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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on in 1819. In that feast of architecture which the Worlds Fair brought outit is to be regretted that a building representing Alabama was not erected, for the naturalproductions of the State, in which nature has been most bountiful, could have been shownto a world of people not restricted by land or sea. Those who are so fortunate as to visitthe South are loath to take their departure from this land of enticement, and one is justifiedin delaying ones departure and to linger in a State so charming in its attractions. Sports-men and fishermen enjoy rare sport in Alabama. The open seasons for game are : The general State law protects ring-necked pheasants for eight years from June i, 1893, and-forbids Sunday or night shooting and fire hunting; also nets, traps, poisons, explosives, and obstruc-tions to the free passage of fish in streams. Every county has its own special laws protecting game-and fish, which are so numerous and conflicting that an intelligible synopsis can not be given. 3
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INDIAN AVENUE, SITKA, ALASKA. Alaska is an irregular peninsula stretching beyond the Arctic Circle and at BeringsStraits reaching within a few miles of Asiatic Russia. Sitka is the capital. Alaska waspurchased from Russia by the United States for $7,200,000 in 1867. It has an area of530,000 square miles, and is world-renowned because of its fishing and fur-trading. Alaskais not as cold as generally supposed, and more rain falls there than anywhere outside ofthe tropics. The Territory is governed by officers appointed by the President of theUnited States, and the country is peopled by a few hundred whites, the balance of thepopulation being native Alaskan Indians. These Indians, like all other Indians, aresuperstitious. Their superstitions run in a different channel from other tribes, andperpetuation of the deeds of their sires and of those from whom they are directlydescended is effected in monuments of carved wood which show hideous and grotesquefaces of imaginary men. Or again, of b

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