FOREST AND STREAM. 
15 

Current’ Flews. 
10} 
Southerners are quite numerous at Cape 
May this season. 



There is to be a grand four-ball American 
game billiard tournament this fall. 
It is estimated that a volcano, long extinct, 
has broken out afresh in Colorado. 
They are experimenting with female 
horse car conductors in Savannah. 
There is no doubt that gold has been dis- 
covered in Alaska in paying quantities. 
Wild horses are abundant in southern 
Kansas, and several parties of hunters are 
after them. 
A black drum-fish weighing fifty-six 
pounds was caught off Robbins Reef, Staten 
Island, last week. ' 
Ten thousand dollars in premiums will 
be offered at the Friendship Driving Park, 
Pittsburgh, August 27th. 
Teresa Carreno, the American pianist, has 
just been married at London to the young 
violinist, Emile Lauret. 
Antoine Ravel, of the famous ‘‘ Ravel 
family,” so popular in America some twenty 
years ago, died at Toulouse recently. 
Dr. McGregor Jones, at Dexter, Me., has 
a trout in his well that is forty-six years old. 
He was placed in the well he owns in 1827. 
The Boston Journal says that about twenty- 
five thousand residents of that city are now 
absent, of whom about a thousand are in 
Europe. 
It is reported that Anna Dickinson is 
going upon the stage, and that she will 
make her debut in a dramatic version of the 
Scarlet Letter. 
The game of pall-mall, now obsolete in 
England, has been played in Montpellier, 
(France) uninterruptedly for the last four 
hundred years. 
The genuine tea plant is now grown pro- 
fusely in all the gardens of Jacksonville, 
Florida, and some residents use no other tea 
in their families. 
An enterprising dog in Utiea secured sam- 
ples from the clothing of eight lightning rod 
agents within half an hour after a thunder 
storm the other day. 
The best game in Persia is the argali or 
wild sheep, a large animal, with a peculiar 
mane, its horns measuring four feet, and 
weighing alone fifteen pounds. 
The cattle disease is raging in Misouri, and 
several thousand head have been carried off 
within the past three weeks. In one county 
the loss amounts to over $50,000. 
A gardener in England claims to have dis- 
covered a method of varying the colors of 
flowers by means of chemical applications 
to the earth in which they grow. 
An Indiana county fair oflers prtzes of 
$5 for the two handsomest babies of each 
sex, to be plated on exhibition, and prizes 
of $10 for the fattest pigs and calves. 
The editor of an Illinois paper thinks 
fishing, as a general rule, don’t pay. ‘‘ we 
stood it all day in the river last week,” he 
says, ‘‘but caught nothing—until we got 
home.” 
Some one tells a story of a steamboat pas- 
senger watching the revolving light of a 
light house on the coast and exclaiming, 
“Gosh! the wind blows that light out as 
fast as the man can strike it.” 
Oregon appeals earnestly for laws to pro- 
tect her valuable salmon fisheries. The 
fish are much decreasing year by year, 
through wanton distruction and sheer negli- 
gence of proper protection. 
Hayseed in the hair and blue drilling over- 
alls are to be the prevailing styles for West- 
ern politicians this fall. It is said that the 
accession to the ranks of farmers for the last 
two months from gentlemen that never be- 
fore scented clover, is something wonder- 
ful. 
Mrs. Josephine Jameison, a native of Vir- 
ginia, who died in Brooklyn last week 
weighed over five-hundred pounds, and after 
death the body had swelled to such an 
enormous size that the undertaker found. it 
impossible to remove it through the front 
door. 
Thirty-nine short-horned cattle were sold 
at auction on Tuesday last at the farm of 
George M. Bedford, in Paris, Kentucky. 
The average price of the herd was $857.50 
each. One bull brought $4500, and another 
bull, the Eleventh Duke of Geneva, was 
sold privately to Mr. Murray of Racine for 
(). 
’ 
The rush of American travel to Europe is 
now over. Footings of the departures from 
this port for what may be called the ‘‘ seas- 
on,” are, for the present year, 18,533, and 
those for (nearly) a corresponding period in 
1872 are 18,033. This does not exhibit the 
increase in travel which has been expected, 
considering the attraction of the Vienna Ex- 
hibition, and the fact that three new lines 
have gone into operation since last sum- 
mer, 





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TAILOH) AND GBNBMAL CLOTHIERS 
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NORTH-EAST COR. TWELFTH ST. 

30%, 
S26 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK 

We Make a Speciality | if Boy's and Children’s 
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You are invited to call and examine our Stock, which will be cheerfully shown 
by polite and attentive salesmen. 

James Lacy, fate with Devlin & Co. 
O. W. DusEnBerry, late of Franklin & Co. 
J. §. Devan, late with Devlin & Co. 

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FREDK. T. HOYT, 

CHAS. E. TEALE, BROOKLYN. 
WM. M, LITTLE, (Specal.) 
One Price. Goods Marked in Plain Figures. 


Groceries. 


EXCURSIONS, 
PIC-NICS, 
HOTELS, 
AND FAMILIES, 
WILL ALWAYS FIND A CHOICE 
STOCK OF 
AIL) GHOCLATE' 
Wines, Liquors and Cigars, 
—Ar— 
W. A. CAMP’S 
244 Third Avenue, 
NEW YORK. 

All Goods of the best Quality, and sold at 10 per 
ceut. below Broadway prices. 
W. B. PERKINS, 
Wine Merchant, 
553 Fulton Ave., thro’ to DeKalb, |. BR | 
and 173 Myrtle Ave., cor. Prince, { 
WM. HASTINGS & SON, 
IMPORTERS OF AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 
Wines, Brandies, Gins, 
LONDON AND DUBLIN PORTERS, 
Bass’ and Edinburgh Ales, 
218 Centre Street, New York. 
ALP Cnn ray, 
$7.00 per gallon, or $1.50 for full sized bottle, I5 years 
old, mellow, fragrant and reliable; entire invoica pur- 
chased at half its value. 
Good sound Madeira, (five years old,) $3.50 per gal- 
lon, or in bottles; selected Sherries from $4.00 to $12.00 
per gallon; a natural Dry Sherry at $5.50, very choice; 
Champagnes from $19.00 to $28.00. Very choice Teas 
in origins] packages of 10 pounds each, from $1.10 to 
$1.40 per pound. Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods and 
table luxuries at very low rates for cash. 
H. B. KIRK & CO., 69 Fulton St., N. Y. 
10% 
Establighed 1853. ; 






ITHMAR DU BOIS, 
Celebrated Shirt Maker, 
828 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN. 
FINE SHIRTS, 
Collars and Cuffs, 
To Order, at Popular Prices. 
Fashionable Furnishine Goods 
IN GREAT VARIETY. 
Sar Sale, 



$Hliscellaneous Advertisements. 

JOHN MERRY & CO.. 
Manufacturers of 
AMERICAN CALVANIZED 
SHEET TRON, 
(Lion AND PHENTX BRANDS.) 


-30% 
Galvanizing‘and Tinning to Order. 
10° 
46 CLIFF ST., NEW YORK. 




IVES & ALLEN, 
MONTREAL, CANADA. 
ANUFACTURERS OF HARDWARE, 
STOVES, IRON RAILINGS, WIRE WORK, &c. 
Also, a class of wrought iron work known as 
Medieval Iron Work, 
FOR CHURCHES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS,, 
&C., &C. 
Entrance Gates for Parks and Residences. 
A SPECIALTY. 
BENHAMS & STOUTENBOROUGH, 
MANUFACTURERS OF PLAIN, JAPANNED, PLANISHED! 
AND STAMPED 
TIN WARES, 
IMPORTERS OF AND DEALERS IN 

Hollow Ware and and House Furnishing Goods, 
Tinner’s Tools, Machines and Supplies, 
Galvanized Coal Hods, Ash 
and Well Buckets, 
270, 272 & 274 PEARL STREET, 
NEW YORK. 


















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Live Moose jor Sale! 
Collectors of animals, will find a rare opportunity of 
purchasing, at a low rate, two very fine specimens. 
The Calf, a cow, is two month’s old; the Bull is about 
one year old. Both are gentle and in fine condition. 
Can be shipped to any part of the country. For price 
and furtheg particulars, address 
FOREST AND STREAM OFFICE. 
Wachisetor jate: 
A few new Yachts, 50 by 17 feet beam, about 20 tons 
will be sold. Make an offer. 
Address, P. O. BOX 142, N. Y. 
Road Stock. 
Will be 


Three fino young horses, best stock, fast. 
sold hy the advertiser, for the cost of raising 
Address BOX 142, P. O. 


Mtliscellancous Alvertisements. 
DALTON, 
MANUFACTURER OF 
Ni HARNESS, 
AND IMPORTER OF 
English and French Saddlery, 
336 Fulton St., Brooklyn. 
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HORSE CLOTHING A SPECIALTY. 
~ JOSEPH H. BATTEY, 
245 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, 
Naturalist, Taxidermist, 
EALER IN OBJECTS OF NATURAL 
HISTORY. Animals, Deer’s Heads, Birds, Rep- 
tiles, Fish, &c., &c., mounted in a superior manner. 
N. B: Birds, (mounted or in skins,) and their eggs, 
for Collectors and Scientific Institutions, a specialty. 
Artificial eyes by the pair or 100 pair.’ A liberal re- 
duction to large orders and the trade. 
Lessons given in Taxidermy. 
F. HORTON, 
DEALER IN 
WATCHES, JEWELRY, 
SILVER WARE, & PLATED GOODS, 
42 FULTON ST., N. Y. 
WATCHES AND CLOCKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 
OAREFULLY REPAIRED BY PRAC- 
TICAL WORKMEN, 









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Cures Sore Throat, 
Pneumonia, Whooping Cough, Rheu- 
matism, Chilblains, Strains, &e. 
A SPECIFIC FOR BITES OF INSECTS. 
The Deobstruent allays Inflammation, removes the 
obstructions, reopens and stimulates the circulation, 
cleanses, soothes and heals more rapidly than any 
Brouchitis, Neuralgia, 
other known preparation. For sale by all Druggists. 
Samples Free! Ask forit! Test it! 
Ward, Russell & Co., 
28 AND 30 Futon St., N. Y. 
NOS 
Cholera Mixture, 
(ESTABLISHED OVER 22 YEARS,)? 
A MOST EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR 
DIARRH@G@A, CHOLERA MORBUS AND 
COLIC, &e.* 
Manufactured and for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, by 
W. E. ARMSTRONC, 
Successor to H. Nott, 
28 & 30 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. 



printing, 
Wedding |Cards 
A SPECIALTY. 


CHAPMAN & BLOOMER, 
ENGRAVERS 
And Designers, 
ZO EFULLTON ST., INEW YORK. 
~ WILBUR & HASTINGS, 
MANUFACTURING 
SA LON Ro: 
Printers, Lithographers, 
40 FULTON STREET, 
NEW YORK. 

Corner of Pearl Street. 


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