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Calendar of Events for the Current Week. 
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Fripay, Sept. 26.—Albany Fair, N. N.—Waverley Fair, N. J.—Mil- 
waukee Fair, Wis.—Pennsylvania Central Fair, Erie, Penn.—Agricultural 
Association, London, D. of Canada. 
SATURDAY, Sept. 27.—Ridgefield Rowing Association Regatta.—King- 
ston Regatta, D. of Canada.—Tennessee Central Fair, Murfreesboro, 
Tenn.—Rowing clubs foot of 133d St., Harlem New York.—Western Fair, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Monpay, Sept. 29.—Cape Vincent Regatta, D. of Canada.—St. 
Industrial Fair, St. Joseph, Mo.—Northern Ohio Fair Association, 
land, Ohio.—North Missouri Fair, Hannibal, Mo.—Sonthern 
Centralia, Ill.—Northern Wisconsin. Oshkosh, Wis. 
TUESDAY, Sept. 30.—Deerfoot Park, Parkville, L. I.—Dexter Park Club, 
Chicago, Ill.—Deerfield Valley Fair, Charlemont, Mass.—Central Michigan 
Fair, Lansing, Mich.—Manchester Fair, N: Hampshire.—Pennsylvania 
State Fair, Erie, Penn. 
WeEpnzspay, Oct. 1.—Southern Pueblo Fair, Colorado.—Deerfield 
Valley, Charlemont, Mass.—Dexter Park Club, Chicago, Il].—Deerfoot 
Park, Parkville, L. I.—Annual Match Toronto Gun Club. 
THURSDAY, Oct. 2—.Nassau vs. Analostan Rowing Clubs, Potomac, 
Washington, D. C.—New York Squadron Regatta.—Cincinnati Industrial 
Fair, Cincinnati, Ohio.—Northern Ohio Fair, Cleveland, Ohio.—Dexter 
Park club, Chicago, Il. 
Joseph 
Cleve- 
Tlinois Fair, 


PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SO- 
CIETY. 

HE NSociety has an elegant suite of rooms on Broad 
street, near the Academy of Music, and was opened 
with great eclat on the evening of the 16th. Delegates from 
every State in the Union are there, representing every floral 
and pomological society in America, under whose jurisdic. 
tion will be placed the land set apart in Fairmount Park 
for the Centennial Exposition. The Pennsylvania Society 
rooms have in the centre of the main hall a temple, formed 
of six magnificent pillars, which, in their turn, are made up 
of innumerable bouquets, which are presented to the 
ladies as they leave the society’s: rooms. In the middle of 
this temple is a fountain, giving out jets of cologne, and 
suspended from the interior of the dome are tube roses, 
camelias, and other flowers, grouped in such a shape as to 
represent the familiar old Independence bell. The cost of 
the floral bell exceeded $200, while the expense of the temple 
and fountain was over $1,000. The display of fruit is 
superb, and contributed from every quarter of the land, but 
few States having no representation. The names of the 
parties growing the handsomest fruit are as follows : Mr, 
G. E. Chamberlain, of Virginia; Mr, M. Thomas, of Phila- 
delphia; Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Neos be 
Perkins & Son, Morristown, N. J .; William Thatcher, 
‘Fast run getter, and fine fielder.” 
Darby, Pa.; Mr. Hovey, Boston, Mass.; Messrs. Smith & 
Powell, Rochester, N. Y.; and Hollway & Co., California. 
There is also a table of apples, pears and plums, brought all 
the way from Utah. The finest collection of pears by all 
odds is that offered by Mr. Thomas Grigg, one dish of his 
holding twelve large pears which, upon the scales, weigh 
just twelve pounds. The fruit stands are arranged in ave- 
nues around the room, while the central portion is taken 
up with plants, flowers, and cut bouquets. 
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THE CLERGYMEN OF ENGLAND. 


Wit questions of orthodoxy, creed, tenet, or dogma, 
with discussions ritualistic or rational, of High or 
Low Church, sectarian or dissenting, the Forrest anp 
STREAM has nothing todo. With due respect to all such 
topics, inclined to interfere with no man’s faith, looking 
up from Nature to Nature’s God, we reverence His sacred 
name, and think that each leaf which rustles in the forest, 
or wave which ripples in the stream, unites in the one great 
pean of His praise. His ministers, the clergy, have our 
unqualified esteem. As a class they are hard working, gen- 
erally poorly paid men, who, indifferent as to worldly 
goods, strive alone for the welfare of their flocks. 
Their spiritual condition is beyond our province. Their 
physical state, however, we deem as legitimate to discussion 
in our columns. Taken as a class, our clergymen are not 
as strong nor as lusty as men following any other of the 
liberal professions. The life of the student, the immuring 
in the library, the compilation of the sermon, the attendance 
in the heated church, the calls made by the clergyman to 
administer consolation to the afflicted, even trying though 
they may be, are not sufficient to account for this excep- 
tional low physical condition. This waste of strength 
arises, we are prepared to affirm, from the want of proper 
exercise, and certain sedentary habits which are considered 
by clergymen as obligatory to their profession. There is 
no question but that this state of things is forced on them. 
Disinclined as pious men may be to anything like asceti- 
cism, they nevertheless are influenced by the opinions 
of an austere laity. It is, therefore, to the congregations 
rather than to the clergymen that we address our remarks. 
There is still in our midst a remnant of that Over severe 
creed which believes that gladness and cheerfulness are at 
variance with religion and true piety. Without going to 
the extreme of Trappists, there are many congregations 
believing that the least inclination on the part of a religious 
incumbent to athletic sports, be they of the simplest kind, 
is ungodly. To them a game of base ball or cricket played 
by their minister, would be deemed as a profanation, and 
as to the simple sport of battle-door and shuttle cock, they 
would esteem it as an expression of triviality of character 
inconsistent with the sacred character’ of a clergyman, 
Do people think that God’s chosen disciples are made of 
different flesh, blood, muscle or fibre from other men? Are 
they aware that the same laws of nature govern the bishop, 
the sexton and the grave-digger? 
This frowning down of rational amusements is in itself 
an inconsistency. They require of their clergyman ser. 
mons. They drag from his brain his deepest thoughts; 
they drain his intellectual faculties to the very last drop, 
and then refuse him the only method which nature allows 
him by which he can recuperate his forces, and that is by 
bringing up the body to the same condition as the brain. 
They insist on burning the flame, basking in its light, 
warming themselves in the fervor of its heat, but forget 
that the elements must be furnished by which only this fire 
can be sustained. Good sermons are certainly the united 
products of both mental and muscular fibre. Of course 
our remarks are not intended for older clergymen, but we 
send forth this plea of mercy for those young in their sacred 
calling. Take the minister fresh from his theological 
school, with the merry shouts of the college campus still 
ringing in his ear, with the vivid recollections of the boat 
or the foot race still electrifying every muscle, and drap 
him into one of those cold, unsympathising congregations 
of doubtless good people, and mark the effect. The whole 
being of the man is changed, all those pleasant pastimes, 
healthful, innocent ones, must be abandoned, The physique 
in time works on the morale. Not only does the man suf- 
fer, but the glorious fire within him, the better, ever living 
portion of him, smokes for awhile, at last smolders, and is 
then extinguished. If we are educating young men for 
theologians, giving them health and vigor by means of boat 
clubs and athletic pastimes generally, let us not forget the 
world in which they are to live. 
These remarks, pertinent or not, have been suggested by 
looking over an English Cricketer’s Companion. Here we 
see among the Gentlemen of England, those whose prowess 
makes them the best known of the hundreds of thousands 
who play this noble game of cricket, such names as the 
Reverend E. T. Drake, Westminster. His credentials are 
(we copy literally,) as follows: ‘‘ A destructive slow bowler. 
Then again we notice 
the Reverend C. D. Marsham Bucks, ‘once famed as 
the best gentleman bowler, and still a good player.” 
There are fully a dozen clergymen cited as cricketers, with 
all their various points of particular excellence distinctly 
mentioned. Does any one dare, with a Philistine spirit, to 
declare that the learning, piety or broad christian humanity 
of these gentlemen is impaired? Does it take a little from 
their reputation because their names are heralded as lovers 
of a manly sport. Suppose for a moment such a publica- 
tion was made in the United States in regard toa clergyman 
who was a good cricketer. There would be a cry of horror 
raised throughout the length and breadth of the land, and 













all les convenance, secular, temporal and clerical, would be 
horrified. 
Some time ago, a huge steamer full of men, women and 
children, struck, one dark night, on the rocks near Halifax, 
and hundreds of human beings struggled in the. water for 
their lives. Who was it but a clergyman who launched his 
frail skiff into the surges and came to the rescue? Would 
rigid church disciplinarians have found fault with him 
then? It was not brute strength alone which kept the cler- 
gyman’s boat afloat, there was skill in it too, those whip- 
cord muscles of his which drove the craft through the 
whirls of foam had had long prior training; above ‘all, 
there was a brave heart which sent him on his perilous way. 
No man could have performed a feat of this character un- 
less with a body inured to muscular strain, and certainly 
this good clergyman must have rowed many a mile in his 
life for sport. 
All men, whether they be of God’s annointed, or miserable 
sinners, must sometimes be placed under just such emer- 
gencies, when not only their own lives but those of others 
may depend solely on their physical powers. But putting 
aside this view of the advantages derived from wholesome 
exercise, it seems to us as if smacking something of abso- 
late cruelty to debar so many of our fellow beings because 
they are clergymen, through inconsiderate clamor, from 
enjoying the many advantages to be derived from rational 
amusements. 
We sincerely trust the example given by English clergy- 
men, who do not lose any of that proper respect which 
should always be attached to their calling, will find fol- 
lowers among our own ministers. 
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ps Be 
N alate number of the Courrier @ Oran, we find the fol- 
lowing: ‘‘Though the period of the conquest of Alge- 
ria is of comparatively recent date (1829-80), everything 
seems to prove that, since trees have been planted, water 
sources have almost doubled, and in some cascs quintupled 
in certain localities. The effects of a climatic change seem 
even probable. There is more moisture in the air, and ey- 
ery year the rain fall is more abundant.’ 
What more convincing proof can we have than this ex- 
ample ? In less than thirty years—for the subjugation of 
Algeria by the French was hardly completed before 1845— 
a country known to have been arid, and wanting in water 
is to-day, by the planting of trees, blessed with copious 
rains, flowing streams, and consequent fruitfulness of soil. 
We are seeking to-day to double the capacity of our 
canals, and Senate Committees on Transportation are delib- 
erating how best they shall utilize the waters of Lake 
Champlain and the Hudson, and such serious questions of 
supply of water naturally present themselves, 
If we are to depend on unlimited sources of water, we 
must look at the prime causes of the supply. Legislators 
would do well to consider all these subjects, theoretically 
and practically, and the preservation of the forest in the up- 
per portions of the State ought not to escape their notice. 
There should be no near-sighted policy about it. Works of 
the character proposed, a broad water channel, which shall 
bring to us the great grain crops of the West, are to be con- 
structed, not only to suffice for the-wants of the present 
citizens of the United States, but for generations yet to 
come. We assert that in the grand study of political econ- 
omy, with particular reference to our country, there is no 
question so vital to its general interests as the preservation 
of our forests. 



























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DUCKING ON ’CHANGE. 







Vien equinoctial storm of Friday, September 19th, was 
most disastrous on ’Change, flooding the ordinary chan 
nel-ways, until it overflowed the banks, washed out the 
stools of speculative sportsmen, swept off their decoys and 
blinds, and submerged the favorite haunts of the game 
itself, so*that they were unable to cover. Indeed the flood 
came so suddenly and raged so fearfully, that when it had 
partially subsided, it left many lame ducks along the mar- 
gins of the numerous pools and high and dry among the 
rushes on the banks. Many old sportsmen who were wont 
to place implicit reliance upon the “points” of their favorite 
retrievers, found them now without a scent and utterly 
powerless to recover the fortunes.that were carried down 
stream. Empty were the bags that day, and few the 
“flyers” that the most successful sportsmen were able to 
wing or bring to hand. The encouraging sounds of ‘‘puts’’ 
and ‘‘calls,” as the well trained retrivers were alternately 
sent to cover and re-summoned, were seldom heard, and 
the only words that fell upon the ear were the grating syl- 
lables “Down—Oharge!” Tn fact, the sportsman had no option 
in the matter. He could only stand quiet and tearfully 
watch the precious things that took to themselves wings 
and flew away or passively sunk in the seething current. 
The mortality among the ducks, jays, geese, and snipe, 
is almost unaccountable, but is supposed to have been partly 
due to the fact that the flood left but few deposits upon the 
banks, and that consequently they became weakened from 
lack of feed and natural sustenance. Moreover, what has 
been regarded the safest and best security proved but a 
sorry refuge, leaving them to the pitiless chances of the 
market and the slaughterers of stock. It is useless} however, 
to venture an explanation or enter into details. The ‘ong” 
and “‘short” of it is, that the disaster was overwhelming, 
and its effects likely to be felt for a considerable time to 
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Ladies’ sporting ornaments—Hare nets and scull-pins. 
