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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. The s.-areity of ferrets in England lately is due. it is stated, to the fact that their skins are being sold as ermine. The second South. in Forestry Congress will be ! held in New Orleans January 2s. 29 ami 31. The Chief speaker will be Henry S. Craves, Inited 1 ! States Forester. Richard Walton fully, the American writer, au-: thor of the successful play. "The Bird of lara-I ;|i- .-.•• won the N"w Year tournament at the Nice. Prance. Golf Club. The first fi-.ii and game bill Introduced in the ■ Ni v. .ler-cy legislature prohibits hunting from fying machines. Both branches of the legislature ■ last year passed a ilaaOlar MIL which waa vetoed I by Governor Edge an th ground that it was --un nii e-s:iry legislation.* inasmuch as the federal 1 migratory regulations prohibits thai kind of shooting. The story Of an extraordinary shootiag feal by :i 1 blind man conies, well vouched far, from Canada A blind man named Ross, OU a shooting expedition 1 iu company with another man. heard a wild gooa ■ • flying toward him. It was in the evening, and 1 he sighted hnnter could not see the goose. i:,,s, s 1, k the gun. The goose banked when almost t directly over lloss. Who, locating in an instant • it- exact position, fired; and brought it down. *.
