FOREST AND STREAM. 
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ment of the great sources of wealth which the Miramichi 
river was intended by Providence to give man. 
Operations are also being carried on up the Restigouche 
river, and also at Gasp®. At the former place an establish- 
ment is now nearly completed, and will be in full working 
orded this fall. By referring to the Marine and Fisheries 
Report we find that the establishment is stituated ona beau- 
tiful mountain stream called ‘‘ Robertson’s brook,” which 
enters the Restigouche on its left bank, and about nine miles 
above the mouth of the Matapedia. It is a pretty, limpid 
pure stream, and is reputed to be never failing in its sup- 
ply of water. The breeding house is overlooked by Mr. 
Mowat, a very energetic and efficient officer. At 
Gaspt difficuties have arisen in procuring as eligible a 
stream as might be desired. But the difficulty Mr. Wil- 
mot thinks will be overcome, and he intends to start for 
that point at once, to finally locate and build an establis- 
ment there also. 
Bews from Abroad. 
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€~ TILL the bad reports about the birds in England con 
te) Save in Wales, where grouse, though not 
plenty, are stated to be sound, the compiaints are univer- 
The suggestion advanced by us in our last reswme of 
foreign sporting matters seems to have been actually car- 
ried out. The Duke of Buccleuch, from the moors of Up- 
per Nithsdale, orders that not another feather shall be dis- 
turbed, and a very just mandate it is, and likely to be fol- 
lowed by many other true sportsmen. Think of the hu- 
miliation ! The Lord of the Manor, who was wont to dis- 
tributeyearly to his numerous London friends his two or 
pundreds of juicy, toothsome grouse, is now forced 
io buy his birds at 8 shillings a pair, in order to feed his 
famishedl enests at his own table. This dearth of game has 
its effeet, too, on the English larder. At Leadenhall Mar- 
ket, on the 12th of last month, grouse. were scarce at 22 
shillings a brace, and even at the close of the month were 
selling at exorbitant prices. Of eourse, the whole matter 
of grouse will be, before long, worked up in true ponderous 
British form, and an encyclopedia on grouse will be forth- 
coming. Then will it be found that if was not the 
entozod in eres (worms) whieh made grouse so scarce, but 
veneral and indiscriminate slaughter of prior years. 
Grouse driving, bat- 
fues in general, use of sham hawks to keep birds down to 
tinue. 
sal, 
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out 

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Phe arms have str’passed the birds. 
the ground, and kid glove and eau de cologne shooting gen- 
decried in true, straightforward English of 
the bluntest and tersest character. If our English friends 
cannot shoot at home, they are seeking other fields of sport. 
To-day exactly isthe opening of the Baden Grand Internation- 
al Pieeon Shooting-match. It is under the august patronage 
ofan English Duke and some two foreign Princes. Though 
a Duke of Hamilion and a Prince of Rohan may combine, 
and to the aristocratic eclut of the thing add the more ma- 
terial effect of a 5,000 frane prize, we think the time is not 
far distant, when all pigeon matches will be considered as 
the relics of a barbarous age. 
As nothing can be satisfactorily arranged in England 
without copious feasting, our English friends had a most 
pleasant anniversary dinner to commemorate the founda- 
iion of the Brighton Aquarium Company, now one year 
old. It was unfortunate that Mr. Buckland was not pres- 
cnt, but Mr. Octopus Lee did the honors, and doubtless 
Mr. Sala was as funny as the circumstances could allow. 
\n American gentleman present, in answering a toast given 
© the health of visitors, spoke feelingly of the merits of 
the Zvrteg (so My. Buckland writes it), and Mr. Buckland 
asks, ‘* Who can tell whata Yortog is?” Tautoga Amert- 
cue isthe proper name, O most distinguished English Ich- 
thyologist ! areal Roman fish, as his name denotes, as far 
as the toga goes ; a very good fish to catch and to eat. But 
whilst talking of eating, has France so fully developed 
hippophagy, that Lutecia cannot now do without, as a lux- 
ury, what once she was forced to gnaw when starving ? 
In 1872, Parisians ate 9,725 horses, 866 asses, and 51 mules, 
the total quantity of horse-flesh devoured being 2,408,076 
pounds. We wonder if a Mustang would not have a su- 
perior gamey flavor? Suppose Delmonico should give us 
a Meucedvine de Mustang of General Custer’s killing ?s 
But to returnto England. All the great London cricket 
matches are ended, though Surrey and Sussex, Kent and 
Dorset, horse, foot, and 
erally, will be 
Royal artillery and engineers, 
dragoons, are wielding bats and toppling over the stumps 
throughout rural England. But move aside, all ye gallant 
sentlemen athletes, and give place to the brave ladies of 
Mngland, Scotland, and Ireland. There has been a grand 
uvehery meet of ladies, at Dublin. Number of arrows, 
four dozen at sixty yards, and two dozen at fifty yards. 
Sir A. Guiness gave the silver cup. Then they have been 
shooting, too, at Newby, at Hove, and Porvis Castle, and at 
Birkenhead, and in several matches where gentlemen and 
ladies contested for the prizes, mostly the gentler sex have 
If the Forest AND STREAM has a mission, it is to 
reproduce this beautiful sport in the United “States. Per- 
haps it is too late for this season, but next year we hope to 
hear from many a grassy lawn, the twang of the bow-string 
and the hurtling of the arrow. Toxopholitic sport must be 
«la mode. 
won. 
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—A correspondent of (0 ..u...nati Citizen gives the fol- 
lowing description of the fish jewelry which Denmark con- 
tributes to the Vienna Exposition: 
“This jewelry is made exclusively of the bones and 
scales of fish. It is just as dear asif it was made or 
gold, and it is highly esteemed by the ladies of Copenha- 
gan. Itis in many respects the most beautiful class of 
fine work we have seen. There are earrings, bracelets and 
crosses, made of tine delicate fish bones, white as the 
driven snow, and carved fine as gossamer web, and embossed 
veterinary medicine, 


with beautiful bright red and crimson fishes’ scales. 
There are also large cases of fish jewelry, such as knives; 
forks, spoons, ladles, etc., carved in the most exquisite 
patterns out of. fishes’ bones and ornamented with fishes’ 
scales.” 
—_<$———— 
—aAs shooting tigers is now among the fine arts, the best 
authorities state that baiting him with a calf or a goat is all 
nonsense. He will no more come to it, than an elephant 
after a single blackberry. What.he wants is a whole bul- 
lock to tempt him. Then shooting him from a hole is de- 
clared to be risky, as he can jump down into the hole after 
you. The only way to bag him, is to shoot from a plat- 
form, in case you can tole him on, because he cannot climb 
after you, and about fifteen feet is the limit of his spring. 
His familiar name among India officers is ‘‘ old stripes.” 
cr ealece f4 
— The French war indemnity was 5,000,000, 000 of francs ; 
interest on same for two years, 300,000,000 ; keep of Ger- 
man troops, 273,637,000 ; requisitions, 327,581,000 ; value 
of objects taken without requisition, 254,172,000 francs ; 
war contribution levied on Paris, 200,000,000, making, in 
all, the neat total of 6,673,811,009 francs. As the average 
value of a day’s labor in France is not more than thirty-six 
cents, it is not difficult to count how many days’ labor it 
would take to pay this enormous sum. 


Che Horse and the Course. 
VETERINARY SCIEINCH IN FORMER 
TIMES. 
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From a Blue-book lately published by the English Patent 
Office, containing accounts of all. ancient inventions, relat- 
ing to farriery and veterinary matters, we make some brief ; 
extracts :— 
“No great antiquity can be boasted for the science of 
Ancient nations seem to have paid 
little or no attention to the medical treatment of their do- 
mestic animals. Valuable as the horse was, they neces- 
sarily expended great care upon the preservation of his 
health, but we cannot discover that they used any remedies 
to cure an animal once diseased. The well-known work of 
Xenophon (ppiche Treatise on Horses) contains many pre- 
cepts that might with advantage be studied by horse own- 
ers of our own time, but he gives no directions for the care 
or treatment of the horse during sickness. Hippocrates 
wrote a treatise on equine disorders, Columella (early part 
of first century) and Vegetius (end of foyrth century) both 
wrote on the same subject. : 
‘But more ancient records relating to the matter seem 
entirely wanting, and even the above, as might be expected, 
show extreme ignorance. In searching into the early his- 
tory of any art, we are almost certain to find very ancient 
record of it among the Chinese. So it was with veterinary 
medicine. The late Professor Sewell, in one of his ad- 
dresses to the Royal Veterinary College, said that he had 
been shown by Professor Huzard, in Paris, a Chinese work 
onthe subject, with colored plates. The date of it was 
uncertain, but it was probably not less than 5,000 years old. 
“During medieval times the art was in an equally 
low state, and entirely abandoned to farriers. The prac- 
tice of medicine as applied to human subjects was-rough 
and barbarous enough, and that by which horses were 
treated was even more cruel. Many very barbarous opera- 
tions were recommended in old French works. At length 
the assistance rendered by the dissection of animals to the 
progress of medicine in general, received most notice. 
Amongst the early veterinary inquirers of note were Ruelli, 
Solleysel, and Lafosse, whose works are mentioned in the 
list appended to this book; contemporary with the last- 
named was a Spanish author who wrote on glanders—a dis- 
ease said to have been brought by Columbus from America 
In England, Snape, Gibson and Bartlett (in or after the 
times of Charles I1.), were the first names of note. But it 
was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that any 
great improvement was effected. France then took the 
Jead. A farm near Lyons was converted into a school in 
1761, and Bourgeiat appointed professor. Three years after 
this, in 1764, a larger school was opened at Alfort, near 
Paris, and since then another at Toulouse. Other countries 
followed the example. In 1792 the London Veterinary Col- 
lege was established, chiefly through the exertions of an 
agricultural society at Odiham, in Hampshire. . 
“Going back to the most ancient known records of civil- 
ization, the monuments of Egypt and Assyria, we are un- 
able to discover any indication of the use of a protection 
for the horse’s foot. Considering the number of horses de- 
lineated in the Egyptian paintings and the Assyrian sculp- 
tures, and the minuteness of detail that especially charac- 
terizes the artists of these ancient monuments, it is impos- 
sible to suppose that any horse-shoe was in use without its 
being represented, not only occasionally, but frequently. 
No such representation has yet been found, and we may 
consequently conclude that horse-shoes were not known to 
those ancient nations. 
“Similar researches amongst Greek and Roman antiqui- 
ties go to show that horse-shoes proper were unknown to 
the classical peoples. Horse-sandals of various sorts were 
used as a temporary protection for the foot, but the plan of 
nailing a metal plate on the hoof appears not to have been 
used at all. Mr. Fleming is of opinion, and the arguments 
he brings forward seem nearly, if not quite, conclusive, that 
the inventors of horse-shoes are to be looked for amongst 
the Teutonic or Celtic nations of the north. The Gauls 
shod their horses, so did the ancient Britons, so did the 
Scandinavians. It even has been suggested that a princi- 
pal part of the Druid’s office was connected with smiths’ 
and farriers’ work. * 
‘In medieval times’ the position of the mareschal, or far- 
rier, became a very important one. During the age of chiy- 
alry there was nothing degrading in noblemen shoeing their 
own horses, and the mareschal was held to be on a footing 
of equality with the chamberlain, falconer,and other house- 
hold officers of a court. Horse-shoeing was then as univer- 
salasnow. Pictures of knights and cavaliers always repre- 
sent the horses as shod, and allusions to the practice of 
shoeing frequently occur in middle-age writers. 
“Strangely enough, very little difference is discernible 

between the most ancient shoes and the most modern. Of 
course some very old shoes are of the roughest workman- 
ship, but as soon as the art of working in iron was brought 
to a state of comparative perfection, we see shoes exactly 
resembling those in present use. Numerous as have been 
the inventions for improved shoes, none of them have been 
found sufliciently successful to obtain general favor. Over 
and over again the same inventions have been brought out, 
tried, and cast aside, to reappear as new a few years later 
on, and we still use much the same shoes as those with 
which William the Conqueror’s horses were shod at Hast- 
Ons 
. Celie gia Mae 
The Fashion stud farm stables at Trenton, New Jersey 
were burned last week with eleven horses out of the nine- 
teen which it contained. Among the horses burned were 
two road mares belonging to General Grant; Lapier a valua- 
ble animal belonging to Mr. Butterworth of Philadelphia; 
a large bay horse owned by the same gentleman; a fine 
stallion belonging to Mr. Hutchinson; Henry 8. belonging 
to William H. Dobie, valued at $4,000, and five other 
horses. The following-horses were saved: Goidsmith Maid, 
Lucy, Roslyn, Hotspur, and California mare. 
The following horses were also burned: Lizzie Perry. 
‘owned by Edward Perry, and a black horse from Bethle- 
hem* Pa. Lapier was valued at $10,000. The stallion 
belonging to William Hutchinson, valued at $6,600. 
New Eneitanp Farr Grounps.—The races at the New 
England Fair Grounds, Boston, September3, 4, and 5, were 
witnessed by 20,000 people, notwithstanding the rain inter- 
fered much with the programme. Some fair time was 
made, Climax and Dustin Jim being among the victors. 
GosHEN Park AssocraTion—Sept 38.—The second day's 
trotting attracted a large crowd. Purse, 900 for running: 
horses. Landlord’s Purse, John Brougham’s bik. g. Gerald 
won. Time, 1.484, 1.49. 
Second race. Purse $1,000 for horses that never beat 
2:40. Three horses started. W. 1. Week’s Goldie won the 
three last heats. Time 2:41, 2:414, 2:44. 3 
Third race. Purse $1,000, for horses that had never 
beaten 2:33. Four horses started. A. Fleek’s s. m. Lady 
Emmawon. Time 2:33, 2:32, 2:354 
September 4. Third day. Handicap hurdle race. Purse 
#500; about one mile anda half over six hurdles. Five 
horses started, and was won by J. Boughram’s s. g. Re- 
venge. Time 3:43. 
Trotting. Purse $1,000, for horses that had never beaten 
2:50, Mile heats; best three in five, in harness. Nineteen 
horses started, eighteen of which were distanced during 
the race. N. Jenning’s b. g. George Miller won. Time 
2:393, 2:34, 2:304. 
FLEETWOOD Park, September 5. Purse $100 for horses 
that had never beaten 3:50; mile heats, best three in five, 
in harness. Ten entries. Five horses were clistanced; C. 
Heinzell’s b. g. Central Boy won in three straight heats. 
Time 2:48, 2:46, 2:54. 
Sweepstakes $400; mile heats; best three in five, in har- 
ness; catch weight. A. Bourett’s b. m. Marie Louise won, 
2:50, 2:50, 249. * 
Derrroot PARK, Brooklyn, L. 1. September 8.—Match 
of $200; mile heats; best three in five; between Roger's | 
Honest Abe in harness, and Williiam’s Unexpected,to wagon, 
Honest Abe won. Sccond match for $900; McMahon’. 
George, to wagon, Thom’s Slippery Dick in harness. George 
won. Time, 2:40; 2:42, 2:48. , 
—Colonel Russell, the owner of the stallion Fearnaught, 
which died recently, has bought the celebrated horse Smug- 
gler, brought from Kansas, and which recently astonished 
the horse men at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by trotting 
three consecutive heats in 2:194, 2:19%, 2:21. The price is 
understood to be $590,000. F 
—The recent fire at the Fashion Stud Farm, near Tren- 
ton, N. J., was very disastrous, and men haye beeu em- 
ployed in burning the‘ remains of the burned horses. A 
man that Budd Doble had discharged a few days previous, 
is strongly suspected of having set fire to the stables. Pres- 
ident Grant lost a number of filies, and set great value on 
thein, as he had raised them himself, and would not have 
parted with them for any money. ‘There were 135 horses, 
including stallions and ‘brood mares, con the farm before 
the fire broke out. Fortunately, the most prominent and 
valuable of the lot were saved. The owner intends erect- 
ing a large and handsome stable on the old site. 
<a> 0. 
THE PILEARS OF CATT ERSALIS: 
—. ip + or 
DMIRAL Rous and Sir Joseph Hawley are state pil- 
lars in this aristocratic republic. Their word upona 
of point honor or upon arule of the ring carries with it all the 
force of Jaw to thousands who know them only as the 
great twin brothers of the turf. You can read nothing in 
the face of a thoroughbred man of the turf except perfect 
self-possession, shrewd intellect, and a will of iron; and 
you may pick these men out in the subscription room at a 
glance from the crowd who are purchasing their experience 
at the expense of their ancestral oaks, and perhaps of some- 
thing more. Here is one of these neophytes of the ring— 
a companion of princes, the son of a Minister of Calinet 
rank, with the blood of an Eastern Emperor in his veins. 
He is booking a bet of 100 to 1 to a youth with the down 
still on his cheeks, the son of one of the most illustrious of 
the Crimean heroes; and close by, in the centre of a 
group of bookmakers and aristoeratic ‘‘legs,” stands a 
young man—still, probably on the sunny side of thirty— 
who will tell you with the utmost nonchalance tliat he has 
sold an estate to a city man for £500,000, to square up his 
book and to fight the ring. He is the representative of a 
long line of mailed barons who fought under the walls of 
Jerusalem, at Cressy and at Agincouri—statesmen ‘and 
warriors who in their time administered government and 
war with more than the capacity of Richelieu; and he is 
flattering himself with the presumptuous hope in these 
piping days of peace it is his destiny to add one more ex- 
ploit to the aceievements of his race by breaking the Ring. 
84 ‘ 
—The foliowing named gentlemen have been elected Di- 
rectors of the Jerome Park Villa Site and Improvement 
Company for the ensuing year : 
Francis Skiddy, Leonard W. Jerome, August Belmont, 
Lawrence R. Jerome, A. C. Monson, William’ Constable, 
and William H. Anthon. At a subsequent meeting of the 
Directors Francis Skiddy was elected President of the 
Board, William H. Anthon, Secretary, and A. C. Monson, 
Treasurer. 




