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breakfast. Patiently I waited, and the sun climbed high 
up in the heavens, and I thought feelingly of the breakfast 
I was losing, when suddenly there appeared over the river 
a swiftly approaching bird. Nearer and nearer he drew, 
till I could hear the whistle of his wings. Sweeping now 
above, now beneath me, he finally seemed convinced that 
the coast was clear, and close beneath the cliff and up, with 
a sudden rush, alighted upon the dry branch. Scarcely 
had his wings folded when his sharp eye espied me; but 
*twas too late! As he launched into the air I fired; and the 
report was followed by a cloud of feathers, my only sign 
that I had struck, so sharp was the incline of the precipice. 
Any naturalist can imagine my feelings as I descended the 
mountain and climbed again to the base of the cliff and 
found my bird. 
Three hundred feet had he fallen and nearly every bone 
was injured; but there he lay, e duck hawk—a true falcon, 
t stuffed him and he is in my cabinet to-day. <A few years 
afterwards I procured an egg from Mr. W. 8S. Street, the 
kind-hearted keeper of the Eyrie House at Mt. Tom. Allen 
of the Museum, Comparative Zoology, gives the best des- 
cription of the eggs and bird, extant. Its range is from 
Greenland to the West Indies. It is closely allied to, if not 
identical with the European falcon of the same name. It 
preys upon ducks and smaller game of all kinds. The old 
residents near the mountain call it the ‘‘ Black Hawk,” and 
relate many stories of its prowess. One old man said they 
had bred there for forty years; if one was killed another 
took its place. I know that the widow of my bird had 
another mate in less than two weeks. Once a bird of this 
species met with a horrible death: Swooping down upon a 
small bird perched upon the sharp point of a stake, it was 
securely impaled, the stake passing through the body. 
FRED. BEVERLY. 

—<>- 0 
OVERWORKED Brars.—The nearest thing to an indica- 
tion that the brain has been working rather more than is 
good for it, is the persistence in the mind, during the period 
of rest, of the thoughts which have engaged it during its 
condition of activity. After a good spell of hard work, the 
brain-worker is often tormented by finding it difficult, all 
at once, to tuyn off the steam. His work-day thoughts w7l/ 
intrude themselves, in s ite of every effort to keep them 
out. Each worker has usually a way of his own of en- 
deavoring to get quit of these unwelcome guests, Thack- 
eray generally succeeded in exorcising the creatures whom 
he had been calling into existence by the simple expedient 
of turning over the leaves of a dictionary. A gieat lawyer 
was in the habit, in similar circumstances, of plunging into 
a cold bath, and averred that a person never takes out of 
cold water the same ideas that he took into it. Perhaps the 
best mental corrective of this condition is to employ the 
mind for a short time in a direction most contrasted to that 
in which it has been overworked. In this way a mathe- 
matician might find advantage in unbending his mind ona 
page or two of a novel while the novelist could chase away 
the phantons which haunt him by dipping into a discus- 
sion on the ‘‘ Quantification of the predicate.” The cure, 
in fact, must be sought for on a principle the very opposite 
to that of the famous homeopathic doctrine of ‘‘similars.” 
—Ohambers Journal. 
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EvRoPEAN ANTELOPES.—Europe can, at the utmost, 
reckon but two antelopes among her ruminants, the chamois 
(Antelope rupieapra), and the saiga (Antelope cols). The 
name rupicapra (rock goat), applied to the former, suggests 
the difficulty which naturalists have felt in classing this 
creature of the Alpine peaks. We will, however, admit it 
among the antelopes, and this will give one species of the 
family to western Europe, leaving the saiga to the regions 
of the Lower Danube, and the hills of Caucasus. Neither 
species can be deemed a good example of the antelope form 
and beauty, the rough coat of the chamois, and the heavy 
sheep-like body of the saiga, exhibiting little of elegance 
or grace. But either animal may be taken as a good spe- 
cimen of the wonderful activity and amazing watchfulness 
which distinguish the whole family. The skill of the 
keenest rifleman is often baffled when tracking the chamois 
along the edge of the avalanche or up the ice covered peaks. 
Far off the daring animal stands, on some projection of a 
rock where no hunter’s foot can tread, or bounds from crag 
to crag as if endowed with supernatural energies. No 
finer specimen of brute skill and courage can be witnessed 
in Europe. The muscular power by which the brave crea- 
ture balances itself on the narrow ledge of rock, and then 
springs from this across a fathomless gulf toa mere shelf of 
the opposite precipice, may well excite the envy of the 
most daring and best trained hunter. The contest between 
human power and animal energy is here seen in its highest 
forms. The saigas, or antelopes of eastern Europe, are 
often seen in flocks many thousand in number when mak- 
ing their autumnal migration from the barren plains of the 
north to the sheltered valleys of the south. Man keeps a 
sharp look out for their approach, and destroys vast multi- 
tudes, not for the sake of the venison, but to enrich himself 
by the sales of their horns and skins. The belles of Europe 
and Asia wear ornamented combs made from the transpar- 
ent substance of the saiga’s horn, while the skins may ap- 
pear as elegant gloves in shops of London and Paris. Thus 
far this antelops may claim to be a promoter of civilization, 
and to share with the tortoise the honor of adorning beauty’s 
head.—Cassell’s Popular Educator. 
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—The following prices were given for various animals 
and birds, many of then bred in the Antwerp zoological | ; 
| The wounded dogs, with tails between their legs, came 
arden. Female giraffe, £360, hyena, £18, elands, £80, 
dama antelope, £30, pair of llamas, £60, red kangaroo, £40, 
black faced kangaroo, £29, two lion cubs, £60. Pheasants 
brought high figures, one couple of Amherst pheasants 
(Thaumlea Am verstiv) £160, and a single male brought £50. 
A couple of Siamese pheasants (Huplocomas prelatus) sold 
for £98. Some pheasants notably Reeve’s:pheasants (Pha- 
sianus Reevesii) having bred fully from the exceedingly tall 
prices, they brought £100 1 pair. It seems as if the breed- 
ing of animals and birds in Europe, may be made to be re- 
munerative. But of course any such ideas of profit to be 
made by zoological societies, is entirely a secondary consid- 
eration. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 
Che Zennel. 3 
THE Boar Hounp.—This strain of hound will be found 
useful in hunting wild pigs in Louisiana, and is derived 
from a mingling of the mastiff with the greyhound, crossed 
afterwards with the largest sized English terrier.. Our 
friends who own and breed dogs will at once see the neces- 
sity of using these three animals, in order to get at the best 
strain to hunt the Wild Boar or the less ferocious Wild Pig. 
The greyhound element is required in order to give the dog 
sufficient speed for overtaking the boar, which is much 
swifter animal than is generally supposed, from his 
unwieldy piggy form. The mastiff is needed to give 
it the requisite muscular power and dimensions of 
body, and the terrier is introduced for the sake 
of obtaining a sensitive nose and a quick spirited ac- 
tion. 'To train this dog properly is a matter of some diffi- 
culty, because a mistake is generally fatal, and puts an end 
to further instruction by the death of the pupil: It is com- 
paratively easy to train a pointer or setter, because if he 
fails through eagerness or slowness, the worst consequence 
is that the shooter looses his next shot or two, and the dog 
is easily corrected. But if a Boar-hound rushes too eageriy 
at the bristly guarry, he will in all probability be laid bleed- 
ing on the ground by a rapid stroke from the boar’s tusks, 
and if he should hang back he would be just as likely to be 
struck by the infuriatad beast. The only good breed of 
boar hounds known to us isa strain owned by D1. Slack, 
of New Jersey, which has turned out remarkably well. 
The jimbs are long and exceedingly powerful, and the head 
possesses the square muzzle of the mastiff, together with 
the sharp and somewhat pert air of the terrier. It is a very 
large animal, measuring thirty inches to the shoulder. 
Wild boar hunting, next to lion and tiger shooting, is a 
dangerous sport, and the most destructive to hounds that 
the travelled sportsman will encounter. The boar is a most 
fierce and savage animal, and when irritated or disturbed 
by hounds will rush at any man or animal and attack them 
with his tusks. In fact, a boar has been known to turn 
with such terrible effect upon a pack containing fifty dogs 
that only ten escaped scatheless, and six or seven were ripped 
up and killed on the spot. The speed of this beast is 
no lessremarkable, as when fully aroused he puts the met- 
tle of the swiftest and staunchest horse fairly to the test, 
even on ground where the horse would have the advantage 
he frequently gets away from the sportsman to regain his 
haunt, which is usually in a cane-brake. 
erally employed in Algeria in boar hunting or pig sticking, 
as the sport is familiarly termed, and is either thrown from 
the horse’s back, or is held like a lance and directed so as 
to receive the animal’s charge. When driven to bay the 
African boar is as savage an animal as can be imagined (to 
which some few gentlemen residing in the city can vestify), 
as with flashing eyes and foaming mouth he dashes at one 
and then another of the horsemen, sometimes fairly driving 
them from the spot, the boar often remaining master of 
the field. Another cross or breed 0: the Boar-hound which 
would suit our Southern friends (as thoroughbred mastiffs 
and terriers are a rarity), may be derived from the mingling 
of the Southern hound and grey-hound, which would an- 
swer every purpose for wild pig shooting in Texas and Lou- 
isiana. 
—If we have strictly no wild boar hunting here as 
in the Ardennes, or pig sticking asin Africa and India, 
we have the peccary in Texas, a sport by no means to be de- 
spised, and to which we would call the attention of our 
northern sportsmen. In the cane-brakes of southern Texas, 
in the dense thickets, the peccary is found, and he requires 
for his capture exactly the kind of dog we have described. 
The planters do not like the peccary. He destroys the 
crops, mutilates stock at times, and sometimes makes the 
sportsman take to the trees Along the Brazos Bottoms, 
the peccary is found in quantity. He is at times a most 
pugnacious little rascal, and will charge at a man, as 
straight as an arrow, and his sharp curved tusks cut like 
knives. To meet him is no easy task, asthe cane brakes 
are close and a path has sometimes to be cut through them. 
One would think from the size of the peccary, for he is 
rarely more than eighteen inches high, by two and a half 
feet in length, that he would be hardly a match for a dog, 
but such is his quickness, his strength, and valor, as to 
make him a most dangerous foe to the staunchest hound 
ever bred. As quick as lightning, all the strength lying in 
his head, neck and shoulders, with his lancet-like tusks, he 
will disembowel a dog in a trice. Being gregarious, pec- 
caries have a shocking bad habit of all doing exactly the 
same thing, at the same time, and they frequently charge 
en masse, aud scatter the dogs. 

Webber in his wild scenes of hunting life, thus describes 
the peccary. A bear has been wounded and the dog are 
| fighting him, when a troop of peccaries enter and charge 
| headlong on bear, men, dogs and all. 
“Such yells, and 
and screams, and roars of pain, and such a medley helter- 
skelter rout as now occurred, would be difficut to describe. 
sulking towards us. The bear, frantic with pain, rolled 
his great carcass to and fro, and gaped his read mouth, as 
he struck blindly about him here and there. The grunting 
and rushing patter of an addition to the herd coming in be- 
hind us, waked us from the sort of stupor this unexpected 
scene had thrown us in for the instant. ‘‘Run, run!” shouted 
my friend, with a voice half choked with mingled rage 
and laughter, and such a scurrying on all sides, for the 
other hunters had just come in, and the cry of ‘‘Peccaries! 
Peccaries! run! run!” and the popping of our guns all round 
The spear is gen- 


at them, as we urged our horses to escape through the cane, 
closed this eventful scene, of my first introduction to the 
peccaries!” 
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Dog Law.—Difficult cases of dog ownership often crop 
up in the police courts, the magistrates generally allowing 
doggy to decide the quarrel. One lady we remember re- 
covered her pet by making him die at hercommand. A 
very satisfactory instance of sending a case to the dogs for 
settlement was reported in a Jersey newspaper in 1857: “A 
few days since a son of the Rev. Mr. Bellis was passing 
along the street, holding in his arms a pup-dog, of which 
he had been made a present; when a French dealer came 
up to him, took the animal from him, declaring it to be 
her own. Mr. Bellis complained to M. Centenier du Jar- 
din, whom he assured that the pup had been given to his 
son by Mr. Cornish, the owner of the animal’s mother. The 
Frenchwoman insisted that the pup was hers, and said she ~ 
had given its mother to an innkeeper in Hillgrove Lane. 
M. Centenier caused the two mothers to be brought to- 
gether at the innkeeper’s, and the pup to be placed equi- 
distant between them. The pup immediately ran to its 
mother, owned by Mr. Cornish, and was instantly covered 
by her with caresses. Of course it was forthwith ordered 
to be given up to its rightful owner.” A less successful 
result attended the experiment tried by Judge Cush in the 
belief that a wise dog must know its own master. Finding 
himself getting bothered altogether by the conflict of evi- 
dence adduced by the rival claimants for the possession of 
the animal, the judge cried, ‘‘Stop! we'll settle this-very 
quickly. You, Mr. Plaintiff, go into the far corner of the 
room out there. You, Mr. Defendant, come into this cor- 
ner up here. Now both of you whistle; and Mr. Clerk, let 
loose the dog.” His orders were obeyed; plaintiff and de- 
fendant whistled their loudest, the dog made a bolt of it 
and ‘scorted’ out of court. ‘Very extraordinary !” said 
the judge. “‘I can’t understand that. Mr. Clerk, as the 
plaintiff could not prove his case when i gave him the chance, 
you may enter judgment for the defendant.” It would 
have been in stricter accordance with the evidence to have 
declared the dog a free dog, belonging to neither.—Cham- 
bers’ Journal. 
Serta 
A New York Times correspondent tells this story: ‘‘ In 
one of Landseer’s early visits to Scotland he stopped at a 
village, and took a great deal of notice of the dogs, jotting 
down rapid sketches of them on a bit of paper. Next day, 
resuming his journey, he was horrified to find dogs suspend- 
ed in ail directions from the trees, or drowning in the 
rivers, with stones round their necks. He stopped a weep- 
ing urchin who was hurrying off with a pet pup mm his 
arms, and learned, to his dismay, that he was supposed to 
be an excise officer who was takining notes of all the dogs 
he saw in order to prosecute the owners for unpaid taxes; 
so the people were all anxious to get rid of their dogs. 

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Hypropnosia.—Dr. Luke in his work entitled ‘‘ In- 
fluence of the Mind upon the Body,” supports the hypo: 
thesis that hydrophobic symptoms are often developed 
without previous inoculation, In illustration, he relates a 
notable instance of a physician of Lyons, who, having as- 
sisted in the dissection of several victims of the disorder, 
imagined that he himself had become inoculated. On at- 
tempting to drink, he was seized with spasm of the 
pharynx, and in this condition roamed about the streets for 
three days. At length his friends succeeded in convincing 
him of the groundlessness of his apprehensions, and he at 
once recovered. Dr. Marx, a German physician, writing to 
Lhe clinic, regards hydrophobia as a morbid affection of 
the imagination induced by fear, and, in support of his 
Opinion, cites some interesting cases in which persons un- 
aware of the superstition have escaped the spasms.— 
Tribune. 
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—The following appears in Land and Water in regard to 
cross-bred grey-hounds :— 
I was surprised to see stated, that you were of opinion 
that a cross-bred greyhound would catch the fastest ante- 
lope living. I do not exactly know what is meant by a 
cross-bred greyhound, but as I think your information is 
likely to mislead your correspondent, I take advantage of a 
leisure hour to give a little of my own experience in regard 
to the antelope tribe. In the first place, 1 must inform you 
that I resided in the Bombay Presidency in the East Indies 
for about twenty-three years, and was employed in Can- 
deish, the Deccan and Province of Guzerat. There are 
two kinds of antelopes which are common enough there, 
viz., the black buck species, which are nearly, if not, quite 
as large as a falluw-deer, and a much smaller kind, known 
by the name of chinkarra, goat-antelope, or hill deer. The 
former are seldom to be seen anywhere except in the plains, 
but the latter are met with in the open country pretty fre- 
quently, especially in Guzerat. Now, I kept greyhounds 
myself many years ago, some of the pure English, bred some 
Persian, and I think T can assure your correspondent, that 
to the best of my belief, Master McGrath himself would 
not have much more chance of catching a healthy full- 
grown buck or doe of either of the species mentioned, under 
ordinary circumstances, than he would of catching a wild 
goose. My dogs were as good asany I.ever saw in India, and 
used to catch foxes and hares in very good style, Lut neither 
I nor any other person who knew anything about the mat- 
ter, would have thought of slipping them at a fullgrown — 
animal or even at awellgrown fawn. They used some- 
times to break away in pursuit of one by itself or after a 
herd, but I never thought of riding after them; they ran 
till they were tired or the antelope disappeared, and came 
back again. I have seen my dogs have a good long course 
before they could catch one after Thad broken a hind leg 
with a rifle-ball; and on one occasion a strong Persian grey- 
hound had such a severe run after a large black hanes 
when I had put a ball in its body, and which he caught at 
last, that 1 fancied that the dog was never himself again 
afterwards. There are other small antelopes in the B.jm- 
bay Presidency, but I never met with them except in jungle 
or hills, and there may be some in the plains in Bengal or 
elsewhere that a greyhound may have achance with for 
anything I know to the contrary. Iam only giving my 
own experience. I never heard whether a greyhound can 
catch a roe-deer. 
LTT 
—The aborigines of Utah feared a Manitou. The pres- 
ent inhabitants are not afraid of a woman or two. 
Tr . Se 
—When is a twenty-four pound trout not a twenty-four 
pound trout? Ans.—When it is weighed, 

