Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — GHOST THAT DRIVWS A PLOW. These Are “Birds” Indeed. [ARTICLE]

GHOST THAT DRIVWS A PLOW.

These Are “Birds” Indeed.

A resident of Buckingham county, Virginia, killed andopeaed twety-six hawks before he found that the reward of $3 offered by G6V. McKinney for hawk's gizzards was a hoax. Flocks of young Chinese pheasants are reported at various points in eastern Washington. With a few years of protection, the fields and forests of that section will be well stocked with this superior table fowl. A Canonsburg, (Pa.,) woman owns a hen which laid an egg the other day as large as the average goose egg. It fell from the nest, breaking one end of it, when an investigation showed “that there were two eggs, one inside the other." About 250,000 canary birds are raised every year in Germany, and, besides the 100,000 birds that are sent to this country, the English market takes about 50,000 and the next best customers are Brazil, China, the Argentine Republic, and Austria, to which country salesmen are sent with large numbers of birds every year. An interesting fight between a horse and two blue jays occurred a short time ago at Cedar Key, Fla., in which the latter came out victorious. A horse was hitched to a tree, when the two blue jays would fly down upon him and claw liim. The horse stood it for some time, when, suddenly, it got tired of such treatment and threw himself back on the halter, breaking it and running away. After the jays had succeeded in getting the horse loose, they flew up in a tree and chattered as though they had won a great victory.