IFOREST AND STREAM. 



THE SARATOGA REGATTA MANAGE- 
MENT. ; 
wae Dee 
Eprvror or Forrest AND STREAM. — 
The forthcoming regattas are subjects now engrossing 
the attention of the boating men. 5 
First comes the Sara- 
toga Regatta Association’s Regatta, on September 11th and 
12th. We note that this regatta is very commonly called the 
‘‘National Amateur Regatta,” and the committee have 
actually advertised themselves under that title. This looks 
-very much like a breach of good faith, if it is not a very 
stupid blunder, because we have the ‘* National Amateur 
Regatta” to be held at Philadelphia, and which was pub- 
licly announced under that name as long back as Janu- 
ary. The management of the Saratoga Regatta could com- 
mand success under their legitimate title without attempt- 
ing to sail under borrowed colors. There is another 
reason why they should drop the ‘‘ National Amateur” as 
the name of their regatta. They have made a definition of an 
amateur which disagrees with the National rule, and men 
ica pee amateurs under the rule of the country are 
barred at Saratoga. Therefore we say it is not a National 
regatta. Itissimply a local regatta open to all amateurs 
eligible under the local rule. Why the committee should 
have seen fit to set up their opinion against that of the 
clubs forming the National Association is a matter which 
concerns themselves alone, but we think it betokens a re- 
markable want of judgment, or else the gentlemen forming 
the association have been played upon by interested parties, 
who, while studiousiy avoiding any appearance of ‘‘run- 
ing the machine,” have the most to say in the matter. This 
was especially.noticeable in the first sievelike definition 
publicly announced by the committee, and any one con- 
nected with boating and conversant with the history of cer- 
tain prominent oarsmen could not fail to recognise the 
loophole through which they could come in, and many » 
expressed their belief that this was done purposely. In the 
sculler’s race James O’Niel of Troy, was talked of as the 
person to receive the most benefit from the local home rule. 
Now the rule is changed and we are glad of it, for the sake 
of the reputation of the Qualification Committee. In 
making races open toamateurs there must be no wire-pull- 
ing; make your rule, if you want one for yourself, plainly 
and without bias in favor of any particular men, and then 
curry tt out to the letter, and you willcommand respect, if not 
saccess. Otherwise your regatta will be a fizzle, and the 
committee must be looked upon by all boating men ina 
most unenviable light. Before the prospectus or rules of 
the regatta were made public it was announced from semi- 
official quarters that we were to have a definition so plain 
and yet so simple ‘that no difficulty could possibly arise; 
every one was to be satisfied with it, but above everything 
else the particular sop was that it was to be ‘more liberal 
than that adopted by the National Convention.” The liberal 
rule has been withdrawn, so we need not say anything beyond 
the preceeding remark about it. Of course it created sus- 
picion and distrust because of a certain vagueness, and as 
it cost just twenty dollars to find out who the committee 
would or would not allow to row under the rule, our clubs 
held off. ‘‘ We don’t know who will be allowed to row, 
and we don’t care about entering until they make a differ- 
ent rule.” Such was the oft expressed opinion of the New 
York clubs. This has been set at rest very clearly by the 
latest “explanation” a@ Ja Philadelphia. (Why should a 
definition require an explanation?) The Saratoga dictum 
now is: ‘‘No person will be allowed to compete who has 
ever entered in an open regatta, or has rowed, or heen will- 
ing to row for money since May 1st, 1872, or has trained or 
taught any person _in rowing or athlet.cs forany compen- 
sation whatever. Persons who gain or have gained a liveli- 
hood through a constant use of boats will not be permitted 
torow.” That our readers may understand exactly what 
change the Saratoga experts have seen proper to make 
from the standard rule, we give the National definition: 
‘We define an amateur oarsman to be one who does not 
enter in an epen competition; or for either a stake, public 
‘or admission money, or entrance fee; or eompete with or 
against a professional; or who has never taught, pursued or 
assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises asa means of 
livelihood; or has not been employed in or about boats, or 
in manual labor on the water.” 
The alterations have been made evidently with an eye to 
avoid the use of a single word of the National definition 
and atthe same time preserve its meaning in all but one 
clause, the previous entering in open races. The com- 
mittee deserve credit for their ingenuity, and their knowl- 
edge of the English language, but does it not look as if 
there was some animus at work? The twisting of words, 
the avoidance of terms of well known significance betrays 
some feeling lurking behind the scenes, which is,too palpa- 
‘ple for the most careless to overlook. This is a matter to 
be regretted; these is no earthly reason why the Saratog: 
committee should by these picayune measures seek to de- 
story the efforts of those connected with the National Ama- 
teur Regatta. There is plenty of room for Saratoga to 
bring forward their programme without in any way setting 
themselves up in self-constituted opposition to the Na- 
tional Association. If such is their intention, they are 
throwing their time and money away, because all such ef- 
forts are futile, and even offering munificient prizes is not 
going to br sk up the National Regatta proper, at which 
possibly the prize may be of less value. We do not think 
the gentlemen connected’ with the Saratoga Association 
have any idea of doing what is wrong, or likely 
to injure any other body, but there is sufficient evi- 
dence on the face of their circulars to show that there is a 
controlling influence which should at once be set aside, or 
it will bring discredit upon the whole management. We 
wish the regatta entire success, and trust. that it may prove 
an event in the year’s record, and it is for that reason that 
we thus plainly call the attention of the regatta committee 
to facts which are common talk with boating men, but 
which may possibly not reach their ears. The way to de- 
feat all these remarks is a plain one, and there is but one; 
no half way measures can prove of any service now. Gen- 
tlemen, you have made your rule; any deviation in its ex- 
ecution will be fatal to your future regatta prospects. It 
must be carried out to the letter or else it might as well 
be thrown overboard. We shall await with interest the 
decisions of the Qualification Committee in the cases of 
one or two whom we are led to believe will send in entries. 
AMATEUR. 
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The travel to the Rocky Mountain region this season is 
greater than at any time before. The weather has been 
even-tempered, not sultry at noon, and inyariably cool at 
night. . 

WINNINNISH FISHING ON THE SAG- 
UENAY. 
TE AE 
U. GREGORY, Naval’agentfat Quebec, encloses the 
¢ following spirited account of fishing on the Upper Sag- 
nenay. The season for taking ‘‘ Winninnish,” which is 
simply the Indian name for land-locked salmon, is about 
over, but the sketch will keep always. Steamers run from 
Montreal to Quebec, and thence sixty miles up the Saguenay 
river, where boats can be hired to proceed to the upper 
waters of Chicoutimi and Lake St. John. Canoes, guides, 
provisions, and lodgings can be obtained at Chicoutimi 
village. 
‘OUINANISH ! OUINANISH ! OUINACANISHCH.” 
Such was the countersign, which on the 1st August inst., 
admitted me amongst a merry squad of anglers—congrega- 
ted under the hospitable roof of squire Job. Dufour, at 
Chicoutimi, the head-quarters of the piscatorial world, in 
those waters. If you are particularly desirous of under- 
standing the scrap of Micmac lingo prefixing this sketch 
here goes a free translation of the same: ‘Fresh water sal- 
mon! Fresh water salmon! Much fresh water salmon.” 
You say, you would like to have a day’s good fishing in 
the Lower St Lawrence, and then try the neighborhood of 
Quebec; well then, first choose a suitable compagnon du voy- 
age, or make up a partie qurree of four. Wait for the dog 
days, when the thermometer is in the nineties. An experi- 
enced anglersI knew took innumerable precautions, to pro- 
tect his hide against the gnats, black flies, mosquitoes of 
Lake St. John—viz: 1st a vial of Culexifuge; 2nd, a box of 
black fly ointment; 3rd, a bar of ammoniacal soap,—on my 
enquiring whether the three were to be applied together, he 
said “ yes,” and that on his return he intended to engage a 
native to scrub him in the Saguenay river. 
See that your larder is well provided. Put up in cham- 
paigne baskets covered with canvas, a fair allowance of dry 
sherry, Pale India ale—sound claret} add a magnum of ewv- 
de vie pale et vieille, for medicinal purposes. Pack up with 
care your rod, lines, single and double gut casting lines, &c., 
Before starting, see that your Remington is in prime order, 
lock, stock and barrel, and then securing guides of temper- 
ate habits, and light birch canoes, well provided with blank- 
ets, tarpaulins, camp utensils, launch your airy bark for the 
distant shores of Lake Kenogami, Lake Kenogamichich, 
La Relle Riviere which never freezes, La Riviere des Postes 
and finally, the tranquil waters of Lake St. John, which is 
sixty miles in length. Don’t be deluded with the idea that 
existence will be imposible unless you have a commissariat 
drawn by sixteen horses: leave these expensive luxuries to 
eccentric mélords, like Sir. G. (Cn ,»who has sixteen 
carts for his luggage, a pack of stag hounds to hunt the 
Barren Ground Caribou, and is quite unhappy unless soothed 
to sleep by the dulcet tones of a portable hand organ, as 
some pretend; but the knowing ones aver that devil a bit 
of music ever comes from it; that it has nothing in com- 
mon. with a musical instrument: that in fact it is a—what 
@yow call it—recently printed. 
When you have had a surfeit of fresh water salmon oudn- 
anish—retrace your steps to Chicoutimi; expedite the noble 
game to your town friend—smoked or packed in ice. Ou- 
inanish is the fresh water salm@ It attains sometimes 
twenty-four inches, is delicious to eat, and second to the 
sulmo salar only, in taste: its flesh is white instead of being 
pink color like that of the salmo. From Chicoutimi, 
the Union will convey you weekly to Grande Bay, and 
twenty minutes drive will land you on the pebbly beach of 
the Hon. D. Price’s stream—Le Ruisseau a Marse. At the 
present moment it literally swarms with salmon, who spend 
morning, noon and night striving to ascend the mill dam of 
some hard hearted mill owner*-which so cruelly obstructs 
their course towards the quiet pools and aeirated waters 
above, in quest of spawning ground. I counted more than 
forty in fifteen minutes leaping frantically but unsuccess- 
fully, some eight or nine feet in the air and falling back on 
the dam, sometimes, on their back sometimes on their 
snout. I was longing for the strong arm of the law, to have 
these poor fellows righted in their super human efiorts to 
fulfil one of the first laws of nature, when lo! and behold, 
there appeared to me, amidst the fog and rain at Baie des 
Ha! Ha! the form divine of the Commissioner of Fisheries— 
clad in a long flowing oil skin mantle, reaching to his feet, 
encased in bright beef mocassins, wearing an ample wide- 
awake, with every possible variety of salmon fly, encire- 
ling it like a diadem. Such, no doubt appeared to the 
youthful eyes of Telemachus, the majestic form and white 
beard of Thermosyris, High Priest of Apollo. For particu- 
lars vide Telemachus. I knew the fishes’ case was won and 
merely cast a glance to the spot where a few days previous, 
the salmon of Ruisseau a Marse had had the good sense to 
nibble at the hook baited by the Archbishop of Quebec, 
who it seems, is not only a fisher of men. A lordly denizen 
of the pool, thanks to Mr. Price, became the reward of his 
Grace’s piscatorial skill. Two of my friends were less 
lucky than his Grace, they hooked but failed to secure their 
fish. 



0 9 - -— — 
They musi want to grumble about something in Calcutta 
when they complain of the temperature of a particular hot 
day in May last when the mercury only showed 106° in the 
shade. However, it can be warm in Calcutta. In1854, on 
the 26th of May, in the fullsun glare, the ‘‘old prob” of 
«that section recorded a gentle heat of 1575 Farenheit. We 
have only to state that an alloy of 1 oz. zinc, 1 02. solder, 4 
oz. Bismuth, and 1 oz. Cadmium melt at 145°, Candles melt 
at 112.2 According to the books, Egypt had heretofore the 
highest temperature, which was 117°. 
Che Aiennel. 
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The beagle is avery useful little dog for our junior friends, 
and is generally used to track rabbits. There are two kinds, 
the rough and the rabbit beadle; the former is supposed to 
have been crossed»by the terrier, and his bark is rather that 
of the terrier, than the musical intonation of the beagle. 
The rabbit beagle is the smallest of the species, delicate in 
form, good nose, and swift of foot. Beagles do not trust to 
their speed entirely for killing game, but to their exquisite- 
ness of nose, tracing it through all its windings With the 
greatest accuracy. The beagle will puzzle 4 hour on one 
spot rather than leave the seent; the slower he goes the less 
likely will he x to overrun the scent, and will kill the game 
sooner. The Rare or rabbit generally describes a circle as 
he rung, large or small, according to his strength, and the 
openness of the country. Among enclosures where there is 
much cover and sheep-stains, it is a constant puzzle to fox 
hounds. Yetthe beagle, being able to endure great fatigue, 
will invariably kill his game, if the day be long enough. 
There are several good strains in this country, at Morris- 
town, New Jersey; Milford, Pike Co., Pa.; and in Guernsey 
Co., Ohio. Some members of the Dean Richmond Club, 
of Batavia, have the purest breeds. 
eaten ela 5 
Brawn WereHt rN Does.—Professor B. G. Wilder bus 
been prosecuting some most interesting studies on the brain 
of dogs. He states from the result of numerous experi- 
ments, that domestic dogs have all more complexity of fis- 
sures than the feral canide, (fox, wolf and weasel.) <A table 
of weight of brain of dogs and its ratio in thousands to the 
whole body, compiled by Mr. Wilder, is very curious, the 
difference between the brain of a little black and tan terrier 
and a Newfoundland dog being prodigious, when compared 
with the weight of their respective bodies. 
Weight of brains 
in grammes. 
.03? 
Ratio of weight of 
body in thousands. 
English terrier. ... 028 
Newfoundland. .. 003 
Nor MemeBers oF TEMPERANCE.—At Peoria, IIl., a dog, 
probably an animal of German descent, has has had deliriuiv 
tremens, from indulging in over potations of lager. That a 
monkey can get royally drunk is a positive fact. He takes 
his liquor too, not under compulsion, but as if he liked it, 
which we suppose adds another link to the Darwinian 
ehain. We have known spirits to be used quite advantage- 
ously in taming animals. Ifa moose is given rum and 
molasses, he will in time acquire a certain amount of famil- 
iarity with the person who administers the dose. 
ae 
Can Dogs IMPART INTELLIGENCE TO ONE ANOTHER ?— With 
regard to dogs communicating intelligence to one another, 
I may mention that I have often observed them doing so. 
According to my experience, dogs must be much above the 
average in intelligence, and the gesture they invariably 
employ is a contact of heads with a motion between a rub 
and a butt. It is quite different from anything that occurs 
in play, and is always followed by some definite course of 
action. One example will suffice. A Skye terrier (not 
exactly pure) was asleep in the room where I was, while his 
son lay upon a wall which separates the lawn from the high 
road. The young dog, when alone, would never attack a 
strange one, but was a keen fighter when in company with 
his father. Upon the present occasion a large mongrel 
passed along the road, and, shortly afterwards, the old dog 
awoke and went sleepily down stairs. When he arrived 
upon the door-step his son ran up te him and made the sign 
just described. His whole manner immediately altered 
to that of high animation, and, clearing the wall together, 
the two animals ran down the road as terriers only can 
when pursuing an enemy. I watched them for a mile and 
a half, within which distance their speed never abated, 
although the object of their pursuit had not from the first 
been in sight.—Nature. 
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A Figur wirn Docs.—There is quite a terrible account 
of a peddler in Michigan, who was attacked by three dogs 
last week. Armed only with a stick, pulled from a fence, 
it was all the man could do to save his life. He killed one 
dog, put out the eyes of another, when the third beat a re- 
treat. The dogs inflicted no less than forty-five distinct 
and separate bites on the man, Two Pomeranian hounds, 
he thinks, would kill any man, unless he was armed with 
something better than a stick. 
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The following challenge emanates from Maryland: 
A CHALLENGE TO OWNERS OF Fox Hounps at Home AND ABROAD,— 
Prince George’s huntsmen will run any county in the United States; or 
Prince George’s, Charles, Anne Arundel, and St. Mary’s count . 
bined challenge the world. Packs to consist of not less than forty-se 
nor mor more than fifty-two hounds each; hunting fields to be selected 
within one hundred miles of Washington, Louisville, Boston, New York, 
New Orleans, Brighton, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Killarney, 
Treland, : ‘ : ; i 
We solicit correspondence on the subject, with the view of arranging 
the terms, location of fields, &c. 

We call the special attention of Huden T. Trigg, Esq., of Kentucky, 
and Sir Stafford Northcote, of England, to the aboye. Address 
8. T. Suit, 
WILFRED MARSHALL, 
Bens. ’. Cross, 
Suitland, Prince George’s county, Md. 
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—The Chinese grog shop, frequented by the European 
and American sailor, must have on tap the most fearful 
fluid in the world. Vice-Admiral Shadwell, of the English 
navy, and our own Admiral Jenkins declare the compound 
sold to be made of native samshu, kerosene, tobacco, bang, 
and sulphuric acid, and that one hottl@of it is sufficiently 
strong to make a ship’s company drunk. Its price is only a 
shilling, and if can be bought wholesale for about nine shil 
lings a dozen, and is said to be a cheap and effective blister 

for horses. 
—J,ondon policemen—9,000 men—patrol day and night 
7,000 miles of street. The exact number of known offend- 
ers in London amounts to 78,203. 
__A retarned stummer tourist has made the discovery that 
‘“‘yural simplicity’? bled him about seventy-five per cent 
more than ‘‘ city rascality,” 
