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tary Academy; Mount Tamalpais Military Academy, San 
Rafael, Cal.; Nazareth Hall Military Academy, Nazareth, 
Pa.; New York Military Academy, Cornwall-on-Hudson, 
N. Y.; Northwestern Military Academy, Highland Park, 
III.; Riverview Academy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Sewanee, 
Teiin., Military Academy; St. John’s School, Manlius, 
N. Y.; St. John’s Military Academy, Delafield, Wis.; 
St'. John’s Military School, Salina, Kans.; St. Matthew’s 
Military School, Burlingame, Cal.; Urban Academy, Los 
Angeles, Cal.; Vashon Military Academy, Burton, Wash¬ 
ington; Wentworth Military Academy, Lexington, Mo.; 
West Texas Military Academy, San Antonio, Tex.; Mor¬ 
ris High School, De Witt Clinton High School, New 
York City; Manual Training High School, Erasmus Hall 
High School and Commercial High School, Brooklyn, 
N. Y.; Central High School, Central Manual Training 
High School, Southern High and Manual Training 
School and Northeast Manual Training High School, 
Philadelphia, Pa.; Baltimore City College (High School 
and Loyola High School, Baltimore, Md.; Central. High 
School, Eastern High School, Western High School. 
Business High School and McKinley Manual Training- 
School, Washington, D. C.; East Denver High School, 
West Denver High School, South Denver High School 
and Manual Training High School, Denver, Colo.; Bar¬ 
ringer High School, Newark, N. J.; Brookline, Mass., 
High School; Charleston, W. Va., High School; Colum¬ 
bus, O.. High School; Greensburg, Pa., High School; 
Ogden,- Utah, High School; Paterson, N. J., High 
School; Saranac Lake. N. Y.. High School; Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y., High School; Stamford, Conn., High 
School; Stoneham, Mass., High School; St. Peter, Minn., 
High School; Baltimore. Md., Polytechnic Institute; 
Benedictine College, Savannah, Ga.; Girard College Phil¬ 
adelphia; Hamilton Institute, New York City; Marist 
College, Atlanta, Ga.; Polytechnic Preparatory School, 
Brooklyn; Protestant Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia; 
University Preparatory School, Tonkawa, Okla.; Frank¬ 
lin School, Oakland, Col.; Public School No. 49, Balti¬ 
more. Md.; Portland, Me., High School Cadet Corps 
and Battalion of Cadets, Salt Lake City, Utah. 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New York, Oct. 29.—The following scores were shot 
at Armbruster’s Scheutzen Park, in Greenville, on Oct. 
29. All shooting was on the Standard American target 
at 46 meters. The weather was clear and cold, but a 
high wind was very troublesome at times: 
F. N. Sanoorn, 6mm. pistol, 415, 421; A. P. Lake, 
9mm. target revolver, 449; J. A. Baker, Jr., 6mm. pistol, 
422; J. A. Baker, Jr., 11mm. target revolver, full load 
1 cartridge, 424. 
Nov. 5.— I inclose the scores shot at Armbruster’s 
; Schuetzen Park, in Greenville, N. J., on Saturday. The 
weather conditions were excellent, the light being espe- 
1 cially good. Several of the members shot on a Standard 
American target at 100 meters, 108yds., but were not will¬ 
ing to show their scores until they have had more 
chance to familiarize themselves with this distance: A. P. 
Lane, 9mm. target revolver, 86, 87, 90, 90, 87, 93, 88, 90; 
G. P. Sanborn, 6mm. pistol, 87, 80, 85, 82, 84, 84, 91, 85, 83, 
88; F. N. Sanborn, 6mm. pistol, 88, 88, 92, 91, 87, 90, 90. 
88, 91, 87; Dr. J. L. R. Morgan, 9mm. target, revolver. 
87, 85 , 32, 84 , 85; J. A. Baker, Jr., 6mm. pistol, 81, S7. 83, 
77, J. A. Baker, Jr. 
Philadelphia Rifle Association. 
Philadelphia, Nov. 5. — The weekly competitions of 
this Association were shot to-day on the Arlington range, 
Lansdowne avenue and Cedar Lane, near Llanerch, Pa. 
Scores: 
Military Match: IT. A. Dill 44, 44, 43; Williamson 42, 41; 
Dr. Davis 40, 39; Dr. Given 40. 
Revolver match, 50yds.: N. Spering, 85, 81. 
Pistol match. 50yds.: H. A. Dill 90, 87, 85, 85, 84, 82; 
Williamson 78, 73. 
ARTIFICIAL ROE FOR BAIT IN SAR¬ 
DINE FISHING. 
According to the British Vice-Consul at 
Nantes, France, experiments have been carried 
out in the Bay of Biscay, some 100 miles off 
Belle Isle, by eight fishing boats under the con¬ 
trol of a French Government guard ship, to as¬ 
certain whether artificial roe could in practice 
replace cod roe as bait in sardine fishing. The 
artificial roe under trial is made of fish refuse; 
its color is brown and it is granulated like fish 
eggs. The price of this roe, 30 francs per 100 
kilos (about 2)4 cents per pound), is much 
lower than that of the Norwegian cod roe now 
almost exclusively used, the cost of which 
varies from 80 to 120 francs per ico kilos (7 to 
io)4 cents per pound). 
The only disadvantage of the artificial roe, 
states the vice-consul, is that it is too heavy 
and goes too quickly to the bottom, with the 
result that it keeps the fish out of reach of the 
nets. 
The eight fishing craft engaged in the experi¬ 
ments have made fine catches, varying from 
10,000 to 15,000 fish each. A further trial is to 
be made with lighter roe, and if this is satis¬ 
factory the new bait will be distributed on board 
some boats for a final test. 
WHAT I SAW FROM MY WINDOWS. 
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although I furnished them with several colors 
in order to see whether, like the oriole, they had 
a taste for gay colors. As far as I could tell 
they did not take a single piece of the pink 
string, and little or none of other colors. These 
cherry birds always showed a plentiful lack of 
wit in getting their string, and seemed not to 
understand the difference between a firm knot 
and a slight catch, but would tug at a piece of 
twine tied to the blind until they appeared to be 
out of breath and out of temper. 
The purple finches came frequently for hair, 
once under such suspicious circumstances that I 
give the note as I wrote it down: “May 16.— 
This morning I saw three beautiful male purple 
finches courting one female. They were making 
a harsh throat noise, not loud enough to be 
called either a squeak or a squeal, but a disagree¬ 
able hissing which seemed to be made by suck¬ 
ing in the breath, and somewhat resembled the 
sound of compressed air escaping through a 
small hole. One uttered a note or two, none 
sang. The males raised their crests, stretched 
their necks, dropped their wings and paraded 
about, showing all their best points. Strange to 
say. the female at this time was collecting ma¬ 
terials for a nest, and the males looked on to 
see her tug and pull at stray hairs without offer¬ 
ing to he'p They did not appear to be at all 
unfriendly to each other. Later.—I have seen 
these finches again. The gentlemen are evidently 
a-wooing, but it is hard to make out the object 
of their attentions, for the lady appears to be 
mated already. They are gay gallants, but their 
morality does not appear to be of the strictest, 
as sometimes there are two males and one fe¬ 
male, and sometimes one male and two females 
together. Are they polygamists or polyandrists ?” 
It may be well to add tjiat as the blinds were 
closed, all the birds were within three feet of 
me, so that I was able to hear the noise they 
made. At ten feet I think it would have been 
almost inaudible, as it seemed hardly louder than 
the noise made by pressing the air of a rubber 
ball, though higher in pitch. 
Only two days before these finches exhibited 
themselves, the Norway spruce furnished me the 
finest sight of the season. It was very early in 
the morning, and I had risen with the intention 
of “going birding” before breakfast, when a 
noise in the tree to'd me that the birds were 
there de bonne heure. Looking through the 
blinds I saw a flock of ten or twelve small dull- 
colored birds, streaked with white and dusky, 
with light bands on the wings, and a short, 
forked tail. I knew them, but I could not be¬ 
lieve my eyes until I had written out a descrip¬ 
tion from life and carefully compared it with a 
printed description. Then there could be no 
doubt that they were pine finders. In all my 
winter drives in Maine I had never seen one 
fair-y enough to be sure it was not a red-poll, 
yet here in the warm Massachusetts spring time 
this northern bird, not abundant even in Maine, 
was giving an exhibition before my window. I 
watched them for a long time as they pecked at 
the spruce buds, hanging head downward on the 
pendant sprays, or flitting from one bough to 
another with a flip of gauzy wings. “They made 
no song, but a little rasping throat noise, and an 
occasional utterance like k-k-k-kzee, rather shrill 
and harsh, but in quality not unlike a canary’s 
voice.” 1 saw no more of them that year, but 
the next (1888) they came again as early as 
April 22 and stayed some time. May 9 I saw 
them singing “a cheerful, sweet little song, very 
contented,” my notes say. And again I find 
mention of the ear-splitting notes of a canary. 
None of these birds showed any trace of yellow 
on the wings, nor, as far as I could see at the 
distance of twenty feet and with a six and a 
half power field glass, the slightest olive tinge 
on the back. Yet I have seen mounted speci¬ 
mens taken in Maine in the winter with a wide 
band of yellow across the inner webs of each 
wing. On April 23 I saw a flock of the pine 
linnets feeding in a little green runlet where 
the skunk cabbage was growing. They were 
eating something, what I could not discover, 
now and then uttering a low note. A brown 
creeper, which was mounting an apple tree near 
by, seemed curious to know what they were get¬ 
ting, and flew down to them, w r here he began to 
eat also. I was much puzzled to think what 
there could have been in that place, which seed¬ 
eating and worm-eating birds would both agree 
to call good. Perhaps, however, the creeper only 
wanted company. 
It is customary to think that the deep woods 
are the places to find birds, and that a city ob¬ 
server has no opportunities. For my own part 
I seldom find many birds far away from men, 
and some of the best notes I ever took have 
been inside of city limits. Here, if you wish 
an example, were birds which w T ere unknown 
to me in their northern home, almost inviting 
me to observe them from my chamber window. 
Fannie Pearson Hardy. 
ATTACKED BY A BEAR. 
Mr. Joseph Fisher had an exciting experi¬ 
ence with a female bear a few miles from 
Humbermouth last week. He was returning 
from the woods and was walking the track when 
he suddenly came upon bruin with her cubs. 
The animal snarled and rose upon her hind 
legs as if to attack him. So close was he to 
the bear that he could not have used a weapon 
had he one in his possession. With rare pres¬ 
ence of mind, however, he threw a bag he was 
carrying over the animal’s head and made a run 
for it. The bear was nonplused for a moment 
but quickly recovered and threw off the bag, 
running after Fisher as she did so. Seeing that 
no hope lay in flight along the track, Mr. 
F'isher rushed down the bank into the river. 
The bear did not follow him, but it was some 
hours before Fisher ventured to leave his un¬ 
comfortable and chilly position. He returned 
home at an' early hour in the morning, his 
clothes in ribbons and his flesh badly lacerated. 
—Western Star (Newfoundland). 
ELK STOLE THE GRAIN. 
Thefts of oats and other grains from the 
Kingsbury camp on the west portal of the 
Laramie-Poudre tunnel were explained last 
night when watchers discovered a herd of eleven 
elk, led by a monster buck, devouring the grain. 
Will Kingsbury, who was on guard, says the 
animals are the largest he has ever seen and 
were quite tame. 
This is the first time in recent years that elk 
have approached so near civilization, and old 
families on the Poudre say that their presence 
predicts severe winter. 
Men at work on the tunnel report deer and 
bear are numerous, and all are on the lookout 
for a huge cinnamon bear which chased some 
of the workmen into camp recently. The bear 
is said to have taken up his headquarters near 
the tunnel two years ago.—Denver Republican. 
