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Che Kennel. 
—The beagle is a small dog, and is used for hunting rab- 
bits, and the amusement of our junior friends. There are 
several breeds, which are distinguishable from each other 
by their size and generalaspect. The rough beagle is sup- 
posed to be produced by crossing the original stock with 
the rough terrier, and possesses the squeaking bark of the 
terrier, rather than the long musical intonation of the bea- 
gle. The nose of this variety is furnished with the stiff 
whisker-hairs which are found on the muzzle of the rough 

Athletic Pastimes. 
—The Prospect Park Cricket Club played the Manhat- 
tans the return match on October 11th, at Hoboken. There 
was a full attendance of members and friends of the lovers 
of cricket. Several of the Park eleven were absent and the 
substitutes played a better game than their first eleven, 
although the bowling was not first-class, and were some- 
what careless in the field. The following is the score:— 
PROSPECT PARE. MANHATTAN. 
Woodhouse, b. Ronaldson,...... 8 McDougal, ct. and b. Longmires20 


terrier, and the fur is nearly as stiff as the terrier's. The | Dester, et. McDougal, b. Honsl. ” Bosfordb. Dexter 20 
dwarf or rabbit beagle, as it is sometimes called, is the Aeon ee ee 12 Ronaldson, b. Dexter.......... 10 
smallest of the breed, delicate in form and aspect, but | Peters, b. Greig....... Tete sete 2 Greig, ct. Longmire,b. Dexter.. 9 
of good nose and swift of foot. So small are these little Longmire, ct. Tucker, b. Greig.. 8 Marsh, ct, North, b. Chadwick. 40 
INOrthy Di Greior ii. dace anon sos 17 Beattie, st. Longmire, b. Chad- 
creatures, that a whole pack of them have been conveyed to Griffiths, ct, and b. Greig........ 1 ed Te ten eae 8 
and from the field in baskets slung over the back of a horse, | Robinson, ct. Greigb. Ronaldson 0 Tyler, not out............. . ae 4 
and on one occasion three gentlemen placed thirteen of Heath ct. eee a pete ; eee ceed 0 
: . . : . “ . Kieller, ct. McDougal, b. Ru Mears, b. Chadwick........... 0 
these little dogs in their shooting jackets, walked to the | (yo vavick, not int sine Pee isla g Guaawice: ace 0 
woods, hunted all day with them, killing eight rabbits, and 
: : z Byes, 9; leg byes, 2, wides, 3..... 14 
then returning them to their pockets, thus saving the dogs 
Byes, 6; leg byes, 4; wides, 7... 17 
the fatiguing walk to the woods and back again. These | Total.........--.-........-.- 00s, YP) BUS dria Aco ahtruodsnricin 141 
. . . é j 4 ” 
little dogs are chiefly employed by the rabbit shooter, and pu of wickets. iz = a a a a “ Leen = seal 
are not sufficiently swift of foot to hunt the larger rabbit Manhattan,...... 20| 33 } 50°| 63 | 114| 183 | 141 ) 141 | 141141 
Umpires.—Messrs. Smith and Talbot. 
The Athletic base ball club played the Philadelphias in 
Philadelphia on October 11th, in presence of a large assem- 
blage of those interested in the game. The score was Phil- 
adelphia, 18; Athletic, 9. 
—In Boston on October 11th, a game of base ball was 
played between the Bostons and Baltimores, resulting in a 
victory for the Bostons by a score of 13 to 6. 
—The Washington and Boston base ball clubs played in 
Boston last week. The score was, Bostons, 25; Washing- 
tons, 6. 
—The Mutual and Atlantic base ball clubs played 
on the Union grounds, October 18th. The Mutuals won 
very easily, the score standing 18 to 7, in their favor. 
—The Washington and Atlantic Clubs played a match on 
the Union grounds. Washingtons, 17; Atlantics, 3. 
The Mutual and Bultimore clubs played the eighth game 
of the championship series on the Union grounds, Williams- 
burg on October 11th. The Mutuals scored 7, and the 
Baltimore 0. 
—The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club will play a cricket 
match with the Manhattan Club at Hoboken on the 16th 
inst., eighteen vs. eleven, and on the 20th the St. George 
club play their eleven against a picked eleven of the Man- 
hattan, Staten Island, Jersey City, and Prospect Park clubs, 
for the benefit of Brewster and Smith, the professionals. 
The players on the part of the St. George will include 
Messrs. Bance, Bowman, Harcombe, Jones, Moreau, Lem- 
mon, Sleigh, Souther, Cashman, Talbot, and Smith. The 
others will include Kersley, McDougal, Jackson, Grey, 
Woodhouse, Longmire, Dexter, Outerbridge, Brewster, 
Luske, and Marsh. 
or hare. Time of game.—4:10. 
No amusement would afford our college students in the 
country a more health-giving recreation, or a pleasanter 
afternoon sport than a little drag hunt in this lovely au- 
tumnal weather. Take, for instance, the best and longest 
winded runner in the college or school, trailing after him 
arabbit skin wellsaturated with turpentine or aniseed, put 
the beagle on the scent, and let the boys follow. If the 
scent be good, and the course lie tolerably straight, the en- 
durance of the boys will be tested, and the miniature 
hounds often come toa check at asmall pool, &c., when 
the little beauties will start off again in an instant, uttering 
their flute-like bark, and any one of average strength and 
speed can easily be inat the finish. Try it, and see if is not 
good fun. You ask where are we to get the dogs? A male 
and female will cost about twenty-five dollars, and in one 
year’s time you will have all the dogs necessary, and be 
able to supply other friends and schools as they require them. 
The cost of keeping them is very small, any farmer’s son 
would be glad to take care of them for atrifle, say twenty- 
five cents a weck’ per head. We should be only too glad to 
give any college or school any informa tion about where 
toprocure or how to train these cunning little miniature 
hounds. 
or or 
—‘'On the Chesapeake,” says Appleton’s Journal, ‘‘you 
must have a good dog, or you will lose helf your game. 
The Chesapeake water dog is a magnificent animal. It is 
difficult to trace his origin. He is smooth-haired, which is 
a great point, as the Newfoundland suffers terribly fom 
the freezing of his shaggy coat; his color is either black, 
with white breast and gray nose, or tawny yellow, the latter 
preferred. Generally he is fierce, and the best of watch- 
dogs, deep-mouthed and powerful. He is very sagacious, 
and loves the water and the sport. I have seen one—a 
mere puppy—sit for hours in the summer watching the fish 
hawks as they pursued their craft. Whenever the hawk 
would make his plunge Leo would rush through the 
‘‘jumping water” and swim forthe spot. He never brought 
out a hawk that I know of, but never seemed to be discour- 
aged at his failures. One used to be famous for his thiev- 
ing propensities. He would sneak off and seize every duck 
he could lay his teeth on and deposit it on his master’s 
pile. Another would never touch a whiffer or southerly 
unless ordered by his master to do so, but would swima 
half-mile through floating ice to secure a canvas-back or 
red-head.”’ 

‘‘ArL Hanps Betow.”—A good story is told of a parrot 
who had always lived on board of a ship, but who escaped 
at one of the southern ports and took refuge in a church. 
Soon afterwards the congregation assembled, and the 
minister began preaching to them in his earnest fash- 
ion, saying there was no virtue in them—that every one of 
them would go to an endless perdition unless they repented. 
Just ag he spoke the sentence, up spoke the parrot from his 
hiding place :— 
‘‘All hands below!” 
To say that ‘‘all hands” were startled would be a mild 
way of putting it. The peculiar voice and unknown source 
had much more effect upon them than the parson’s voice 
ever had. He waited a moment, and then, a shade or two 
paler, he repeated the warning. 
‘*All hands below!” again rang out from somewhere. 
The preacher started from his pulpit and looked anxious- 
ly around, enquiring if anybody had spoken. 
“All hands below!” was the only reply, at which the en- 
tire panic-stricken congregation got up, and a moment 
afterward they all bolted for the doors, the preacher trying 
his best to get there first, and during the time the mischiev- 
ous bird kept up his yelling: : 
‘All hands below!” 
There was one old woman present who was: lame, and 
could not get out as fast as the rest, and ina short time 
she was left entirely alone. Just as she was about to hobble 
out the parrot flew down, and alighting on her shoulder, 
yelled in her ear:— 
“All hands below!” : 
“No, no, Mister Devil!” shrieked the old woman, ‘‘you 
don’t mean me. I don’t belong here. I go to the other 
church across the way.”—Christian Union. 
ae 
A Diseustep PorntER.—A gentleman requested the loan 
of a pointer dog from a friend, and was informed that the 
dog would behave well so long as he could kill his birds, 
butif he frequently missed them he would run home and 
leave them. The dog was sent, and the following day 
fixed for trial, but unfortunately his new master was a re- 
markably bad shot. Bird after bird rose and was fired at, 
but still pursued its flight untouched by the leaden showers 
that fell around it, tillat last the pointer became careless 
and often missed his game; but as if seemingly willing to 
give his master one more chance, he made a dead stand by 
some scrub oaks, with his nose pointed downward, the fore 
foot bent, and his tail straight and steady. In this master- 
ly position he remained firm till the sportsman was close 
to his tail, with both barrels cocked; then moving steadily 
forward a few paces he at last stood still near a bunch of 
grass, the tail expressing the anxiety of mind by moving 
regularly backward and forward, when out sprangan old 
cock grouse. Bang! bang! went both barrels, but alas! the 
proud bird returned to the woods unhurt. The patience 
of the dog was now quite exhausted, and instead of crouch- 
ing at the feet of his master till he re-loaded, he turned 
boldly round, laced his tail close between his legs, gave one 
howl long and loud, and off he set,and did not stop until he 
arrived at the home of his owner. ; 

Hay Fryer anp Astuma.—In a late number of the Lan- 
cet some peculiar observations are recorded of this unpleas- 
ant ailing, and of its affinity to the milder forms of asthma. 
Bronchial inflammation is in most cases the cause of an at- 
tack, but at the same time, as the following remarks prove, 
there are some individuals whose temperament is so highly 
sensitive as to be affected even by the smell of animals:— 
‘In some rare instances the attack may, according to Dr. 
Salter, be induced by the smell of certain animals, as dogs, 
cats, hares, and evensheep and horses. Among theremark- 
able examples’ he gives is one of a circus proprietor, who 
was alwys affected with, asthma in the presence of horses, 

with the relinquishment of his business, he had happily 
taken leave of his troublesome complaint, which, however, 
always returned if he visited the stables. 
was that an American gentleman, who was always affected 
by the presence of dogs or cats, and could even detect that 
they had passed through a room by the state of his breath- 
ing on entering it. A third case was that of a country 
clergyman, who was rendered asthmatic by the neighbor- 
of a hare or hareskin. This peculiarity converted him into 
aremarkably keen gamekeeper; for if he met any of his 
The following are from the Danbury Nevos :-— 
—No actor has yet been able to counterfeit that expres- 
sion of joy which a man shows when discovering a ten-cent 
stamp in his paper of tobacco. 
—Dumb bells at jewelry stores for the exercise of those 
who contemplate the new style of sleeve studs, wouldn’t be 
a bad idea. 
—If the price of peaches was a mountain, there would be 
snow on the top of it. : 







































until having made his fortune he retired, and found that, - 
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parishioners who had been poaching and had their booty 
about them, he could always in this way detect them. 
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Waar rr Costs ro Knock 4 Man Down In VIENNA.—A 
blow is punished out of all proportion to our Engltsh ideas 
of the offence. If, unfortunately, a foreigner should have 
a difficulty with an Austrian, and straightway assault and 
batter him, the best course is to agree quickly with the ad- 
versary while on the way with him tothe Polizei-Amt. 
“The hurt that honor feels” can in most cases be salved 
by a judicious application of money. The Viennese are 
much too lazy to be implacable, and it takes a great deal to 
rouse them into actual ferocity, even when they get up a 
revolution. The chiefs of the Peters Platz will always be 
found willing to assist ina friendly arbitration, but they 
must naturally be treated with politeness, for Austrian 
c)mmissaries of police, apart from the code they have to 
administer are as arule well educated, patient, courteous, 
and by no means harsh interpreters of the law. A simple 
blow may be condoned by five to twenty florins, according 
to its impact; a black eye has cost the dispenser of it a 
hundred, and in the case of a person kicked down two 
flights of stairs, the kicked held out for five hundred as the 
ransom of the kicker from captivity, but was eventually 
induced by arbitration to take three hundred. By this sort 
of arrangement everybody is satisfied; the commissary is 
saved much trouble, the alien violator of the German ma- 
jesty of the law is rescued from the disagreeable conse- 
quences of ‘‘that rash humor which his mother gave 
him,” the foreign minister is spared any vulgar interruption 
of their diplomatic repose, and most of all Pepe, if he has 
no garden wall to repair, can at least take Pepi in a new 
bonnet on Sunday to Neuwaldegg, or invest in a few tickets 
in the last lottery loan.—All The Year Round. 
Oo 
—Gunning is becoming a fashionable sport with the 
ladies of the French nobility. The young Dianas go to 
the forest with their beaux dressed in jack-boots, with zouave 
velvet pantaloons buttoning at the knee, blouse in velvet, 
tightened to the waist with a leather belt; falling shirt col- 
lar, and brigand hat. The game like Captain Scott’s fa- 
mous coon, comes down of its own accord. 
Answers Go Correspondents. 
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[We shall endeavor in this department to impart and hope to_ receive 
such information as may be of service to amateur and professional sports- 
men. We will cheerfully answer all reasonable questions that fall within 
the scope of this paper, designating localities for good hunting, Jish- 
ing, and trapping, and giving advice and instructions as to outfits, im- 
plements, routes, distances, Seasons, expenses, remedies, traits, species, 
governing rules, etc. All branches of the sportsman’s craft will receioy 
attention. Anonymous communications not noticed.| 
isthe De See 
Nau.—The owner of the Champion Shooter’s Badge, is Ira Paine. 
Woopwarp.—You can get a good second-hand English breech-loaders, 
case and all, for $125. 
Fisner, Elizabeth, N. J.—Your buck’s head can be neatly set up on a 
black-walnut stand for fifteen dollars. 
J. K.—Best dog for duck shooting, water spaniel, cross between 
small Newfoundland and the spaniel. 
Taps.—One hundred brace of grouse haye been killed by a single gun 
in Scotland. 
SupscrrBer.—Pierce county, Wisconsin is good ground for chicken's 
(pinnated grouse.) Between the Mississippi river and the Big Woods, a 
stretch of twenty miles or so, it is chiefly farms and scrub oak prairie. 
Harry Darrer, N. Y.—If you wish to trap for profit go to Northern 
New Brunswick, or that district of Canada back of Ottawa, or to Colorado. 
You can estimate the expenses readily, we should think. 
X. U. X.—It is not so common as is supposed to send a ball through 
a buck. It has undonbtedly been accomplished, and your friend’s state 
ment should not be doubted. 
BREECH-LOADER, Philadelphia.—Bred from the old English hound. 
The present race of pointers is probably 300 years old at least. Some 
particular strain of hound may have had a wonderful nose for birds. 



F. E.—A dog something like the Esquimaux dogis found wild in North 
ern Oregon; specimens have been brought to San Francisco by captains 
of vessels, and sold at large prices. 
T. F. C. T.—It is by no means “infra dig’ for a sportsman to dispose 
of his peltry after a trappingexpeditien. Otters, gocd ark and brown, are 
worth $18. Martins $6. Gunther would alwys give you the market price 
for them. 
H.—A muzzle-loader can be made lighter than any other gun of equal 
bore and length of barrel, but then the absolute difference is so slight that 
it is not taken any account of in the many other advantages the breech- 
loaders possess. 
BREECH-LOADER.—The English Pointer is descended from the old Span 
ishrace. The Spanish dog from the hound, one of which hounds is sup- 
posed to have shown a disposition to point, and this faculty being en- 
couraged and ‘‘bred to,” in time the present pointer has been produced. 
C.—Brave public opinion, and do not cut your terrier’s ears. Fashion 
is everything. We have outlived the time when horses were not supposed 
to be “pretty” unless their tails were docked. There is a decided moye- 
ment in England towards not trying to beautify animal nature. 
PrLu.—Distinguishing trait of cats, between wild and tame, is in the 
tail. The domestic cat has it elongated, ending in a taper, while that of 
> the wild cat is shorter and more bushy. We would give every encourage- 
ment to a cat-show, and our columns are at your disposal. Arctic fox 
never exceeds eight pounds in weight. 
X. I. X.—Catching trout by torchlight or by setting a stump ablaze by 
the water-side isa mode of fishing much in yogue with the Indians of Cali- 
fornia. All kinds of fish, from the lordly salmon to the groyeling eel, are 
lured by the light of a lantern, torch, or bonfire. 
G.§.§., Hartford.-—It is quite difficult to tell exactly where wild turkeys 
may be found at this season, as they are inclined to roam considerably, 
but as they usually return to the same roosting place at night, the hunter 
may readily take them by discovering the trees on which they rest, and 
wait near, kill the birds as they come in, which usually occurs just before 
sun down. 
G. S. H.—It is absolutely impossible to determine the sexes of pigeons 
by their plumage. The only way is to watch their actions, the 
cock strutting a little more pompously than his mate, but even old fan- 
ciers are often deceived. There isaslight difference in their cooing, 
which an expert can detect but cannot explain. 
W.I.§., Amherst, Nova Scotia.—In reply to your question whether 
sparing moose is lawful in Nova Scotia, we answer that John Christmas, 
the celebrated Indian hunter of Shubenacadie, maintains that it is not, 
-while a certain school master who saw a saphng bent in a curious fashicn 
one day last month, and going to investigate it, found himself suddenly 
hoisted by one leg into the air, believes that it is, 
Anauis J.—The bird you refer to is the Darter (Plotus anhinga). We 
have seen them killed on the Savannah river, and they are frequently 
met with in Florida. They are remarkable for the noiseless way in which 
they plunge into the water, making no more splash than would an eel on 
entering into its natural element. 
