Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-26
Do Birds Think ?
Touching Incident by a Lady Who
 Keeps a Bird Hospital.

Touching Incident by a Lady Who
 Keeps a Bird Hospital.
 From the Chicago Times.l
 Do birds think? Let me tell you of a little bird I once ownfd. The little bird was a female mocking bird who had a nest of young ones about @ week old. The baby birds were never healthy, inheritipg weak ness from their father, who had asthma Early one morning I was awakened by the mother bird standing on my pillow pouring into my ear the most mournful notes I ever heard. I knew something was wrong and arose at once. The little mother lew to her nest, then looked to see if I was following which I was. As soon as had reached the nest she took hold of one of the baby birds wings pinched it gently with her beak and watched it eagerly, I think, to see if it moved. Then she took hold of one of the little feet and pinched it in the same manner, and, finding it did not move, she looked up at me in pleading way, as if she wanted me to try to waken them. reached my hand out toward the nest. She stood aside and looked on with as much interest and feeling appa- rsntly as any young human mother.
 ''I examined the lifeless little bodies, and when I withdrew my hand the mother hast ened to hover over the little ones seeming to think that if sine could warm them they would awaken. In few moments she hopped of the nest, looked at her babies, held food
 
 them. but in vain. She then flew all around the room, as if in search of some untried remedy. Several times she perched on my shoulder, and looked so distressed and pitiful I could scarcely keep from crying. I put her in a cage, and hung her in the sunshine to see if she would become quiet She took a bath, but still remained nervous and seemed anxious, and by and by grew so rest less had to take her out of the cage and let her go to her nest again. ''She stood quite a while looking at her dead children. Then she went over all the little bodies-pinching them gently and watching them closely to see if they moved. When she saw no signs of life she seemed puzzled. She seemed at last to make up her mind the little ones were dead. And one by one she lifted them tenderly in her beak and laid them side by side in the middle of the room. She looked at them lovingly a mo- ment, then flew to her empty nest and gazed wonderipgly into that. Finally she perched on my shoulder and looked into my eyes as if te ask: What does all this mean 2 What 8 lesson of love and devotion that little bird taught She always fed the little ones be- fore taking a mouthful herself, and some- times she would stand coaxing them to take one more mouthful, and finding they had enough would swallow it herself''
 small town in South Carolina boasts of four legged negro baby. When he arrives at the years of discretion he will beat the best time on record in getting away from a melon patch.-New York Journal.
 List of Unclaimed Letters
 Remaining in the New Haven postofhce, New Haven county, State of Connecticut, advertised Wednes- day, Sept. 25.
 LADIES' LIST
 A-Mrs M Ayres. B-MB Bentley. E-LAura ElweI.
 F-Lizzie Fray.
 k-Josephne Fitzpatrick. R-Mary Ann Reilly, Annie Reynolds. GENTLEMEN'S LIST. D-Walter l. Demies(2l.
 Civilian H Germon. K-Michael Kenney. O-D Osborn.
 P-Frederick Putnam. T-Philo Tilden (2). W-M E Woodward.