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My observations in this connection are 
prompted by certain inquiries that have reached 
me during the last week or two as to the pros¬ 
pects of success awaiting such an undertaking 
in Ireland. Much as I would like to give an 
opinion, I must pause before doing so. Ireland 
is a funny place to start anything new in. A 
long time must elapse before any new idea be¬ 
comes established. Our farming methods are 
all wrong according to English ideas, but, al¬ 
though during the last half century there have 
been innumerable attempts by our English 
friends to teach us the latest things in agri¬ 
culture, we have somehow failed to catch on. 
Some years ago a very eloquent gentleman, 
check-suited, clean-shaven, and wearing an eye¬ 
glass, came over to teach the sons of Erin how 
to farm; but they threw him in a bog-hole down 
Tipperary way, and his proposed book, “Tips 
for Tipperary,” has not yet seen the light of 
day. In fact, the last state of that man was 
worse than the first—very much so; and he too 
shook the dust, or scraped the mud, off his 
august person, hoisted his eye-glass, and re¬ 
turned to the seclusion of Piccadilly. Game 
farming, however, may not be fraught with 
such perils, and perhaps with our new race of 
tenant proprietors on the land some share ot 
attention may yet be given to it. Pheasants 
might pay as well as flax, and they might not. 
—D’Arcy I. Hamilton, in the Shooting Times. 
MONSTERS OF OLD REPRODUCED. 
The latest attraction at Carl Hagenbeck’s 
famous animal park at Stellingen, near Ham¬ 
burg, is a series of wonderful and striking life¬ 
like representations of the great monsters that 
inhabited this earth in the distant past. In all, 
some thirty have been erected, but more are 
to follow, until we have a complete prehistoric 
zoo, says Professor Shepstone, in the Strand. 
These weird beasts of the past rightly occupy 
a portion of the grounds to themselves. They 
have been built up of cement by a well known 
Continental animal sculptor, J. Pallenburg 
around the shores of a delightful little lake! 
some three acres in extent. The animals are 
depicted standing by the water’s edge, amid 
the shrubs and trees, while in the lake itself 
are shown huge crocodiles and strange look¬ 
ing creatures, half fish and half mammal. Ad¬ 
ditional realism is added by representing a few 
of the beasts in the act of battling with speci¬ 
mens of their kind. 
There are several representations of the dino¬ 
saurs, or “thunder lizards,” including the 
iguanodon, which towers some twenty-five feet 
into the air, making the trees around look quite 
small; the_ diplodocus, whose length of sixty 
feet and height of eighteen feet render the mod¬ 
ern elephant a mere pigmy; the stegosouraus, 
with its bony plates on its back and spikes on 
its tail; the triceratops, with its three horns on 
its face and huge collar of spikes around its 
neck; as well as representations of the sloth, 
dodo and mammoth. Then we have huge fly¬ 
ing reptiles, with an enormous spread of 
wings; birds with formidable teeth, not to men¬ 
tion giant lizards, tortoises and’ toads, com¬ 
pared to which the present living specimens 
are, in size, no more than a dog to a cart 
horse. Some of these tortoises and toads are 
twelve feet and more in length. 
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HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE IN MAINE 
The Hungarian partridges which were intro¬ 
duced in the vicinity of Portland a year ago 
last spring have thrived and propagated. 
G. S. Ellis, who was instrumental in bringing 
about the introduction of these birds in Maine, 
states that he has been investigating the matter 
during the past two weeks and finds the pros¬ 
pect in the vicinity of Cape Elizabeth very en- 
couraging. He has talked with many men on 
different parts of the Cape who have seen at 
different times throughout the summer and fall 
flocks of from eight to twenty-five of the part¬ 
ridges.—Portland Press. 
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Knight. A coasting voyage from Hammersmith to 
ln 3 thr ee-ton yacht. Published in London, 
1589. Price 50 cents. R. JENKINS, care Forest and 
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Do Animals Think —Reardon. 1.00 ](>0 
Indian Club Swinging —Miller.1.00 ^50 
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By S. T. Hammond (“Shadow”). Cloth. Price, $1.00. 
Mr. Hammond enjoys among his field companions the 
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