Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1878 — Flight of Storks. [ARTICLE]

Flight of Storks.

In their preparations for migration storks are very interesting. They are never heard to utter any sound until the time of their doparture has arrived. They then begin to make a very singular kind of clatter, communicating with every member of their flock. They never start until each individual is collected together. Night is the time chosen. Strict silence is then preserved, and they rise immediately high up in tho air, forming themselves into a triangle, and one bird takes the apex. The duties of this position are too laborious to be long sustained, and therefore when fatigue is felt the leading bird retires and another takes its place. We could not manage better ourselves. Mackinaw is a great resort for hay-fe-ver patients. As soon as the fatal August day arrives victims rush to ihis most sacred of Indian islands. Here the distemper at once disappears, and tho patient stays in delightful rural quarantine until the first frost strikes the place he left.