Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — Poultry Notes. [ARTICLE]

Poultry Notes.

Cuckoo clocks are striking machines. “Poe’s Raven” must have been a raven-ous creature. Prairie chickens are easily raised—with a bird dog. Tho wild goose does some turning while flying, but it is not a crank. Chicken-hearted people axe numerous ; but then some of them are tough chicken hearted. It is unnecessary to mention that the entire race of poultry stands as a unit against decapitation; therefore we will not mention it. Even chickens believe in advertising, for they cackle long and loudly over each eggstra affair happening in their business circles. “This is the way I long have sought,” sang the poultry-thief, as he clambered hurriedly over the fence, and just in time to save his trouserloons from being ventilated by a wild-eyed bull-dog Crows and parrots can be educated to talk, but what’s the use? Isn’t there about 13,000 times as much talking done in the world nov as is really necessary, without educating the buds to jabber, also? If a rooster crowed every time some man told a lie—as one did for the Apostle Peter—there would be such a constant din in the land that folks would have to plug their ears up with putty in order to think in a sane, sensible way. The Canary islands are so named because that’s where canary birds grow thickest on the trees. The cages, however, grow in America. If canary birds were invented to be oaged up, it seems to us the cages ought to grow on trees, too. “Birds that always fly in flocks never fly singly.” This wise observation was made by a great-grand uncle of Herodotus in years long since gone, and has been tieasured up, even unto this day. Groat, yea, very great, philosophers used to inhabit this old ,mu£l bullet.— The Toothpick.