Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-24

pany recently, there was on exhibition
block of ice In which were frozen sever.
trout. The ice was frozen by the com
pany's ice machine on the Divide. The
trout were almost as plainly visible as
though they had been suspended in air.
They were IN natural attitudes, and sp-
peared to have CONCEALED without knowing
that anything was happening TO them. As
all their spots and coiors were distinctly
visible, and they stood immovable with
tails and fms expanded, they would have
formed a splendid study for an artist.
Indeed, we think that here Is hint that
painters of such subjects should not neg.
iect. Bets were made that they would
thaw out alive and kicking" and the
block of ice was accordingly placed in
tank and allowed to melt, but at last &C
counts the trout were lying on the bottom
apparently quite dead. Artificial freezing
was evidently too quick and sharp for
them Virginia Enterprise.
NATURAL HIsToRY.-It is too often the
fact that our modern sportsmen care more
for the pursuit and capture OF the game,
than they do for infinitely examining or
classify ing it after the excitement of the
chase is over. To such a duck is a duck, a
goose is goose, or a snipe is a snipe, with.
cut regard TO the many varieties that exist
in the different families. 1t often happens,
resulting from such carelessness in whole
sections, that the same variety is known by
a certain name at one season Of the year,
and by a different name st another season,
owing to change in plumage consequent
upon the varying seasons. A few moments
= /, =
the bird would often make plain the iden-
tity. II is this lack of interest in practical
natural history that causes the confusion in
the local LANES OF the fauna OF America
American Field.
INVENTORIES VS.. TEN BoREs "A cor
respondent of the american Field saws To
begin with, it has been proven over and
over again. and also at the Chicago Field
gun trial, that s. bore will beat an Shore,
that an bore will excel a 10 bore, and
that 10 bore is superior to - bore.
This has been found true, everything else
being equal OF this there can be no dis
pute, and any one who doubts it has only
to look the matter up to be convinced.
Simply because q certain sportsman does
as good shooting with u bore as another
does with a 10, or because some one ex-
changes I0-bore for III bore with which
he does better shooting, proves nothing only
thae either the y bore Is bored to make a
better pattern, or the person can handle it
better. Incidentally, it is fact, well.
known to large gun manufacturers, that
the difference between the shooting OF 10
and II gauge guns is less than between any
other two sizes. For instance, everything
else being equal, suppose an S bore was
superior to 10 bore by 20 per cent, then
the difference between 10 bore and II
bore would be only to 10 per cent, and
the 10 gauge would be found to be superior
to the IA gauge by about 20 per cent. l
must not be understood as stating that
light u bore is nearly equal to heavy 10
bore, but that the difference between them,
when Of the same weight, say from 81 to
10 pounds, is very slight. Nevertheless,
the 10 bore is a better shooting gun.
DEAD.-Lady Rysdyk. the old gray
broodmare, by Rysdyk's Hambletonisn out
of Dandy, by Enquirer, died recently at
the Orkney Stud Farm.