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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. The first arrest for hunting from an airplane was aniioiini -d some days ago by the Kiologicnl Survey of the DeaartBMat of Agriculture at Wa-hiugtoii. II. C. A warden of the survey in Miaaeari spi d two men in an airplane s! ting wild- geese, and ivhen lie- machine dceceaded the nun were aneated During the tliird week in Deeeaiher, MH9, David ; V. Ward of Selma. Ala., and Dr. Thomas O. i.aidnir of Oui.icy. 111., who were hunting near Perl Myera, Kla.. killed tic largeal bag of raaae that was ever -ecured in the vicinity of Fort Mv, is. In addition to killing a number of wild tarfceya and nice bags of i.uail, Ike] took two panther-., several wildcats, one deer and one b ar. G. 1!. Carpenter of Medford. Ore., has a Scottish terrier that makes him the envy of the golf play-• i- on the Del Monte. Cal.. links. When Mr. Carpenter prepare- to make a stroke, the dog. wln.se name is Tammie. keeps his ey l the hall. Whether Ike hall goes into the rough or down th- fairway 2UO raids, the dog never fall- to locate it and t.. itaad by until his master arrieee. During the rear Taauale has eeea on the course he has never barked er violated the rubs of the game a.c.iding !•• his admirers. Dr. leha Hamilton of Swadlincote. I.urton-on-Treat, who has died in his seventietli year, wai a -I. .il believer ill the value of M rci-i . lb- took a daily stroll of ten mihs ahaoal up to the thai of his death, and must have walked over 290.990 mile- in visiting his patients. He was a keen man to hound and a freipent follower of the Meynell and Athi.i -tone, and he had shot big game in many put- of the world.— London Sportsman. Al.ollt twelve thousand different spei i-s of fishes are now known, it i- said, besides a va-t and raried aaeeaiblace «.f form- dbw extinct. These •|2 mm» -p.cie- an- arranged in BBBBl 249 group, ailed f.imiii -. The buaiUei arc aaeqaal in size, -•line caataiaiaa hundred- of -p.cie-. ethen bal al few, or even only one. Ju some cubes tlte j;ruup b ! now al its height, more forms exrstini; than ever before. In other cases one poor little -pecies may be the sole survivor of a once mighty race. Of the -pecie- of fishes thai are known, about one-fourth. 3. Mill, are found in the waters of North America north of the Isthmus of Ianama. a
