Identifier: pussywantscorner00leff (find matches)
Title: Pussy wants a corner in this book, which reviews the delights of the World's fair and contains a series of articles depicting the pleasures of field sports ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leffingwell, William Bruce. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Chicago)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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mer resort. The scenery ischarming, and the springs perform many miraculous cures. Dead wood is the largest miningtown, and millions of dollars worth of ore is taken from that vicinity every year. The northeastern part of the State is one of the best sections in the United States forfeathered game. The game laws for the open season are: Prairie-chickens, ruffed and sharp-tailed grouse, September ist to January ist. Snipes, plovers, cur-lews, ducks, geese, and brants, September ist to May 15th. Quails protected until 1898. Shooting of morethan twenty-five birds of one kind in a day, or the possession of the same, prohibited. Shipping out ofState, and the shipment of more than twelve birds within the State, prohibited. Deer, buffaloes, elks,antelopes, and mountain-sheep protected until September i, 1896. Bass, muscallonge, pike, pickerel, andperch. May ist to February ist. Those intended for breeding may be taken at any time. Netting prohib-ited except in the Missouri and Red rivers. 52
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THE CAPITOL BUILDING OF TENNESSEE. The charming scenery of this State appeals to the esthetic mind, and its naturalresources to the practical. The Enchanted Mountains, where impressions of the feet of men and animals are tobe seen in the limestone rock, are full of interest and imagery to the scientist. Many cavesin the Cumberland Mountains are loo feet deep, and a river has been discovered at the bot-tom of these caves 400 feet beneath the surface of the earth. The climate is temperateand generally healthful. The State is rich in minerals, copper, coal, iron, and marbles, andproduces fruits and grains from a semi-tropical to a temperate zone. Tennessee has a wealthof forests m which grow hardwoods which of themselves would enrich an)^ State, and nomore charming place can be found by the tourist than the mountains which supply pure airand beautiful scenery. Memphis is one of the greatest cotton markets in the world, thetraffic in cotton having been $30,000,000 in the season of 1891-92

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