Related article: Clarendon, and the Prince named Canopus to defend. Villiers made 324 BAILYS MAGAZINE. [November all the running, and won by 15 lengths. The race for the Whip is the longest run under Jockey Club rules: it is run at the Second October Meeting over the Beacon Course, 4 miles i Buy Cheap Levothyroxine furlong 177 yards. The weight to be carried is 10 stone, and the stakes 200 sovs. a-side. The Whip may be challenged for twice a year, and the challenge must be accepted or Levothyroxine Online the trophy given up ; no challenge issued last October, but the later opportunity was taken by Lord Ellesmere and Sir £. Cassel. Under the rules Mr. Archibald Gold was obliged to accept the challenge or resign holdership of the Whip by July 31st. Villiers having died, he adopted the latter course, and thus the race was re- duced to a match as is usual. The first sheet calendar in Octo- ber contained the names of Levothyroxine Buy Online the horses nominated, Generic Levothyroxine Lord Elles- mere's Ultimatum and Sir E. Cassel's Gadfly to wit, and on the concluding day of the New- market Second October Meeting, Gadfly beat Ultimatum by four lengths, making Sir E. Cassell holder of the Whip for the year. The Whip may not leave the United Kingdom. It is a short, heavy, old-fashioned jockey whip ; the hair interwoven and plaited through the ring on the handle is from the tail of the Purchase Levothyroxine Online famous Eclipse. G. B. A Gun-Room Causerie. in.— CARTRIDGES. To the sportsman possessing scien- tific instinct there is something very irritating in the dominance of the ordinary standard Where To Buy Levothyroxine cartridge. 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Pigeon shooters broke away from the bonds by using extra long cases in special weapons, but their requirements were of a special kind, and the lengthening of the case was much the same sort of thing as yacht designers Buy Levothyroxine resort to in order to get the greatest advantage with a certain rule of measurement. Their efforts have but little practical effect upon shipbuilding, and pigeon guns and cartridges are not generally used for game shooting. With guns and explosives the tendency is towards concentration. Guns are made lighter, shorter and handier ; modern explosives in- crease in strength as they diminish in bulk, and loads are smaller than they were. A cartridge case of the standard length is not re- quired in order to obtain the best shooting with the standard charge and load. No advantage is de- rived from filling up with wad- ding ; the cartridge case ought to be shorter, and the chamber shorter too. Guns specially built for short cartridges iVould meet all the ordinary requirements of sportsmen. Without sacrificing the shooting qualities the barrels might be shorter, the Buy Levothyroxine Sodium gun, there- fore handier and better balanced, and, possibly, other advantages ■developed which at present are not apparent. Every one who has used the 2-in. cartridges in ordinary guns has found the advantage of the shorter case. The cartridges are lighter, they extract better, and VOL. Lxxiv. — NO. 489. they are cheaper. On the other hand, there is the risk — a slight one, certainly — that the shot may ball occasionally. That risk would be avoided if the guns were speci- ally chambered for the short cases, but the short chamber in the gun of ordinary dimensions would not be so Order Levothyroxine Online advantageous as a gun built throughout to use a short cart- ridge and no other. It is this last that is specially recommended to sportsmen and gunmakers. 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