Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1891-08-15 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

AMONG THE GROUSE.  cannot be said in respect. to the wide entice of moors Never mind! Here's to the grunse, to the North, land near Penistone, where much havoc has been the pointers, and—the Kaiser. Mn, all four live in caused both by the weather and disease. In some our memory, as says the old Scotch song. And, ins 7 of the Derbyshire dial riots vermin have Tirade you and I ifleet--strangers as we are—over a bins heavy ramges. In the district lying between chismpain of endless and glorious extent, with a good Glossop and Ashopton birds were very numerous last gun, a good physique an .I—a good bag, "towards the year, but the broods are small apd the quality of the grouse. ' birds poor this season. In. the, Peak _district birds . .  are very backward, hilt on the Duke of Devonshire's . and the Errwood moors fair sport is expected. we • Powesa—elns tins, se, au., Cwt.% .m 4 .11t1.1.116. (sartectLe aneteaUsit lEtsrmiaw to sywymtas bat "Discipadue," writing in the Sporting and Dra- trowess. gala In Tian ed. and 1. ma tic News, nays I turn op the pages of an old Tim Registmr-General states that 12,306 deaths friend, the Sporting Magarine, vol. xxiv., and at hap- were ascribed to symotie causes in England and hazard come on a page that at once eelmee my own Walm in the last quarter. thoughts. "On the 17th August (1820) there was Raosterty Lord Salisbury remarked to a deputasone good shooting done, for Sir It. Sutton on this tiou from the Imperial Federation League." We are day killed TA brace of grouse from a pony." Dear almost come to a time when schemes should be Promo; and here we are very near the sacredl 12th, and posed." A committee of the league is now, as a it as but yesterday! brought away any guns from the result of this remark, engaged in formulating a battle-fields of the North. So it seem, to me, bet we scheme. This committee includes (according to the have "gotten away," as any old Scotch clerk says; :London correspondent of the Scottish Leader) bird and he and I realised to-day we were well in for our Bramey, Lord Remy, Lord Lamingtam, Sir Charles vacation. Somehow, as I shut op my ledger*, a Tupper, Sir Lyon Playfair, Professor Bryce, Sir John whiff of smoke came in. Euetoe for a liver to-night, Colomb, Sir Daniel Cooper, and Mr. Arnold Forster, and the limited mail. I know I shall meet on the Irate holda the evil pre-eminence in mortality from platform the mine mane, men, and doge, which bare malarial fevers and smallpox, Austria and Franco escorted me up northward for more years than coming next; but Italy can boast of the lowesc I dare remember. Shall probably, too, get ; average of deaths from tubercialosie and train drink. an inkling of the state of birds and •Of accidental deaths Italy hiss fewer than Englund moors, statistics that sound humor°. if I think land Switzerland, and has far :ewer from suicide than of the proportion of gun. to birds! In 1862 it was Germany, Switzerland,Austria, Belgium and EnglAnd. said 80 per cent, of red game died of disease owing to I On the other hand it is Italy's misfortune that she a cold wet spring such as we have seldom seen. This, • has the largest number of homicides.