Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1920 — Page 2

BIRDS IN COMBAT

Feathered Creatures Sometimes , / Battle to the Death. ««itoary «e Pretty Theory, Perfect Phco Does Not Always Reifln . Within Those "Little Nests" as «un« by Post "Birds In their Uttle nests agree." wrote Doctor Watts. If the eminent preacher had chanced to witness an Incident similar to that which I saw the other day, Ays a writer In the London Daßy Hall, he would never have penned that libel. I was walking across a course when two sparrows shot past my head, chattering violently, and. coming to ground a few yards away, set to fighting so furiously that I was actually able to pick them both up In my hands. I let one go at once; the other I carried a little distance before liberating IL Will you believe it?—a moment later the two were at it again, bank and claws. Almost all birds fight furiously In the springtime. Even turtle doves, those emblems of peace, will go for one another in the mating season. The various methods of offense adopted by different birds are interest tng Sparrows use their powerful but hold one another with their dawg. Starlings fight in exactly similar fashion. Their combats are at times most desperate. A friend saw one cock starling actually kill another. 'Pigeons use their wings but rarely do one another much harm. Swans fight with their wings, and their jrtyeprtb is so great tliat their battles sometimes result fatally. 1 have, however, seen a_swan apparently endeavoring to hold the head of a rival under water, but I was not near enough to make out what happened. Some birds have spurs on their wings The spur-wlnged goose, which la a small, long-legged bird and rather resembles a duck on stilts, has extraordinary wing power. One of these geese went for a gardener who had gone Into its inclosure in the “xoo" and gave him a blow on the knee that laid him up for a week. The crested •creamer has actually double spurs on its wings and is a very awkward customer to tackle. All the bird<of prey use their talons as their principal weapons. The strength which lies in the talons of even a small hawk is almost incredible. As for an eagle, one has been known to drivo Its claws clean through the skull of a larges tomcat into the brain, killing the animal instantly. The pheasants are the only family of birds provided with spurs. Our domestic fowls are. of course, members of this genus, and it is in the game fowl that the’spur Is developed to the greatest perfection. These leg spurs resemble the horns of cattle, in that they have a. bony, core protected by a

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smooth sheath of horn. The guinea-fowl, again, Is singular tn that It has a blunt horn upon Ite heed which it uses as an offensive weapon. - I njve never seen two herons fight, but If they did they would use thrir beaks and their beaks alone. The driving power of the long, sharppointed beak of a heron Is Immense, and when a heron Is hawked .you may see* It endeavor to spit Its smaller assailant upon its beak. An ostrich farmer tells me that be has known an ostrich to pierce a sheet of corrugated iron with one tremendous kick. —— , „ : *

New Clothes on an OI’ One.

A salesman up in gasoline row was telling how he almost had a bit of good luck. “As I was coming in on the Bluff Toad, th’e other evening, just after dark.” he said. “I saw a good tire at the side of the road. There was not a house within a half-mftb, so I stopped the car and beat it back to get the tire. It was a new one. 1 could tell that as I passed it. But when I got up within ten feet of it, it started to move, and over into the field it went. Just then I heard two boys laugh." Three of the salesman’s audience sang out. “Yes. we tried to get that same tire on the first night in April."— -Indianapolis News.

LIGHT THAT PRODUCES SOUND

May at First Beem Incredible, But Experiments Have Proved It to Be a FacL Incredible as it may seem, a beam of light can be made to produce sound. A ray of sunlight is thrown through a lens onto a glass vessel containing lampblack, colored silk or worsted, or any like substance. A disk having silts or openings in it is made to revolve swiftly- in this beam of light, so as to “cut It up," thus causing alternate flashes of light and shadow. When one places his ear to the glass vessel he hears strange sounds so long as the flashing beam falls upon the vessel. A still more extraordinary effect is produced when the beam of sunlight is made to pass through a prism so as to produce what is called the solar spectrum. The disk Is turned and the colored light of the rainbow is made to break through it. Now If the ear be placed to the vessel containing the silk or other material, as the colored lights of the spectrum fall upon IL sounds will be given out by the different parts of the spectrum, and there will be silence In other parts. For instance, if the vessel contains rad worsted and the green light flashes upon it loud sounds will be given forth. Only feeble sounds will be heard when the red and the blue parts of the rainbow fall upon the vessel. Other colors will produce no sounds at all. Green silk gives out sound best In a red tight, pvery kind of material gives more or less sound In different colors and no sound at all in others.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

"How I saved ' ( ** .— --—7 - . 4 —r — - ' ~ a ixilicemaiis life IMs « Wa EVEN THB eggs. A\— • • • _ WERE TIRED that morning. AND THE coffee. J DIDN’T FOOL me one bit U/ / BUT WHtN*after breakfast \ I MY C,QARETTE t"*®* awfuL ISM) IT WAB too muflL 4 g AND A grouch started. AND WALKING to work, r • . T, - --7 I SWORE off smoking. • • • • AND DECIDED to fire. < — .'•••. MY OFFICE boy. ' • • • ———r BUT JUST before I decided. ••• - , — TO KILL a policeman. •• • / A MAN passed me. • • • SMOKING A cigarette. —" \ ■ AND SAY but the smoke. r „ • • • - ' THAT DRIFTED back. * * F DID SMELL good. ———A- A- ; - AND t-fiosowed INTO A store. — --—~ HE THREW down two dimes. ' ... W;— < AND BAID “The same." * JK \ Z/ AND SO did I. AND SOTm still smoking. - AND STILL Keep that • • • gi ~. • OFFICE BOY and I let that • • • ' , 'ft >■; HANDSOME POLICEMAN live. ’ AND I’M going to boost '' JUST a whiff of that spicy aroma of THAT MAN I followed. fine Turkish and Domestic tobaccos ... will make you hungry for this satis- " FOR PRESIDENT or something. fy’ smoke. There are blends and for really those chrarettes. blends, but none like thiwone. ChesterFOR REALLY those cigarettes. Becret • DO SATIBIRA be copied. 1 - - CIGARETTES

PUBLIC SALE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS.

As I am going to move .away I will offer at public sale at my residence, 529 north Weston street, one block south of the former GrantWarner Lumber yards, at 2 p. m., Saturday, July 31, my household goods, consisting of 1 Favorite baseburner; kitchen range; oil stove; linoleum, 12x15; 2 good dining room tables; book case; sideboard; lounge; rugs; chairs and rockers; wardrobe; 3 bedsteads; 3 bureaus; kitchen cabinet; cupboard; fruit jars; mason tools; garden tools, and many other useful articles. TERMS—cash. No property to be removed until settled for. , GEORGE GREEN. W. A. McCurtain, Auct. C. G. Spitler, Clerk.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature 'for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. July 23 87 67 July 24 92 68 July 25 76 54 July 26 90 56

YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National — New York, -5; Cincinnati, 2. Chicago, '5; Philadelphia, 2. Boston, 3; SL Pittsburg, 5; Brooklyn, 4. AmericanWashington, 4; Philadelphia, 3. New Yprk, 8; Boston, 2. Cleveland, 7; Chicago, 2. Detroit, 21; St. Louis, 8. “Babe” Ruth rung up his thirtyfifth home run of the season Sunday.

ABE MARTIN

(Indianapolis News.) Silas Hawk, a nephew o’ Mrs. Tilford Moots, has resigned as a prohibitionist an’ gone t’ work at th brickyard. A front porch campaign, is all right if you’ve got your beds made and th’ house cleaned up an dusted. '' England seems to hive no standPat statesmen. —Greenville (S. AD.) Piedmont.

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