Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-21

right.
Carmichael and Montmorency are boil
training under the Swoboda system Of physi
cal culture. They are both getting 81
strong that 500-pound dumbbells are mere
toys. | don't think.
The Du Pont Gun club have a new manga
trap for target shooting. AS many as TO-,
600 targets can be thrown during the dag
with this new machine It is an automatic
affair and will throw targets fast enough
to keep from ten to fifteen in the air all the
time. Go out and see 1t work on Wash.
ington's birthday.
Charley johannes, the Genial Jo." re-
Gently received from his illustrious friend,
Tom Reed Of Maine, a magnificent specimen
of the AnCora cat. 1t is perfectly marked
and has a pedigree as long as your arm.
John Reed, when in Kansas City the other
day, made the preliminary arrangements for
a live bird contest between Kansas City and
Omaha. The match is 10 be at 100 birds
per man, fifty to be shot In Omaha and fifty
In Kansas City. The teams may consist OF
six, eight, ten or twelve men. and the shoot
will be for the price of the birds and the
championship Of the two cities.
George Loomis made a very creditable
showing at San Antonio. He finished only
a few points under Parmeiee, who was third
In the grand average.
Goodly Brucker also shot well when at
San Antonio. but owing to the disagreeable
weather he didn't take part in the shooting
but ono day.
Johnnie Reed, on his return from Texas,
stopped off at Kansas City to attend to some
business matters, and while there took a
shy at the Kansas City live bird shooters,
and didn't do a thing but kill twenty-nine
out of thirty, one string of fifteen straight
and fourteen out of the next fifteen, a good
enough score for anybody.
Billy Brewer is one of the most graceful
shooters in the Omaha Gun club. His posi-
ton when facing the trap is perfection, and
he not only looks good, but Is good.
The Omaha Gun club has the honor Of
numbering among the now already famous
list of members none other than the great
Chinese statesman, Lii Hung Chang. Some
people may think this funny. but 1t isn't.
They changed his name from Parmelce to Ii
Hung Chang during the San Antonio tourna-
ment. 1t happened like this. DR.. Carver,
who Is a warm personal friend of the great
Chinese statesman, met Parmelee on the
depot platform at San Antonio, just as the
doctor seeing Parmelee, who is the living
image of Ii Hung. rushed at him,
grasped his hand in fond embrace, asked
how Mrs. Ii Hung was, sent his re-
CARDS to the baby and then quickly mounted
tho rear platform OF the last car of the fast
departing train. The doctor will probably
never know the gross mistake he made.
This fusilade Of Misunderstanding, regard send
ing, etc, SO bewildered Parmelee that all
he could say was "And-and-you go to"
VI III DtlElN VI ~ llGuN sIbl oiliti
who love to seek the black bass in his native
haunts WI give a few extracts from a letter
anent the reported destruction of Hol-
mans or Quinnebaugh lake by the cutting
in of the Missouri river. "The river got
blocked with ice about ii mile below here
and raised enough to overflow that narrow
strip between the river and the lake, so at
present February 81 the lake is almost four
feet higher than lit was, but since the river
went down the lake hes been falling. There
was no new channel formed, and | don't
think it is going to hurt the fishing a parti-
Gle, and am almost sure II will improve it.
VIII let you know later"
From the Smithsonian institution at Wash
ington, says the New York Times, comes a
warning that unless civilized man mends his
ways, and at once, every race of birds except
tho few that have been domesticated will dis
appear from the earth, with results whose
gravity can hardly be estimated. The pro-
cess Of determination is going on steadily
and rapidly. Scores OF species that had al
most numberless Representatives a few years
ago have been entirely killed off; OF othens
only scanty remnants survive in out-of-the-
way places, and even there they are the
victims OF relentless pursuit. The rhCa OF
South America, the Western Hsmisphere's
one member Of the ostrich tribe. has become
so rare that specimens or it are hard to
procure, and yet the plumage of this bird is
used only for making feather busters. The
last Labrador duck, once common in summer
as far south as New England. was shot in
1852, and the species now exists. thanks only
to thirty-elght stuffed specimens in
various museums. The birds OF
Islands are especially helpless against
the persecution OF hunters, as they
have no place to which they can retreat.
The Blue Mountain duck, a species of petrol,
has just been exterminated in Jamaica; Cuba
has lost her macaws, unless a few of tham
still dwell in the remotest swamrs; the Les
ser Antilles now have few or no parrots; the
of whose wing feathers the Hawaiian
kings made their royal cloaks, is now no
more, while New Zealand, once rich witt
unique birds, at present is almost destitute
of feathered life more interesting than hens.
The list could be extended almost indefinitely
could be tales of insect ravages, which
are the direct consequence of bird destruc-
ton.
Has any one heard from the Man-from.
Wild-Horse-Canyo since he tackled Dago
George out at Sutton?. Jim thought he had
4 snap, but he went back to Arapahoe a
0adder and wiser man.
The Dupont Gun club will hold it's regu-
lar Sunday afternoon shoot on its grounds
at Anderson's, on the lake, this afternoon, at
which the new magutrap will be used fer
the first time.