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CHURCHES and societies. •MWPOlil*” B.ptirtChureb, Fifth ave- Me between Sixteenth and Seven- I'eenth streets— Sunday School at aon . m.; preaching at 11 a. m.; S, : 30p.m.;¥. M. B. U. at i-00 p. in. Superintendent of Sun- School, B. S. H. Crumby; Pres- Zt'ofY. M. B. U.,T. W. Tignor; p. L. Hutchins, D. D., Pas tor. tf C. James A. M. E. Church, Sixth ave nue, between Tenth and 11th streets. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m., Prof. H. Spencer, Superintendent, preaching at 11:00 a. m., 3:00 and 7.30 p. m. Class every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock. Official Board meets every Wednesday night. Love feasts Friday before the first Sun- Jav. Sacrament every first Sun day. Bev. R. R. Downs, D. D., Pastor. pay Leaf Lodge, No. 3482, G. U. O. q. F., meets every first and third Thursday nights in each month. Visiting brothers are invited to meet with us if in good standing. W. JI. Carter, N. G.; B. F. Callier, Secretary. tf St. Paul Lodge, No. 20, K. of P 50. 1313 First Avenue Regular meetings the first and third Friday nights in each month at 7:30 Vis iting Sirs are cordially invited. J T, Thornton, C. C.; J. W. Mcßae, K. of R. * 8. Shady Grove Baptist Church, corner of Nineteenth street and Second avenue, Rev. L. F. O’Bryan, pastor, No. 1945 First avenue—Sunday School at 9:30 a. m., J B. Lyles, superintendent. Preaching at 11:30 A. m., 3:00 and 7:30 p. m. on Sun day; prayer meeting on Wednesday night, conference on Wednesday night before the second Sunday; communion and covenant meeting on second Sunday of each month. Chosen Friends Lodge, No. 1554, G. U, O. of O. F., No. 1313 First ave nue—Meets every TuescUy night at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting brothers are made heartily welcome. H. H. Williams, N. G.; G. M. Sealey, P S.;F. P. Hayward, E. S. tf CULLINGS OF THE PAST WEEK. Something to Interest Our Towns people and Country Neighbors. Miss Maria Green is convalescing after a severe illness. Try Turner’s Coughine, 25 cents per bottle, at the Queen City Drug store. tf Mr. Abe Bailey, one of the oldest 'nraymeu in £ lvu xtTj, died. Mondav night. The republican county convention will be held at the courthouse today at 12 o'clock. • Please send iu your subscriptions, or leavft the money and addresses at either of the colored drug stores and take receipts for the same. tf There is considerable smallpox in the city, but it seems to be of a very mild type. Mr. William Coar left Monday for Birmingham, where he will make his future home. Please call at either f Uie drug stores and pay year lor the Chronicle. Don’t ( dunned for so small an 7O The news of the death of M*‘ C«bn, of Apalachicola, r u , caoha( j u city last week. Mr. Madison Jenkins dj , , . i a vi \ topped dea Saturday night near his 1 L . T .. . lome on lowe third avenue. gr The public is earue ’, , ~ . . . a stl y solicited ti furnish us with local n* e . . , i • „ , „ v ew ® of interest which we will gladly ... , , ebargc. Leave item, ' P "^ ,b ,re ’“ Jrag store. People’s d| “ e6n 01t J Front street. W ■«<>«. «TOI Mr. Sidney Woodruff. . , , Tuskalooea, Ala., lai "‘T fro ° bedside Ota sickf ’*° ““ M / 80D - -ur. Jf. aes Waver T. , . „ “'J Sa lv, after I"*"?* ‘° ,be Kraal the' B< ” er “' tatber in Macon. °' b ” grBnd - have arrange i tab this paper ati^’" 0 “ / “ r " 8 1 •eekiy Journal w ‘ b6 Seat - Par. Just think .L . ( °“ f Sl ' 26 *eek, for only 81 ‘1 lf - thre e P a P erB a elsewhere ’ ’ ‘ er yenr * See ad tf. 12 o'clock. . All persons are ‘, .. . , ln K for cei lifted d against trad- C1 .tyßeal Estate! of Queen hiuing three sb a 8 B f° c k» con tf jaid up stock. , V E. Weeks. CALL FOiA . : Th , T SCHERS. Aue teachers J 1 - requited tot 4 ' C ° UDty BCh °° lB ffibruary 31W ’ he CoUrt ho UBe, alß orequesiL J a.\ ,,1 1 (,:3Oa - We •hciise. i not aB,£ f° r an 12 m. t e *° adjourn at . 4 ttan or vouuA , . ID B‘O spe».looe UI , 18 not ’*“■ arnrrtb ' o,>e - h «lf hour., ''"“a- tewberi on ' '° g Wilh his «honld not l 6 ° f ‘ he b6Bt school t , OWi / ,ve 8 P lace '» S L ‘ S?ectful,y Pr «>. Co. ’e Mh ‘r association. GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Random. Committee Exonerated Lawyers. Attorneys Lee J. Langley and S. C. Tapp were completely exonerated by the Atlanta Bar association of the charge of unprofessional conduct pre ferred against them by T. H. Austin, of the Snook & Austin Furniture Com pany. The finding of the investigat ing committee briefly stated, was as follows: “The committee having fully con sidered in detail all the charges and specifications, reports to the associa tion that in its opinion there is noth ing submitted to it, either in the charges, the specifications, the evi dence or the argument which would justify this association in taking any action to disbar or otherwise punish Mr. Tapper Mr. Langley.” Thomas H. Austin has written a card giving what he says are instances of inaccuracies in the report of the special bar committee in the barratry matter. He concludes the card with the statement that he will carry the matter to the courts. * ♦ • Good fo~ Union Point. The Union Manufacturing Company of Union Point has decided upon the erection of a $2,500-spindle yarn plant, using mules for the production of high grade hosiery and underwear yarns. This company already has an extensive plant for the production of knit goods and the product is known all over the southern states. ♦ ♦ * Half a Vote Allowed. The Fulton county Republicans, who met in Atlanta to select delegates to the district and state conventions, re tained Jackson McHenry as chairman of the county executive committee, and A. A. Blake as secretary. A. somewhat unique and unusual pro ceeding was the election of twelve del egates to the state convention, which meets in Atlanta in March. Fulton county is only entitled to six dele gates, but so many were anxious to represent the county at the state con vention that it was decided to elect twice the number needed and allow each delegate half a vote. * * * Nine-Hour Day Wanted. Unions Nos. 246 and 318, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, at Savannah, the former of white men and the latter of negroes, have formally notified all contractors and other employes that, on and after May 1, next, they would demand an increase of pay from 82 to $2.50 per day of ten hours to $2 to $3.50 per day of nine hours. TTfe’ whiteyind colored unions are working toother, i as is shown in the identical fling t of their notifications. ♦ ♦ * Will Recount fit? Vote. Judge Reagan nas appointed three justices of th/' court to recount the vote in the roent local option election in Spalding county, and in so doing states tha'the case of the contestants will be Ivard in August next. There is no pout made by either side as to the correctness of the count; but un der tie act it seems that nothing can be dme until this recount is made. „* * * Company Is Held Up. K Comptroller General W. A. Wriorht Rfiag held up the Southern Mutual Aid oiAssociation of Birmingham,Ala.,which b e eeks to do business in this state, for e reason that the concern does not eet the requirements of the law. The er estions at issue between the comp be 'ller general and Judge W. R. Ham- attorney for the company, have , referred by the former to the at td b< e y general and an opinion on the 0r to ect is expected in a short time. su. .-• • • O Hale Talks of Fruit Crop. t, >nel Hale, of South Glastonbury, jl Cc w ho is as largely interested as Conifcn i n the fruit business in Geor y any n<t^ veB the present indications 1 for a great fruit year. are proi ... q h. Kucker’ii Will Filed. e B °i W - Rucker » The wWi died last week in Flor- Atlanta, 'ed in the ordinary’s office 3 ida, w’as Aturday morning, and will I at Atlanta Win due time. While the be probatelet forth the exact amount will fails tclit is estimated that it is of the estatl $200,000. I* * * fiun Battery Changed. Machin*jne Gun battery of the Tb° Macl a t, of Atlanta, has been Fift regime^ r der of Governor Can conv rted by mpany of infantry, with dler. mto a co however, of retaining the privilege, nj n the possession of the GaftHng gu the c mmand. itry command has been Th new infar. m p a ny Mof the Fifth designated as co-gia volunteers, regiment of Geon * « • klnaucurated. Dor War \and jury of Sumter Now that the gAiended the adoption county has reconnected dog law, the of the recently enk county will begin constabulary of a gaiu B t waging a war of e: tLrthless curs upon the thousands of w 4he price has not the heads of which been paid. k * * • V Retained. Byrd and Ob -uT ) aa announced Governor C n»'lwv ! onel Phill G. his decision to ia ' a A office of Adju- Byrd, of Rome, in thelpsh Kell, as the tant General J. MclntStment, and the chief clerk of the deparlthe most inter decision settles one of ’lce the first of esting appointments siiAam J. Obear, the year. Colonel Wiling the present inspector general of the state, has also been retained by the chief executive in his place in the office of the adjutant general and the commissions of both Colonel Byrd and Inspector General Obear will be issued with the rest of the military commis sions in the state. * * « Wil! Fight Inside the Party. The state executive committee of the Georgia Prohibition Association met at Macon the past week and adopted the following resolutions, covering the work they propose to do in the coming Democratic primary: •‘Resolved, That the friends of pro hibition throughout the state be, and they are, hereby urged to proceed at once to the inauguration and mainten ance of an active and thorough cam paign in order to secure, in every in stance, the nomination and election of a competent and worthy man who can be relied on to assist in good faith and to the utmost of his ability to give ef fect to their views on the enactment and enforcement of a law accomplish ing state prohibition.” It was decided to do ail their fight ing inside the Democratic party, and no separate nominations will be made- DO YOU WANT TO MAKE 8300! XV e want a local manager, lady or gentleman, in own town or county; no canvassing required. You can devote full or spare time, or evenings only, in connection with your regular voca tion. $2OO to $3OO can be made before Christmas, and it will require very little time. It is not necessary to have had experience. Send stamp for full particulars. Address, The Bell Com pany, Dept 8., Philadelphia, Pa. tf Science is bringing strange revela tions to the moralist, observes the San Francisco Chronicle. Since the day when the discovery was made that insanity was a disease, in many cases amenable to intelligent treatment, and the chains and shackles were stricken from the limbs of the inmates of a madhouse, the world has learned that drunkenness is a disease, that crimi nal propensities in some cases indicate uncorrected heredity, and in others may be accounted for by actual degen eration of the substance of the brain. Any one wishing to subscribe and receive both the Chronicle and Atlan ta Journal—the journal twice a week— can get sample copies by furnishing us with their names and address. Both papers for only $1.25 cents per year. Judging from the facility which some wee nursery tots have for scrawl njgpton any surfaces exposed to their ravages with the lead pencil, one would suppose that every child is de sirous of making its mark in the world. The self-activity of a child is marvel lous. And if its infant efforts after artis tic expression are only guiledaright, there is no telling what legends of beauty, what lessons of truth, it may inscribe upon the face of society and the world, reflects the Christian Reg ister. If the ministers and presiding offi cers of the different churches and so cieties of the city will encourage their members to subscribe for this paper, we will publish every weak free of charge, the location of their church or hall, names of officers and their ser vices and regular meetings. All we ask in return is to secure for us as many as five subscribers from each. The pastors or pres.ding officers will receive the paper free. tf The Berlin papers assert that Ger many meat have more colonies, and and say it is nonsense to maintain that the earth is divided up, as a new division is impending iu colonial pos sessions. The colonies of the Neth erlands are pointed to as among those tliat cannot much longer ba kept from a new division. It is declared that the candidates for these rich colonies are Great Britain and Germany, and that the latter has the better chance. The Deutsche Zietung thinks the in heritance is ripe, as the Netherlands is unable to fructify its colonies. $0 A WEEK TO START. We want intelligent ladies, or gen tlemen, to accept permanent position in own town; salary to start $6 a week, guaranteed, and commission. Many make from $l2 to $24 a week. You can devote all or your spare time. Send stamp for full particulars. Ad dress, The Bell Company, Dept. C., Philadelphia, Pa. tf At present it looks as if the horsa shoe superstition would outlast the horse. GET A PIANO COPY Of “Queen of the Carnival” waltz and “Casino March.” Former price for these compositions was 25 cents each. Send 30 cents to Louis H. Wolfson, music publisher, 1121 Broad street, Columbus, Ga., and secure both these copies by return mail. tf The Luther gas light burner gives a brilliant gas light; no chimneys, no trimming; no smoking, and no danger. Fluid costs less than kerosene. Burn ers fit any lamp. Call and see them burn. J. T. Coleman, agent, 701 Front street. tf NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mrs. Amelia E. Barr says men are supplanting women as household servants. On the whole, it isn’t strange that the famous Tichborne claimant should have been discovered again. He is so numerous that he simply can’t avoid being discovered. An Indiana man is charged with insanity because he burned up $3,000 in currency. If he bad lost it in a bucket-shop his friends would have regarded it simply as a case of hard luck. A New York woman routed a burg lar with her trusty hnt pin. The right to carry hat pins and at the same time avoid complications with laws against concealed weapons is another of the immunities very prop erly enjoyed by the gentler sex. Our miscellaneous manufactures, comprising manufactured goods of all descriptions, are finding markets in almost every civil Led country, foreign buyers preferring the products of the United States, and when these are properiy introduced they find a pre manent foothold. Admiral Montojo again explains the destruction of his fleet in Manila Bay by stating that Dewey got beyond the range of his guns, thereby “retreat ing. ” If a “retreat” was so annihilat ing to the Spanish ships it would be interesting to know what effect an advance would have had. One of the most notable changes in our common school system is the tendency toward compulsory educa tion. Thirty-two of the forty-five states have enacted laws for compul sory school attendance and such statutes will probably be adopted soon in most of the other states. Forty thousand more immigrants have come into the country since July 1 than came during the corre sponding period of the previous year. As a statement of fact, this is brief and unpretentious, but it nevertheless possesses a significance of great breadth and many shades of mean ing. A grim story is told of Lord Salis bury in connection with the service of his son under Badeu-Powell nt Mafeking. He was offered at the opening of the war special facilities for getting early copies of dispatches from Mafeking, but replied that he could take bis turn and wait for the newspapers like other people. Chicago has 3,750 policemen and the average number of arrests in a year amounts to 75,000, though dur ing the period of the World’s Fair it was considerably higher. Boston has 1,200 policemen; Baltimore, 900; St. Louis, 1,100; Philadelphia, 2,600; Cincinnati, 600; Cleveland, 450; De troit, 550; Washington, 600; San Francisco, 300; Pittsburg, 500 and New Orleans, 320. There can be little doubt that iu time to come electricity will be so merged with mechanics that the two sister sciences and industries w ill no longer be separable. Electricity will uo doubt permeate every large en gineering enterprise, and in fact will be so far merged iu general engineer ing that no great engineering ac hievement will be possible without electrical application and assistance. One important mistake made by the British was their refusal to buy wagons in the United States. The war office thought it patriotic to pa tronize home industries, with the re sult that the lack of wagons is now severely felt. The London Chronicle says it had been better had the au thorities followed the example of Kitchener in the matter of the Atbara bridge, which was bought outright in the United States. The Government recognizes the im portance of affording agricultural in struction to the inhabitants of our new island territories, and will at once proceed to establish stations in Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philip pines, where the natives can receive education in farm work and obtain all the industrial information th* y are found capab'e of assimilating. Whether the plan succeeds or not, it demonstrates the helpful disposition of the Government, willing to take up the white man’s Irarden to the fullest extent wherever its authority reaches. Australian won.en are not spared perplexity over the servant-girl prob lem. They are agitating the advisa bility of calling the class “household employees,” it may be interesting to local societies given to the solution of the question to learn. There are to be two “shifts” of employees, one to work from 6 a. m. to 2 p. m. and the other from 2 p. m. to 8 cr 9 p. m., so that they may have the afternoons and evenings of every alt- mate week. It is stated that the expenses of the household would not be increased by adopting this course, as domestic service under this new condition of affairs would be rendered so attractive that servants could be readily ob tained at half the present wages. Acting under the authority of the law passed in March last, the Naval Board of Construction has adopted designs for three new battleships which, when completed, will mark the beginning of a new period iu the development of our sea power and equal the most formidable vessels iu the navies of the world. These ships ill have a displacement of 14,000 tons each; they are expected todeveh p a speed of at least nineteen knots an hour and to have bunker capacity for 2,000 tons of coal, or enough for a cruise of 7,000 miles. The cost of these ships, when fully equipped and ready for sen, will be more than $7,- (00,000 each, and they will possess a fighti: g power not surpassed by that of any naval vessels afloat. The Sing Sing Star of Hope, which has a more vital interest in prisons and prison reform than any mere lay paper, publishes startling statistics of the percentage of reformed con victs in different states. Under the parole system in ten states, the num ber of those reforming taries from 85 to 100 per cent. The New York re formatory for young men redeems 85 per cent, of its inmates, but under the New Fork law governing state prisons the percentage of reformed convicts is declared to be only 15. If these figures are true they induce interest ing reflection. That convicts advo cate a certain system of prison managem nt does not prove its worth necessarily; but in this, as in every thing else, the testimony of the in siders is at least worth the consider ation of those making deductions from the outside. One of the strangest stories pub lished lately was that in the New York Herald wherein the Paris special cable told of the locomotive that lost itself. A charming writer of fact and fiction, who was once an American locomotive engineer, has told of the locomotive that fell into a Colorado stream and was forever buried in the quicksand. This author felt that his narrative would not be credited on his wn representations and fortified it with letters from the railway au thorities, who vouched for all he said. The Paris story, however, throws the American nan ative into the shade. Here was not only a locomotive but a whole train that unaccountably got off on to the wrong track and went many miles before the error was dis covered. This is not the tale of a Parisian feuilletonist, but a record of fact. There is one homely old motto that is going thundering down the corri dors of time and which will continue to echo while all things are, and that is, “Shoemaker, stick to your last.” Mistaken application is probably re sponsible for more misfortune than any other know n agency. The good actor who makes a poor manager, the successful merchant who achieves dis aster in the speculative channel, the man with the qualifications necessary to fit him for an enviable mercantile life and the mistaken ambition to grace one of the professions, these are a few instances of such everyday occurrence as to attract little passing comment. Jhe pursuit that is founded on a fallacy sometimes succeeds, be cause all things are possible, but it more often fails. As an earLer scan ner of men and things so tersely put it, “Be sure you're right, then go ahead,” and he might have added, “And don’t stray into any side path on the way.” Here is the idea of a comprehensive course of study on business methods as formulated by the head master of a school attended by the sons of the middle classes in Bradford, J ngland; In the first year will be taught office organization, buying mid selling, media of exchange, comnn rcial organ izations, business correspondence and shorthand; in the second, home and export trade, exchanges, foreign cur rencies, weights and measures, ship ments and shipping documents and shorthand; in the third, marine in surance, customs and excise, ad vanced busim ss correspondence and shorthand. This curri- ulum goes away ahead of that of the so-called business college with w hich we are familiar, and if adopted by schools and colleges in this country would fill a long felt need observes the Dry Goods Economist. It, of course, goes hand in hand with other studies, in cluding French, German, mathematics geography, history, etc. Queer Chinese Bedrooms. Chinese ideas of comfort are noth ing short of startling to luxury loving Americans. The Chinese bedrooms, even in the homes of the well-to-do, present many features which would be unendurable to an American or Eu ropean. A Chinese bedchamber has no win dows, is poorly ventilated and dark in consequence, and is usually no larger than a cupboard. The wooden bed stead has no springs, nor does a mat tress soften the hard boards. Usually a wadded quilt suffices. For pillows there are hollow square frames of bamboo or rattan, or often just a block of w’ood of the right shape to fit into the nape of the neck and give support to the head. The furniture of the bedroom is of the simplest. It usually includes, how ever. an opium-smoking outfit, even if the occupant be not a confirmed smo ker. Any apparatus designed to facil itate washing is considered superflu ous. The Chinaman does not wash any more than he can help. If he has bathed his face in a cloth which has been wrung out in hot water he considers himself ready for the first and most important act of the day, which is attendance at the family shrine. The average shad produces about 30,000.060 <‘gg- s annually. Nearly 100,- 000,000 have been taken from a single female. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A blue grotto like that of th® island of Capri has been discovered on the shore of the promontory of Skinari on the lonian island Zante. The entrance is from the sea, and is larger than in the Capri grotto, but the interior is smaller. Fishing boats can make their way in when the water is calm. Recent investigations prove that eighty-three per cent, of all the ocean floor lies further down than one thou sand fathoms, or one mile below the surface; twenty-one per cent, lies be tween one and. two miles; fifty-five per cent, lies between two and three miles, and seven per. cent, is known to lie further down than three miles. It is said that silkworms are very sensitive to the action of light of dif ferent colors, and according to experi ments recently described by Flam marion, before the French Academy of Science, silkworms were kept in boxes covered with glass of different shades. The silkworms all received the same food, but they gave different results as to the quantity of silk and eggs, and also in the proportionality of the sexes. A British investigator has found that in a suburban locality the dust particles number 20,000 per cubic centimeter in the open air an I 44,000 in a quiet room, while in the city the totals were 500,000 when taken from a roof, 300,000 in a court and about 400,000 in a room. Yet though tho dust is the great carrier of micro organisms, the danger from the germs inhaled seems to have been exag gerated. It is proved that there is but one microbe to each 38,000,000 dust atoms, and it is calculated that in seventy years of life in tho metropolis a man would absorb from the air only some 75,000,000 microbes, or about the number he drinks in half a pint of unboiled milk. Professor J. A. Brashear has de veloped some of the curved plates on which he photographed the sky one night recently when the meteors were expected to appear. While the night was very bad for photographic pur poses, the pictures of the stars which he obtained were excellent. He said they covered ten times the area that w-as possible w-ith ordinary plates, and the pictures of the stars wero well defined aud continued clear to the edges of the plates. The time and labor which were expended iu preparing to photograph the meteors was not wasted, because it was shown that curved plates are the proper thing for astronomical photography and have opened up new possibilities in this field. Glass paving-blocks were laid in the streets of Lyons, France, several months ago, and it is reported that they have proved very successful, neither showing wear nor becoming chipped. The blocks have a surface area of about sixty-four square inches which is crossed by a, series of grooves, dividing it into squares and affording a better foothold for horses. In setting, the blocks are placed very close together, so as to obviate per colation, and are cleaner than blocks of wood or asphalt, while they are more durable than granite. A large factory has been built near Lyons for the manufacture" of these paving blocks, aud they will be produced iu ornamental forms for building pur poses as well as for pavements. Fish Know Their Keepers. Many of the fish in the Aquarium in New York City have learned to know their keepers and will crowd to the rail when they pass. Some of them will take food from no other persons. A few of them eat from one of the keeper’s hands. Among these are the trunk fish, so called because they are inside. The animal swims about incased in a stout, bony box, as impervious to attacks as the skin of a politician. It has no neck and no dis tinct backbone. The fish lies inside its bony armor and a glance up its bugle-like snout into its interior is the basis for the statement that its flesh is a delicate pink. The natives of Bermuda like it very much, and they make no bones of its cousin, tho cowfish. They roast them both on hot stones in their own dripping pans,, so to speak, and serve them with a mallet. The trunk fish is really more the shape of a satchel. His tail pro jects like a rudder, and he merely steers with it, sculling along with his stubby fins and big, bony sides like a man-of-war propelled by paddles. Tho cowfish has tho same peculiarities, but is equipped also with a set Qf horns. The unwary monster of the deep that engulfs either animal is as sured of a bad quarter of au hour, speaking gastronomically.—New York Mail and Express. 4 A Beautiful Fiah. The parrotfish is a gorgeous object in a somewhat coarser mold, with the portly and uncompromising beauty of a well-preserved dowager. He gets his name from his beak and his green tunic. His appearance suggests a rich dish of emerald porcelain. There are two specimens, both males, in the Aquarium in New York City, and every day they enact a tank drama depicting the universal struggle of nature. The smaller of the two lives iu perpetual fear of his bullying companion. The latter keeps him in hiding in a coral grotto, while he promenades inso lently around him, the terror of the tank. His victim has protuberant eyes with which he is constantly glan cing behind him. His appearance would indicate that he was growing tired of life. Each male will eat out of the hand of one of the keepers. Their diet is soft-shell clams, which they mnsb, shell and all, in their jaws. Fragile as their parrot-like bills ap pear, they are able to snap off a finger in a trice.