Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
Questions nnJ Answers.

| The bird was probably OF the plover family
! the color and tuft on the head being a freak
/ OF nature. The avocet is a gralatorial bird
perfectly white, with the exception Of a jet
black splotch on the wings, rather q long
! BILL bent upward toward the tip.
SOUTH OMAHA, Jan. 6.-'ro the Sporting
Editor Of The Bee: Please publish in your
next Sundays issue OF The Bee the names
! and addresses OF four or five good poultry
! papers, that is papers devoted exclusively to
| the welfare of the poultry business. BY
| doing so you will oblige a subscribe bsr.-John
| j. Kealy.
Ans.-Denver Poultry Journal; American
| Poultry Yard, Hartford Conn; Hartford
Poultry World; National Monitor of Poultry,
| Fort Wayne. Ind. Western Poultry Journal,
| Cedar Rapids, Ia; Poultry Review, Lincoln;
Poultry Journal, Auburn, Neb.
OMAHA. Neb., Jan. A.--To the Sporting
| Editor Of The Bee: viii you please state in
| Sundays Bee. to decide a bet, who were the
base ball batteries of the Bems Bag com
pany's team in 1894 and obige.-A Sub
| scriber.
Ans.-wrte to Nick Young,
| WILLIAM, Ariz.. Dec. 31.-To the Sport.
ing Editor OF The Bee: Would you please
| send me the account of the meeting be-
tween Fitzsimmons and Maher prior to the
| FL Paso contest? This is to settle dis
| pute.-Wiliam Kay.
| Ans.-Fitzsimmon won in twelve rounds
at New orleans, March 2. 1892 Maher quit
ting The purse was 100000; referee John
| Duffy; behind FitZ Jimmy Carroll, Joe
! Choynski and Alec Greggains; behind Ma
| her. Billy Madden, Gus Tuthill and Jack
| Fallon No answers by mail.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 4.--To the Sporting
Editor of The Bee; Please answer in Sun
days Bee If there is any rule preventing
a base ball umpire from changing his de-
| cison Also please state the age of Adrian
Anson?-Al NJ Stark.
| Ans.-Q) There is no rule preventing an
| umpire from changing his decision. (2)
| Uncle Anse, as near as l can recollect, was
| AZ last cOrn-cuttin'.
OMAHA, Dec. 31.-To the Sporting Edi-
tor of The Bee: Will you please tell me
| through your question columns If the gov
ernment has any statistics and other in
formation in regard to the poultry indus
| try and how and through whom they can
| be had?--A Subscriber.
| Ans-Write to the Agricultural depart
ment at Washington.
WOODBINE. Ia, Jan. 5.-To the Sporting
Editor Of The Bee: and are playing high
five. A is AZ and B So bid and made
the trump and made II points. B made
| high, jack. Which won the game? Please
answer in next Sundays Bee.-A Reader Of
The Bee. W. NJ.
| Ans.-B.
LINCOLN, Jan 6.-To the Sporting Editor
| of The Bee: Please explain in next Sundays
| Bee, for the benefit of a couple of sporty
| boys down here at the capital, the origin of
the slang word dope" used so extensively
nowadays by sporting writers.-H. II. Wills.
| Ans.-Nitro- -glycerine is generally regarded
| among chemists as the most powerful of eX-
plosives and 1t has held that position of
sinister prominence for a number of years.
| though recently other explosives of a higher
grade have been tested. The trouble with
| nitro-glycerine has always been the imprac
| ticability of handling large amounts OF 1t,
| for 1t is at any time liable to explode on the
slightest pressure, and an explosion of nitro
glycerne does not afford, usually, the wit
nesses of the occurrence a coveted oppor-
tunity to give, either orally or in writing,
their recollections of 1t. 1t Is susceptible to
heat, and when transported any distance.
upon train, may, from the sudden starting
or jolting of the cars, be moved in such
way that there is little OF the train left. and
little of the roadbed, either. Dynamite is
a preparation Of Observation-Disclosures
nitro-glycerine, so to speak-made up or SO
per cent of the original article and 40 per
cent of dope. The dope is a composition of
nitrate OF soda, wood pulp and magnesia,
and the three together, when mixed in COM
position with the nitro-glycerne materially
reduce the dangers of sudden explosion from
It, and permit II to be handled with some
approach to safety. In other words, the
dope is a danger-deadener, added In order to
lessen the force of the nitro -glycerine, some
what as whisky is occasionally diluted with
water. or brandy with soda, by bibulous in
dividuals, who do not desire to limit to
few the number of drinks they take, while
wishing to avoid the danger OF too many un-
diluted beverages Among workers in ex-
plosives it is a general expression that where
tho standard of the explosive is of too high
a grade, some done is to be added AS the
use of opium has a like effect upon an in
dvidual, making him lethargic, drowsy, in
different to his surroundings, and apparently
careless of all consequences opium has come
to be known as dope, and man who acts
as If under the influence of the poppy drug
is said to be dopy. dope fiend" is per-
son addicted to the opium habit, a pipe
hitter"
ST. EDWARD, Neb., Jan. 3.-To the Sport
ing Editor of The Bee: Now that the state
of Nebraska is on the eve of another session
of the legislature, won't Il be well for the
shooters or gun clubs to get move on them
selves in regard to the enforcement of the
game laws? Since / left Omaha and made
my home in the country, see the necessity
for the protection of game. 1t is killed at all
seasons of the year, and shipped in season
and out OF season.
If it was not for the dollars and cents that
the pot hunters get out OF what they kill
there would be plenty of game for all. The
commission firms send out price lists of
game in July and then the slaughter begins
and by the first of September the birds that
are not killed are wild that there is no
sport IN hunting them, anu uO one DuI inc
market hunter gets any beneit. 1t is no
sport to him, but q matter of gain and the
most worthless of all humanity is the
market hunter. He shoots old and young
in season and out just so they bring him
money.
This season there was in Boone county
plenty OF birds, more than any time since
| have been in the county. In regard
to water fowl the law should protect that
class of game also. In regard to the time
of day they can be shot-there should be no
shooting between sun set and sun rise. /
have been on the Platte In the spring and
the sand bars have been covered with ducks
and geese at dusk, and along in the night
you would hear the booming Of guns and
often you see boat or raft with a head
light floating down stream shooting and
driving the game off from their roosting
places, and the consequences were that not
bird Is to be seen In the morning, nor
will they rOost In the same place the next
night but leave or so farther west There
is nothing that will scare ducks or geese
like shooting after dark. Nebraska needs
game wardens. or before long there will be
no game to shoot. / have spoken to Mr..
Ke!ster, one OF the representatives from
Boone county, and he has promised to give
this matter his attention II brought before
the legislature this session. Please lay the
matter open In The Bee. p. SIMPSON
MANKATO. MINI. Jan. ITO TIE Sport |
ing Editor Of The Beef there Is a first. |