Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — Magpie Pet of Public. [ARTICLE]

Magpie Pet of Public.

The magpie in Kensington gardens has many friends who attend his daily levee. One of so tender a heart that she conceals chicken bones in her muff for his delight was told that an offering of meabworms would prove Irresistible. Site sought this delicacy, but only to learn that it is now’ unobtainable. For ineal-worm< as an article of birdfate, came from Germany. Most of us will bear with equanimity the disappearance of this strangest of Hunnlsh tfhdes. To the authorities of the Zoological gardens, however, the problem of meal-worm production is said to b? a weighty one still unsolved. —London Chronicle.