Nov. 26, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
873 
WOMEN AND BIG-GAME SHOOTING. 
The Duchess of Aosta’s expedition to Cen¬ 
tral Africa is not her first experience of big- 
game shooting. She was in Africa two years 
ago on the same quest, and there is a picture 
in existence representing her standing beside a 
large dead zebra, a trophy of her gun. It is 
not surprising when one considers the real 
dangers and hardships of this form of sport 
that the number of women who have taken it 
up seriously should be few. 
The Duchess of Aosta, however, has trained 
herself from childhood in all kinds of open air 
sport. When her parents, the Comte and Com- 
tesse de Paris, lived at Stowe she hunted with 
enthusiasm, but unlike her mother she did not 
care much for covert shooting. She shares to 
the full her husband’s knowledge and love of 
horses and she was one of the first ladies of 
rank to take up aeronautics. 
The Duchess of Connaught bagged a large 
rhinoceros this summer during the Duke’s 
sporting expedition to East Africa, but the 
Duchess of Aosta is, we believe, the only prin¬ 
cess who has had much experience of big-game 
shooting. 
Lady Delamere, who is on her way to Eng¬ 
land on a visit to her parents, Lord and Lady 
Enniskillen, has become under her husband’s 
tuition a notable big-game shot. She spent her 
honeymoon in East Africa, where Lord Dela¬ 
mere has practically made his home near 
Nairobi, cultivating sugar and cotton on a large 
scale. Although the equator runs through his 
estate, yet as it lies 7,000 feet above the sea 
the climate is delightful, as Mr. Churchill, who 
has stayed there, can testify. 
Lady Minto is, however, probably the most 
distinguished big-game shot among English 
sportswomen. In the first year of her hus¬ 
band’s viceroyalty Lady Minto and her 
daughter, Lady Eileen Elliot, each got a black 
buck while on a visit to the Maharajah of Kik- 
anir. A year later Her Excellency took her 
share of the shooting during the viceregal visit 
to Kashmir, killing seven out of the thirty-six 
black bears secured by the party. On a subse¬ 
quent visit to Bikanir Lady Eileen Elliot got 
her first tiger.—London Times. 
REST FOR HORSE’S FEET. 
Every farm horse should if possible be 
allowed to go without his shoes at least two or 
three months every year. In fact, it is hardly 
necessary to shoe a horse on the farm unless 
he is to .go on the hard roads or work on the 
hard soil, where he is required to do much 
heavy pulling. Without shoes a horse’s hoof 
will grow out, regain its natural shape, which 
is always more or less changed by continuous 
shoeing. 
Many city horses with hoofs bound and 
cracked and otherwise injured have been taken 
to a farm, their shoes pulled off and turned out 
to pasture and thoroughly cured within six 
months. In fact the farmers around the large 
cities-used to find in this class of animal a 
cheap supply, many of which turned out to be 
first class horses showing that all that was 
needed was rest on Mother Earth without their 
shoes.—Horseman. 
HYPNOTIZING LOBSTERS. 
Here is a curious and little known experi¬ 
ment that can be made with live lobsters. It 
is quite impossible to stand a lobster up “on 
end" unless it is first put to sleep. 
This is done by slowly stroking its tail down¬ 
ward with the hand two or three times, when 
the fish is at once thrown into a state of coma, 
or deep sleep, and remains in that position, 
without a movement of any kind, for about ten 
.minutes. Even its eyes are fixed, and it has 
every appearance of being dead. 
Another curious thing is that when one 
lobster wakes up the noise it makes in falling 
down rouses all the others; and the effect of 
one or more waking up is very strange.— 
Strand. 
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