Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Facts About Parrots. [ARTICLE]

Facts About Parrots.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat \ People expoct to come into a bird store and open up a conversation with a parrot off-hand. They fall, and then make up their mind that the parrot is worthless. This will apply to the majority of people. They do not give the bird credit for the intelligence it actually possesses. There are parrots m |St- Louis valued at from SSO to sloO that will not be coaxed into w conversation with a stranger, and yet they are among tho best talkers extant. - - The birds often refuse to “perform” when there are purchasers looking on, but once the store is cleared of people they will chatter away as though their very life depended on their beli g heard. The majority of parrots will take to a girl or a woman much quicker than to one of the sterner sex.

, A United States Senator should not talk •in the same way ha plays poker—to wit, with a limit. .p~~