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Parrots and their Care.
To keep Polly in good health the diet
question must be most carefully studied.
The subjoined bill of fare is the only
hc^U^'an^enaMe a » e * themtoenjoy 1 ^ hippy
Parrots in ... their wild state live upon
ripe fruit, and tame ones also enioy it.
them. Seeds they also live upon w hen
in their native laud, and so destructive
on ponies r are occupied in driving ® off the
S __ ia y parrots, , which, , ■ t we undeistand, . , tly
m tiooks of 10,000 at a time; and from
our own observation of what one bird
can do in the wav of destruction (as an
armle apple is is soon soon entirely entirely nicked picKea to to pieces nmres
and thrown piecemeal away, the seeds
only being eaten), we can easily ealeu
late what 10,000 birds can do in a short
space of time. A whole orchard must
become ruined in less than two hours if
the birds are allowed to remain in it.
A tin of hemp seed or crushed Indian
corn should be their dailv diet. Alter
nate it by giving cold boiled rice, with
a separate allowance of well soased
bread, with the water fairly squeezed
out; bread is soaked thoroughly when
boiling water is poured upon it. Never
feed your bird with hot food; their beaks
are very sensitive. By no means give your j
parrot any animal food, not even a bone ;
to bite, as some people say, for amuse
«*»\ f r d ~“ d r the b " d
savage, ill and unhappy. It causes the
bird to pluck out its feathers. hat
for? Why, to chew the quill to procure
a taste of the animal food when the mas
any. The bird is taught to become a
cannibal, and he becomes & veritable
lover of flesh, which he i3 not particular
in seizing ® hold of, whether it be upon
the , v , ,, thumb , K o! tinger bone. Tta The practice
of giving the birds bones to bite is not
at all a good one. It teaches them to
destroy their perches, or tear anything
th,y cau la, hold of. The parrot re
quues no more amusement than to be
taken notice of, spoken to, sang to,
whistled to, and caressed bv those whom
” else'
he has a preference for; no one i
shouia cho-ibl he oe allowed aqovvea to to touch touen him nun. a \ tea- tea .
spoonful of water trough once of a day he will bo en
joy, but no water must put
in his cage. Never gi ,r e your parrot the
least particle of butter, fat, milk, or
pluming itself, you may be sure it is in
good health. Parrots seem to possess a
“«• " f !“{*.*» love admir
ation, uhile ill health renders them, as
it renders us, careless of it. Keep your
bird our of draught. Cover it over at
night »____ time, ’ then repeat several times any
sentence _ you . wish it t 8a y- y.
practice. Its attention is not attracted
bj anything, save the sound of your
voice, when it is covered over .—Detroit
Free Press.
The Eagle of the Mint.
Philadelphia Nearly every mint one during who has the visited the }
past twenty | I
years J has noticed a stuffed bald-head "
cage Few, in however, a glass case on its the history. second floor, The
know
bird, \?hea alive, was presented to the
mint a quarter of a century ago bv one
of the asters, Dr Peale. “Pete” was
the eagle s name, and he soon became a
great about pet at the institution. He would
fly vhe city all daylong but in
variably retu« e d to hia home toward
owAnin evening. ct Uete was especially • n x fond ^ of *
o»e of the employes 0 f the mint, a jolly
Irishman, and would ^)H 0 w him About
like a dog. No matt*. “Pete”
might be doing he would at w ayg respond
to a call rrom nis mend. Oi<» <j a y
noble bird proudly pearched %imsclf i
iipon nnnn a a flv tly whee whee at at he he mrnt mint It Tt © u a d- ;
denlv gave a whtrl and “Pete 1 ’ was *©
. aore. He was crushed to death. The i
K aoloyes thought so much of their pet
they had him stuffed and mounted.
SlP A Yaluuuie Find.
v* More than 30,000 frag« en ts of ancient
records have been dug u. hu.« from the
sands .of E^ypL where they reg t e( j :
embalmed ^during nine for their centuries., iuterme^ not
very much the worse documents
The history of these venerable
ia remarkable. Professor ICarabacek sup
that they must at one time have
poses of the public archives o.
formed part .
Fayoura, aud that the bulk o -
archives perished in a great confia„ a
tion. such as destroyed the ^reat i irarv
at Alexandria - London Limes.
opiates .
No ^ or poison.
Only twenty-five cents,
Bed Star Cough Cure.
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scarcity of buffaloes in thb
Of (From recant MiluauS^Tning the slaughter Wisconsin
has years of buffaloes
^ een car neJ on in such a wasteful way
crea
of
cases simply for their tongues, the rest of the
carcass ains having Present been allowed to rot upon the
Fu \ indications are to the effect
An odd thing is said to have taken place
recently in Philadelphia, where in the "Zoo”
1 hie® baby buffaloes have been
added to the , herd. A Nebraska
man came
along and wanted to buy one. The super:a
tendent told him the baby buffaloes were not
for sale, and asked him why he wanted to
buy such a creature. “It is a serious mat
ter ’ hos ud m a solemn manner, “and I
must ge6 sorue kind of ft buffalo to take l)hck
to Nebraska with me, for there is a who!®
tribe of Indians waiting to celebrate their
national medicine dance around him. There
buffalo to b« got in the West, and I
had to come hast especially to get one.”
This is one of the “straws which .show
which way th® wind blows” in regard to the
radical changes brought about by the tiling
up of the Western country The time was
braska antl eV en throughout Wisconsin, and
j s 011 jy a e msparatively short time ago
that herds of buffaloes ranged the western
part of the State of New’ York, where the
city of Butfa’o now stands.
fieMs'occuplfd by what°is caS^ala m
low were lands confinjd and to limited areas, principal'y The
undrained marshes. cu
rtous thing about these malaria fields is that
; Hardly s a phenomenon which defies explanation.
onywher© is anybody safe from an
attack of malaria. These attacks sometimes
take the form of old-fashioned “ chilis and
fever which undermine the constitution and
leave the vict mawreek.
What a ha >py thing it would be if we
could be assured that malaria is on the Je
crease so that cases of malarial fever are
likely to become as scarce as buffaloes now
are%
Well, perhaps we are on the roau to it.
Certainly we are, if every malarial sufferer
winjjjjpt
Miss Bartholomew, of 865 Racine streoi, ihe
daughter of Mr. Northwestern Bartholomew, Railroad, express llnv- m..s
senger on the
ing heard that Mias Bartholomew ealle;l had been
troubled w;th nialaria the writer upon
heFi and found the young j a(iy and Lier
mother both busily engaged on some new
dry [‘So goods.
you had malarial trouble, had you,
Bartholomew ?”
getting rid of it. It was very discouraging
and depressing to suffer with such a malady
relieve me. The last medicine I took was
Brown’s Iron Bitters, and the reason it was
the last was that I had no need for any other,
This did the work so thoroughly and routed
the disease out so quickly that I have tor
some time had no need for medicine.”
malarial disease will only get rid of it by
taking this effectual remedy, malaria will
^eventually be as scarce as buffaloes now are.
Not only for the liver troubles which have
a specially malarial origin, but for all dis¬
eases of the liver; for dyspepsia, and stomach
cramps and kidney ailments and nervous
pains; for ladies’troubles, such as hysteria,
debility maladies and sick-headache, and infirmities, and Brown’s for many I.
other o.i
Bitters has its message of comfort to me
people of Wisconsin and of all the rest of th®
world.
In addition to above very strong testimony
we mention some of the results of this great
"S^Mary TAustin, from Montgomery Aa.,
jays: I suffered dyspepsia and enlarge
ment of the spleen. Was treated by several
doctors, but obtained no relief until I began
endorse u “ 1?.?""’,'i this popular r remedy. ?° .t, 1 * 18 ”' 1 heart “ J ’
My Mr Henry C. suffered Kitchings, Macon, rheumatism. Ga., says:
mother from
Brown’s Iron medicine. Bitters did her more good than
any other
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in Melbourne the letter-carriers are clad in
scarlet—coats, waistcoats and trousers.
Chapped hands, face, pvm, Les and rough
ki k b UBing j ump er Tar soap, matle by
c a<well Hazard A Co., New York.
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Small and steady gains give competency with
^ ra »quiiity of mind.
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Don* hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, dis¬
gusting everybody,but use Dr. Sage s Catarrh
Remedy.
Count on the fidelity of the man who
carries his heart in his hand and wears
his soul in his face.
Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing
we at pm t jj ag p een ca Jled the bright
o{ the heart.
A m ind—heart-sunshine
—
takes a g *» put of gloom, and can turn
the most nn K var( j Events so that they
will prove a spring of unmeas
ureii jov.
W'itty sayings are as brok^ Io . t a « t h e
j pearl’s slipping of off a gtrincr- 8 but
a word kindness is seldo, gnolcen in
va j n> j s a see( j w hicb, when
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OB SKIN CAN CEB.
For seven years i suffered with a cancer on my
face. Eight months ago a friend recommended the
use of Swift’s Specific, and I determined to make an
effort to procure it. In this I was successful, and
began Its use. The influence of the medicine at first
was to somewhat aggravate the sore; but soon the
inflamation was allayed, and My I general began to hea Improve th has
after the first few bottles. able to do
greatly Improved. I am stronger, and am
any kind of work. The cancer on my face began to
decrease and the ulcer to heal, until there Is not a
vestige 6 of it left- only a little scar marks the place
Mrs. Joicik A. McDohai,i>.*
Atlanta, Ga., August 11,1889.
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—“All your own fault
If you remain sick when you can
Get hop bitters that never—Fail.
—The w eakest woman, smallest child, and
sickest invalid can use hop bitters with safety
and great good.
—Old men tottering around from Rheuma¬
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made new using bitters.
l^’My wife and daughter were made
healthy ommend by the use of hop people.—Methodist bitters and i rec¬
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Clergyman.
A *k a ny good doctor if hop
On Bitters are not best family medicine
ea rth 1 ! !
—Malarial fever, Ague and Biliousness,
will leave arrive." every neighborhood as soon as hop
bitters
—“My mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out of her system with hop bit¬
ters.”— Ed, Oswego Sun.
f y Keep the kidneys healthy with hop
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—The vigor of youth for the aged and in¬
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1 —“At the change of life nothing equals 1
< ( Hod Bitters to allay all troubles incident >
Thereto. ” )
"The best periodical for ladies to take
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the greatest benefit is hop bitters. ”
—Thousands die annually from some form
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A timely * * * use of hop
Bitters will keep a whole family
In robust health a year at a little cost.
—To produce real genuine sleep and child¬
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on retiring.
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