Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12

ers will say that the German carp has been
a success also Ithas, but the carp is very
inferior fish. 1t does not flourish in the clear
streams of the North, preferring the warm,
sluggish rivers and bayous of the South.
But. granting that carp and trout are
success, the original intention has not been
carried out. 1t was to stock the lakes with
trout aad whitefsh, and thus furnish food
for the millions. The lake trout and white
fish will not grow, and the brook trout Is
mostly out of the reach of the public, so we
are getting for the thousands of dollars ex-
pended few of the inferior carp. The
State has quite capital invested and ap-
propriates S12, 900 year for defraying the
expenses of the hatchery. The sporting
clubs are getting almost the sole beneht OF
the outlay"
QUAIL HUNTING WITH PoLES-"Did
you ever hear of catching partridges with
q pole?" said a sun-browned business
man to New York Tribune reporter. 81
never did myself until last summer. A
party of us were up above Three Rivers,
Canada, surveying tract of wild land, and
one day after long tramp we came to the
top of a mountain where we scared up
whole lot OF partridges. They were those
little black Canadian fellows, you know
smaller than ours-and were so tame that a
man could almost catch them with his
hands. No one of us had thought ii worth
while to bring along gun from the camp.
Our guide, 'Canuck, proved equal to the
emergency, however. -.
"sWhistle and watch me catch him. said
he to one of the party. He then went and
cut a stout pole about IL feet long,
while the other continued to whistle. The
birds cooked their heads first on one side
and then on the other in a way to make US
laugh, but they stood still and faced the
music while the guide stole up unnoticed
and was thus enabled 10 kill three fine ones
with his pole before the rest took to flight.
MAN ON THE WING.-The giant birds of
geology. such as the dinornis, the extinct
moa of New Zealand, some of which stood
more than ten feet high, were most of them
wingless, just as still the great ostrich is
running, not flying bird. The albatrosses
and the condors, giants among the winged
fowl of the present day, are only relatively
gigantic. says the Edinburgh ReUieao, since
the weights of their bodies are trifing COM
pared with those OF human beings, and
their lofty flights, even if matched by the
to the respiratory faculties OF man.
Helmholtz observed that, though many
small birds which are granivorous fly swiftly
the great birds that are potent on the wing
are fish and flesh eaters, not needing extern
sive organs of digestion for their concen-
trated food. He thinks it therefore proba-
BILE that in the model of the great Alpine
eagle nature has attained the utmost limit
tnat can be attained, with muscles for the
working organs and conditions OF nourish-
ment as favorable as possible for the size of
a creature which is to raise itself by wings
and maintain itself for any time high in the
air.
Under these circumstances he concludes
that it is scarcely to be considered probable
that man, with the most skilIfully contrived
mechanism, to be moved by his own muscular
power, would ever be able to raise his own
weight into the air and sustain it there for
any time worth speaking Of When vessels
filled with gas lighter than air are en-
ployed to supply the lifting power, and yet
other vessels are employed with some stored
force to take the place of our own muscular
resources, the consequential increase OF
bulk and weight in the complex machine
must indeed greatly discourage human
aspirations and longings for the invention
of artificial wings. ~
CONNECTICUT DUCK SHOOTING - A
boat-builder named James Hurlbut looked
out of his kitchen window across the Con-
necticut river the other morning and saw
that a cove across the river was black with
ducks. He got into his kip boots hurriedly
and, gun in hand, went on the run. En-
sconced in the bush there he didn't have to
wait long for shot, for squad of the birds
got up in q moment, and James gave them
both barrels of big shot together. He
brought down the whole line OF ducks that
first quit the water, and then had business
enough gathering the spoils. He got seven
or eight ducks with the double shot
John Phelps. E. Decker, and Joseph
Lane, of Hartford, put in one day of good
sport at duck shooting. Tney bagged 20
black ducks, ana all of them were tender
and plump. The duck shooting in Connect
icut this fall promises to be fine enough to
suit anybody.
HOOKING A MUsKALLoNGE-The doc
tor was filling his pipe and quoting
Virgil in the same breath, when felt q
tug that electrified every nerve in my body
and almost jerked me out of the boat, says a
writer on muskallonge fishing in Outing.
can imagine nothing resembling it, unless
it were within the possibilities of modern
surgery to have an arm extracted in the
same instantaneous fashion with which
dentists jerk out tooth.
"Great Jehosaphat" roared the doctor, as
he felt the boat thrill. what was that?"
That very instant a splash was heard be-
hind the boat, and looking back we saw
magnificent muskallonge, as long as 10
year-old child, leap his full length above
the water, and then turning in mid air.
while every scale of his sinuous form gilt
tered respIendently for a single glorious sec
ond, he made a fierce plunge and
dove out of sight. Suddenly the strain
on my line relaxed and for a moment felt
my heart crawling up nv windpipe. NV
fish was off, But was quickly recalled to
consciousness by Johns impatient wind
up, quickl He's coming" and began to
take in the slack in a style that made my
reel fairly spin.
Just then 1 caught glimpse of dark
shape coming up toward the boat John
quietly drew cut revolver and bent over
the side. Nearer and nearer grew the shad-
owy mass; it reached the top.
"CrackP' and with few conyulsive shud-
ders nv big fish lay motionless upon the
water, with bullet hole through his head
MyI but he was a monsterl Forty-nine
inches long, and registered full 40 pounds.
The MOTHER LovE.-The woodcock
makes very shabby attempt at nest build
ing; slight depression IN the fallen leaves
of some shadowy wood or thicket serves as a
receptacle for the eggs, generally two in
number, says writer in Outing. The
young are at first queer-looking, tottering,
helpless things enough, but the mother bird