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The Palma Trophy. 
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for the selection 
of the team of riflemen to represent the United States 
in the coming contest with riflemen of other nations in 
Canada in September. 
Americans generally—especially those interested in 
military affairs—will be glad to hear that the competitions 
for the Palma trophy are to be resumed. In connection 
with the organization of the American team, which will 
compete for the military championship of the world, 
Gen. James A. Drain, President of the National Rifle 
Association of America, the governing body for rifle 
shocting in this country, is making an appeal for public 
donations to the amount necessary to send the American 
team to Ottawa, Canada, where the match will be shot. 
It is estimated that $2,000 will be sufficient to cover all 
the expenses of preparing and sending the team. 
When the Palma trophy match was first instituted in 
this country, in 1876, it was won twice in succession by the 
United States. Later, interest having waned, the match 
was not shot again until 1901, when a team from Canada 
captured it. In 1902 Great Britain defeated the United 
States and Canada. It will be remembered that in 1903 
an American team went to England to contest for this 
trophy against teams from Great Britain, Canada, Aus- 
tralia, France, Norway and Natal. We outshot all the 
other teams, and the match was awarded to this coun- 
try. A question having arisen as to the kind of barrels 
used on the rifles of the American team, the trophy was 
returned to the-custody of the British Rifle Association, 
subject to future challenge. Since then there has been 
no contest for ‘the trophy. 
All Americans are anxious to see the famous trophy 
come back to the United States under conditions which 
would allow of no controversy, and intense interest is 
being taken in the coming contest. 
The subscription list for the expenses of the American 
team has been headed by the National Rifle Association 

with $100. Gen. Lawrason Riggs, of Baltimore, Md., 
has given $100, and J. A. Haskell, of New York, another 
$100. Subscriptions may be sent to Gen. James A. 
Drain, £89 Broadway, New York,.or to Gol. N. B. Thurs- 
ton, 280 Broadway, New York, who will be captain of 
the teain. 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
The new No. 80 Repeating gallery rifle which has just 
been put out by the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., in- 
terests, a great number of persons who use these small 
rifles. The magazine is adapted for .22 cartridges of 
any of the usual lengths, but it must be remembered that 
the magazine will not work the three sizes of cartridges 
indiscriminately. Only one size can be used at a time. 
With the magazine empty a change of the stop will so 
alter it that it will handle perfectly either .22-short, .22- 
Yong rifle, or .22 Stevens-Pope Armory. T he usefulness 
of this arm is undeniable. 
PARK BADGER DOES STUNTS 
Tuey have a performing badger in the Central 
Park menagerie, and the keepers who keep track 
of the odd things in the wild animal line say 
he is the only animal of his kind in the country 
that can do a circus turn. Jim 
had passed a quiet 
life in the park, the keepers not suspecting that 
would 
is this fellow’s 
name, and for six years he 
there was anything in his makeup that 
bring him into the limelight. 
Badgers are not supposed to have much sense 
anyway, and as they are built on low, broad lines 
they are not expected to be athletes. This one 
is about two feet long, nearly half as broad, and 
his legs are so short that his body touches the 
floor of his cage when he walks about. 
Keeper Keenan discovered recently that he had 
an uncommon badger under his care. Jim would 
often come to the bars of his cage when the 
keeper approached, open his mouth, show his 
teeth and let out a low barking sound. The 
keeper had a lot of respect for the sharp teeth 
and would often step back with the idea that Jim 
intended to bite. Btt Jim was really trying to 
make friends; showing his teeth was his way of 
smiling, and his barking was the most friendly 
kind of badger talk. 
So far from biting, the keeper or even a 
friendly visitor may put his hand in the badger’s 
mouth and Jim will press his teeth as gently as 
a pet dog would do. When the keeper finally 
understood that Jim’s actions denoted amity and 
showed a friendly spirit in turn the badger be- 
came one of the happiest inmates of the zoo: 
Keenan found him an apt pupil when he came 
to understand his friendly disposition and started 
in to give him an education. Jim now gives a 
daily performance for the benefit of visitors. 
As his schooling has been under way only a 
short time, the turns he can do are not many as 
yet, but he shows a great willingness to learn. 
When the keeper goes to his cage to start the 
performance Jim barks with joy. 
“Roll over, Jim,” says the keeper. 
No one would suppose that an animal almost 
as flat as a pancake could turn over from side 
to side, but Jim does it after q4 try or two, kick- 
ing up his short legs ‘in a way to provoke 
laughter. He will roll over and over from one 
side of the cage to the other. 
“Dance, Jim,’ the keeper orders. 
Jim executes a sort of Indian war dance, a 
gurglin~ sound coming from his throat, as if he 
supplied his own orchestra. It took the animal 
some time to master the trick of sitting up on 
his haunches and holding a stick in his paws. 
But what he takes most delight in is baseball 
or a rough imitation of it. The keeper has pro- 
vided a croquet ball for the daily game, and when 
the keeper starts the game Jim is as happy as 
1 boy just out of school —New York Sun. 
FURS AND HIDES 
THE principal product of the Yukon Territory 
at the present time is gold. The other products 
worthy of mention are furs, timber, coal, copper 
and other minerals, and vegetables and hay. 
There is, of course, an abundance of fish and 
game, but not sufficient for exportation. The 
invoiced furs exported during the calendar year 
1906 amounted to 1,520 skins of various kinds, 
their total value being $7,206, as against 3,471 
skins, amounting to $25,281, for 1905. The largest 
item last year was 825 lynx, worth $2,681, fol- 
lowed by 241 marten, worth $2,160. 
There are considerable marten, beaver and 
mink skins used by the local furriers in the 
manufacture of garments. While the local cost 
of the labor is 100 to 200 per cent. greater than 
on the outside, the advantage gained by those 
unable to judge the value of furs is in the satis- 
faction of knowing that the garment is made of 
the genuine article. The average price is $15 or 
$20 for some bear skins, and for good silver fox 
skins anywhere from $100 to $300, while black 
fox skins will range from $300 to $750; marten 
will range from $3 to $15. 

