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FOREST AND STREAM. 
ek Sn, 
the rapidity of a deer, when necessary, and at times stand 
motionless, as a stump; for there is no more suspicious bird 
than an old gobbler that knows that he is informing a whole 
forest of his presence. It may be unsportsman-like; it 
may be pot-hunting; but there is a deal of satisfaction in 
seeing a plump fifteen-pounder drop from his airy perch at 
the report of your gun—especially when you need his pres- 
enceincamp. Frank Forester says, ‘‘ that, though he is‘al- 
ways delighted to see a well roasted turkey on the board, 
especially if well stuffed with truffles and served up with 
well dressed bread sauce, he would’nt give the least pala- 
table mouthful of him—no, not his underilled gizzard— 
to pot-hunt a thousand in sucha style.” But then he never 
shot one. The weight of the hen Turkey, full grown, 
should be about ten pounds. Gobblers, from fifteen to 
twenty; though instances are related of the capture of 
thirty-five pounders. Though a full grown bird will carry 
away a heavy load in the body, a charge of an ounce and 
a half of number two shot, backed by three drachms of 
good powder, well placed in the neck or head, will al- 
ways prove effective. Even number eight shot have proved 
too much for young males, though hunters generally pre- 
fer buck-shot. 

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Capp Brevoorr.—Away up in the extreme northern 
latitude, just below Repulse Harbor, about four hundred 
and sixty miles from the North Pole, a cape of Hall’s 
land or Greenland, jutting out into these frozen seas, has 
been named by the intrepid explorer, after our distin- 
guished correspondent, J. Carson Brevoort, Esq. 
With cape Union, Cape BREVOORT disputes the honor of 
being the furthest northern geographical pvint attainable 
by man, on our American hemisphere. To give the names 
of distinguished men to such discoveries is singularly ap- 
propriate. In the case of Cape Brevoort, it will help to 
perpetuate the memory of a gentleman, noted not alone 
for the liberality with which he dispenses an ample fortune, 
put for the encouragement he has given to all geographi- 
cal and scientific researches. 
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Down Among THE MoniusKs.—Our columns this week 
are enriched by an original communication from Com. 
Beardslee, commanding the steamer Blue Light, assisted by 
Professor Verrill of Yale College, which will be read with 
creat interest. In this connection we would state that the 
Tribune has prepared, under the immediate supervision of 
W. C. Wyckolf, Esq., of its editorial staff, ‘‘ Scientific Se- 
ries No. 10,” a most elaborate article, illustrated with dia- 
grams and altogether of the greatest scientific interest. 
io io———_—_—_—_— 
Honor to Wuom Honor 1s Dun.—In recognition of the 
gallant services of the Reverend Mr. Ancient of Prospect, 
Halifax county, Nova Scotia, who on the occasion of the 
wreck of the Atlantic Steamer, was instrumental in saving 
a number of lives, the Domingo Government have present- 
ed him with a gold watch and $500. The Reverned gentle- 
man unites within himself precisely those characteristics 
which command our respect. His boating experiences 
allowed him to launch his frail craft in the raging sea, and 
to rescue lives innumerable from a watery grave. 
or 
Expecrep Arrivats.—Sir Samuel Baker and_ Lady 
Baker have accepted an invitation from the American Ge- 
ographical Society to visit New York sometime during the 
summer of 1874. Between now and then Sir Samuel and 
his wife are, however, capable of plunging once more into 
Africa, and discovering a lake or so. Both man and wife 
are the personifications of pluck and courage, and will 
receive the hearty welcome they undoubtedly deserve. 
<p o 
—Donaldson, the aeronaut, mace two successful balloon 
ascents from the Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn, last week, 
landing in the first instance at Hempstead, and in the sec- 

ond near Yonkers. On Monday, at 7 o'clock, he 
succeeded in making his long promised ascension, 
and started for Europe, with a life insurance 
agent on his track, and an unhappy realization 
of an immediate but indefinite hereafter. He landed 
in Canaan, which was not the *‘land of promise.” 
$< 
—The remainder of the crew of the Arctic exploring 
vessel, the Poiaris, arrived at New York on Saturday, Oc- 
tober 4th, from Dundee, Scotland. 

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—Messrs. Schonchin, Jack & Co., long and extensively 
engaged in the hair business, suspended at Jackson- 
ville, Oregon, on the 38d_ instant. Little irregulari- 
ties in their affairs had long been suspected. 
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(Several communications left over will appear in our 
next issue. 
Cee canna 

In an editorial on the horse disease the Congressionalist 
suggested that it might be well to sit at the feet of a horse 
and learn humility. ‘‘Just so,” says the California News 
Letier, ‘‘sit down at the hind feet of a mule, and if he don’t 
humiliate you, pull his tail and tickle the side of his legs 
with a stable fork.” 
a 
Horsus ix Evrore.—The Revista Militare, gives the fol- 
lowing information respecting the number of horses and 
draught animals in various countries in Europe. From 
that it appears that there are 18,000,000 horses in Russia, 
and that 325,000 are employed for her army. In the Ger- 
man empire there are 2,500,000 draught animals; in Austria, 
3,100,000; in France, 4,250,000; in England, 2,666,200; in 
Italy, 1,100,000, or 700,000 horses and mules, and 400,000 
donkeys. During the late war, the number of horses in the 
German army was 290,000, and it is estimated that 230,000 
is the number of horses in the French. In France, mules 
are extensively used in the military trains, and the country 
contains upwards of a half a million of donkeys. 

Jlews from Abroad. 
‘Ges English friends have got themselves into an ab- 
surd quarrel with the Ashantees. What peculiar 
phase of an African Schleswig-Holstein business may have 
given rise to this strife, we leave for elucidation to some fu- 
ture historian. We believe there was a sainte alliance, some 
kind of tangling alliance, between the English and the 
Fanti, and that the Ashantees, disregarding protocols, and 
indifferent as to international law, were the aggressors. 
What is certain to our civilized minds, is this: that while it 
may be quite natural for the French and Prussians to cut 
each other’s throats, it is quite barbarous on the part of 
the Ashantees and Fantis to imitate them. As it is, the 
war between tbe British Lion and the Ethiopian Elephant 
will require no end of victims. Not that the assagat of the 
the Ashantee is to be so much dreaded, us the malarious 
diseases which will lay low many a sturdy Anglo-Saxon. 
As to fame, kudos, to be gained in this war by the English, 
there will be but little. Perhaps geography will have a 
marginal note added to its volume, and certainly the ani- 
mals and birds of this unknown region will be better under- 
stood. To-day, the soldier and the naturalist march side 
by side, and as often as not the man of war and the lover 
of nature are embodied in one and the same person. 
—Questions of physical stature, diminution of size, and 
mental effeminacy occupy, at times, the attention of our 
English friends. ‘‘Are we as big, as lusty as we used to 
be2” they ask of one another. ‘‘Though we play cricket 
and row boats and run races, are we quite up to the old 
standard?” they anxiously nquire. If among the higher 
classes the physical and mental standard has not dimis- 
ished, there is a complaint that the lower classes are dwind- 
ling, as to body and brains. How truthful this may be we 
are not prepared to say, though Canon Kingsley is the au- 
thority. Perhaps Mr. Charles Bradlaugh willinform us on 
this subject. Our Hnglish contemporary says, what the 
people want is * improved dwellings, light and space,” 
and protection from ‘‘ being poisoned by every grocer and 
publican with whom they deal.” 

The Field, in a clever leader on this subject, states that 
almost all the questions addressed to certain local prints 
are relative to the health of the correspondents, asking ad- 
vice for physical ailments. Republicanism, it asserts—dis- 
satisfaction with things in England as they are, “arises 
from the doses of blue mass and laudanum taken,’’ and the 
paper advises that some methods be used to restore vigor 
to the poorer classes, and adds that ‘** the moment you fat- 
ten Cassius, you spoil a conspirator.” That they eat queer 
things in Scotland is very certain. For instance, Mr. 
Buckland, in Land and Water, (he is writing from Dum- 
friesshire, Scotland) states as follows: ‘‘The shepherds on 
these hills are very fond of bracksey mutton. This is sim- 
ply the flesh of the sheep which die on the hiiis. Mr. Bell 
tells me they will eat this bracksey mutton when it is ina 
most horrible state, and it forms a chief part of their food 
throughout the year. I believe they put it up the chimney, 
and make a sort of ham of it. From what I hear of it I 
don’t think it very likely to be patronised by Fortnum and 
Mason. The dead sheep are the perquisites of the shep- 
herd.” Wealways knew that your Scotchman was eco- 
nomical, but this fact is quite disgusting—even horrible— 
and partakes of the barbarous. But whether the Scotch 
shepherd is one of the effeminate type, we cannot deter- 
mine; but we are quite certain he has a strong stomach. 
—The desire Englishmen have to taste the sweets of 
camp life are sometimes, though quite commendable of a 
slightly ludicrous character, at least in the neighborhood 
of London. Almost anywhere on the Thames, thickly 
populated as the country is, we should imagine that there 
would be about as much of the true colewr local about camp- 
ing out there as there would be to rig up a wig-wam in 
Central Park, or a fly-tent in Union Square. To camp out 
on the Thames is, then, a mania, It is amusing to read of 
the comPplaints of disgusted proprietors of grounds, who set 
their faces at the liberties taken with their lawns. Deter- 
mined cockney voyageurs will poach on their gravel walks 
and flower beds, camping there, imagining that they are 
in the primitive forest, and they play havoc with the park 
palings, when boiling their tea-kettles. Some ‘how or 
other, though we may smile, we can’t get angry; opposed, 
as we are, to trespass, we do wish for sympathy’s sake, 
these good English fellows could for once know all the ex- 
quisite delights of true camp life—that approach to the 
condition of the primeval man, the realization of which 
is the most joyous feeling implanted in the human breast. 
What it goes to show is, that love of true sport of 
out-of-door life, even though it be at the expense of a 
parterre, which is inherent to the Anglo-Saxon race. 
—Grouse shooting has been entirely abandoned, and very 
wisely. Anybody shooting grouse now in England is de- 
clared a foe to true sport. There is no doubt that, had 
grouse shooting been continued, the birds would have been 
exterminated. Partridgesare in fair quantity, though from 
what wecan gather, accounts being somewhat meagre, the 
sport will not be pushed to excess. Hares and rabbits 
abound. Stag shooting is now at its height, and in Lang- 
well forest many a noble animal has fallen. Their weight 
is a trifle heavier than our largest American deer, being 
about some 275 pounds for a full-sized one. 

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—The College of the City of New York opens its Winter 
session with 895 students in the different classes—seniors, 
39 ; juniors, 45 ; sophomores, 92 ; freshmen, 156 ; introduc- 
tory collegiate, 265 ; introductory commercial, 298. 
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| The 7 Horse and the Course. 
—Dr. Noah Cressy, veterinary Pathologist to the State 
Board of Agriculture of Connecticut, in his second annual 
reportin regard to the epizootic, makes the following in- 
teresting statement: ‘Young horses, and those of the 
heavy or cart breeds, are most liable to its attacks, and in 
the latter it is “always more severe than in those having 
finer breeding; in fact we always find that coarse-bred 
horses suffer more from, and are less able to withstand the 
effects of debilitating diseases than well-bred horses.” It 
would seem, then, that blooded stock possess some inher- 
ent vital force which can struggle better with disease and 
overcome it, which lower bred animals would succumb to. 
This 1s a most curious and novel fact, and well worth, re- 
cording. 
—The American Jockey Club commenced the fall meeting 
at Jerome Park on October 4th. The day was what is 
called ‘‘eood racing weather,” and the attendance on the 
grand stand and course was very large. Many gentlemen 
drove to the course in their four-in-hand, pairs, dog carts, 
and T carts; the people went by rail, and, as usual, on re- 
turning from the races the accommodations on the Harlem 
Railroad were very unsatisfactory, causing much trouble 
and disappointment to many families. The first race was 
for a purse of $400, subject to conditions. Distance, three- 
quarters of a mile. Theré were eight horses started. Cari- 
boo bolted on the first attempt to start, which caused some 
delay. At last they all got off together. On approaching 
the stand the excitement was great, as Ortolan came to the 
front, and the rider of Wizard seeing this, gave him the 
whip and his head, and, cutting his way through, won by 
ahead. Ortolan second. Time, 1:19:— 
SUMMARY. 
First Race.—Purse $400; entrance money to second horse; beaten 
maidens allowed if four years old or less, 7 pounds; if 5 or more, 12 
pounds: three quarters of a mile. 
M. A. Littell’s br. c. Wizard, 3 years, by Concord, out of Dolly Mor- 

Man, 95 POUNAS.)... 2.2... eee cee eee tte eter ee teen ete ene eeeess 1 
A.B. Lewis and Co.’s br. h. Ortolan, 6 years, by Doneraile, out of Ca- 
mary Bird, 124 Oude sr... oleic niyo: cfpelenie se erie elnlel- asila'> fe eaelaiaiee sete 2 
A. A. Hitchcock’s c. f. Quitts, 3 years, by imp. Eclipse, out of Colum- 
pias 92 POUNSes oe tec asl eine ect prctereeseees esses ere ees 3 
H. P. McGrath’s br. c. Artist, 3 years, by Asteroid, out of Fairy, 95 
POUTGS 4s. ethers ebic leiclshe c wleke cies creniale vlets eae erelale ait etsivin i nelalnie aerials ue 
M. H. Sandford’s br. g. Kadi, 4 years, by Lexington, out of Katona, 
QB OWING foc. si sires oli oyate pepe Walalelgye eles Gees eproe ts (oan ielm giegel ie elite 5 
P. Lorillard’s c. c. Free Lance, 3 years, by Kentucky, out of Parachute, 
95 pounds......... PR in Fis one Do oa ao nonwey Moor une Fes oe 6 
A. B. Lewis & Co.’s Bessie Lee, 4 years, by Hunter’s Lexington, dam 
by Chorister, 98 pounds. .... 22.2... teen etree ner ween snes cose ms 
L. L. Lorillard’s b. c. Cariboo, 3 years, by Lexington, out of Alice 
Jones, 88 POUNAS. i. 6. ic ee Fe eee eke ee scale tide ede tee ee oe elect es 8 
The Jerome stakes was undoubtedly the great event of 
the day. Added tothe stakes was a piece of plate pre- 
sented by Leonard Jerome, Esq. The starters were the 
well-known horses Fellow Craft, Count D’Orsay, Merodac, 
Tom Bowling, and Springbok. Owing to some misunder- 
standing on the dropping of the flag, Count D’Orsay was 
left at the post until the others were fifty yards in advance. 
Tom Bowling made all the running, and was never caught, 
winning with ease in a hard gallop by two lengths; Spring- 
bok second. No official time was taken, as the judges, like 
the rider of Count D’Orsay, were undetermined whether 
there was a start at the time:— 
SUMMARY. 
Srconp Race:—The Jerome Stakes, for three-year olds, of $100 each, 
nalf forfeit, with $1,500 added by Club. and $500 in plate by Leonard Je- 
rome, Esq., the second horse to receive $300 out of the stakes; closed 
July 15, 1871, with seventy nominations; two miles; value to winner, 
$5,280. 
H. C. McGrath’s b. c. Tom Bowling, by Lexington, out of Lucy Fow- 
Jer. “Syrian ee eee tee odicec cea te plow ele ee enone meter 1 
D. McDaniel & Co.’sc. c. Springbok, by Australian, out of Hester. 
fgets Seek Esk deiinae cern Gass es siege Se istaaem settee aint ene mame 2 
A, Belmont’s c. c. Count D’Orsay, by Kentucky, out of Lady Bless- 
ington. EVvams.......... 20. eeeecee es terete teen cece eee eee teens 4 
W. W. Glenn’s c. c. Merodac, by Australian, out of Ada Cheatham.... 5 
The third race was the great two-year old, or Nursery 
stakes. Distance, one mile. There were eleven youngsters 
started on the dropping of the flag. King Amadeus rushed 
to the front, and was going at his best speed, but as they 
came up the homestretch Rutherford was ahead, and now 
led Reform by three-quarters of alength. The jockey of 
Reform laid on the whip, but without avail, as Rutherford 
won by two lengths; Reform second. Time, 1:474:— 
SUMMARY. 
Turrp RacE.—The Nursery Stakes, for two-year olds, of $50 to each, 
play or pay, with $1,000 added; the second horse to receive $200 out of 
the stakes; closed 15th July, 1872, with fifty-five nominations; one mile; 
value to winner, $3,550. 
Dennison & Crawford’s ¢.c. Rutherford, by Australian, out of Aero- 
Fates oe Pe PE A POEL sits or achs (etna is eid Or tlehe: a1aIe I Sean oleate Mkt -cel ot ate 1 
M. A. Littell’s b. c. Reform, by Leamington, out of Stolen Kisses..... 2 
Charles $. Lloyds br. c., by Australian, out of Ultima................. 3 
John F. Chamberlain's b. c. Visigoth, by Asteroid, out of Vandalia.... 4 
A. Belmont’s gr. c. Steel Eyes, by Planet, out QOL Maglenheccunt cacer sie. i} 
D. McDaniel’s & Co.’s c. f. Mary Buckley, by Leamington, out of Lad 
DULG a CER ORE eM e eee tciinaes awk ss ¢ 2c 
D. D. Winter’s imp. c. c. Macaroon, by Macaroni, out of Songstress.... 0 
P. Lorillard’s b. c. Saxon, by Beardsman, out of imp. Girasol......... 0 
J. Carter Brown’s b. c. Court Hampton, by Hampton Court, out of 
EGHOn Ae eta ere et See eceaten fads incite, cs) Ws eicis Sustutes sc, oan eae 0 
John F. Chamberlain’s c. c. Weathercock, by imp. Australian, out of 
AMEND WAVY ORUILOL WALA 5 oie-e falas) = a'=et inig)s 01s aun. ein ain cine o =| ole elseta ete ETe 0 
A. Belmont’s imp. c.c. King Amadeus, by King of Trumps, ont of 
AME GHG meer acs eet ee ecu a cee bee vw cba eaeerine BoM e eehn a era 0 
The fourth race was the Manhattan Handicap, for all 
ages, one mile anda quarter. Fifteen accepted, and nine 
started. After several false starts, they at last dashed off 


