Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — Queer Things About Birds. [ARTICLE]

Queer Things About Birds.

No bird of prey has the gift of song Vultures have no sense of smel l Carcasses kept out of their sight are never detected by them. The stork has keen known to perish in the flames of a burning hous*« rather ihan to desert her young. The smallest egg is that of the tiny Mexican humming bird. It is scarcely larger than a pin’s head. The smallest bird is a species of humming bird common in Mexico and Central America. It not quite so large as a blue bottle fly, and weighs twenty grains. The woodpecker is an excellent carpenter; the hole he bores in a tree is exactly round as though lined out with a pair of compass es. An owl cannot move his eyes, as they are fixed in their sockets. The deficiency is a oned for by great free* dom of motion in the muscles of the head and neck. The wings of the owls are lined with a soft down that enables the bird to flyswithout making the slightest sound, a ve: y important matter to a nocturnal bird of wav.

Ina speech at the populist encampment rt Greenville, Texas,August 19th, SenatS or Jarion Butler of Noith Carolina,nation al chairman, of the populist phrty, declared that as fictional chairman hewo’d promise that there would be no trader or com Bines with either of the other parties; that he would call the populist national convention before thoseof the democatic and republican parties are held, and thus preventan opportunity for fusion. We wish to Inform the public that we are better than ever prepared to grind their wheat corn and feed we do a gen era! custom business, take wheat ou de posit, grind rye flour and buckwheat in I season and pay the highest market price for good wheat Stoner & Diy Milltno Co

If people would justremember that flour would extinguish blazing gasoline, the knowledge would be inestimable Says the man of the house: “One day our gasoline s tove was blazing, and wet cloths were used without effect, when ! remern bered that I had read that flour would extinguish the blaze A handful did a l Bost extinguish it completely ” It wo’d WJbl ood ldea t 0 Paste this up so that in ggtojency it may save both life and