Colonel Montgomery was shot in a duel about a dog; Colonel Ramsey, in one about a servant; Mr. Featherstone, in one about a recruit; Sterne’s father in one about a goose; and another gentleman, in one about an “acre of anchovies;” one officer was challenged for merely asking his opponent to enjoy the second goblet; and another was compelled to fight about a pinch of snuff; General Barry was challenged by a Captain Smith for declining wine at a dinner on a steamboat, although the General had pleaded as an excuse that wine invariably made him sick; and Lieutenant Cowther lost his life in a duel because he was refused admittance to a club of pigeon shooters. In 1777 a duel occurred in New York city between Lieutenant Featherstone-haugh, of the 76th, and Captain McPherson, of the 42d, British regiment, in regard to the manner of eating an ear of corn, one contending that the best eating was from the cob, and the other that the grain should be cut off from the cob before eating. Lieutenant Featherstone-haugh lost his right arm, the ball from his antagonist’s pistol shattering the limb dreadfully, so much so that it had to be amputated. Graham, Major Noah’s assistant editor on the National Advocate, lost his life in 1827, at the dueling ground at Hoboken, with Barton, the son-in-law of Edward Livingstone, in a simple dispute about “what was trumps” in a game of cards.