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AT TATTERSALL’S. 
Berea: 
T Tattersall’s ! What romance—what mysteries—what 
iniquities cluster round these words—“‘ At Tattersall’s !” 
—in the imagination of millions of men and women! It 
is the Mecca of the Turf, and it is to sportsmen all over the 
world what the House of Commons is to politicians—what 
the Stock Exchange is to men of business—what Printing 
House Square is to newspaper men—what Paternoster 
Row is to publishers—what Westminster Hall is to lawyers 
—what Westminster Abbey is to English Churchmen. It 
is a classic spot, aspot over which the imagination of sports- 
men broods, like the imagination of a devotee over the as- 
sociations of a favorite shrine. Originally, Tattersall’s was 
a mere stable yard and horse repository, distinguished from 
the general run of establishments of this kind only by the 
larger attendence of sportsmen. The Subscription Room 
is comparatively the creation of yesterday ; and there must 
be scores of men yet on the Turf—men who have been 
ruined by their speculations on two-year olds, and men who, 
begining as stable-boys, now keep their banking accounts 
with a standing balance of £10,000—who, when they first 
consulted ‘‘Old Tattersall” about joining the Room or 
making a book, .were bluntly told to keep their money in 
their pockets ; for it is an odd illustration of the caprice of 
circuinstances that the founder of the yard, the man under 
whose management the Corner attained its highest prestige 
and became the exchange of Turf-men, had what many of 
his friends thought an insane horror of a betting book, and 
did all that a man in his position could do to check gam- 
bling by friendly hintsand suggestions to youths fresh from 
college and fired with the idea of making a splendid cowp at 
the expense of the Ring. 
Fourteen years have now elapsed since Old Tattersall, af- 
ter a reign of fifty years, handed over his hammer to young- 
er if not more vigorous hands, and in those fourteen years 
the science of betting has grown and developed more than 
it had probably done in the previous half-century. What 
Old Tattersell would have said if called upon, as his de- 
scendents have been, to knock down a two-year old with 
£2,500 of forfeits on his head, I cannot say ; but that fact 
sufficiently illustrates the daring and adventurous spirit of 
speculation which marks the Turf-men who now meet un- 
der the shadow of his rostrum to stake an estate on the throw 
of a ‘* dice on four legs.” Tattersall’s yard has grown 
with the growth of horse-racing : and it now forms the cen- 
tral institution of the Turf, is the focus of half the gam- 
bling that is carried on within the four seas, gives the cue 
to every bookmaker, regulates by its quotations the odds on 
every race-course, and through the system of agency that 
has sprung up within the past few years is open to every 
clerk or draper’s assistant or stable-boy who ‘wishes to stake 
half-a-sovereign. In the course of a couple of hours in the 
_afternoon one hundred thousand pounds have been known 
to be invested on five or six horses. This, in fact, is now a 
regular branch of commission business, and the account 
of what was done at Tattersall’s yesterday appears in all the 
newspapers as regularly as the City Article and Court Cir- 
cular.—Gentlemen’s Magazine. 
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SPORTING ENGLISH STATESMEN. 
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plese breed of English statesmen began with the Lord 
Treasurer Godolphin, and till to-day we were beginning 
to think that it ended with Lord Palmerston, all the men of 
political mark on the books of Tattersall’s breaking up their 
studs and relinquishing the Turf within a year or two after 
the disappearance of ‘‘Old Pam.” The last of these sport- 
ing Secretaries of State was General Peal, and General Peal 
has now left the Turf as well as the House of Commons 
for five or six years ; and, with the exception of Lord Hart- 
ington, the front ranks of neither the Conservative nor the 

“Ministerial Benches in the House of Commons now contain 
: 
a single face which is familiar to the Ring.» Mr. Disraeli is 
perhaps a sportsman at heart, and the best description of the 
Derby that has ever been written— the classical and histor- 
ical description—is that from his pen. But Mr. Disraeli is 
only a sportsman as most of the rest of us are sportsmen, 
in his love of sport, of horses, and of the genial and healthy 
excitement of the Turf. And Mr. Gladstone is not even 
this. If the Premier can distinguish a race-horse from a 
hunter, or a hunter from a cob, it is all that he can do; and 
what the Premier is, the rest of the Ministry are and must 
be, I take it, now, if they are to play their parts well in 
Parliament and in the work of administration at Whitehall. 
The Marquis of Hartington may perhaps be able to spare 
time from, the work of governing Ireland to look after a 
stud of horses at Newmarket, and to make a book upon the 
Derby, or the St. Ledger ; but if the experience of Lord 
Derby, Lord Palmerston, or even of Lord George Bentinck, 
is worth anything, the man who enters into politics as a 
science—enters into it, that is, heart and soul—must think 
of no books but blue books, and of no horses but his hunt- 
ers and his park cob.—Gentlemen’s Magazine. 
So 
DUBLIN IN THE LAST CENTURY. 
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ADDY’S pet accident in those days was to fall into the 
Liffey. One might almost suppose that he looked 
upon this picturesque but evil smelling river as the Hindoo 
looks on the sacred Ganges, and believed that everlasting 
happiness was to be procured _ by immolating himself in its 
waters. Does a trooper or a dragoon go down to the river 
to water his horse? He falls in and is drowned. Does a 
merchant go to the quay to see a brig unloaded ? Does a 
sailor go down to Ringsend in a boat ? Does a girl take 
some clothes to the riverside to wash ? “Drowned ! 
Drowned!” Shakespeare’s exclamation was never so appli- 
cable. Andif anybody falls in, an impetuous but unreflecting 
bystander generally jumps in after him or her, apparently 
forgetting that he himself is not much of a swimmer, and 
both are, as a matter of course, drowned forthwith. In one 
case a good natured gentleman, seeing a girl lamenting that 
the tide had carried away some sheets she was washing, goes 
in after them, but having over estimated his powers of nata- 
tion the man goes the way of the clothes, and_ is lost for- 
ever. Another gentleman’s hat is blown off (no light matter 
in the days of gold laced head coverings), in he goes. after 
it into the fatal waters, and soon exchanges Liffey for Styx. 
Persons of ‘disordered minds” (of whom there would seem 
to be quite a little army going about), are very fond of try- 
ine to cool their heated brains in these ‘‘waters of Eblana.” 
But the vast majority of these deaths from drowning are 

dismissed with the contemptuous pleonasm that the de- 
ceased was “intoxicated with liquor” at the time. By the 
way, there is a powerful aroma of whisky about this period 
in the annals of the Green Isle. Two successive viceroys, 
my Lords Northington and Rutland, are freely spoken of 
as notorious sots; indeed, Rutland is well known to have 
drunk himself to death while still a comparatively young 
man. And so on, down through every class. Lord North- 
ington gives a fancy ball at the Castle. He being very un- 
popular at the time, the people, with rare temperance, Tre- 
fuse to drink the barrels of ale set running for them by the 
lord lieutenant, which are left to the soldiers, so that the 
whole guard, horse and foot, were, as “‘our own correspon- 
dent” curtly observes, ‘“‘when we left, helplessly drunk.” 
A favorite mode of shuffling off this mortal coil is to drink 
an enormous quantity (sometimes specified as pints, five half 
pints, &c.) of spirits, the not unnatural consequence of 
which is very speedy death. 
If the above sketch should appear exaggerated, I am pre- 
pared to assert that among the innumerable papers I have 
looked over there is a death by drowning, a murder and a 
fatal accident for every day in the year.—AW the Year 
Round. 
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FAMOUS BRITISH REGIMENTS. 
——_—-4—$——— 
HERE is an old military tradition that the Fifth won 
from the French the feathers which they now wear, 
and that they dyed their tops red by dipping them in the 
blood of their enemies. The true story, however, is this. 
The “Old Bold Fifth” had the distinction of wearing a white 
plume in the cap, when the similar ornament in the other 
regiments of the service was a red and white tuft. This 
honorable distinction was given to them for their conduct 
at Morne Fortune, in the island of St. Lucia, where they 
took from the French grenadiers white feathers in sufficient 
numbers to equip every man in the regiment. This dis- 
tinction was subsequently confirmed by authority, and con- 
tinued as a distinctive decoration until 1829, when a general 
order caused the white feather to be worn by the whole 
army. By a letter from Sir H. Taylor, adjutant general, 
dated July, 1829, the commander-in-chief, referring to the 
newly issued order, by which the special distinction was 
lost to the regiment, states that, ‘“As an equivalent, the 
Fifth shall in future wear a feather half red and half white, 
the red uppermost, instead of the plain white feather worn 
by the rest of the army, as a peculiar mark of honor.” In 
1774 they went to put down the so-called rebellion in Amer- 
ica. They fired the first shot of the unfortunSe war at 
Lexington, where they came on some armed American mili- 
tiamen, and were nearly surrounded at Concord, where they 
had.destroyed some military stores collected there by the 
so-called rebels. In the attack on Bunker’s Hill, near Bos- 
ton, the Fifth had hot work fora June day. With three 
days’ provisions on their back, cartouch box, &c., weighing 
one hundred and twenty-five pounds, they toiled through 
grass reaching to their knees, between walls and fences, in 
the face of a hot fire, and eventually got possession of the 
enemy’s works on the hill near Charlestown. The Fifth 
also joined in the reduction of Long Island, the battle of 
White Plains, the capture of Fort Washington, the reduc- 
tion of New Jersey and a fight at Germantown, where they 
rescued the Fortieth regiment from an American brigade.— 
All the Year Round. 

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HOW THE CONTINENTALS 
TBP IZAY;,. 
———— 
ERHAPS no regiment in the British service has had its 
deeds better recorded than the Fifty-second—probably 
no regiment has won more glory. 
passed in arms since arms were first borne by men,” Napier 
said of it, after the gallant fight at Nivelle. The sentence 
rings in one’s ears like the bugle sounding “the advance,” 
and that it is fully justified the emblazoned words on the 
regimental colors of the Fifty-second (Hindoostan, Vimiera, 
Busaco, Fuentes d’Onoro, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Sala- 
manca, Vittoria, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse, Waterloo and 
Delhi) pretty amply prove. The regiment first distinguished 
itself in the American war for independence, 1775. While 
investing Boston an odd event occurred, which is thus de- 
scribed by Lieutenant Martin Hunter in his amusing regi- 
mental journal : 
“During the Winter,” he says, ‘Dlays were acted at Bos- 
ton twice a week by the officers and some ladies. A farce, 
called the ‘Blockade of Boston,’ written by General Bur- 
goyne, was acted. The enemy knew the night it was to be 
performed, and made an attack om the mill at Charlestown 
at‘the very hour the farce began ; they fired some shots, 
and surprised and carried off a sergeant’s guard. We im- 
mediately turned out and manned the works, and a shot 
being fired by one of our advanced sentries, firing com- 
menced at the redoubt, and could not be stopped for some 
time. An orderly sergeanf, standing outside the playhouse 
door, who heard the firing, immediately running into the 
playhouse, got upon the stage, crying out, ‘Turn out! turn 
out! They're hard at it, hammer and tongs! The whole 
audience, supposing the sergeant was acting a part in the 
farce, loudly applauded, and there was such a noise he 
could not for some time make himself heard. When the 
applause was over he again cried out, ‘What the devil are 
ye all about ? If ye won't believe me, be Jabers, you need 
only go to the door, and then ye’ll hear and see both.’ If 
the enemy intended to stop the farce they certainly suc- 
ceeded, as the officers immediately left the playhouse and 
joined their regiments.” 
The Fifty-second fought at the battles of Brooklyn and 
White Plains, the reduction of Fort Washington, the tak- 
ing of Rhode Island and the battle of Brandywine ~ In 
777 they helped to surprise a force of fifteen hundred 
Americans under General Wayne in a wood, when three 
hundred of the enemy were bayoneted at their Wee! 
The Fifty-second lost four captains in the An erican war ; 
and on the death of Captain Powell in New Jersey, the 
drummer of his company was heard to exclaim : ‘Well, I 
wonder who theyll get to accept our erenadier company 
now ; [’ll be hung if I would take it.”"—All the Year Rownd. 
SLOPED 


With regard to the new Mauser rifle, a German paper 
says:—‘‘It cannot be questioned that we have a weapon ex- 
cellent in all respects; in mode of construction, solidity of 
mechanism, tension of trajectory, security for the marks- 
man, rapidity of fire, lightness of weight, certainty of dis- 
charge, and general convenience,in handling. ‘ 
Jer) being caught south of Michigan. 
‘‘A regiment never sur- | 

Answers Co Carrespondents. 
pe eS a . 
AnpREW H.—The best mixture for preserving the skins of animals is 
one in the proportion of six pounds of alum, and three of salt. Dissolve 
both in about a gallon of warm water. Use when cool. Place skins not 
too tightly packed, in a barrel or keg, aud pour in mixture, - Skins 
without injury to hair may be kept any length of time in this way, and al 
in good order at any time to stuff. Best handy book*we know of for this 
kind of lore, is Edwin Ward’s Knapsack Manual. 
Vicror 8. P. The question of drift, depends on the character of the 
rifle and nature of twist, so that no positive data can be given. At a dis- 
tance of 1,200 yards, its maximum is about eighteen feet. Your experi- 
ments would be of. great interest. 
T. U., JR.—Body’s performance in walking is stated to have been one 
mile in six minutes forty-two seconds, and Westhall’s one-half mile in 
three minutes ten seconds, We can find you an amateur who can walk 
at any time, his mile in seven minutes, fifteen seconds. 
L. 8. G.—“Nepigon” is correct orthography. It is so spelt on Ad- 
miralty charts aud Government maps. The Indians spell it Nipigo, and 
pronounce it Neepigo, with a French ‘‘¢”’ sound. 
S. H. B.—We should be glad to have a specimen of the fish for exam- 
ination, and think we can class it. Pack it in rough dry salt. 
Otp Hanp.—From the description you give, we think you are in error. 
The turkey is found in Honduras, and its name is the Meleagris ocellata. 
Its plumage is more brilliant than that of our wild turkey, and its size 
smaller. Anything you may write about that section will be interest- 
ing. 
A. B.—An Englishman and his game-keeper will hunt with six dogs, 
and sometimes in the afternoon, supplement it with a fourth couple, hav- 
ing also a retriever. 
J. O. B.—We know of a St. Bernard dog, here in New York, bought of 
the Monks at the Hospice for 800 francs. He cost, we think, pretty 
eee $300, when landed. The animal is good natured but not socia- 
(i 
Horacr,—The sisters of the Irish setters you speak of, undonbtedly the 
best dogs of this kind, were sold for eighty guineas. The dog man you 
mention is not reliable, we are sorry to say. It is always risky work im- 
porting adog. Will place you in communication with the person, you 
inquire about. 
H. V. & Co.—The tin can of preserved fish is excellent, quite as good 
as any imported. As an alimentary substance it would be a success. We 
take great pleasure in fostering any enterprise of this character. See 
our first number, 
INeRATIUs.—We have never heard of the grayling (Zhymallus Signi- 
! Send accurate drawing, and if 
possible the fish itself in rough salt. 
RaBry.—We have found a box of tar ointment, carried with us in- 
valuable for dogs’ feet, especially in chicken shooting. Wash first the 
dogs feet in Inkewarm water, adding a little salt to it. If he shows a de- 
cided tenderness, stop hunting him for two or three days. 
S. O., Utica.—We think you have taken the name of the gun maker in 
vain. Their reputation is excellent, and the work they turn out admira- 
ble. Weused the same make of gun last year, and please gracious, if 
answering all the questions put to us, does not prevent it, will use it 
again this fall. 
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—A Mr. E. de Borssiere, has some 8000 acres of land in 
Kansas, which he intends to devote to silk worm culture. 
—A Virginia lady, gathering berries, was lately struck 
twice in the breast by a rattlesnake, but thanks to toilet ar- 
tifices escaped harm. 
—Colonel Noah Orr, of Marysville, Ohio, aged twenty- 
seven, seven feet eleven inches high, measures seventy 
inches around the chest, and brings down the scales at 670 
pounds. 
—At last they have a copyright law in Turkey, and we 
congratulate the literary world on the fact. There are so 
many people who have had their works pirated in Turkey. 
Now they will have a chance for readers. 
French sugar makers get one pound of sugar from sixty- 
six pounds of beets, while in Louisiania from the infinitely 
richer cane, about one pound of sugar from every forty- 
five pounds of cane is about the average. 
—A school of large whales, some of them seventy feet 
long, were off Saybrook last week; very few humps or fin- 
backs among them. The appearadce of so many large 
whales together is a novelty. j 
—The trotting stallion Sentinel was found dead in the | 
stable at Ash Grove Farm, Lexington, Ky., last week. His 
owner, Edwin Thorne, of New York, recently refused 
£30,000 for him. e 
—“Uncle” John Bullock of Bristol is only 104 years old. 
Uncle John endured a severe attack of pneumonia in June, 
and when he was convalescent he called his boys about him 
and remarked: ‘That was asevere attack. If Td been 
an old man, I guess it would “‘ have fetched me.” 
—Wolves in immense numbers have appeared for the first 
time for many years among the settlements near the Strait 
of Belle Isle on the Labrador coast, and entirely broken up 
one settlement. On the night of July 1st they attacked a 
a party, killing and devouring three men and one woman. 
—Two amusing answers of the son of a Western Sena- 
tor at West Point are recorded. On being asked into how 
many pieces a discharged spherical shot will burst, he re- 
plied, ‘‘ Into two, at least, sir, I should’ think,” and on be- 
ing asked what were the uses of the vent in a piece of ord- 
inance, replied, after mature consideration, that “it showed 
the upper side of the gnn, and it was useful to spike it 
with. 
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‘Harry TERRAPIN FRom Cxutna.—In the ‘Travels of a 
Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats,’ by T. T. 
Cooper (London, Murray, 1871,) there is a plate of one of 
these hairy tortoises from the lakes of Ha-su, above Han- 
kow. These curious little animals were about two inches 
long, and covered on the back with a long confe:void 
growth resembling green hair. The tortoise being a sacred 
emblem in China, the Chinese make pets of the hairy tor- 
toise, which they; keep in basins of water during the summer 
months and bury in sand during the winter. A small lake in 
the province of Kiang-su is famous for these so-called hairy 
tortoises, and many persons earn a livelihood by the sale of 
these curious little pets.’ The figure in Mr. Cooper’s book 
looks like an oval door-mat, with a tortoise’s head sticking 
out of ome end.” 

