Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — A Natural Bird Trap. [ARTICLE]

A Natural Bird Trap.

The ornamental Pisonia grandis of Australia has seeds like an elongated barley corn, which are covered with p very sticky gum. This adheres to the legs and feathers of winged creatures coming in contact with it, and makes the plant a natural bird-catcher, no less than a hundred birds having been known to be captured by one tree in V ietoria. Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species, with design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment, have in that action bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful with respect to each other’s frailties and imperfections to the end of their lives.— Addison.