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AN OTAHJTIAN ROMANCE. 
N_ Le Tour du Monde M. de Varigny, in his travels in the 
Pacific tells this pretty story: ‘‘ Fatigued with the day’s 
travel, we sought a pleasant grove, and were all just taking 
a half .hour’s rest, when our quiet was broken into by a 
troup of mounted ladies going towards Honolulu. In the 
lead there rode a young woman, and beside her gal- 
loped some ten Kanakas. She was some petty Princess 
just returnirg from a visit to her plantation. The 
gentleman who directed the movements of our party intro- 
duced me to the young lady with all the forms of English 
etiquette. She was-exceedingly handsome, beautifully form- 
ed, with a certain marked air of distinction. What was 
most remarkable about her was her hair, which was massed 
in luxuriant folds around her head, though strangely 
enough there was a tress of pure flaxen colored hair mixed 
with it, which stood out in contrast. 
The young lady observed@that I noticed it, and pleasantly 
asked ‘‘if there was anything extraordinary about her hair?” 
Driven to confess what had attracted my attention, I stated 
to her the charming effect the flaxen hair produced when 
seen in the midst of such raven tresses. Nota bit disturbed, 
laughing at my astonishment, in a trice she unloosed her 
flowing locks, as if to show me that all her hair was her 
own. ‘‘ The story of my hair is curious,” she said, ‘‘and 
providing you have any faith in our legends I will tell you 
all about it. When Kealiikoloa reigned, that was the 
thirteenth grand chief, counting backwards from the ar- 
rival of Captain Cook, which actording to our present com- 
putation of time was at the beginning of the 17th Century, 
a strange ship ran on the coral reefs near Pale on the Island 
of Havaii. Allthe crew were drowned, save awoman. As 
soon as she had struggled to shore, overcome with fatigue, 
she sank to the ground, and knelt and prayed. At Pale, 
near a big rock, which is called Kulon to-day, was where it 
all happened. The natives treated her kindly, gave her a 
cabin, brought bread and fruit and fish, and showed the 
woman all respect. Some of the goods from the vessel 
floated on shore, and these were kept by the natives for the 
use of the stranger. Little by little the poor lady acquired 
our language. There was a noble young Chieftain who 
used to come after fishing and talk with the strange woman. 
He was amazed at her beauty and wondered at the pale 
color of her hair, for she had blue eyes, so says the story, 
and a skin as white as milk. There is still an old native 
ballad that tells all about this and sings her charms. Need 
I say that the chief loved the pale woman with the light 
hair? They were wedded, and soon two children blessed 
their union. ‘The chief loved his wife dearly, but this wife 
—she went to the sea-side and passed hours on hours there, 
gazing on the rippling waves, I, brim full of sadness and 
woe, and as if searching for something far beyond the 
ocean. Little by little she wasted away, until at last, sadly 
and mournfully she passed away. Before her death she 
had made her husband swear that he would make no 
human sacrifices over hertomb, and he solemnly kept his 
promise. Of his two children, they were both girls, one 
died very young, but the other lived, and in time became 
the wife of a chief. Her hair was as black as mine, but 
like mine, there was a flaxen strand init. Her children— 
only the girls, all have this peculiar mark. of their mother. 
That pale woman with the blue eyes and the locks of golden 
hair was my great-great grandmother. J don’t know how 
many removes back, say fully two hundred and seventy-five 
years ago.” ‘This story,” says M. de Vangny, ‘‘ has been 
embodied in quite a charming native romance, called 
Kiana, the name given to the foreign woman, and Kiana is 
the Hawaiian for Jane. 
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D’Orsay’s Wrr.—‘‘The wit of Count d’Orsay was more 
quaint than any thing I have heard from Frenchmen (there 
are touches of like quality in Rabelais)—more airy than the 
brightest London wit of my time, those of Sydney Smith 
and Mr. Fonblanque not excepted. It was an artist’s wit, 
capable of touching off a character by one trait told ina 
few old words. 
“T have heard the count tell how, when he was in Eng- 
land for the first time (very young, very handsome, and not 
abashed), he was placed, at some dinner-party, next the 
late Lady Holland. That singular woman, who adroitly 
succeeded in ruling and retaining a distinguished circle 
longer than either fascination or tyranny might singly have 
accomplished, chanced that day to be-in one of her imperi- 
ous humors. She dropped her napkin; the count picked it 
up gallantly; then her fan, then her fork, then her spoon, 
then her glass; and as often her neighbor stooped and 
restored the lost article. At last, however, the patience of 

the youth gave way, and, on dropping her napkin again, he 
turned and called one of the footmen behind him. ‘‘Put 
my couvert on the floor,” said he. ‘‘I will finish my dinner 
there; it will be so much more convenient to my Lady Hol- 
land!”—Charley’s Autobiography. 
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THE WANT OF A Microscope.-—In 1383, when Heinreich 
von Bulow destroyed the village and church of Wilsnach, 
drops of blood were found eight days afterwards on the 
Host placed on the altar. But the victims of superstition 
have the bump of causality remarkably developed; and in 
1510, thirty-eight Jews were burnt to ashes because they 
had tortured the consecrated Host until it bled. Again, 
the sight was seen on the Moselle in 1824; and in 1848 the 
famoys Ehrenberg analysed the terrible portent. After 
stooping with his microscope over the red stains on bread, 
cheese, and potatoes, this savant declared that they are 
caused by small monads or vibrios, which have a red color, 
and are so minute that from 46,656,000,000 to 884,736,000- 
000,000 distinct beings ado-n the space of one cubic inch. 
Unfortunately, when, in 1510, thirty-eight Israelites, as we 
have seen, were burnt to ashes, no scientific Ehrenberg ex- 
isted to point out to their superstitious butchers that what 
yhey called a proof of the consecrated Host being tortured 
until it bled, was merely due to aggregation of hungry red 
insects. 
Docrors OuGHr To Drive.—We look upon sport rather 
as a means of preserving health than of restoring it when 
lost, and wethink that professional and business men in 
town are far too prone to disregard healthful recreation. 
It is not the three weeks’ shooting or fishing to which we 
allude, but the oft-recurring weekly ‘‘outing” to which all 
who have wisdom and the necessary means treat them- 
selves. The man of business, or the barrister or doctor, 
who is able to get a day’s hunting once a week more than 
makes up for his lost time by the additional vigor with 

which he prosecutes his labors on the remaining five or 
six. Many of the foremost men of our own profession 
have been and are noted for ardor in the prosecution of 
field sports. There is a kind of mild sport which is open 
to many of our profession, viz: driving; and there are sev- 
eral of our foremost? London jpractitioners who are noted 
for the dexterity with which they drive their mail-phaetons. 
We have always admired the wisdom of these medical 
Jehus. When a doctor leaves the harrassing case, over 
which perhaps he has been sorely anxious, and takes the 
ribbons to drive to his next patient, he must, willy-nilly, 
get his nose off the grindstone, and the excitement of 
threading his way through the London thoroughfares must 
for the time drive away the cares of practice. His anima- 
ted countenance is generally a striking contrast to that of 
his professional brother whom we see boxed in his brougham 
poring over his morning paper or his visiting list.—The 
Lancet. 
Che Horse and the Course. 
—The first day of the extra trotting meeting at Fleetwood 
Park, Westchester County N. Y., took place on November 
5th. The first event was for horses that had never beaten 
2:32. Five horses came to the post. Joe Clark won the 
three last heats. The second event was for the 2:42 class. 
Nine horses started. Ledger Girl won. In the match for 
$200 mile heats, best three in five, in harness, Fred. Tyler 
won. There were two other matches on the programme 
and in both cases forfeit was paid. The second day was 
largely attended by friends in the interest of trotting. The 
gentleman’s race to road wagons had eight entries, six of 
which started. Buffalo Dick won, Rosie second, all the 
others being distanced. The next event was the 2:38 class. 
There were eighteen entries, ten of which started. Fred. 
Tyler won in three straight heats. In the 2:29 class, eight 
horses came to the post. Spotted Colt won in three straight 
heats. The third day of the meeting, notwithstanding the 
unpleasant weather, brought a fair attendance. The first 
event was the unfinished match between Tanner Boy and 
Ella Millard. The former won. The second event was for 
horses of the 2:26 class, which was finished November 8th. 
Charley Green won. 
—The match at Dext er Park, Chicago, between Lady 
Mac and Nourmahal, five miles in harness, came off on 
November 6th. J.C. Simpson’s Nourmahal won in 13:39, 
A CoRNER IN THE CountTRy.—Poor dear Peggy was a 
pony. She died thirty-four years old, two Sundays ago, at 
about half past eleven. She simply lay down and died. 
The day before, she was quite well. Many a time I have 
driven her over to our neighboring town, between four and 
five miles off, in twenty minutes, without touching her with 
the whip. She won trotting-matches in her youth; and my 
father, who had a wonderful eye for horses, bought her, 
promiscuously, out of a common cart in London, having 
seen how she was stepping out. Now she is dead; and I 
pray the Royal Commission on horses to tell me where I 
can find such another. She is buried on the common—a 
field so called from the date of the Inclosure Act— and is 
buried where she lay down and died. I wish I had been 
here to have saved one of her hoofs for a snuff-box. She 
dies lamented, having done her duty well through a long 
life. Ned, I expect, will never dic. Donkeys never do, 
they say. Ned is really ashe, but has somehow come to 
be called Ned. She hunts me to sniff my pockets for a bit 
of bread; but though docile, is hard to ride. I tried her 
the first evening of my arrival from town. I had givenher 
slices of our loaf, and she stood with her soft nose under 
my elbow. My wife was close by, and I said: ‘‘I’ll see 
now if I can ride hera few yards.” So i threw my leg over 
her, and in less than a minute was flat on my spine in the 
carriage-road. Up went her back, like a dish-cover, down 
went her head between her fore-legs, and I was floored. 
Talking of falling! I had another spill that evening. In 
that hot July afternoon 1 hung my South American grass 
hammock in the shade between two beech trees on the 
border of the lawn, I had not the proper rope to sling it, 
but what I had I thought would do. So, after dinner, I 
lay in my hammock, perfectly still, gazing up into ten 
thousand million leaves, when all at once the temporary 
rope broke, and I fell whop on my back, like Newton’s 
apple. The laws of gravitation! If Newton had only so 
fallen himself, he would have unravelled the still hidden 
secrets of the cosmos.—Chambers’ Journal. 
Huntinc.—Forward riding, to a man who means to 
ride at all, is decidedly the best method of crossing a 
country, both on the considerations of pleasure and _ profit. 
Horses take their leaps in a more collected form when they 
see none of their own species in front of them; the hounds 
create quite excitement enough in a hunter to make him 
do his utmost, while the emulation he conceives of 
his own kind is apt to degenerate into jealousy, that 
makes him foolhardy and careless. Also a great amount of 
unnecessary exertion is entailed upon him, by being pulled 
off and set going again, which must be done repeatedly 
in arun by a man who follows another, however straight 
and well his leader may ride. Also, the sportsman’s nerves 
are spared much needless anxiety and misgiving. Can any. 
thing be more distressing than to see our front rank nian 
fall, in the uncertainity he has attained on the further side 
of a thick fence, or cover it with an obvious effort and strug- 
gle? Caution whispers we had better decline. Shame 
urges that ‘‘what one horse can do another can.” Self-es- 
teem implores us not to fall back into ‘‘the ruck” behind. 
So we first of all check our horses from hesitation, and then 
hurry him from nervousness. The probable result is a 
“cropper” with the additional disgrace of having been in- 
curred at a place which the Pioneer cleared easily, and as- 
sumption, as unjust as itis unwelcome, that our horse is 
not so good as his. Now, in riding for himseli, a man pre- 
serves his confidence till he is in the ai. Bhould he be 
luckless enough to light in a chasm, be Las at ieast the ad- 
vantage of not being irighiened to death in advance, and | 
am convinced that ali the extraordinary leaps on record 
have thus been made by these forward horse-men, who, 
trusting Dame Fortune implicitly? find that she nearly 
always pulls them through. With regard to the distance a 
horse can cover When going a fair pace and leaping from 
sound ground, even with thirteen or fourteen stone on his 
back, it is searcely credible to those who have not witnessed 




it. Two and three and thirty feet from footmark to foot- 
mark, and on a dead level, have often been measured off. 
There are few fences in any country that would let us in, 
if we could trust to such a bound as this; and the activitye 
displayed by a good horse when he finds the ditch on the 
landing side wider than he calculated, is perhaps the 
noblest effort of the bodily powers of the animal. In the 
blank forest in Germany there are two stones standing to 
this day, sixty feet apart, to commemorate the leap made 
across a chasm by a hunted deer.— Whyte Melville. 


Answers Ca 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, fish- 
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 w l recesve 
attention. Anonymous communications not noticed.\ 
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Aurrep G.—Rule XXII of the game laws of the Marylebone club says 
“the striker is out if any part of his dress knocks down the wicket.” 
AMATEUR OnLY.—Address Mr. Bethel Burton, Brooklyn, L.1., the in- 
yeutor of the gun. 
Ciuss.—Write to I. H. Stead, Esq., No. 20 Beekman street, New York, 
Secretary of the New York Athletic Club. 
T. O. anp N:—Blondeau is the best reference on the influence of elec- 
tricity on plants. It 1s an intricate but beautiful subject. 
Bruna#, Philadelphia. Albino squirrrels are rare though there was a 
notice-of one in the New York Ties a year or 80 ago. 
CrEEDMOOR.—Hall’s breech loading rifle was in actual service in the 
United States army in 1825. Consult General Norton’s book on American 
breech loading small arms. 
Sometime ago a correspondent asked us who sold us a Lafancheux gun, 
and we replied that we did not know. We find since that Schuyler, Har- 
ley & Graham have them. 
AmarEur, Brooklyn.—Ducks are here to-day, and gone to-morrow. On 
some points around Fort Schuyler you might kill a few ducks and wil- 
lets. 
Hacker, N. Y.—Any respectable gun house will furnish you with the 
pistol requisite for the game you mention, We have our opinion, but 
decline to give it. Almost any one carrying a heavy ball would do. 

Saporus.—According to Dalton, the dew deposited on the soil in aver- 
age localities is fully five inches per annum, or about five hundred tons 
of water per acre, Dew follows, even in India, the banks of streams., 
N.S. L., Brooklyn.—Think you are correct. Madler, who measured 
the mountains of the moon with Ross’ telescope, declared that if a body 
of men or mass of troops were to march together on the moon’s surface, 
they would be discoverable with this telescope. 
Trouv FisHinc.—There are afew black bass in the Susquehanna. 
Most of the streams which empty ito the Susquehanna contain more or 
less brook trout, but there ‘are many places preferable, such as Tobyhan- 
na, on the Del. & Lack. R. R., and in the counties of Elk, McKean, Pot- 
ter, and Warren, Pa. In the mountains you speak of, ruffed grouse are 
plentiful; also, squirrels and the white hare. 
RuaveER, New Britain. Keep your trout line always straight by the 
motion of the hand, and your fly will keep to the surface whether in still 
or quick water. Ina running stream draw your fly up and athwart the 
current, sometimes letting it drop down alittle. What you want in fly 
fishing is motion, always motion; but it may take a dozen years to learn 
all the niceties of the art, and some persons neyer learn. 
Ninnop SHoormue CLus.—For regular shooting, one pink edged wad. 
For wild fowl shooting you can use two wads, or where great penetration 
is required. The wads ought to be one size larger than the cartridge. 
About three drams for ordinary shooting, increase the charge slightly 
when shooting over water. Laflin & Rand, or Curtis & Harvey’s. 
Amateur, Hoboken.—To preserve insects we have found the following 
useful: Quarter of an ounce of corrosive sublimate in one ounce of 
water, and add three ounces of spirits of wine. Steep insects in this, 
then dry; and especially if spider specimens be treated this way they 
will be found to be pliable. 

E. 8. Crosrer, Custom House. Louisville, Ky.—For a Newfoundland 
retriever write to Robert Bustin, St. John’s, New Brunswick. The pure 
breed of Water Spaniel is worn out in the United States. We can im- 
port one for you through our London agent, H. Herbert. The price would 
be somewhere about $50. 
TracuER, Utica.—Ambergris, Tennant says somewhere, is always ‘an 
ambiguous and exceptional substance.”’ There is very little doubt but 
that it is the foeces of the sperm whale. Word seems deriwed from gris 
(gray) amber. Some years ago its value was calculated as being eight 
times its actual weight in silver. z 
Canter, N. J.—A recipe that we don’t know the origin of Says that 
white marks caused by the friction of the saddle may sometimes be remov- 
ed from a horse by applying, morning and night, an ointment made of lard 
and tincture of cantharides or Spanish fly, made in the proportion of a 
few drops of the latter to an ounce of the former. 
OnE Wuo Gores TO MENAGERIES.—Zoologists are quite in the dark 
about it. The only known specimens were in China, and preserved. 
The name of Elaphurus Davidianus was given toit. It was a stag, but 
entirely unlike any living species. We should like some information 
about it ourselves. Can any of our readers give us a full description of it? 
Gxrorce N., Washington, D. C-—The bird you refer to must be we 
think the Predix Saxatilis Mayeri, or rock partridge. We should infer 
this from the fact of your having shot it in the grisons this summer. It is 
agennine mountain bird, and unlike the gallinoide, does not live in po- 
lygamy. They are not found north of the Alps. 
Herman T., Sacramento.—All true carnivorous whales are distinguish- 
able from the proportional size of the head. Best type of this is the 
balocnoptera rosttrata. Biggest whale is the rorqual (Physalus Boops.) 
One hundred and twenty feet long seems to be an absolute measure- 
ment, There isaskeleton somewhere in England the bones of which 
weigh thirty-five tons. 
Gusty Barnes, Providence.—Lammergeyer (Falco, or Gypetus bar- 
batus), called also Steingeyer in the Grisons, and Barteyger in various 
parts of Switzerland. Measurement, four and a half feet; ten feet from 
wing and wing, and will weigh from thirteen to twenty-one pounds. 
Other bird of the same region, golden eagle, (Aquila chrisetos.) He is 
bolder and stronger than the lammergeyer. There are, we think, three 
other varieties of the eagle in Switzerland. 
§. L. Harvey.—The experiments tried by you this summer are indeed 
interesting. We recollect to have seen somewhere an experiment of the 
same kind tried with the flowers of the Dictamnus dbus. When you ap- 
ply a flame tothem they apparently catch fire. The explanation is 
that the fiowers when fully developed contain some etheric oil which 
burns. When you take 2 bit of fresh orange peel and press it in a candle 
flame, the same phenomenon takes place. , 
EXprrimeNnTING.—The cartridge of the Prussian needle gun differs 
esseniiully from any other. It can only be used for the gun. It consists 
of four parts, enclosed in a paper cover. Parts are, the powder, the ful- 
minating cap, the carrier wad, and the ballet. Ball is an elongated ovoid 
rather blant at point. The carrier paper wad covers more than one half 
of the ball; the fulminate is ahead of the powder, the powder behind it. 
The carrier wad is of paper made under pressnre—papler mache. The 
wad flies with the bullet, when it becomes detached at about fifty yards, 
but at this distance the wad will hit heavily enough to killa man. Noth- 
} ing is left in the gun when it ie fired. 


