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BIRDS OF ARGENTINA.
Uni)' of Ileantlfnl Pluma«e and Some
That Are Wonderful
Slngera.
—
Among Argentina’s greatest treas
I ures are her birds, which abound there
I in great number and variety. One pe
j culiarity of the birds is their gaudy
I plumage, brightest scarlet, ' orange,
I olive, yellow, pink and green—painted
perhaps by the southern sun, says the
Montreal Family Herald.
In color they are beautiful and in
songs wonderful. Let us go to the
I woods bordering the river and see how
| many we can find. Yonder bird is
called the “arm of fire” on account of
his bright color. He appears to take
great pride in showing himself. There
is the cardinal with the scarlet crest,
white breast and dove colored back,
also the yellow cardinal with yellow
body and black crest. It is so named
because it’s crest resembles the car
dinal’s hat. That beautiful pink line
that you see in the distant sky is a
flock of pink flamingoes. They are
nearing us. Now they alight on the
sand on the margin of the river. How
pretty they are! Listen to that exquis
ite song. That is the “Bugero," a large
black bird with white beak. From the
grassy marsh eomes the discordant cry
of the heron, and the green parrots are
chattering in the trees over our heads.
They think their scolding will fright
en us away. See that lovely golden
wren creeping up the tree, hunting
spiders. He does not seem a particle
afraid of us. Hear that sweet voiced
robin. They are much finer singers
than the robins of our country. Here
we find a dove’s carelessly made nest,
with two white eggs lying on the
ground. This dove is very small, not
much larger than a canary. That mod
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nightingale, which keeps his sweet
song for the night.
There is a tree that appears to be
covered with balls of cotton, but in
stead of cotton it is a flock of magpies
sunning themselves. They drop their
wings and fluff out the feathers of
the back until they resemble balls of
cotton. They are singular birds. One
will catch a frog and run around be
fore the others, apparently to tantalize
them. When they bathe they jump into
a pool of water, then out again and roll
in the dust, then into the water again.
They impose on each other by several
hens laying in the same nest. The
eggs are very pretty, green and white
mingled. Hear the mournful call of
the rainbird, a kind of cockoo which
calls almost incessantly the day before
a storm while there is no apparent
evidence of its approach, yet they are
unfailing. Here comes a scissors tail,
another peculiar bird, one of the fly
catchers. Ah! the beautiful birds! We
j hear their glad songs as they flit from
j tree to tree seemingly without a sor
! row, but they have their sorrows, too,
; for they will go to seek food for their
i young birds and come back to And
i them devoured by the snakes or some
: other marauder. But perhaps their
| greatest enemy is women, for whose
adornment hundreds of thousands are
destroyed annually, especially of the
white heron, an elegant bird whose fe
male has two dainty hair-like feathers
or aigrettes, which are used for hat
trimming.
HOW A TREE IS MURDERED.
An Inutnnce Which lJltiMtrnlcn the
Dittlculty of Destroying;
One.
A gentleman of means living in a sub
urban town tells how his mother once
undertook to murder a cherry tree, says
the Chicago Chronicle. “I was a boy
at the time,” he said. ‘‘The tree stood
on our lawn; it had been planted by my
father, and he loved it with a parental
affection; but it was an eyesore to my
mother, for she thought it spoiled the:
looks of the e-arden
"She decided to murder it secretly,
because she knew that my father would j
never consent to its removal. For a
long time she pondered, asking herself 1
how she might kill the tree without be-!
ing detected, and finally she decided |
that she would use for her weapon boil- j
ing water. Accordingly whenever my |
father was away she would get a kettle
and, tiptoeing out to the tree with a
guilty look, she would pour boiling
water upon its roots.
“At first the tree showed no change j
under this treatment. After a time,
though, a change began to manifest
itself. My father noticed it.
“ ‘By jove,’ he said, ‘my cherry tree
seems unusually fine and hearty.’
"And this was a fact. The more boil
ing water my mother poured on the
roots the more the tree thrived and
flourished. Finally, ip despair, she gave
up trying to commit her vegetable mur
der.
"A florist, to whom she narrated this
strange story one day, laughed when he
heard it. He said it was no wonder the
tree had gotten along so well. He de
clared that boiling water was often
used on trees, as it killed off the worms
and bugs molesting them.”
The MuMrnetic North.
The belief in the constancy of the
magnetic compass to the north pole has
not the least foundation in fact. At ev
ery different place on the globe it points
in a different direction, and only one or
two of them are due north. In London,
for instance, it points to a place about
17 degrees west of north. Seventy-six ;
years ago it was still further away, be- !
ing then 24^4 degrees, or a quarter of
the way around to the wegt. In the year
1580 it pointed 11 degrees east. Then it
began to move north till 1659, when it I
pointed due north. But it remained
thus only for a moment, passing around
to its greatest deflection in 160 years.
Vgain it turned in 1820, and is still mov
ing nearer the north. It will not, reach
that point for nearly a century and a
half, and so it will go on backward and
forward forever.—N. Y. Herald.
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WALL STREET METHODS
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By HEAHy GEOBGE. Jr.
A number of true accounts of some of the Wall
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