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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. There were 200 competitors in a recent sea angling conte-i a; Gorleston, England, and the first prize was won by a boy of thirteen years. I A. A. Bennett of Renville. MhML, has a gun handed down from father to son that is more than a century old. The brass [date attests that il «.i-maile in Lsaslea, England, in 1799. The barrel 1-five feet seven and a half inches long. II was originally a flintlock, but in ISM the dink ana was changed to percussion. A remarkable exhibit at Bristol Kennel Club Show consisted of a litter of three puppies, the mother of which was a wire-haired fox terrier ami tin si:,, a plain fox. which had been brought up .is a conipanii.il of the terrier. The puppies are much the color of the fox. with patches of white ■bout the body. The owner, w. G . Cox of Bristol, affirms that any other sire but the fox was not possible London Spoilsman. Major W. C.-Ootshalt, bis game banter of Sew fork, believes as a result of four weeks brreatbra- tion of the workings of the ttiw deer law that mile--the act is removed from the statute Ixioks tWO more jrean of bunting will exterminate the deer of the Empire State. It i- his belief that half tin herd has already been exterminated. The only bone, he says, for he perpetuation of tin- species in the north woods is by the re-enactment of Hie buck law ami cutting tl Id bag limit to one buck.
