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THE MOORISH COFFEE HOUSE. 
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ICKING our way through the little e:owd outside, we 
enter a long room, and are struck by the contrast be- 
tween it and the French café, but not so much on account 
of the simplicity of the interior as from the kind of life 
within. As one passes through the doorway no jingle of 
dominoes, no sound of billiard balls striking together, no 
clinking of glasses, no hubbub of voices, no triumphal cries 
of the man with a good hand at péquet greet the air. There 
are no waiters in clean white aprons and short black jackets, 
moving with extraordinary nimbleress and rapidity among 
small marble tables, no dame de comptoir seated sedately 
behind a rosewood tribune; but in lieu of these quietness 
and peacefulness reign over everything. At the end of the 
room the Kahouadji or master, who is generally a Moor ora 
Koulouglis, is standing before his stove, where water is 
always on the bubble and coffee continually. simmering. 
As the water boils he places five or six tea spoonsful of 
coffee into a tin pot containing about two tumblers of 
water, and carefully removes the scum as it rises to the top; 
after allowing it to simmer for a few seconds he pours the 
coffee several times from one pot to another, reminding one 
of an American preparing a brandy-cccktail, and finally 
empties it into small cups—sometimes fitting into metal 
stands resembling egg-cups, but w.ore frequently being 
ordinary European coffee cups—which the thefel or waiter 
hands round to the customers. In some cafés the coffee is 
roasted daily and pounded on the premises, as it is gen- 
erally considered that it gradually loses its flavor when 
once cooked, but there are also shops where the process of 
crushing is carried on *s a trade. In these establishments 
you see bent over along stone trough, resembling a man- 
ger, three or four half naked men, who stand there from 
morn till sundown, with a rest of about a couple of hours 
in the middle of the day, crushing the coffee with a huge 
iron pestle. The Arabs never mix milk with their coffee; 
they take it lukewarm, and sip it, stopping from -time to 
to time draw a whiff of smoke from their pipes, or to make 
an observation to a neighbor.—Genilemavs Magazine. 
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WAVE ACTION OF THE PACIFIC. 
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OTHING can be more tumultuous or less pacific than 
the waters of the Pacific Ocean along the Mendocino 
coast. Where there is a sandy beach, which is not often, it is 
pleasant to watch the incoming waves, and to compare them 
with those of the Atlantic. We at once perceive that there 
isa great difference. In the Atlantic the surf is seldom 
more than six feet high, and the serried line of waters that 
comes dashing onward is rarely more than two hundred 
ards long. In fact, gazing at the sea that breaks upon the 
ong Branch shore, or upon the sands of Cape May, or 
upon the western side of Martha’s Vineyard, or upon the 
petrified beach of Santo Domingo, one can see without 
difficulty ten or a dozen waves breaking on the shore or ad- 
vancing in line, all within the field of vision afforded by one 
glance. Itis not so here. The waves, in the first place, 
are not so frequent % Accustomed to ile Atlantic quick 
pulsation, the traveler: waits with impatience, even with a 
degree of pain, for the roar of the breakers on the Pacific 
coast, and has about concluded that the sea has given the 
thing up as a bad job, when the ‘remendous boom bursts 
suddenly and unexpectedly upon his ear. Then the waves 
are twelve feet high and a mile in length, and advance with 
a solemnity of motion which words cannot describe. The 
curves described by the crests of such waves are infinitely 
finer than anything which the Atlantic presents; and the 
boiling fury with which they crash upon the beach and 
churn the sands is at first sight appalling. Around iso- 
lated rocks they rage and raven, like the dogs which the 
poets fabled around Scylla. All along the Mendocino coast 
they have worn the cliffs into strange and wondrous forms, 
beating out caverns where the lower part is conglomerate 
rock, and series of arched cellars, into which tons of sea- 
weed and debris are thrown. The basalt, which is the lead- 
ing character of the crust, is not uniform fin texture, some 
parts being very much softer than others. Wherever this 
occurs in the proximity of the waters, they have invariably 
scooped out the soft rock, mak.ng all kinds of mystic arches, 
siren rings, and gateways of Poseidon. This is not in- 
frequent, and occasionally happens in spots accessible to the 
human foot, sometimes even in close neighborhood to 
the stage road. ‘The surface is covered with a rank, coarse 
grass, which even mules disdain, and which the wandering 
goat will not even look at. Sometimes a cactus will bloom 
along the cliffs, and there isa species of thistle with very 
handsome bluish-green leaves and a large yellow flower.— 
Appletows Journal. 
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A PLEA FoR SuEEP.—Lately, visiting some of the sheep 
farms of Lincolnshire, I noticed that while the Midland 
farmer talked to his horse, and even petted his oxen, he 
treated his sheep as an animal peculiarly devoid of intelli- 
gence. Now, I noticed among my agricultural friends this 
eel sentiment in practice, a sort of general disregard 
or the intelligence or feelings of sheep, though to me there 
is as much sad pitiful intelligence in the eye of a sheep as 
there is in the “‘patient melancholy” face of a cow. While 
the farmerjhas brought sheep to the perfection of size and 
shape and profit, that sort of mutual regard which anima- 
ted sheep,*shepherds, and shepherdesses in the olden days 
seems to have died out. St. John says, ‘‘To him the por- 
ter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calleth 
his,own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when 
he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and 
the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.” On these 
werds Dr. Hammond observes that the shepherds of Judea 
knew every sheep separately, and that ‘‘shepherds of that 
country had a distinct name for every sheep, which each 
‘sheep knew and answered by obediential coming or follow- 
“ing to that call.” Moreover, they trained up the ram'‘to 
collect the flock, a far better device than that of the sheep- 
dog. Homer endorses this in his simile of Ulysses draw- 
ing up his men to aram ordering the flock. On the au- 
thority of Philo Judeeus, a philosophle Jew, born and bred 
in Egypt, in his first chapter concerning the Creation says: 
**Woolly rams laden with thick fleeces in spring season, 
being ordered by their shepherd, stand without moving, 
and, silently stooping a little, put themselves into his hand 
to have their wool shorn; being accustomed, as cities are, 
to pay their yearly tribute to man, their king by nature.” —- 
Gentlemen's Magazine. 




—PRESERVATION OF HuMAN ReEmAtNs.—In the Italian 
section of the Vienna Exhibition, Dr. Marini exhibits, 
among an assortment of human feet, hands, legs, arms, and 
busts of shrivelled proportions and deep-brown color, a 
evidently of hard and_ polished 
material, which has been likened to stale gelatine or potted 
It is a conglomerate of specimens, illustrative 
of an art invented by him—the petrification and mummifi- 
It was this Dr. Marini who pet- 
large, round plateau, 
boar’s head. 
cation of human corpses. 
rified Mazzini, and executed the work so well that the ad- 
mirers of the arch-conspirator proposed to set up the corpse 
in the Capitol and save economical Italy the expense of a 
statue. The doctor’s preparations are weather-proof, and 
will not only stand wear, but take on a high degree of 
polish. His mummified specimens, by a process known to 
him alone, can be restored to their original size and elastic- 
ity; while the petrified ones are as hard, and possibly as 
durable, as granite. The top slab of the table is composed 
of muscles, fat, sinews, and glandular substance—all petri- 
fied together in a block, the surface of which has been 
planed and polished till its face resembles marble. Certifi- 
cates from Nélaton and others are attached to the specimen 
limbs, setting forth that the limbs in question had, for the 
satisfaction of the certifiers, been restored to their pristine 
softness and pliability by Dr. Marini.—7T/e Lancet. 
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—TnHE Common FRoG.—Whatis a frog? At first, almost 
all will think, on meeting with this question, that they can 
answer it readily and easily. Second thoughts, however, 
will show to most that such is by no means the case.  In- 
deed many a man of education and culture will find him- 
self entirely at a loss, if suddenly called upon for a reply to 
what is in fact a problem by no means easy of solution. 
'“ The frog is a small saltatory reptile” will probably be the 
reply of the majority. But 7s it a reptile? At any rate it 
begins life (in its Tadpole stage) like a jish/ By the great 
Cuvier, however, as by very many naturalists since, it has 
been regarded as a reptile and classed with lizards, croco- 
diles and serpents; and yet it may be a question whether 
the marine affinity connubially assigned to it in the nursery 
tale, be not the lesser error of the two. If the frog was 
only known by certain fossil remains it would be consider- 
ed one of the most anomalous of animals. Many persons 
are accustomed to make much of the distinctive peculiar- 
ities of the human frame. In fact, however, man’s bodily 
structure is far less exceptional in the animal series, is far 
less peculiar and isolated than that which is common to 
frogs and toads. 
The frog is the never-failing resource for the physiological 
experimenter. It would be long indeed to teil the suffer- 
ings of much-enduring frogs in the cause of science! What 
frogs can do without their heads? What their legs can do 
without their bodies? What their arms can do without 
either head or trunk? What is the effect of the removal of 
their brains? How they can manage without their eyes and 
without their ears? What effects result from all kinds of 
local irritations, from chockings, from poisonings, from 
mutilations the most varied? These are the questions again 
and again addressed to the little animal which perhaps more 
than any other deserves the title of ‘‘the Martyr of Science.” 
—WNature. 
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Tne BrEavur.—Beaver have their young about the first 
of June, and breed but once a year; these number from one 
to eight; very old beaver having but one or two at a time. 
They are pretty little things, about the size of a rat, and 
are easily tamed; but, on account of their mischievous pro- 
pensities, are not favorite pets. One pair of young ones 
that 1 know of being put in a tub of water, and thinking 
doubtless that their ‘‘lake” should havea creek, proceeded 
to gnaw the sides till they had made a hole in one of the 
staves, when they gathered together all kinds of rubbish, 
consisting of hoots, slippers, &c. with which they attempt- 
ed to make a dam, As it did not answer, they were very 
much cast down, crying and rolling themselves about like 
children in a pet. 
There are various ways of trapping these sagacious ani- 
mals adopted by professional hunters and trappers. In the 
fall and spring, the chief method is, to make a small open- 
ing in the dam, ahd set the trap in such a manner that they 
will get caught when repairing the mischief. The traps 
should be fastened by several feet of chain to a dry pole, 
driven firmly at full length of the chain into the mud at the 
bottom of the lake; no marks must be left. Should the 
chain be slack, the beaver is almost sure to leave a toe or 
paw in the trap. Since he has a chance of resting on the 
dam, and by twisting and using his teeth, will set himself 
free, it is then a labor of much ingenuity to catch him. 
The presence of beaver and their size are judged by the 
freshness of the sticks and the size of the teeth-marks on 
them, as well as the general appearance of the works.— 
Chambers’ Magazine. 

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ANECDOTE OF LorD PALMERSTON.—Gordon, the Scottish 
painter, used to tell this story: ‘‘I had exhibited for sev- 
eral years, but without success. One year, however—the 
year before I painted ‘the Corsicans’—Lord Palmerston 
took a sudden fancy to my picture, called ‘Summer in the 
Lowlands,’ and bought it. His lordship made inquiries 
after the artist, and invited me to call upon him. I waited 
upon his lordship accordingly. He complimented me upon 
the picture, but there was one thing about it he could not 
understand. ‘What is that, my Lord? I asked. ‘That 
there should be such long grass in a field where there are 
so many sheep,’ said his lordship promptly, and with a 
merry twinkle in his eye. It was a decided hit, this; and 
having bought the picture and paid for it he was entitled 
to his joke. ‘How do you account for it?’ he went on. 
‘Those sheep, my lord,’ I replied, ‘were only turned into 
that field the night before I finished the picture.’ His lord- 
ship laughed heartily, and said ‘Bravo’ at my reply, and 
gave me a commission for two more pictures; | have cashed 
since thea some very notable checks of his—dear old boy!” 
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OrmNTAL Ease.—Avef means, firstly, to do nothing more 
fatiguing than to lie down upon cushions smoking a hookah 
or a chiboucx filled with the finest tobacco, which a young 
Arab lights with apiece of perfumed tinder; then to sip 
coffee drop by drop, or violet, orange, or rose sherbets, and 
to listen to that peculiar music which, although dull and 
monotonous to us Europeans, is delicious to an Oriental 
ear, Add to this a beautiful site, which is indispensable, 
a warm atmosphere, inspiring people with an inclination 
for repose, shady trees, and, above all, water—if only a 
corner of the Bosphorus in the distance—and you will have 
the principal elements of kief.—Gentlemen’s Magazine. 
' People are prone to exaggerate his size. 

answers Co Correspondents. 
[We shall endeavor in this department to impart and hope to_receiwe 
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 loculities for good hunting, fish 
ing. and trapping, and giving advice and instructions as to outfits, im- 
plements, routes, distances, seasons, expenses, remedies, traits, species, 
governing rules, ete. All branches of the sportsman’s craft will receiv4 
attention. Anonymous communications not noticed.| 
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JamMEs Hopson.—Alarm; 1 min., 42% sec. 
OLD Por.—Write to Thad. Norris, West Logan Square, Philadelphia. 
Der B., Wheeling, Va.—Your deer hound isa fair dog. About thirty- 
two inches at the shoulder is a handsome dog. 
D.S. anp L.—We believe the decision to be absurd, though final. 
Change the rules next year. 
J. Q. A. Jdr., South Orange.—The female is much smaller than the 
male, both in the tame and wild species. In some fancy breeds it is 
marked by the plumage, also by the strut. 
Our CLuB.—Six hundred yards a minute and twenty-five seconds is very 
creditable. An amateur has lately made this distance in seventy-five 
seconds. 
M. 8.—Leg byes must be called aloud by the scorers and by the um- 
pire to decide. ‘‘Arm before wicket’ is a proper decision, and puts a 
man ont. Glad to have your scores. 
RicumMonp, Va.—A pair of beagles will cost in this city from $50 to $75 
If you wish to give us the order, we will import for you one pair of pure 
red rabbbit beagles, the cost not exceeding $35 in currency. 
B., Whitehall, N. J.—Will take the subject. up shortly and treat it in 
full. Wesend you to-day last report of the National Rifle Association. 
Address in the meantime the secretary. 
Piscator.—Will our correspondent ‘‘Piscator,”’ whose article is noticed 
by Mr. Mather in this day’s issue of our paper, be kind enough to send us 
his address? 
CuAs. HuNGERFORD, Kansas City.—For ordinary shooting, 3} ounces 
of powder. Don’t ram your shot. Take it toa practical gunsmith; it may 
be leaded. 
ABRAHAM D., Charleston, 8. C.—A little Colman’s mustard sprinkled 
in the box kills insects for the purposes of the naturalist, very quickly, 
and is always to be found. | 
H. L. N., Boston.—Would be exceedingly obliged for photograph. We 
think there is no doubt about the King Charles spaniel being derived 
from Japan, 
Graves.—To ask if contributions to this paper would be acceptable to 
its editors is superfluous. We are always anxious for fayors of this sort. 
Send them in. 
H. L. O., Hoboken.—1. Use any clear dry varnish or copal varnish for 
your fish specimens. Much better to preserve the whole fish than the 
half. 3. Use arsenical soap. 4. For your reptiles, suspend by means of 
string through the cork. 
G. D.—The dog puzzle-peg is out of use. We never knew it to be 
nsed in the United States, and though spoken of in English books, we 
think it worthless. Only slow or low bred dogs are given to the faults 
you speak of, 
Nampy, Hartford.—Brown paper test the only one to ascertain penetra- 
tion of shot; the tin canister method unsatisfactory. To send shot, No. 
5 or 6, through 28 sheets of thick paper is creditable, though 39 thick- 
nesses have been penetrated at 40 yards. Of course the centre shots 
show the best penetration. 
J. The best plan would be for three or four of you to club together 
and buy a small skin, which would cost $5; any country shoemaker will 
make them for yon, according to our instructions. Mr Kaiser, furrier, 
Granville street, Halifax, N. S., will supply the skin. 
H. U.—1. Barrels were first rifled about 1498. The spiral turn belongs 
to the eighteenth century. 2. Express rifle said to have a point blank 
range, with four drams of powder, at 130 yards. Weight 8 and 9 pounds. 
We think heavier guns are being made. Your third question we will re- 
ply to shortly in extenso. 
PracticaL, Savannah.—Box-wood for wood engravers comes princi- 
pally from Odessa and Smyrna, and from Soukoun Kall, Russia, To try 
whether wood grown with you is fit for engraving purposes, send us a 
piece and we will have it tested. There is no substitute for boxwood. It 
is not the hardness which makes it excellent for wood engravers, but the 
eveness of the structure. 
EXPERIMENT, Concord.—Your idea 1s a very pretty one, the only pity 
is that it has been anticipated. The Chinese have for centuries attached 
such little whistles as you describe to their pigeons. They put them to 
their tails and not to their legs as you propose. The Chinese, like the Ja- 
panese, are full of tricks. 
Miss H, AND Giris, Rochester.—Of course sun-fish must have some- 
thing to eat; give them afew crumbs of bread, and occasional grains of 
soft-boiled rice, a fly or so occasionally. But do not let the food taint the 
water. Do not use rain water in your little aquarium, and wait patiently 
until your plants exercise their power of purifying the water. 
JALLABAD.—Yon are right in your dispute as to the size of the elephant 
See in former number an an- 
swer to this question. Ordinary height of Asiatic elephant is 8 feet. 
In the Hast India commissariat 7 feet is the minimum height required. 
When an elephant in India is 12 feet tall he is a curiosity. 
A.S. N.—Nature seems to have been quite prolific in her varieties of the 
kangaroo or macropide. There is the macropus major, the macropus 
Laniger, the whallabee (Halmaturus walatvatus), the rock kangaroo 
(Petrogale perricillata), and the smaller kinds, as the brush-tailed bettong, 
the kangaroo rat and the kangaroo hare. 
Campists.—For comfort and convenience the Adirondacks are prefer- 
able to any other hunting ground in the country, and there is no pleasure 
more enjoyable than a fortnight spent therein camping out. Some of 
the guides are very intelligent and obliging, and will take good care of 
young novices and amateurs who are without experience in out door life. 
Go to Paul Smith’s, Bartlett’s or Martins. 
Deman.—To dress your cat skin, take, after well cleaning and scrap- 
ing, and steep in sumac decoction, letting it stay in tendays. Then wash 
thoroughly in cold water. Dry then pretty well, and nail skin ona 
board, hair dowu, and while moist rub in oil and tallow mixed. Then 
let it dry. A good rubbing with a flat stone helps to make it soft in fin- 
ishing. Have seen skins of eyen such small animals as rats moles 
and squirrels made very pretty and serviceable this way. 
H. B, P., Boston, Mass.—For ordinary shoe packs and moccasins 
Messrs. H. and H. Merrill, 290 Notre Dame street, Montreal. The best 
plan, however, wouid be to buy a small caribou skin. and get any good 
shoemaker to make them according to instructions, page 89, ForEsT AND 
Stream. Any of your friends would be glad to have a pair, if the skin 
should be too large. Address for skin, J. Kaiser, Furrier. Granville st., 
"Halifax. 
G. L. Eppy, Racine, Wis.—The only work on birds and their eggs 
which has appeared lately is Dr. Ed. A. Samuel’s “Ornithology and 
Oology of New England,” published by Nichols and Noyes, Boston, 1867, 
in octavo; 583 pages, with some colored plates, many cuts and full notices 
of each bird and its habits. This work will be found to contain most all 
the birds of the northern Atlantic States. The publishing price was 
$15. The best way to procure itis to address a letter to the American 
Naturalist, Salem, Mass., who will also furnish any other books on natu- 
ral history at short notice, and also lists of naturalists and dealers, with 
their addresses, and their special branch of study or business. This 
magazine will be found very interesting to all who cultivate these studies. 
The Smithsonian Institution has published two editions of Dr. Thomas 
N. Brewer’s North American Oology, in quarto, 1857 and 1869, with 
colored plates. We believe that this work only includes the Raptores and 
Fissirostres. It can be had by direct application to Prof. 8. F. Baird, 
assistant secretary of the Institute. The price the 1857 edition waa 
five dollars, with colored plates. 
