SINGING BIRDS.
GROWTH OF THE IMPORTATION
OF CANARIES,
Mow They Are Taught—A Bullfinch’s
One Fault -Other Cage Birds.
In the vear 1842, when the first impor
tation of singing birds was
Germany to New York, cages conld not
be found for them: the proper food
could not be prog ured: and bird fanciers
were so few, that of the thousand
birdslended, the greater number perished
unsold, The for them, however,
was kindled and grew. In 1833 the same
importer sold ten thousand, and in 1860
fifteen thousand. Last year one New
York house alone imported from Ger
many, between the months of September
and June, forty-t and
this number was equalled, if not exe Hed,
by other houses, .
A calculation has been made that proves
the significant fact that enongh iron wire
to belt the wlobe with a netting a yard
wide is manufactured yearly
for binds,
The favor
brought principally from
the Harz Mountains—a land
wre air and delicious spring
They make their voyage of the Atlantic
In little ca; [ more than a
hand square, fast in rows
and piled u
ering of can
four feet long
tains two
during the
unfastened and the cay
seed and t
the poor |
their gloom
fort themselves,
soutce of *‘gentl
songs to sing
Toussenel o«
of the Canary Isl
der of this golder
ful, most intelli
of songsters.’
gence by relati
the canary is
for his brain
7s one «four fi
by this mod
little biped
man, and aff
faculty for
tude at su
paragon
tious
canary has
evening
docile to In
Both
canaries
native n pH
part of a tune
gale, the
whistling
from four.
value: ar
without its del
ing varies as to
the princi
vary. [It
the hil
golden das
securing
re-iteration
listening 0
by heart
musical ear
trusted to
or to «
made from
one
love
wo thousand birds;
nto ¢nges
ite house-bhirds are canaries—
vicinities of
noted for
waters
not
wrether
cach under a cov
jrou
vas The ordinary package,
and two feet
broad, con
invias sere
supplied
water,
and
Orreot
his mod.
tious task
nid hi=s a
the TOO i et
musician's
loved bn
but
audito
who came
the poor
seized
the flute
strument disap
tried for the
the ment
Time passed on,
to a distant town
pening i
an evening t
mirer of his art
the evening was fi
bull-finch
tously as a flageolet
one fault: one little
airs by the missing
One
to
rishi
who whist
musician recognized
remembrance the exact fault, a
boldness he could not
from the tailor a tardy confession
guilt, by exclaiming with all the empha
sis of truth: “Now
flute.”
The buil-finch, gold fine h. the
little brown linoet and speckled thrush,
the black eap. the English robin, the
nightingale, and the lark are the favorite
songsters caged from north temperate
climes: but the ni
sine for liberty
nr heart
Parrots, paroquets,
African “wax bills,’
“quakers.” interesting as they are
wis, can hardly be classified with
mg-birds,” but thes
with the « anary the willingness to
housed and the gr titude for their daily
bread ; not ny of these little creatures are
indifferent to the quality of the hospital
ity they accept. The cage must be clean
and canopied from midday sun; the bath
and the water to drink must be fresh and
pure; the sand and cuttlefish
the seed the very best, To
song and to keep the voice clear, the
cage must not be large, and it must be
studiously kept from droghts. The
geod must be mixed of Sicily canary
seed and German summer mpe.sced, A
little hemp, millet, and maw seed should
be added: and an occasional treat
“surprise-dish” of ehickweed or lettuce,
a bit of boiled carrot, a slice of pear or
vith t
restrain, wrung
i know who stole ny
the
ghtingale and the lark
ind sometimes die
i A
and those little
Camaranths,'
share one
he
©" wail, anid
in ample
moved. [New York Post.
ya
Life In China,
The singular conditions of life at Amoy,
an interesting report of the United States
consul at that city, Mr. Bedloe, Amoy,
which is a city of about a million people,
and the centre of a dewsely populated
region, is perhaps the cheapest place in
the world, Workingmen live and sup.
and are said to be as happy as working
{ men anywhere,
{ The daily fare of an Amoy working
! man and its cost to him are about as fol
One and a half pounds of rice,
costing three cents: one ounce of meat
| one ounce of fish,
| fsb. one cent altogether; one pound of
other vegetable,
oil, one cent: total
low 81
two ounces of shell
cabbage or
fuel, and
cents,
This
Europe an laborers enjoy
one cent
sult i
much better fare
is than many
fn what little
s Of
his toil, he flies kites, play « shuttlecock
practical jokes
SOUS (0 bed early,
and indulges in mild
He
worries about nothing.
The wife and children of the Chinese
family wath rdriftwood, edible sea-meoss
shell fish, mushrooms and dead branches
Some of the things they pick up they
barter rice vewetables,
tines a woman and her cl
in this way all the food of the family,
his friends ano
for and Some
processions,
nt
weddings
marching in religious
| funerals, wakes, exorcisms,
and other cerem ,
t eight vears of uge ring his
life-calling, which usually is the same as
his father's. Indeed, ch
ain to work as soon as they «
irl four od
back” half an hour at
a hoy beg
children in China
an walk
will «
VOAars irs
it from dawn to dus)
r EW O IY
bedroom
i
3
$80.
Dynamite in an Indian Fight,
bilan
boys,
began
as fast
i
remnant of
11% (2labe
The Italian Lithophagous, or Stone
Kater,
Francis Battalia,
wophagous, or stone eater, Dr
‘Artificial Change
This queer creatur
i two small pebbles in his
hands in ecch., He refused all ordi
gary nourishment, would not suckle,
only when small stones given hin
ith the
After
in his
vas born w
One
were
nursing bottl
Battal
was in
f Ea I
professionally ex the
ture” after *'it” had been kept on a stone
diet for about thirty vears He thus de
seribes Battalin's manner of feeding, ‘He
thre
spoon, swallow
to manhood he
prine ipai citi
had a chance t
i grew
exhibited ill the
rope Bulwer
RIN
Hgueer crea
or four st in a
down, and then
drink a glass of beer after them. He de
would put ones
them
voured a half peek of these stones evers
day. and when he shakes his bods they
¢hink in his stomach. In appearance ho
is a black, swarthy looking fellow, and
having been a soldier, made good use of
the {oud allowed him by it
selling An
aibsisting on dirt ined pebbles,”
Who Samed “The Empire State 27
The above question is often asked, but
seldom properly answered. Genera
Washington ix the man to whom that
and many other honors belong. In his
reply to the “Address of the Common
{Council of New York City” the great
| General said: ‘1 pray that heaven be
| stow its choicest blessings on your city:
{ that a well regulated and beneficial com
| merce may enrich your citizens, and that
your State (at present the scat of em
| pirey m v set such examples of wisdom
| and iiberality as shall have a tendency to
| strengthen and give a permanency to the
| Union at home and credit and respect
ability abroad.” Thix is of course ap
inferential atlusion, but was the origi
{of New York's popular name, neverthe.
legs, St. Louis Republic.
Keep flowers fresh by putting a pinch
of soda in the water,
HL
FOR THE CHILDREN,
THE BIRDIES FAREWELL.
“Oh, birdie, birdie, will you, pet?
Diamond stones and amber and jet,
I'll string in a necklace fair and fine,
To please this pretty bird of mine.” |
“Oh. thanks for diamends, and thanks |
for jet, |
But here is something daintier vet, i
A feather necklace round and round !
That I would
pound
i yh, birdie, birdie,
I'll buy vou a dish of wl ver
\ golden cup and an ivory ses
And carpets soft beneath ye
not sell for a thousand
won't y
mir feet
Sian running water be drunk from gold? i
Can a silver dish the forest hold?
A rocking twig is the finest chair,
And the softest paths | e through the al
Farewell, {i i ir!”
wewell to my lady fair.
POLITEN]
had a
wed so
A Manchester go
it sh
ntieman
beh
once
sry demure ( well
‘ ¢ : sled
was allowed to sit at table nnd
at she
a napkin round her neck and a plats
ent Lies
inished her nn y s her
finished . it 3 : Lei i
from when
to
had
conld
not
te}
d
M«
frighten faery
ho them?’
was lane, and couldn't go down,
‘Oh my!”
with candie In
basket apples IT
other An awful
mother, and he
lox shed AE Ne
Didn't jump, did he?”
No, indeed, he
tid when 1 screamed
I don't,”
saved your life and mine
How! When I" asked Tony
“(det my knife to pare the apples, and
IH tell vou
alittle baby, father w aked very suddenly
‘Po yon hear that rat?” said he.
believe he'll eat his way right into this
room before morning. So he got up to
throw his boot at the place where the
sound came from, and all the moket
he could to scare the creature away.
And then, I never knew why, he opened
the door that led downstairs, and puff!
puff! come smoke right into the room.
‘Fire! Fire! he eried out, “Oh, Martha,
quick! quick! Wrap the baby up and
follow me: we haven't a moment to
jose?” And we hadn't, indeed, for we
no sooner got down and outdoors when
the stairs were all in a blaze, If it hadn't
beets for that rat, none of us would have
been living today. 1 confess 1 don't
like ruts; they are sly and mischievous,
bit the good God condesconded to use
that one ae his messenger to waken us
and save our lives, Do you wonder that
ever wince that night 1 have had a friend.
ly feeling toward rats?"
“Does God use such little, good-for.
nothing things to do his errands?” asked
Tony. in u tone of surorise,
sther
Yor op
eriedd Tony, serambling up
hand and the
went for in the
thie one
of was
he
still
yg ane
right and
stood
i IRENE BW
I hate rats
ent mother a
lod made all things and ean nse all
things,” said mothe; No ereature is
beneath His notice, | Sunbeam,
AND ITS
THE BODY HEALTH.
Tae Cane or tHE Boopy. Civilization
ia the mother of many arts
It the
the telescope and the w
heavens with
ater drop with
devices, senrchoes
something
all lands and
seas after some
diet. And it
It ranges through
rare article of
it a French
invent and every drink
bold adventure
has
may concoct,
t man the
thing, viz., how
Every day
world's thought or
But civilization
while
of himself.
of the
falls i“
of the aw
heedlessness
SONG
leader
martyr to his own
ddth or to his
Ivers
work strikes thousands down into ners
1Roran of hes
of these laws
ois prostration, aod mong these ar
|
many of our most int ul
tured
gence of thi
Ligent and «
minds, Irregularit ind indul
apy
thoughtiessly of improper food,
{
tite partaking
Are CAUSES
countle iseases and of many sudden
“att of the hea
ii he
by
ample ok
anda cureq anoii
uporary but
Vie
Lg adie
«1
dynamn : pend doing
work Ten of brain-work a day
srk than this steals
il
from at organ, If is the
heart, it HH give ont If it i« the stom
ach. it will not digest the food if
hax a broken bone works too hard,
i}
i
one
and
bone will not unite So when people
to ai
on their sys.
overeat, or eat food that is hard
gest, they put a like strain 3
tem The love of the beautiful in eating
kills many by making poison, or things
that aet like in the blood i
have seen fatty degeneration of the heart
Fcansed by which kills in
twenty minutes, Again, it is said that
shakes lates the blood
more or less, and t may said
{ improper food
il
poison,
ph wphorus,
venom
coagn
he same In
os
“Barbara Freitehie,
Whittier
which
based
But
It has been supposed that
his
Freitehie” was
N. Southworth,
“Barbara
D. E
i poem
from Mrs. E
that he eanght the conceit in this way
He was waiting for his mail at the Ames
bury postoffice one day, and while thus
detained listened to the narrative of a
soldier, home on leave, who had been
wounded at Monoeacy, and who wit:
| nessed the flag-waving episode, but
could not tell the womans name,
Thereupon the poet wrote to the post
master of Frederick, Mr. Wm. D. Jenks:
and the latter replied : “In all probability
the heroine's name is Barbara Feeitchie,”
There was one clrenmsiance which Whit.
tier never cleared up to his own satisfac.
{ {ion
described the heroine as a young woman
Mr. Jenks described her as four.score
years and ten. ‘I never saw the soldier
again,” said Whittier, ‘‘neither do 1
know his name, All 1 could learn of him
wis that he wae ‘a member of a Massa.
chusetts regiment. 1 have given Mr
Jenks’ reply from memory,
feeble to look through mg accumulated
{ batim.”
MEMORY OF ANIMALS,
The proof that experience is the guide |
of life mong the lower animals may be |
anisms,
Tie
the tide retreats buries
ften to the depth of sew
ishermen who hunt them uke
od at the end, or they sprinkle
t little salt ale to drive
woupant,
razor shell or mollnsk, ns goon 0%
ftuclf in the sand,
eral feet, The
a long. thin
hooked
out its
in the ti
This generally succeeds; there
movement in the and, and
ure appears
nent
iM th
1x hil
ION
him,
eunishes into hi
iid
Limi
sperience,
hich can
the resul
ary
CORE
temperat
$ 1 i *
guen dul not
Mean was Li degrees
fhe
The swallows appeared when
pase To 0 deg 4 3 the
when it fell 1o 53 degrees
‘hie Inst notes of 1 cuckoo
t 51 degrees,
peared at an average of 53
From
grains it appears that the sum of the {ot
and the mavbug ap
degrees
the
$
obeervatl an
ne
temperature over $1 degrees required be
:.% of :
v reached the different stages 0
{59 degre
h
fore the
rowth was
thew
to flowering
viesl winery
flowering
Tees
es
ar
wheat, 1.273 Freee 1
ang |
for
ami 2.261 degrees to
for spring barley, 1,81 deg
These are
number of observations
ent porte of France,
aeesd On
taken
averages
Fear and Cholera,
A striking example ol th
fear in times of cholera is the
authentic fact, which 1s recor
of that time
In 1853 or 1854, 1 now forge! wii h
we had the cholera in Wien (Vienna), The
at the general hotpita
Alsersirasse had their hands {uli
the name of Franz Holrieg
awaiting the sentence
following
fed the
in
ex Spa =
%
roi essors great
in thu
A man by
then
was o
hospital presented
just been remo ed. The Emperor grant
dition and the condemned man was onl
hospital and ordered to lic down at one
in i
ence the corpse was removed, The na
undressed and went tobed. In less thar
half an hour he began vomiting and
six hours Me died from cholera,
The man died from cholera, wich
took from fright. The corpse removed
from the bed was not that of a cholen
victim, but of a man, who met his deat!
from a gunshot wound. The experimen
did wot take pleco in the cholera wing
but inthe ward fore kin Cis tases, —[ Was
ington Star,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
Epitome of News Gleaned from Various
Parts of the
ANDELSON
tate.
the Delaware County leper,
by visiting several stores and
ore
Good citizeos declare that they w
if
from him by the authorities
ill take the
law into thelr own hands
Thue effort to organize a cholro
in Wyoming i to
}
Wilkes-Barre »
Usxpen the dec
os Westis
will make
sxes cial
Ine York and Northampton
pened at York and Nazareth, resp
with large crowds in attesdunce
Tne Commouw:alth's testimon
owed in the Bwengel murder case
lieburg and the defense opened
Tae town of MifBinburg, Unio
its
elebrate | centennial
in Wells, whick
ine of Mexica.
it was eve
-~ .
NCAT SACKeLL's
the ribs
ax
id prow of an
the sand.
“i noe
we within hun
miles of the in the
neighborhood of Ousduisos Monntain a
shallow cave coniaining the skelctons
of ten Indians was discovered. The
Lagunas, a local iribe, have a super
stitious dread of 1} pening, dDacause
the Indians wie bnnos thore
deposited were killed DF 2a he of
lightning While { prospeclors
were searching the desert rth of
Mountain Springs Ia the sod of Fel»
ruary they experienced in one day ne
less than shocks of earthquake.
At another time, while they were
resting under a mesquite tree the
ground cracked opea almost un.
der them, so that they wore able i«
seo down twenty feet inlo the sarth.
The same shock that caused this
crevice destroyed the hot springs af
en flowing fo
orers found
old boat half: buris in
i{fow it came th
no stream of
is of
mystery
water
are
Snot. in
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14s
RO ary
al
gtr
fein
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i
4
Jacomba, which had !
a great many years,
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Flossie's Fancioos. . *
Flossic was spending a month in
the country, and the second evening
after her arrival she was taken out to
see the milking.
“Well,” she said, when a glass of
warm milk was handed her, “that's
the first time | ever saw a milk wagon
with four legs.”
Hens and eggs were objects of ine
terest to her also, but she did not see
a turkey until she had made the
rounds of the heanery, and then she
frightened up a great old gobbler in
the melon pateh. He made a rushy
for the fence and she fell over a wats
ermelon.
“What's that,
her mother.
“I don't know.” she said, as shel
brushed her dress, “but 1 guess it is
the kind of hen that lays watermel-|
—- - 1
Flossie?” faquired|
3
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