Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1889 — The Parrot and the Bat. [ARTICLE]

The Parrot and the Bat.

On a sultry evening last week a bat flew into the setting room of a house at Scranton, Pa., and dashed against the parrot’s age. It struck the cage with force enough to drive it between the wires, and it began to creep around the bottom of the cage and fit p its injured wings. The parrot was asleep when tlie bat flew in, but it got awake in an instant, and it screeched and screamed and yelled “Oh my!” so many times that the lady of the house ran in from the piazza to see what the trouble was with the family pet. The moment she entered the room the parrot told the fluttering little creature to &et out in, a very shrill tone, repeating the command a number of times. The bat didn’t get out, although it tried very hard to do so, and the parrot got mad, bristled up and dived from its perch at the puny intruder. For a few seconds the parrot had such a lively tussle in the bottom of the cage that it upset even thing and scattered seeds all around the room and then it hopped back to its perch and began to scratch its throat with its right foot as though it had been bitten by the bat. ‘‘Gracious! how that hurt!” the pafrrot yelled, after it had stopped scratching, and smoothed out its wings and feathrs, the bat still waddling about and trying to find a place to crawl out. It couldn’t find one, and the parrot sang out: “I’ll fix it!” and pitched. at the oat again. The little thing squeaked and tried to defend itself when the parrot tackled it, but the ugly bird used both claws and bill, and it soon had the bat’s wings torn into strips. Then it gave tlie bat a pinch on the neck, shook it up and down dropped it suddenly and hopped to the top of the and shrieked, looking down at the dying creature. When the parrot saw the bat was dead, it looked at its mistress, jumped from its perch to its ring and back again, laughed, and yelled out; “What is it, mother?” The value of the parrot had

doubled in the estimation of its owner since it killed the bat. —Philadelphia North Americ in. a few days ago; Timothy Shehan, of Groton. Connecticut, was granted a pension. Shell an enlisted in the army, served cne year and then deserted. Commissions Tanner decided that he was entitled to a pension an 1 gave him one, with back piv. How do tlie old soldiers ' h fought for three ye:.e - IP: m- h a ionPatrons an ' teachers of the schools of tlie comity are invited +o call at the Post Office book store, before going elsewhere. Particulars of a terrible catas trophe at the village of Khenzorik, on the Russian frontier, are received. The village was on the side of a mountain. Last week the v hole top of the mountain blew off and fell on the village. Of the 184 inhabitants 129 were buried so deep that they will never be disinterred.