Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1889 — Bird Civil Engineering. [ARTICLE]

Bird Civil Engineering.

A New York paper speaks of a couple of orioles that have built a nest in a tree at Central park. In order that no animal able to climb a tree might reach their nest, they built at the extreme end of a light branch. When the work was half done they saw that the little house was bending the branch so far toward the earth that when full of young ones it would be too near the ground. They sat on the branch studying their house lor a time, and then flew off in search of a string. They, found some twine in the park, and with it united the too elastic bought to a branch overhead, repuming their nest building a fter the string had been firmly woven. There were brains' in that engineering operation. • ,f v II afflicted with Sore Byes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Dtukbls sell It. 26c.

Little Helps for Housekeepers. If the cover ig removed from soap dishes the soap will pot get soft. • When fiatirone become rusty, black them with Btove polish, and mb well with a dry brash. Use charcoal to broil with. The flames close the pores quickly and’ ’make the meat very tender. Silver can be kept bright fer months by being placed in an air-tight case with a good-sized piece of camphor. Use squares of dull colored felt,, picked at the edges, under statuary or any heavy ornaments that are liable to mar, a polished surface. Windows can be cleaned in winter and the frost entirely remove using a gill of alcohol to a pint of hot wftteA Clean quickly and rub dry with a warm chamois skin. fv ...