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$4,000 " o R 7 h
sEIsOSABLB DRY GOODS
EUsT BE SOLD TO RAISE MONEY.

We loOte few rrices:
1000 yards bes, Spring Prints, 4 cents; short
lengths.
1000 yards sest Lcnstale Carosric, down 70 tx
cents. sOld al =.
1U cases OF Bleached and Brown Huslins, at as,
ass and ~ cents.
1000 yards Test I0-4 sheetns made, only TX
Grts,WOTtE ~.
White and U,.CEei Lawns, oniy 10 ceets.
Beautiful COlJred Dress Goods, Is cents, worth 70
LGIgs y.ock e T,scz AlPaoas, Black Cashmeres,
Black SIX, - half cost OF III pJTtstiOn.
We have about l-fJO yarGs Of Hamburg Edsins
le!I, v kich Ee . III sell AZ half price,
Nov y the tine % BAY goods, s2t save 81 cents
tae dollar, 81 We n1st have money.
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IN The SUPREME COURT OF THR NJ

The SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA
4IlzABEfH U. EARHART Us. ANDRkw JoycR
Equity, Doc. 10. " INV
IL 10 this 34th day Of July, A. D. ls7 ordered that
tne sale mace and reported by the Trus.ees and
hxeeufors Of the Real Estate Of Ferdinand Butler
oeceassd mento1e in this cause be, and the same
contrary thereof be shown on before the 2ath dav
Of August next: The report states the amount of
sale 81 $50 - belonging 70 said estate W
By order Of Court:
True coH-R J. les, CLERK, O., jySs-HX
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STEAMERS.
POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION u

DOTOMAC TRANSFORMATION LINE,
The commodious Bay Steamers SUE, Capt. W. q.
Geoghegan, and EXPRESS, Capt. IT,
jas. I; Barker, IeaTe stsphenson's 6 go
v harf, foCt OF 7th street, every MON 0ADcz41z1D
DAY and FRIDAY al O'Clock o. m, for BsIti.
more AID all river landings; returning leave Balti
more. NO. Ia Light street, every TUESDAY and
landings.
Freight and passengers At lowest rates. Apply,
Je9 Sm STEPHENSON d BIO, 7th st. wharf
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sTHE ABOVE SALE IS FURTHER POST
PcNED uI:il WEDNESDAY. kurnSi 4 IS-7 same
hour and place. MOSES KELLY, Trustee.
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REDUCED PRICES.
Al Of or
EPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS
HAVE BEEN
zARRED DOWN
SO sUCa FIGURES AS WILL INSURE THEIR
READY SALE.
Persons IN search Of BARGAINS are invited TO
aspect cur stock.
~ 0ss Fra 0s!y.
gEI:Ilg - BECTHEB,
Pennsylvania urenHe,
ieBu Corner Ninth street.
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ARRANGEMENT.

FOB NORFOLK, k3B srR4EN hosBoE AND
The win and elegant iron steamer LADY OF
THE LAKE, CaRtain J. WHITE, 49,
day, Wednesday and Friday, at -
O'Clock D. m, connecting with steamers for Boston,
Proyiderce and other northern points. Returning
leaves Norfolk every Tuesday, Thursday and Sat-
urdsy at 3 o'clock D. m.
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FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS

Steamer JOHN W. THOMPSON, Captain JOHN
= WOOD, leaves her " harf, foot Of -
9Th street, three times q week Ek-N
Tuesdays at . O'Clock =. m. for Gone
river; Thurdays at O'Clock m. for Currioman
CUrriOman and Leonaritow
On and after piy 10th, will leave Washington for
Piney Point on Tuesdays at . o'clock, arriving ct
Piney Point at % lock p m; returning, will leave
me Point Wednesday Iaorntng. Fare, round trip,
ror further Information apply at the Once over
Company g Wharf, foot Of 9Th street.
press Office. SAMOEL BACON, Prest.
Il 4 ACCINELLY.
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CHAMGERY SALE OF IMPROyED PROP
~ E T,i1 ON hnuE- AItLF AND Y

by virtue Of decree Of the Supreme Court -
q the District of Columbia, in equity cause de-
No. to.6, Myers ct al. against Mjlsteai, f0r.SSk
partition, will sell, at public auct ion, to the high
est bidder, IN front or the pre mise 3, On SATUR-
DAY, August ath l9I7, at o'clock ?. m, the ca 81
Id feet front by depth thereof OF lot number Is. in
square number $50, fronting on street s0ath, i'm
proved BY Frame Dwelling house. And im.ledi-
steiy thereafter the north &c Feet font Of lot
Der 10 IN same square, fronting 10 feet AZ street
and 70 fset on street SOUTH also in pro we'd b.
d. C. wy
Terns: One-third cash; reg!dus in one and two
years IRON day o. sale, tie purchaser giving his
good ana sufficient nortg ages upDn tk9 premises. LIZ
terms not C0mClIcd win within daTs. RICH. re-
served to resell cost ana risk of tefaultinr pur-
CHASER. . iUO dep 2slt required acce ,taace Of
bid. Az conveyaEciag 1T purchaser' S cost.
a, u. V. BIH2, Trustee,
-. . -- fSS Louisiana avenue.
DUNtANSON BIOS. ty2s-eDkis
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9TH GREAT SEMI-ASNUAL SALE
OF
IBY GOODS,
CARPETIEGs, OIL CLOTHS,
MATrIEGs, &C.,
CCEJBe7lCiHo Today OF BUTdeife's
AZ Fancy EEtSS GOODS a-d SILKS will b,
i1 LEES than st All Staple Goods will he sold 81,
cost foT Cash only. Stock must be reduced
NJ profit will b asked on anything
". w. BuIiDETTE d CO.
No, ESS Se~e7.fh street.
no. zoo n street. jy0u
: AIDES INTENDING VISITING TIE
a sea shore CT mountain resorts will ind many
very desirable goods in OCr sJock-Soft Grey and
u W WOO fabrics, light and COL, AZ all
-rre-, Sumner silks. 75c-: Camel Hair Grenadines
n Ifutsai shades, French n Iinso0k and French
AIuslLs; and Z Ces If all kinds. all
At COST FOR CASH
On orr second nor will be found a large stock OF
LsfIrs UnderW Of every description Linen Suits
sud listers for travelling White Suits Tor afernO
ara evening; Muslin end Lace OSeTd-ess >, Mederis
and Shetland SbaWls;
MI ar COST FOR CASH
MITCHELL & MAsETXN,
Sar-.ssITS 60 JGTH I 1IffrAs2D,
IySIU !3I PeH,iS p'rTHia drPHnr.
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MOSES KELLY, Trss,ce.

@THE ABOVE SALE is POSTPONED mill
SAII kDAl, July FL l~1f, same ho-r sad placo,
JyS-ZawSds MOSES KELLY, Trustee,
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hENrUCkn BREACHERs certainly Will moi
find their money a bar 10 their entrance into
heaven. Il minister AZ Vest Liberty sait
that he had been trying To get his wife a pair
OF shoes Tor a month, bat his salary for that
time had amounted 10 only H. cents, and he
was afraid IL would be winter before ne could
buy tAe.n. she woaIa not let him 60 IA debt,
and when he tried TO work in a harvest field
lie was offered as pay a broken washing
machine or a ing OF whisky.
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sTEAMEKS FOR NEW YORK.

ETEAMEkS FUR NEW YORK.
TIE steamers JOHN GIBSON and L. O. KNIGHT
viii leave New York At 4 O'Clock D IA.
every Saturday, Georgetown every Mon Ht&&A
DAY al O'Clock ?. m, and Alexandria
every Monday at 3 O'Clock p.
frelgbts taken ~ lowest rates. For Information
apply AZ Office Metropolitan Bank, 18th street,
OF to X. Z. A. DEHHAM, Agent, w ster street,
Georgetown. SAMUEL BACON,
ap2l-tr Presidar.f
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ETNE ABOVE SALE Is POSTPONED until
TUESDAY, July 18th. 1877, same hour en1 n,scs
BY order Of Trustees.
yi9d THOS. BOWLING, Auct
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HE PURCHASER NOT HAVING COM
Ill ~ slth terms q sale. the above property Will
De soid tRiDAf AFTERNOON, August 81. lST7,
III " CLOCK, at his risk and ~
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CLYDE'S NEW EXPRESS Line
y BETWEEN

PHILADELPHIA, ALEX AHDEIA, WASHING
TON AND GEORGETOWN,
CONNECTING AT PHILADELPHIA WITH
EEYDES LINE FOB BOSTON AND PROV
IDENCE AND NEW ENGLAND STATES.
SAILING DA VS.
from OVERWHELMINGLY, at IL m.
from " sshin gton-Monda at II q. m.
F roh bGisq 1ssei2sg sasiS M
bills Of landing given to Boston ard saxSS
Froylc'rce. Coasignees wishing their eSS<zz1elB9
goOfs landed at Georgetown wharf will please have
them mark ed - GsOTs,l0L1n, ID. c."
Yer full information apply to j. II. JOHNSON b
90. l2O2 street northwest. and I2lh street
wharf, W sshinston, .. 90; HYDE, 50 Water
phis. rpar1).ly
A MEXICAN LINE OF STEAMSHIPS
n sail every tn UKSDkY direct from LecyoS
Queenstown. -
Cabin, intermediate and Storage passage tickets
can be nd at H. ID. COOKE, JR. q GO. g, Bank
ers, If2D street. Also, gents for the Red Star
Line 20 srtwerp. my77-n
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llsOuIHV 90 a JNs uI WbIsky.
rrIt Is denied that the New York ace COM
panies are going tn advance their prices. The
supply is ample, and rather In excess OF the
probable requirenn epts OF the market.
EYMrs Moody, the wife of the preacher. IN
teaching a large class of men this summer
in the Sunday school az Mortified, Mass.
1John Melloy, q Philadelphia letter
for OBTAINING aud opening letters from tho
United States
~ Cape Mays excitement is about veal
thy woman, who, driven TO desperation bY
her husbands conduct, tried TO drown her.
self in the surf, but was rescued.
@A former resident Of New Haven. WIN.
during recent visit, discovered that some,
OF the elms are dying, has written TO Prof.
Dana, suggesting that the damage is dona
by an insect which the English sparrows do
not modest, while the sparrows have driven
away the native birds which formerly De-
stroyed the aforesaid insect.
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e IL, wARNER, Zeal Estate Auctionesr.

ID. A' 90 -s'''e Aue'iohe'f'
TEtSTEEs SAbE OF NEAT nWO.sTDRY
PkESSEO- BAICk FRONT pMtLIISJ NO
ksOS STREET NORTHWEST "
BY virtue OF a decd oftrust dated November So
i-t, "A: d 1872, duly recorded ia Lber No. 6ls, go
3lo AZ one OF the land records for the District s3
o. Coiuols and at the request OF the party secured
thereby shall sell a. public anctioa, in 'front.' Of
ire premises, oa sATU bDAY, July 9TH. ls77, at 3
cclcck ?. u, the loIlowlng descr bed real estate
situate IN The city OF Washington, D. c. 70 wit: All
mar certain piece or parcel of GROUND known and
designated As Lot numbered four. 4, D ia Cs1r-e n
Ioburns recorded subdivision of Square Numbered
Two hnhdred and thirty seven, y together with
Terms one-tfth u cash; aud the balances at one,
Two ana three years with interest at eight per cent
per ennU secured by deed Of trust on the propertv
sold CT Al cash, at option Il the purchaser de-
post ~ O Eired a. the time % sale sul all con-
veyancing at purchasers cost. Terms 10 be COM
Piled with In seven days.
MOSES
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~ ORTIZ GERMAN LLOYD.

The steamers Of this Company will sail every Sat-
turday from Bremen Pier, foot Of Third >.scSS
street, Hoboken- Rates of passage: From eSEAk
Hsyre aud Bremen, first cabin. Si0O; second cabin,
a6 gold; Storage, oO currency. For freight or
passage apply to OELbICHS A CO.
mars On Bowling Green, Nev York
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flEY GOODSi DRY GOODS
AT DOWN, DOWN PRICES.

DKY GooDst DRY GooDsn
AT DOWN, DOWN PRICES.
For Thirty teys 0ur entire stock VIII be sold ST q
TTsG- hs~BC''7~ PrElsS. ia order tO CiCss out
ar as possible before removing To cur new place
Of business.
A full stock o Mourning Dress Goods, Grena-
dimes RiGck Siisz, tssh-ns res Tsmiese, hOhairs,
and 1eaine-, TsllH Linens. Toweliags and Nap
Sins, with a fun stock # Staple Domestics az the
lowest market prices Tor cash strictly. Also small
lot Of Black Lac shaw5 snd Sscques al be sold at
hTJ yTE-t.
eSHn articles warranted 20 prove ss repre- ssnt.
a., AID fsir tsa.l2s in ali cases, az
}. ". COLLEY's, No. sol,
US eotr Corner sth st end Market Space.
BARGAINS BARGAINSi
BARGAINSl
WHITE coos.
EMBROIDERIEs,
LACES,
CALICJES, PEBCALES, LAWNS.
NUST BE SOLD, REGARDLESS OF COST
CONNOLLY'S,
COS Ninth street,
JyB-tr opposite Patent Office.
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MANHOOD RESTORED.

Prescription Fyee for the speedy cure OF Semina
Weakness, Lost Manhood and all disorders brought
on By indiscr@tione or excuses. Any Druggist Ia,
the tngredieuts. Address
DAVIDSON CO..
oCt7 eo1y SO Nassau etreet, New York
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The Evening Star

Ii everywhere recognized the leading newspape
OF Washington. With two exceptions only, Il ~
sostA Of NsU York, more Aaa THREE TIMES Tia, q,
any 6'hs, in fss city, and EQUAL TO THAT OF Al,
THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN wAsHINsfoN ADDED
TOGETHER
10 advertisers therefore, II presents peculiar ano
unequalld advantages, in the extent and oharaote,
OF its circulation, and In the low rates charged CON
siderfng the wide publicity 1t insures.
II is, indeed, within its SCOPE.
2Hh BEST DHERTISING MEDIUM IN
TIE UNITED STATES.
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- RATES OF ADvERTISIN0, h bosh ~
oaay snA Wsskly edition, nads Known. nd 49,
nasa 30 sDssaal srvios slzniahsa. O a,pueessoa.
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~ THE ABOVE SALE Is FURTHER POST
PoNED until THURSDAY, August z, l517, same
hour and place.
,,us n nssIiA z L WysAgSER' Trustees.
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~THE ABOVE SALE Is POSTPONED IN
IL MONDAY, July Roth, ISL, same hour ana
pace sksfis n. Il Ro Mhh sR' Trustees.
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Affection in Bird Life.


The fidelity and affectionate intimacy
of married bird-life appears most conspic-
uously in pairs Of the grosbeak family and
in small parrots. Here is perfect harmony
Of will and deed The two sweathearts
appear unwilling to leave one another's
company for moment all their life; they
do everything tcgether-eating and drink
ing, bathing, and dressing Of feathers,
sleeping and waking. Various degrees Of
affection and harmony are discernible on
close observation. Among the small gros-
beaks, pairs of which sit together, the in
innate relation is never disturbed; even
over the feeding-cup there is no quarrel
ing. They stand highest in this respect
among birds. Love tokens are exchanged
by pressing Of beaks together veritable
kissing, accompanied by loving gestures.
They are also more sociable, and even at
nesting time more peaceable, than other
birds. In the case Of other grosbeaks,
when the male bird sits by the female in
the nest, there are various demonstrations
Of affection, but also slight occasional dis
putes, especially about feeding time. Next
in order come the small parrots, which
also appear almost inseparable. The male
bird feeds his companion with seeds from
the crop. This goes on quite regularly
during the Matching and until the young
are somewhat grown. During all this time
the hen bird, which broods alone, never
leaves the nest but for few minutes, and
the cock shows such affectionate care that
the whole day he seems to do nothing but
take food and give il again Yet even
this loving union is marred from time to
time, even during the Matching time, with
quarrels that even come to blows. Again,
the male bird Of pair Of chafinches only
occasionally sits on the eggs or young, but
he watches the nest very carefully, singing
to his mate the while, accompanies the
hen in fight, and helps her in feeding the
young-Cadmbers' Journal.
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The Information Of Swallows.

The controversy respecting the alleged
hibernation of swallows has received a new
contribution 10 letter written by Sir John
MeNeill TO his brother-in-law, the Duke Of
Argyll, and printed in recent number Of
Nature This letter, after some prelimi-
nary remarks, continues as follows:
about twenty-five miles south Of Tehe-
ran, the capital Of Persia, there is village
called Kenara-gird, near which is stream
Of brackish water running 10 deep bed
with nearly perpendicular banks some forty
or fifty feet high. Being largely impreg-
mated with salt, this stream is rarely II ever
frozen, and in frosty weather is resorted 10
by flights of wild ducks. During a frost
Of unusual severity, l went from Teheran
TO kenara-gird, accompanied by Sir Henry
Rawlinson, for the purpose of duck shoot
ing, the severity of the frost promising
good sport Having slept at the village
We next morning followed the downward
course of the stream along the north bank,
and had proceeded about mile, L think,
when We came to place where there had
quite recently been small landslip. The
brink of the bank to the extent Of perhaps
twenty feet in length, and ten or twelve
broad in the middle, tapering off to each
end, had slipped, but had not fallen down
the bank. Between this detached portion
and the perpendicular face about ten feet
high from which it had broken off, we saw,
to our surprise, number Of swallows, not
less, | am sure, than twenty or thirty, ly-
ing, as at first supposed, dead, but on
taking up one of them / found that ii was
alive but dormant; it was warm and its
breathing was quite perceptible. l exam
ined considerable number, and found
that they were all alive and breathing but
none Of them gave any sign Of conscious
ness. My attention was then attracted to
the perpendicular face on our left, from
which the slip had broken off, and which
was perforated by vast number Of holes
each about the size Of rat hole. On
looking into such Of these as / was tall
enough to sec into, / found in all Of them
swallows in the same dormant state. /
was able with finger and thumb to pull
out swallows frem several Of these holes,
and in each case found that the hole,
which penetrated horizontally a consider
able way into the bank, contained more
swallows in the same condition. In no
case did | see one lying on another-they
were all lying singly with their heads in
ward, each head touching the tail Of the
bird before it. How far these holes pene.
trated into the bank, or what number of
swallows each contained | did not ascer-
tain, but it is plain that the original en-
trance to those dormitories must have been
in the external face of the portion that
had slipped, which, as l have stated, was,
in the middle, from ten 10 twelve feet thick.
The holes in the undisturbed portion may
probably have been of equal or greater
length, and if SO the number Of swallows
alternating there must have amounted to
many hundreds"
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WESTMINSTER MD. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1e, 1877

had found that she was indeed an heiress
Mr.. Perkins was intrusted with the
management Of the stocks and papers, and
soon was on his way back to the village
for he said the transfer must be attended
to, aud the premiums collected; and while
the two young people were planning what
their new lives should be, Mr.. Perkins
who had overheard Mr., Durham's remark
concerning Harings not being promised
to Maggie, dropped. into that gentleman i
Office, where father and son were seated
aud told his news.
The lowest computation makes il over
half million, he said, chuckling, as he
rose to leave, land when the premiums and
interest are counted in, why II goes way be.
you'd that. always thought Mistress
Warren dabbled in stocks, but she never
told lne, and he went slowly out
Half a million !" said the elder Dur
ham, when his astonishment let him speak.
And | only obtained one hundred
thousand with Miss Lannoy," said the
younger, biting his lip.
And while Mr.. Perkins was going on
to his office, Maggie said SHOW you
can finish your models, and buy the shop,
Paul, for know you would never remain
content unless employed.
You are right, Maggie, y and so it was
settled; and when Mr.. Perkins told Mag
gle that there was seventy thousand dol.
lars subject to her check in Mr. Durham =
bank, she gave it to Paul.
Their money did not keep Paul Green
and his wife from being useful. In fact,
it made them more SO than before, and
Maggie's dowry has brought joy and COM
fort to many homes that needed such.
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A STRIKING ScESE.-A correspon-
dent Of the London Netos, who aecompa-
MED the Fourteenth Corps in its march
through the Dobrudja, sketches an early
evening scene near Trajan's Wall. Along
the road, perhaps half mile away, were
some Turkish horsemen on the sloop of
the next hill, and beyond this rise was a
long unbroken ridge, with the Turkish
camp extended along the summit in an
irregular black line, with here and there
white tents. The Russian army was
drawn up in the foreground for the even.
ing hymn, which is always sung at sun.
down. The soldiers stood there in parade
with their white caps under their arms
singing in chorus the sweet yesper hymn
with an interlude from the band and bu,
giles. The long lines of men without theil
accoutrements standing in reverentiaI
silence while the bands played strain
and then joining in the chorus with sol
emn earnestness--the twilight hour, tn,
presence Of the enemy, the grand lines O
the encircling hills, all made it scene /,
be remembered. After the hymn, order
were read that the dark uniforms were t,
be put on, aud that they were to be read
to advance at daybreak, and that if an,
firing was heard in the night they we're !,
lie still aud await the bugle call. Ever
soldier in the camp knew that battle wa
expected, aud in an hour the whole cam
was asleep.
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A Curious Bird Story,

L. Page and son have been cutting wood
on Albright's place in the foothills, near
San Jose. They had noticed for several
days that number Of birds remained
constantly upon tree near them, some
going and coming from time to time.
Upon cutting down the tree they discov-
cred limb with hollow cavity, some two
feet in length and three or four inches in
diameter, in which were two full-grown
birds Of some goodly-sized species. There
was a small aperture through which the
birds were supplied with food from their
mates. The limb was cut and the birds
liberated. They were neither Of them able
to fly, having evidently never been out Of
Imprisonment. How they came inside is
q question. Il is more than probable that
the mother bird was small, and though
able to make her nest in the hollow Of tho
tree and rear her young could not extri-
cate them, aud they did not gain strength
enough TO help themselves until the hol-
low had closed 50 that escape was impossible.
Those who examined the birds think they
are about two years old. They have been
fed from their birth by their bird fellows
through the aperature ia the limb Of Che
tree. A nobler instance Of devotion even
the human family never exhibited.--San
Jose, Cal Mercury.