Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — An Ornerythologist. [ARTICLE]

An Ornerythologist.

A Gratiot street woman was out in the back yard, cleaning her bird cage and filling it with nice bits of lettuce and other dainties for the warbler within, when a travel-stained citizen came around the corner. “Ah,” he said with kindly interest, “I see you love the feathered songster.” “Yes,” she replied shortly, after recovering from her surprise. “What do you want ?* “I also love birds, madam,” he went on regardless of her question, and ”. “I suppose you want a cold chicken, or a quail on toast, or a reed bird on a t cracker, or a bantam on a silver salver or a ” ( He threw Up his hands imploringly. “YouwrODg me cruelly, madam,” he cried; “I assure yuU I want none of ;these. But, madam, Ido want ten cents to buy some bird seed with. ” “You can’t drink bird seed,” she snapped at him. “Again you wrong me, madam,” he almost wailed. “I want them for a sweet little partridge I am raising.” She looked at him enviously and gave him a chance to go on. “You see; madam, it was this way: Some time ago I had the misfortune to swallow a partridge egg, and being so busy in my profession as not to think of the flight of time I was quite surprised, not to say shocked, to discover about a month ago that the egg had hatched in my inner man, so to speak, and of course I couldn’t afford to have a poor little bird starve right on my own premises, as it were, so I at once procured some bird seed and sent them down to it with great success, and now, madam, I desire ten cents more to ” But he never finished it, for the woman dropped her bird cage and reaching for a hoe handle she made a break for him that was entirely too vigorous for a man of any gallantry to resist and he went away rapidly. Free Press. •

A new kind of beer, made of the extract of rice, has a very peculiar effect. Sometimes a week elapses after drinking it before it causes any exhilaration. Then its fuddling quality is unmistakably shown, and is said to be quite staggering. It is recommended as very useful to travelers who have to make a long stay at prohibition towns. A benedict at Atlanta, desiring to have a grand carouse a few days before his marriage, and then reform, saturated himself with rice beer. The effect was disappointing, for he exhibited no signs of hilarity until his wedding day, and then he was so extremely jolly that he had to be restrained by his friends during the ceremony.

The living ancestors of Elsie Chase, daughter of Charles and Clara Chase, of Yarmouth, Mass., probably exceed in number those of any other person in the United States. She has twelve grandparents, viz: Edward and Mary Chase, grandfather and grandmother; Charles and Emma Ellis, grandfather and grandmother; Charles and Jane Ellis, great-grandfather and greatgrandmother; Jerry and Cordelia Chase, great-grandfather and greatgrandmother ; Matthew and Buth B. Gray, great-grandfather and greatgrandmother ; Adeline Nicholson.great-great-grandmother; Jerry Walker, great-great-grandfather. An eccentric Dominique hen is owned by a Philadelphia blacksmith. Every day about ten o’clock the hen walks into the gorge, and scratches a hollow place in the soft coal six inches from the fire. No matter how hard he blows the fire; the hen will not move until she has laid her egg. Several times her feathers were scorched, bat she held her place. It is stated that the flesh of animals killed by electricity is mnch tenderer than if the animals are killed in the ordinary way. This is especially the case in regard to fowls.