Game And Gamesters

The animal report of Ijieutenant C. L. Collins, inspector of small arms ! practice in the department of the Colorado, states tiiat the cornpetitions in target shooting have shovvn that men ' with light blue eyes rank highest, followed in their order b.v dark blue, i slate blue, light brown, dark brown and black. In the colored troops ! light blue eyes again stand at the top. He further says that tall men shoot ! more accurately thaa short men. Three young' girls of Ciiestertown, Md., went hunting and to their j may were successful to the extent of ' a big" bear. Two of the girls. beat the world's woman's record for tree j ing1, but the other emptied her gun at i the animal, disabling it, then loaded and fired again, until the bsar lay dead. Some days ugo a dog, while chasinga fox near Plymouth, N. H. , pushed his head between two ledges of rock : in such a way that he could not withdraw it and four hunters worked all day and night with drills to release liim. It was then found that he had chased a hedg-ehog and was covered with quills. The speed of the fastest rail way train is only a little inore than onehalf the velocity of tli3 golden eagle's flight, that bird haviug been known to make 14(i miles per hour. The condor soars higher than any other known species of bird, spending j nine-tenths of his life floating about ■ at a height of over three miles. Two hunters went out in the woods i f rom Abbeville, Wilcox county, Ga., a few days ago, and bagged eleven i possums in two days.