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Calendar of Events for the Current Week. 

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THURSDAY, 27TH.—Barnum’s Athletics at the Rink. .. Festival of 
Staten Island Shooting Club at New Dorp, L. I..... Foot race,$2,000, 
Providence, R. I. 
Fripay, 28Tu.—Trotting at Charlotte, N. C.... . The Rink.} 
SATURDAY, 29TH.—Trotting at Charlotte, N. C..... The Rink. 
Monpay, Dzo, ist.—The Rink, 
Turspay, Dxc. 2p.—Billiard match at New York Academy of Music, 
Garnier vs. Cyrille Dion.... Pigeon shooting tournament, Toronto, Can- 
ada....The Rink. y 
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THANKSGIVING. 
Hon Saas 
N this practical age of ours we are somewhat prone to 
regard all festivals, revelries and merrymakings with a 
philosophice! eye. 
Tt seems pretty evident that nationalities must have their 
days of amusement, for if ‘‘all work and no play makes 
Jack a dull boy,” this most excellent proverb is quite as ap- 
plicable to the community as to the individual. Collec- 
tiveness is also a necessity in taking pleasure. We may 
grieve in silence, but must be glad in company; somebody 
must be with us to share our happiness. American rejoic- 
ing has its peculiarities. What slight infiltration of the old 
Greek Saturnalia may enter into our uproariousness, may 
be difficult to determine. Perhaps the different ways in 
which we amuse ourselves may be owing in fact to the 
strange assemblages of races and people we are trying to 
weld into some kind of a homogenious mass, in this new 
world of ours. 
Our country is so large that each section takes its frolic 
differently. On the Pacifie slope there may be a slight 
smack of the fandango; in Louisiana it may take semblance 
of a French festival; but here among our more sedate and 
sober northern people, the holiday, the Thanksgiving, set- 
tles down into a day of quiet rejoicing, with the most solid 
anticipations"of roasted turkey and pumpkin pie. 
If the older people take their pleasure at sumptuous 
boards, loaded down with the good things of this earth, the 
younger people must have their fun with turkey shooting. 
Strnage is it again that all demonstrations of joy must be 
accompanied by detonations. There is your turkey in a 
box, with his red crest just on the top of it, like some giant 
head defending his castle. There he stands some fifty to a 
hundred yards from you, and how carefully the shooters 
take their aim. No diamond badge at Creedmoor could 
cause a greater excitement, Some half dozen rifle shots are 
fired and the gobler is unscathed; when comes some skill- 


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ful hand, and ‘‘pop” goes off poor turkey’s head. Laden 
with the spoil, the gallant bird is taken home by the crack 
shot, and cooked; done to a turn, the cranberry sauce, with 
its ruddy hue, contrasting with the delicate rich brown tint 
of the nicely roasted bird, a feast is made worthy of aking. 
Jack who has shot the bird, may have before this performed 
some meritorious action, and may possibly later in life ren- 
der himself illustrious, but the memory of that gobler won 
by his prowess on a Thanksgiving Day will be a consola- 
tion to him, and likely to remain as long in his memory as 
most other things in this world. 
Thanksgiving is getting to be each year more and more a 
day devoted to athletic sports. To-day, in and around New 
York, and throughout the country, though the grounds be 
soft, tens of thousands of boys and men will play at base 
ball, and hardy cricketers will drill in the wickets, and 
bowl merrily for the last time of the season. 
Our current number greets our readers bearing the date 
of Thanksgiving Day, A. D. 1873. We have too few holi- 
days, provided we could spend them in healthful recrea- 
tion. Thanksgiving Day is most certainly one of our fes- 
tivals which is popular with the people, and the inspiration 
it suggests is that of sociability and merrymaking. The 
season is the beginning of winter, and throughout most of 


the northern and western States there is added the fun and 
frolic of the first snow and the consequent sleigh ride and 
extemporized parties, and all kinds based on out of door 
amusements. To the rural districts Thanksgiving may be 
properly called the American carnival. Now the toilsome 
work of summer and the severe labor of gathering the fall 
crop is ended. The barns and storehouses are full, the 
wheat, the pumpkins, the luscious apples, the nuts, the 
succulent vegetables invite admiration on all sides, and the 
most irreverent have a sense of the blessings of Provi- 
dence, and the heart involuntarily rejoices. 
A little reflection makes the conclusion inevitable that 
Thanksgiving Day and its festivities are not conventional 
or arbitrary, but the irrepressible desire to mark an era of 
good feeling that wells up spontaneously in the heart, and 
is as necessary for our happiness as the air we breathe. 
Now it is that separated families get together and sit 
close, because the weather is cold and the blazing fire nec- 
essary for physical comfort. The son who has wandered 
off, or the favorite daughter who has changed her name 
and left the paternal roof, come back on Thanksgiving 
Day to the old homestead, and for the nonce live over their 
youthful days and make new allegiances of love to kind 
parents and devoted relatives. Nor are those who have 
departed forever forgotten; a silent tear is dropped on their 
memcry, and the boisterous mirth is chastened but not sup- 
pressed by these sad recollections. 
The return of Thanksgiving Day in the country calls 
forth various devices for amusement. The old rusty gun 
is cleaned up, and shooting matches of all kinds are ex- 
temporized, the most popular and harmonious with the 
occasion being that of turkey shooting. Doubly hilarious 
is the festive board when the favorite bird has been ob- 
tained ‘‘by the best shot,” though the expenditure for lead 
and powder cost possibly five times its market price. These 
are jolly exhibitions, these turkey shooting matches, and 
we are pleased to know that they prevail in our rural dis- 
tricts with all the spirit and fire of the olden times, at 
which often crashes with sharp report some old Queen Ann’s 
fowling piece, that has done a good century’s service of 
wear and tear. 
Now ambitious lads have their peculiar sports. They 
get out their fowling pieces—old flint locks, and ‘‘single 
par'ls” without any locks, and with a stump tailed dog 
make the hickory groves ring with the explosions of vil- 
lainous saltpetre. The objective points are innumerable 
squirrels, that at first, alarmed by the noise, run into their 
holes in desperate fright, but presently, finding out there is 
no harm in the scattering shot, it being so badly aimed, 
“bushy tails” resume their foraging work, and from their 
high nestling places laugh and chatter derisively, to the | 
great annoyance of the jolly juveniles. But stump tail 
barks, the woods ring with echoes, the boys laugh, and the 
enjoyment, alas! is sweeter than will be found in after life. 
There wasa cunning old publican, when we were in 
charge of a boarding school, who got up a Thanksgiving 
shooting match for the ‘“‘Academy boys” who didn’t go 
pome for a Thanksgiving dinner. It was very kind in him 
to recollect us when we were left literally out in the cold. 
We thought well of that old publican because he furnished 
us at a low price with afowling piece loaded with shot, 
and a bird tied toa stake thirty yards away for a prize. 
We, infants perdus, with all our holiday spending money, 
repaired to his inn, and in presence of all the ‘‘Solon Shin- 
gles” of the vicinity commenced our grand display as 
tnarksmen. The victim, or prize, as you please, was an 
old game rooster called General Santa Auna, that had lived 
for years in the vicinity to the terror of all dung hill fowls; 
but he was getting old now, his feet were gouty, his head 
out of shape from innumerable fights, and in fact, as we 
subsequently learned, he had nothing left of the original 
bird but his indomitable spirit. By the laws of our shoot- 
ing match with the publican the first boy that brought down 
Santa Anna was to have him for a prize. We, one and all, 
pegged away, making the dust fly about the old hero; but 
beyond this, to him harmless annoyance, he undauntedly 
faced the fire; in fact, he seemed to like it. Once anda 
while a stray buck shot would lodge in his neck, or crease 
his unprotected legs, whereupon he would stand on his tip 
toes and scream out his defiance, then cuddle down and 
cluck to us with affectionate notes, as if we were a brood 
of chickens. The yesult was, that in piecemeal we fired 
away all our Thanksgiving pocket money, and when we 
departed from the scene of our juvenile exploits old Santa, 
Anna gave a sereeching note of derision at our poor aim 
and harmless shot, and the various Solon Shingles, who, 
with the landlord, enjoyed our discomfiture, unanimously 
agreed ‘‘that that ere game cock could have stood up agin 
our fire for six months.” And we think he could. 
But all hail the festivities of Thanksgiving Day. Under 
its cheering influence and inspiration we will endeavor for 
the moment to forget the panic, the unavoidable troubles 
of a ‘‘wicked world,” and offer the incense , to heaven of a 
grateful heart. 
A time honored and goodly custom is the keeping of this 
day of rest. May we—though times have been hard and 
fortunes have been swept away, though horrid war seems 
to loom up in the distance—may we still assemble on this 
and future Thanksgiving Days and thank the Beneficent 
Giver for all the acts of mercy and goodness he has shown 
to us. 
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THE SACRAMENTO SALMON. 
Lee een 
i Darts journal has already published in general terms, 
in common with other newspapers, a history of the 
operations of the United States Fish Commission in Cali- 
fornia, and its success in procuring and forwarding to east- 
ern waters a large quantity of the salmon ova of the Sacra- 
mento. We are now gratified to be able to present our 
readers with an official account of the same by the kind 
courtesy of Livingston Stone, Esq., the indefatigable gentle- 
man who had charge of the U. §. Salmon Breeding Camp 
onthe McCloud River. Mr. Stone writes to the Forrest AND 
Stream from his ‘‘ Cold Spring Trout Ponds” at Charles- 
town, New Hampshire, under date of November 19th, as 
follows :— 
‘‘ Our operations this year in getting salmon spawn in 
California were more successful than they were last year. 
Last year I received my instructions barely in time to 
reach the spawning grounds of the salmon by the first of 
September. The McCloud River, which offered the best 
facilities for the work, is, as you are probably aware, in- 
habited only by Indians, and our nearest source of supplies 
at that time being at Red Bluff, fifty miles distant, it was 
the middle of September before we could get to work te 
collect the eggs. 
Judging from precedents at the east, where the salmom 
never spawn before October, we supposed we had plenty of 
time, but to our astonishment we found on catching the 
parent salmon that they had nearly all spawned, the season 
here being at least six weeks earlier than on the eastern 
rivers, the Minimichi for instance, where the salmon begin 
to spawn about the 15th of October. It was too late to 
make a great success that year, so we contented ourselves 
with taking a few thousand eggs, and waiting till the next 
to complete the experiment. It was the fault of no one, for 
after the funds were ready for disbursement at the Treasury 
Department, not a day was lost in pushing the work to its 
accomplishment. 
This year, however, I started in good season, and on the 
19th of August the water was turned on to the hatching 
troughs and everything was ready for collecting eggs. We 
considered the day an auspicious one for this event, because 
on the same afternoon about sundown, with the help of our 
whole force of whites, and a dozen Indians, we erected a 
fifty feet flag staff and hoisted a large American flag over 
the camp. 
On the 26th of August we took the first salmon eggs, 
23,000 in number, and continued taking eggs from this 
time till the 22d of September. The number which I was 
instructed by Prof. Baird, the Head of the United States 
Fish Commission, to furnish, was one million, but knowmg 
the great liabilities to loss in hatching and transportation, 
I took two million eggs in all, allowing 500,000 for waste in 
hatching, and 500,000 for loss in transportation. On the 
12th Sept. the first eye spots made their appearance, and on 
the 20th Sept. I sent eastward the first shipment, number- 
ing 300,009. The balance of the eggs, as they tecame 
properly matured for forwarding, was shipped at intervals 
up to the middle of October, when the last of a quarter of a 
million was packed and sent to Dr. Slack of New J ersey. 
The waste in hatching and transportation was about 
what was provided for, so that very nearly the stated quota. 
of a million eggs arrived at their destinations alive. 
They were sent in various proportions to Dr. J. H. Slack, 
New Jersey; Mr. James Duffy, Pennsylvania; George H. 
Jerome, Michigan; Seth Green, New York; Charles G. 
Atkins, Maine; E. A. Brackett, Mass.; F. W. Webber, 
New Hampshire; A. P. Rockwood, Great Salt Lake, Utah. 
Their final destinations are the Susquehanna, Potomac, 
Delaware, Schuylkill, and James Rivers; Lake Superior, 
Lake Champlain, Great Salt Lake, and the tributaries of the 
Mississippi. Very truly yours, 
Livineston Sronr.” 
It will be perceived that the waters of the Hudson are not 
included in the distribution designated above, inasmuch as 
our correspondent had not been advised at the time of writ- 
ing, of the determination of the Chief of the Fish Commis. 
sion to include the Hudson, as announced in the last num- 
ber of Forrest AND SvRuAM over his ownsignature. There 
can be no doubt of the wisdom of Prof. Baird’s decision in 
this matter, for certainly no waters are better adapted for 
salmon propagation and growth than the clear cold tribu- 
taries of our noble river; and those gentlemen who have 
urged it upon his attention through the columns of this 
paper are very competent to judge of the whole subject in 
all its bearings, ab ova vaque mala, We are informed that 

