August 28, 1875. 
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500 yards. Weapon, any military rifle. Position, any. Rounds, 
eeven. Entrance fee, $1. Competitors using military rifles of less 
than 50 cal. to allow those using rifles of that calibre three points. 
Fifteen prizes. 
Competition Xin.—“ Long Range Match." Conditions— Open to 
all comers. Weapon, any rifle. Distances, 800 and 1,000 yards. 
Rounds, ten at each distance. Position, any. Entrance fee, $1 50. 
Fifteen prizes. 
Competition XIV. — The “Champions’ Match." Cond tions — Open 
to all comers. Weapon, any rifle or rifles. Distances, 200, 600 and 
1.000 yards. Rounds, ten at each distance. Position, standing at 
200 yards; any at 600 and 1,000 yards. Entrance fee, $2. 1st prize, 
grand medal of the National Rifle Association in gold ; 2d prize, do, 
do, in silver; 3d prize, do, do, in bronze. Ten other prizes. 
By the word “any" which frequently appears in the Conditions as 
to "Position” and "Weapon” prescribed Ity the foregoing competi- 
tions, it is urfderstood to mean "any” within the Rules of the Na- 
tional Rifle Association. It is expected that Competitions I,, II. and 
III., and the first stages of Competitions IV., V. and VI. will take 
place upon the first day— and the second stages of Competitions IV., 
V. and VI., together with Competitions VII., VIII. and IX., will 
lake place upon the second day. Pool targets will be kept open all 
the time during the meeting. Pool Tickets (entitling h' Ider to one 
shot at any pool target) will be sold at the Oflflee upon the Range at 
ten cents each. Each competitor making a bull’s-eye will receive a 
bull’s-eye ticket. At the close of the firing every afternoon the 
pool receipts (less one-half retained for expenses) will be divided 
pro rata among those making bull’s-eyes, on presentation of their 
tickets. Competitors are particularly aotifled to watch the bulletin 
board, as the target assignments, ties, names of prize winners, and 
all changes, etc., will be po.sted thereon. The list of prizes, days 
and hours upon wiiich the matches will be shot, and all other de- 
tails not contained in this Programme, will be published before the 
meeting. Member’s tickets expiring December 31st, 18T5, can be 
obtained at the oflice of the Association, or on the Range, on pay- 
ment of 8;).00. Entrance Fee to the Range, .50c. to non-members; 
Ladies free. Entrance Tickets can be purchased at the oflice of the 
Association, or at the entrance to the Range. 
ALEXANDER SHALER, 
President, N. R. A. 
Henry Fdlton, 
Secretary. 
Office of the National Rifle Association. 93 Nassau St., N. Y. 
TRAtNS LEAVE 
Hunter’s Point— 6:40, 9:35. and 11:00 a. 1:00, 2:30, 5:05. 6:04 
and 7:09 p. M. 
Creedmoor — 6:47,7:50, 9:43 and 11:18 a ji. 1:17, 2:46, 4:47 and 
6:42 p. M. 
Additional trains will be run if required by the travel. 
Ferry-boats connecting witn the trains leave foot of 34th Street, 
K. R., N. Y., 15 minutes earlie.-, aud James Slip, N. Y., 30 minutes 
earlier. 
JIeridek, Cone., announces the annual Agricultural 
Fair, Horse, Cattle and Poultry Show for Sept. 32. 
Why not add a Dog and a Pigeon Show ? There are 
plenty of live sportsmen in Connecticut. 
Cincinnati, which is not wont to be behind hand in 
anything, has taken the suggestion made in these 
columns about the inauguration of rifle ranges. A new 
club ha.s been started, .1. L. Hall, President ; H. Rob- 
bins, Secretary. The promoters ini end having one of 
the most complete ranges in the country. 
“ Bob,” a sportsman, takes the trouble to send us a 
letter about a dog bitten by a rattlesnake, and asks if 
such letters are acceptable. We just think them the 
very best kind of letters; exactly what we want. Only 
send us the facts, and we can supplj’ all the flowers and 
ornaments that the subject will bear. The efficacy of 
alcohol or ammonia in snake bite is pretty well known, 
but every specific instance is valuable. 
The old-fashioned way of going into the field with 
a powder-horn and^shot-belt wa.s superseded when cart- 
ridges and shells came into use. The question then was 
how to carry a lot of loose cartridges without being ex- 
ploded once in a while. This has been settled by the 
use of belts, of which there are two or three. The new- 
est that has reached us is the Goss revolving cartridge 
belts, which is a decided improvement over any similar 
device in the market. It is so arranged that it is easy to 
carry, and the sportsman can have his loaded shells at 
hand any moment, without being annoyed by feeling in 
his pockets among a lot of empty shells. 
Twice Sired. 
Will you or some of your readers tell me whether or 
not a bitch can have puppies in the same litter from two 
or more sires. If you or any of your correspondents 
have seen examples of the kind I would be obliged if 
the facts should be stated. If a red dog, say red Irish 
setter, lines a black bitch, and some of the puppies are 
black, some red and some liver color, is the liver color 
to be regarded as a mixture of the two parental colors, 
oris it to be referred to some ancestral liver color? 
Have any of your correspondents observed any facts 
bearing upon this question? I have all the dog books; 
I should like some facts. Breeder. 
ITEMS. 
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] 
Chicago, Aug. 20. — The open season on all game ex- 
cept quail commenced on Sunday, the 15th, and had 
there been any too impatient to wait until Monday for 
their fun, the rain that fell almost continuously all day 
'would have effectually dampened their ardor. Fortu- 
nately, on Monday, however, it came ou t pleasant, and 
ha.s continued so ever since; and, asa con.sequence, some 
very fine sport has been had among the chickens, bags 
of 40 to 60 being easily made in a day by those who 
know where to go, some six or eight hours’ ride from 
the city; the best I have heard of being done by Messrs. 
Waller and Brice, who, in two days and a half, bagged 
273, and then stopped because they were tired of the 
slaughter, and not because the game had given out. As 
might be expected, owing to the extreme lateness of the 
season, however, manj’ of the birds are quite small, but 
all are in excellent condition, very fat. As for other 
game, there is none, except plover. Last 15th, several 
nice bags of young teal and woodduck were made, but 
this year, so far, I have not heard of a dozen altogether 
being killed; but the high water renders the prospect 
verj' good for later on. Yesterdaj’ I noticed a solitary 
wild goose in market. Poor thing! some pot-hunter 
undoubtedly had killed her away from a brood of half 
grown young that a week or two later on could fly and 
lake care of themselves; and so it goes. Some kinds of 
game are protected long before necessary, others not 
protected just when necessary. Still, I suppose our 
game law is better than none; but we must tr}- aud im- 
prove on it next Legislature. I see the Dittmar Powder 
Company take e.xception to my comments upon their 
powder, and I suppo.se it is but fair to state that the tests 
spoken of were made with the powder “ rammed harder 
than the black powder,” as directed in Mr. D.’s first cir- 
cular, and I have written on to the company for cart- 
ridges with which to make other and more careful trials 
the results of which I will give you; and this time, as 
they will do the loading themselves, if the comparison 
is unfavorable, there can be no excuse for my not follow- 
ing the necessary directions. The tie for the Gun Club 
first grade cup was decided Saturday at Slagg’s, and 
resulted in favor of Mr. AValler, Mr. Abner Price doing 
some of the finest double-bird shooting on the Milwau- 
kee avenue grounds ever seen there, and Col. Jussen, of 
the Prairie Club, doing pretty nearly as well. Same day, 
a 25 bird match, between M. H. Guerin and E. T. Mar- 
tin, w’as easily won by Martin. But now, for a while, 
trap-shooting will have a rest — there are too many birds 
on the prairie. The Prairie Gun Club match has gone 
over until iprobably September, as has also the return 
match between the Kennicotts and Prairies. The Ken- 
nicotts are taking the lead in getting up a suite of club 
rooms for all the city organizations, and probably the 
Gun and Prairie will join in with them. 
All interested in Plunket will do well to read Dr. 
Goldsmith’s letter and Mr. Wilkin.son’s advertisement. 
LfSBABY TABLE. 
Blackwood’s for August gives us a paper on “ The 
State of the French Army,” which explains the weak 
organization of what is traditionally supposed to be the 
model for the world- “ Nan” is a novelette ; “ Rivers” 
an account of June summer boating excursions in 
France, of which we may remark, by the ivay, that these 
summer beating parties are delightful pastime. What 
more pleasant than a slow, quiet pull along the Hudson 
or Susquehannah, and what a capital subject, from 
source to mouth, for an article. “The Dilemma,” a 
story of the Indian mutiny, continued ; “ The Swine- 
herd of Gadara,” nervous and dramatic, reminding one 
of Browning ; and an Ode to the Sea. 
The Edinburgh for July contains “ Life and Works 
of Thorvaldsen; ” “Sir H. S. Maine on Early Institu- 
tions ; ” “ Mencius ;” “ The Education of the Children 
of the State;” “The Works of Thomas Love Pea- 
cock;” “The Physiological Influence of Alcohol;” 
“ Geikie’s Life of Murchison;” “The Early Kings of 
Norway;” “ Lucrezia Borgia ; ” “England and Russia 
in the East.” The first article makes us acquainted 
with the life and works of one of the greatest of our 
modern artists. “The Physiological Influence of Alco- 
hol ” is a temperate examination into the use of spirit- 
uous liquor, a subject usually approached on both sides 
with unreasoning prejudice. “ The Early Kings of 
Norway ” is a review of Carlyle’s late tract on the same 
subject. Altogether, this number is not up to its usual 
standard ; less profound for the scholar, and less en- 
gaging to the casual reader. The closing article is the 
best: “ An Examination into the Position of England 
and Russia in the East,” by Sir Henry Rawlinson, an 
experienced traveler and able Orientalist. 
Wide Awake, No. 3, the new Boston magazine for 
“ the young of all ages.” It opens with a good story by 
the editor, “The Strangers from the South,” with a 
sketch of four young “ darkies.” Mr. Butterworth fur- 
nishes a paper concerning Whittier and his Home. Miss 
Eastman’s “ Young Rick” grows in years and in mis- 
chief. “Twice in my Life,” b)’ Rev. Wm. M. Baker; a 
stirring centennial poem, “ Bunker Hill in 1875;” “ The 
Cooking Club of Tu-Whit Hollow” is wholesome] and 
brimming with humor. 
The Popular Science Monthly, for September. 
Contents: Scientific Culture; Physical Features of the 
Colorado Valley. II. — Cliffs and Canons, illustrated; A 
Popular Verdict; Tempered Glass, illustrated; Fresh 
Water Mollusks, illustrated; The Deeper Harmonies of 
Science aud Religion — III. The Great Iowa Meteor, il- 
lustrated; House Ventilation; Cranial Amulets, illus- 
trated; The Use of Narcotics; Sketch of Julius E. Hil- 
gard, portrait. Editor’s Table — A Social Experiment, 
“ Knox the Incomparable,”, and Miscellany. The social 
importance of scientific inquiry and the value of knowl- 
edge in its everj’day aspect are compendiously set forth 
in the following extract’from the opening article: “Phys- 
ical science has become a great power in the world. 
Indeed, after religion, it is the greatest power of our 
modern civilization. Consider how much it has accom- 
plished during the last century toward increasing the 
comforts and enlarging the intellectual vision of man- 
kind. The railroad, the steamship, the electric tele- 
graph, photography, gaslights, petroleum oil, coal tar, 
colors, chlorine bleaching, anaesthesia, are a few of its 
recent material gifts to the world; and not only has it 
made one pair of hands do the work of twenty, but it 
has so improved and facilitated the old industries that 
what were luxuries to the fathers of our republic have 
become necessities to our generation. And when, pass- 
ing from these material fruits, you consider the purely 
intellectual triumphs of physical science, such as those 
which have been gained with the telescope, the micro- 
scope and the spectroscope, you cannot -wonder at the 
esteem in which these branches of study are held in this 
practical age of the world. ” 
MIDSI’MMER. 
BY ISAAC M’LELLAN. 
Red midBammer is bright with glare; 
There is a drowsy calm in the air; 
The foliage droops on the chestnut hill; 
The delicate locust leaves lie still; 
The thistle-down may scarcely float 
Adown th ? air its silky boat ; 
Scarcely the gossamer cobweb’s thread 
Swings ont its streamers overhead; 
No chirp of bird, no iosect hum, 
For the tullry noon of the day is dumb. 
In meadows the wearj' mowers throw 
Their scythes aside in the hay-winnow; 
Under a canopied beech they lie 
To rest and slumber till noon is by, 
Or seek some grotto, shady and cool. 
To bathe their brows in its icy pool. 
The cattle cease in the field to feed; 
The browsing sheep flocks and the steed 
In long procession slow ly pass 
Across the tangled meadow grass. 
Then >vading far out in the wave 
Their flanks in the cooling currents lave. 
Blue and brilliant, the azure deep 
Of the firmament spreads its circling sweep; 
No living breeze in the realms of space 
To waft the slaggish cloud o’er its face; 
Straight up the air, like stately palm. 
The azure smoke from bamlet and farm 
Ascends in the universal calm. 
In the pasture oak-tree's leafy top 
Weary the piping blackbirds drop; 
The robin redbreast’s pinion is hid 
In the motionless cedar's pyramid; 
The blue wood pigeons seek their tent 
Where the densest boughs of the wood are henrr 
The feather'd choir whose charvings sweet 
Delight the ear In each green retreat. 
Is silent all in the sultry heat. 
No murmur, no sigh in the air doth pass. 
Save the grasshopper's sudden whin* In the grass,. 
Or the roving honey-bee’s drowsy hum, 
For the hot midsnmmer days are come. 
And now the sportsman, wiih gun and dog. 
Seeks ont the w oodcock in marsh and bog. 
