Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1887 — A Brilliant Future. [ARTICLE]

A Brilliant Future.

“My dear young friend,” he said solemnly, “if you are so fond of beer at your age, what do you suppose you will be when you reach your prime ?” “A politician,” responded the youth. —Puck. Perhaps the statement may be of interest that the little screech-owl is getting much more common in the vicinity of cities in which the English sparrow has become numerous, and that the imported birds will find in this owl as bold an enemv as the sparrowhawk is to them in Europe, and even more dangerous, since its attacks are made toward dusk, at a time when the sparrow has retired for the night, and is not so wide awake for ways and means to escape.