Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — Stone Stingers of the Nile. [ARTICLE]

Stone Stingers of the Nile.

When the wheat Is growing in the fields near the banks of the Nile. Egypt, great quantities of birds of every kind pounce down upon the tender grain and would soon destroy the whole crop were it not for the watchful “stone ellngers.” These are men who stand all day perched on little platforms here and there throughout the fields with slings and pebbles, shooting any bird that comes within reach. The work of a stone slinger is a regular profession iu Egypt, though a poorly paid one, it being thought that simply standing all day Is not very bard labor. It Is only for a few weeks twice a year that the stone slinger can find employment.—New York Tribune.

An engraver of Odessa has engraved the entire Russian National Hymn upon a grain of corn, and recently he presented the curiosity to the Czar. His'majesty has now forwarded to him through the cixil governor of Odessa a gold watch and chain, with his thnnks for carrying out such a laborious undertaking. Mr*. Winslow’s Roothiwo ftrscr for Ohlldrsa toethiug; softens the gums, reduces inflammation. *iUjb pain, cures wind oolio. 2j cents a bottla.