculiari- 
ties and dialect. “Montaigne,” a review of a much (pioted but 
little read writer whose works replete with wit and w isdom, may be 
taken as one of the fountain heads of modern literature. “An Ar- 
ti.st’s Love,” “A Night in a Swiss pension,” and “My Daughter’s 
Admirers,” make up the list of good lliing.s. Emma Lazunis essays 
a higher flight than she hiLs yet tried, in a brave sonuet on a great 
subject— Lord Byron. 
A FARMER COY ill Ohio, observing a small flock of ipiaiH in his 
father’s c<*rn-lieJ(l. resolved lowatch their motions. They pursued 
a very regular course in their foraging, commencing on one side of 
the field, taking about five rows, and following them uniformly to 
the opposite end. returning in the same uianner over the next five 
rows. They conliimed in this conr*ie until they had explored the 
greater portion of the field. The lad, suspicious that lliey were 
pulling up tiie corn, fired into the dock, killing !»ut oue of them, 
and ho proeeded to examine the ground. In the w hole space over 
w hich they had travelled, lie found hut one stalk of corn disturbed. 
This was nearly scratched out of the ground, but thu ground still 
adhered to it. In the cruw of the quuU ho fcunil one cutwuiin, 
tw'entY’One etrlpcd vine bugs, and one hundred rbim h hugs, but 
not a single grata of corn.— 
