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p chest: Raspberries, $2@4: Strawberries, $2@4
for Longworths and 81 25@2 Is q chest for large
berries.
GRAPES-The market shows better assort-
ment and prices are weaker Sweetwaters and Fon-
talnebleaux, 25@65c Is box; Black Grapes, b5(G
ooc q box; Muscats 50@75c ID box.
CITRUS FRUITS-Oranges are decaying rapidly
for want of buyers and have to be picked over be-
fore they can be sold. Lemons and Lines are plen-
tlful and weak. Navels quotabe at 81 50@2 y Dox
Seedlings, 50@75c; California Lemons, S293 for
common and So 5014 for good to choice: MEXICAN
LINES, ~ 5O@3 80 p box; Bananas, 81 2o02 q
bunch; Pineapples, $2@3 q dozen.
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FLOUR AND MILLSTUFFS.

FLOUR-The export trade to the Orient has
fallen back to where when the recent activity
began. The last steamer took out only 4943 bbls.
Net cash prices are as follows: Family extras
SO 35G3 As y bbl Bakers extras. SO 1908 So:
superfine. So 25@2 30 p Dbl.
MILLSTUFFS-Rye Flour, 31ac p ID: Rye Meal.
SC; Graham Flour, &c. Oatmeal, 414c: Oat Groats.
DC; Cracked Wheat. 312c: Buckwheat Flour, 412c;
Pearl Barley, 414@434c p ID; Rice Meal, $12@
10 r ton.
CORNMEAL, ETC.-Table Meal, 3@334c: Feed
Corn, $24@25; Cracked Corn, $24 50@25 80 q
ton; Hominy, 41a@434c a ID.
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WOOD, LUMBER, TIES, ETC.

Posts, &c each: Redwood $5 p cord Oak,
rough, Sc so; peeled, SO: Pine, So rs; Railroad
Ties 35c apiece for 6xS, Ale for 7xS and 45@50c
for Ike.
TANBARK-New, S14C014 SO p cord.
LUMBER-The Redwood Manufacturers Asso-
citation quotes: No. l Rough, $13@17 No 2, 500
II p NJ: Pickets, rough, pointed and fancy, $lO@
- and SIS q NJ: half inch, surfaced and clear, No
l. $32t936 q NJ; No. 2, $22@2S q NJ Rustic, No.
], $15@23' No. 2, $20@24 surfaced and rough
clear No. l, $1S@22; No. 2, $12@l6; T. and e.,
$l2@14.
PINE-No l. SllMl2 "a NJ
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HAY AND FEEDsTUFFs.

BRAN-$l2 50@l3 so q ton.
MIDDLINGS-Range from $15 for low grades
up to SlS r ton for the best.
FEEDSTUFFS = Ground and rolled Barley,
$13 506114: Oilcake Meal at the mill, $25 p ton;
Cottonseed Oilcake, S24 p ton.
HAY-The market runs along quietly at I'M
changed prices. Receipts are ample for ali present
needs Wheat is quotable at ST 5O610 so p ton;
oat, $6@S: Wheat and Dat, $7@9; Barley, $597:
Alfalfa, So 50@7 80; Glover, $7@S; Compressed
81 50(d9 so: stock, S5(G6 r ton.
STRAW-Weak at 3065Oc p bale
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CHICAGO MARKETS.

CHICAGO, ILL, July pam altogether I'M
expected ana swift upturn took place in the wheat
market this morning There was quite a lot of
wheat put at the close yesterday and the decline
during The last half hour OF that days session nat
uraIly added TO the "short" lines already out. At
the start this morning prices were up 81 Of cent
from the last quotations of yesterday anG some
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FOREIGN MARKETS.
WHEAT IN L1vERPooL.

WHEAT IN LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, ENG, July 24.-The spot market
is auieter at 5s 21ad95s Sd. Cargoes easier at
27s June and 27s sd July and August shipment.
FUTURES.
The Produce Exchange cable gives the following
Liverpool quotations for No. Red Winter: july
IS Sd; August, 5s Sd September, 5s SGD; October
IS 414d; November, 5s sd.
SECURITIES.
LONDON, Eng, July 24.-Consols, 107; sill
yer, 80 5-16d; French Rentes 1927 SC.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
PALACE HOTEL,

NJ L Wood. San Diego
Pierre L Beandier, Paris
ID l. Lyon, New York
l. H Hockstrader. Cal
f ID Thompson, Philad
A Scbranz. Chicago
] Clark, Chico
l L Lane. Angels Camp
Jas F Farraher, Yreka
Miss E S upper, CHICO
G w Taft, Fresno
Finley Anderson, " Y
+ 5 Churchill & w, Cal
LICK
F B Wescott, st Louis
j NJ Burlington, Nevada
ID McPhetris. Truckee
Miss McPhetris, Truckee
S G Wilmans, Newman
w Carithers, Santa Rosa
c G Yates, Los Angeles
J Schucher. Philadelphia
G w Stroll, Napa
j Thompson d W, Sacto
BALDWI.
9 Clark d W. San Jose
H S Howe, Stockton
J 5 Snyder, Stockton
J IL Smith, San lose
a A Bowen, New York
III Hunter, Vallejo
Al Curran, Dutch Flat
A w Draper, Boston
X NJ Bonet, Los Angeles
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] h Kinkead, Virgin New
VIM J Miller, Boston
ID w James, Kansas City
F e Pierce, Chicago
Phillip Hayward, Chicag
b F Johnson, Chicago
John Coils, Angels Camp
t J Field, Monterey
T S Phinney, Chicago
Miss Hawkins, Chicago
Mrs Reynolds, Los Angls
A A Gunth, Chicago
Miss Churchill, Napa
HOUSE. 2
g Walker, Kenwood
A Mailman, Grass Valley
E 9 Kupper, Coo
H g Stevens, Napa
] O'Connell, Newman
E Fl Adams. New York
A Howell, Modesto
J d Barnett, Santa Rosa
G II Fancher, MERGED
Y HOTEL.
J S Potts, Sacramento
J Broussan, Los Angeles
j III ROhObe. Arizona
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RAILROAD TRAVEL.
Atlantic
AND
Pacific
RAILROAD
Trains leave from and arrive
Vt Market-Street Ferry.
Chicago Limited

Leaves every day at 80 p. NJ. carrying Pullman
Palace Sleepers and Tourist Sleepers TO EChlcago
VIA Kansas City without change. Annex cars ior
Denver and st. Louis.
VIA LOS ANGELES.
Trains leave daily at e:Oo A. NJ and $50 ?. NJ,
connecting in Los Angeles with solid trains, Los
Angeles to Chicago.
Summer or Winter the Santa Fe Route IS the
most Comfortable railway California TO the East.
popular misbelief exists regarding the heat In
Summer The heat is not greater than is encoiil-
tered on even the most noroherly line rms Is Wen
known to experienced travellers
The meals at Harvey's Dining Rooms are an ex-
cellent feature of the line.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado can
be reached in other way.
Ticket Onice-644 Market Street,
Chronicle Building.
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L ne COMMERCIAL
SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS.

Silver weaker.
Wheat advancing.
Spot Wheat Freights nominal.
Brewing Barley wanted for Europe.
Oats, Corn and Rye quiet.
Feedstuns unchanged.
Il ay in ample supply.
Straw continues to decline.
Beans dull and nominal.
Potatoes and Onions firlner.
Butter and Cheese unchanged.
Ranch Eggs slightly higher.
Vegetables in liberal stock.
Turkeys selling better.
Peaches rather frmer.
Grapes weaker. Berries cheap.
Oranges rotting for want of buyers.
Lemons weaker.
New Prunes and Apricots higher.
Nuts and Raisins nominal.
Honey quiet Beeswax lower.
Provisions dull and unchanged.
Hides and Leather quiet.
Wood dull.
Coffee rather firmer.
Meat market as before.
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NEW YORK STOCKS.
Bonds, Exchange, Money and Railroad
shares.

Money on call has been easy at l@112%: last loan
at IL and closing offered at IL. Prime mercantile
paper, 312@1412%. Bar silver, $3.50. Mexican dol
lars, 1890. Sterling exchange is firm with actual
business IN bankers bills at 81 1894 1914 for
so days and 81 90@4 9014 for demand. Posted
rates, 81 SS1a@4 9012. Commercial bills, 81 1894.
Government bonds easier; State bonds quiet; rail-
road bonds strong.
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COMP EGEKERlLETRiNSlTLlNTlQUI

CUNARD LINE.
New York to Liverpool, via Queenstown,
from Pier 40, North River.
FAST EXPRESS MAIL SERVICE
Aurania. Aug. 3, 3 p NJ Campania Aug 81 / p NJ
Umbria. Aug. 10, a NJ Umbria, Sept. T. SAN
Lucania, Aug. II, l NJ Iucania Sept. Ii. Noon
Etruria, Aug. "a. y AM 10 81 q , "
Cabin passage S6U and upward; second cabin
$35, $40, $45, according to steamer and accommo.
daticns.
Steerage tickets to and from all parts of Europ,
at very low rates. For freight and passage apply
at conpany's Office, Bowling Green New York
VERNON H. BROWN d CO.. General Agents
Good accommodation can always be secured ON
application TO WILLIAMS, DIMOND 81 CO.,
Agents, san Francisco
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OCEANIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY

DTsPATCH STEAMERS FROM SAN RSa
IL Francisco for ports in Alaska. 8 A. NJ, fszssskR
July 5. g. 19, "a, August 8, y, iS, Sept. 2, IL
July s. g. IA, 10, "a 20, and every fifth day there
after.
For Eureka, Humboldt Bay, steamer Pomona
every Tuesday at 2 p NJ.
For Newport, Los Angeles and all way ports.
July 4. 8, II, Ii, 20, "a %, andt every fourth
day thereafter, ga. NJ.
For San Diego stopping only at Port Hartford,
Santa Barbara, Port Los Angeles, Redondo Los
Angees) and Newport, July 2 q, 10, H. 1S, ~,
80 go and every fourth day thereafter, at IL A. NJ
Steamer Pomona Saturday to Monday excur-
sion to Santa Cruz and Monterey, leaves Broadway
wharf !. SATURDAYS P. NJ.
For ports IN Mexico, 10 A. n. 10Th or each
MONTH steamer Willamette Valley.
Ticket Office-Palace Hotel. New Montgomery
GOODALL PERKINS & CO., General Agents
10 Market ST.. San Francisco.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY.

CtTEAMERS LEAVE ASPINWALL So
= fortnghtly FOR the West indies and ES<s42zy
Southampton, calling en- route at CerpourEih
France, and Plymouth to land pas5engero.
Pacific Mail s. g. Co.. issued for freight and treas
ure to direct ports in England and Germany.
Through tickets from San Francisco to Plymousns
Cherbourg Southampton. First class, $3.50 LnlIS
class S9f so. For further particulars apply v
PARROTT 81 CO., Agents,
3Q6 California 81
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GRAND HOTEL.
" I'M Lathrop. Newman

E AShelden &wNY I'M Lathrop, Newman
Miss d Sheldon, Mccarthy & w, Cal
C Carlson & W, Newcastle Geo Rich California
+ Earlow, California j G Mccarthy, 1Sleton
B NJ Lelong, California il Wise, Sacramento
II Hook, Stanton J M Prince, Stockton
j Z Snyder, stanton j A Gill, Sacramento
w r Johnson, Stockton w Curran, st Louis
Miss Geffroy Stockton J w Houston, CORTLAND
Miss Genroy, Stockton d Hunt & w, Cal
MISS Gehroy, Stockton B Moore, Riverside
10 Bennett d W, Napa c Howell. Me reed
T % Campbell. Eureka ID F Morton Concord
W Fitzgerald, Arizona w Hemmel, Danville
Mary Evans. st Paul Rowe d W, Mass
a Brady, st Paul Lindsay, Santa Cruz
Mrs L Farley, Diego A Morey. Santa Cruz
III Bell New York D S Vail, Rocklin
p Groin d w, Mass J A Vail, st Louis
Kemp, England w Lang, New York
e Snow, Victoria G. A Hibbard e. w, Ky
B Gage Dayton, Ohio p A Buell. Stockton
Robinson, Gloucester A Ahearn, Coluse
X g Chisholm, II J Coffin, Anderson
I James & W, Oroville w A Schoen, Willows
Il Beeman, Sacto CT Wilson & w, Sacto
E Barnes d W, Stanford
RUSS HOUSE.
J McMurphy, Redding Zumwalt, Williams
w orswick. Ammonia E J Singleton Chicago
w Smith, N Y Mrs Hayward, Haywards
w Garner, Australia G w French d W,
j. Wightnan. Ogden Mrs Perry d C, Chicago
Miss Poole. Chicago Miss Ida Alvord, y
B T Shields. Palouse NJ Corlero sta Barbara
III IA Coudck, Red Bluff & Smith, Ukiah
s Powell, Woo Hand MRS. K Nurse, Denver
d II Hart. Los Angeles NJ A Byrne San Jose
NJ l. Waters. st Helena Mr. and Mrs John Daley
w Gilman, Healdsburg Healdsburg
III Schofield Stockton P NJ Gualion, Sacto
Il w Martens, Rafael III Harrington Petalum
w Sessions. Berkeley T Toy. New Almaden
] F Knapp, L Angeles McCallan, Eureka
Mrs McNaughton, ] r Ripley & w, Eureka
Eureka II NJ Dewey, Eureka
w Brown, HOLSTER G Wood & W, Mendocino
Mrs Mowry, Auburn J Bartholomew, Mass
NJ McLane, SactO Mrs DAILY, Healdsburg
NEW WESTERN HOTEL
Murdoch, Boston D Keohe, st Louis
7 Wilbur, Pa J Enright, Sacto
ID Brightey, Chicago p Ellis, Chicago
w A Smith, San Jose ] Kelly, Martinez
Little, Vallejo Miss L B Lewis, Napa
Mrs Lean & T, Chico T L Davis, Pa
l. B Johnson, Visalia Viola Lucy VisaIia
X ELS, Virginia Miss Booth, Los Gatos
+ B Delaney, n Y T L Black. N Y
Mrs Curtis, Boston b F Marks, Fresno
Mrs B Burtin, Fresno Miss L Bnrtin, Fresno
b Burtis, Sacto l. B Brooks, Sacto
A Summers, Cal E Wagner, Cal
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STEAMERS TO ARRIVE.
sun AND TIDE TAI

sun AND TIDE TABLE.
THIGH wATER.lLow WATER SUN. MOON.
-
Large .lSmall Large Small lRisesl Sets Sets.
-.-t----I---l- -----l---l- --l---
% 1.O2Al 2.44P 7.4SAl S.09P 5.07I 7.25 9.43P
Small. Large
26.l 2.02Al 3.l9Pl S.29Al 909Pl 5.07 72510 O9P
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For az sAtpptna.lntelLiaence Sc Ezeuenth Pa0e.
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RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.
FOR "a HOURS.

NE-No. l, sll@12 q NJ.
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FOUR HUNDRED BELOW ZERO.
! Curious Effects of Such Extreme Tenn
/ perature on Iron and Colors.

Curious Effects of Such Extreme Tenn
perature on Iron and Colors.
Four hundred and twenty-four degrees
Fahrenheit below zerol Just what this
means it is almost impossible to imagine,
and yet it is one of the temperatures which
have been reached and used in laboratory
research, and has been made the subject of
some highly interesting experiments and
explanations by Professor Dewar before
the British Royal Institution. Four hun
bred degrees below zero is not an everyday
temperature. nor can it be reached by more
everyday means than the expansion of
LIQUID air, which latter Professor Dewar
has succeeded in producing in compara-
lively large quantities, and in storing by
novel and ingenious methods, to be used
as required in the study of matter at alb
normally low temperature, exactly as
spirit lamp or Bunsen burner is used in
studying the properties OF different bodies
at the higher temperatures.
The tensile strength OF iron at 400 below
zero is Just twice what it is at so above.
1t will take strain of sixty instead of
thirty tons to the square inch and equally
curious results have come out as to the
elongation of metals under these condi-
TONS 1t was an idea of Faraday that the
magnetism in permanent magnet would
be increased at very low temperatures and
experiments with parativey low tenn
peratures had rather negatived Faradays
suggestion, but Professor Dewar has COM
pletely verified the opinion of the famous
savant having shown that a magnet at the
extremely low temperature made possible
by the liquid air had its power increased
by about 80 per cent. Very low tempera-
ture was shown also to have remarkable
effect upon the color of many bodies. For
example, the brilliant scarlet of vermilion
and mercuric iodide is reduced under its
influence to pale orange, the original
color returning with the rise of the tenn
perature. Blues, on the other hand, are
unaffected by cold, and the effect is com
paratively small upon organic coloring in
matters of all tlnts.-Cassier' Magazine.
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kind of ''rain-in-the-face" game with the
Columbia crew, who were wondering in
their flimsy dress what could have turned
up to cause further delay.
Half an hour passed and still the colors
of the gu. c." Club were under cover. The
whistle of q tug, in which some sight-seers
were shivering, blasted and blasted, but the
Berkeley boys paid not the slightest at
tention.
One hour from the time Columbia had
taken water and wind big barge was seen
nosing out of the clubhouse until it ap-
peared in full view of the spectators on the
opposite bank. Quickly the boys of the blue
and gold showed their anatomies into the
notwithstanding racing dugout, and when
the order call set" was given by their cap
tain the barge shot through the water in
the direction of the starting point.
1t was ascertained that some of the
Berkeley crew had positively refused to
take any chances of a dump into the briny,
and that was a reason for the delay and
the appearance of the new boat, which, OF
course, was never intended for racer.
The tide was about on the turn when the
start was given, and as expected the CO.
lumbias took the lead, which they held
from start to finish, winning easily by 100
yards or more. The most interesting part
of the race was the grand-stand finish
made by Paxton Howard, who endeavored
to convince the spectators that he could
actually row with one hand, and still it
has been frequently said that men have
won races with hands down. There were
many present who said that in the new
barges the crews would not have been so
far apart at the finish.
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MILITIA ATHLETES.
Opening of the Second Artillery Regi-
ment's New Armory Gymnasium
Wednesday Evening.

On Wednesday evening, May 1, the new
gymnasium recently established by the
Second Artillery Regiment, N. G. c., in
the armory on Page and Cough streets,
will be thrown open to the public in re-
ception which the athletic associations of
the regiment will give to its friends.
The armory is fitted up with nearly
$4,000 worth of apparatus, all of the best
and most approved pattern. There have
as yet been no aerial apparatus put in, and
it is question whether or not it would be
advisable to place any more weight on the
big trusses which support the roof. There
is no lack of other apparatus however,
and dumbbells, Indian clubs, fencing foils,
broadswords and singlesticks, weights
of all kinds and horizontal and upright
ladders are set around along the walls and
in the corners.
There are nearly 500 men in the Second
Regiment and all are enthusiastic over the
new annex. Some old athletic club men
and Turner's are in the companies and it is
expected that the Second Artillery Regi-
ment Athletic Association will assume a
place of importance in the athletic element
of the city.
incidentally it is recruiting the regiment
with good men and many of them.
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DISRAELI'S HARANGUE.
Theirs Claimed 1t, but CarreI Was the
Author.

Theirs Claimed Tt, but CarreI Was the
Author.
"Toby, NJ. P" being an authority on
Parliamentary matters and especially on
Parliamentary anecdotes, should rectify
the story he recently told of the borrowed
eulogy pronounced by Lord Beaconsfield
on the Duke of Wellington when he died.
Having nothing whatever to say about the
Duke, and apparently possessing no knowl-
edge of or sympathy with military per-
formances on a grand scale, Mr. Disraeli,
as he then was, detained as though he
were improvising it a lament which had
been called forth in the early part of Louis
Philippe's reign by the death of a French
marshal, Gouvion de st. Cyr. Mr.. Disraeli's
ingenious adaptation of another mans
funeral grafton struck many persons as
absolutely wanting in originality. and il
was reported that the true author of the
original was NJ. Theirs, and "Toby, NJ. P. :"
still attributes it to him, says the London
World
But while everybody was specializing as
to who the true author could be of the en-
comium which had been delivered by Mr..
Disraeli in praise of the Great Duke, the
late G. M. Crawford, Paris correspondent
of the Daily News, called upon NJ. Theirs,
showed him a copy of Mr.. Disraei's
speech, and asked him who first made it.
"Ca dot etre de moi" replied NJ. Theirs,
with the utmost confidence. But he was
unable to say on what occasion he deliv-
cred it, and, after a few inquiries, Mr..
Crawford found that it did not belong to
M. Theirs at all, but was the work of that
vigorous writer on military and political
subjects, NJ. Armand Carrel, who pub
lshed it, soon after the death of Marshal
Gouvion de st. Cyr, in the Almanac Re-
publican. 1t was not, then, to NJ. Theirs,
but to M. Armand Carrel that Mr.. DisraeG
was indebted for his fearful, dirgelike
harangue.
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Dressed Like a Man.

The unmarried Princess Montleart, who
was murdered in 1885, was the most extra
ordinary woman that | remember ever to
have met. She was quite as masculine in
her appearance and her dress as Rosa Bon
heur; in fact, great deal more so. She
used to wear top boots, a short black shirt
reaching to her knees, and a mans over
coat and hat. With that she would smoke
cigars and ride, not on a side saddle, but
astride of her horse. To the latter she
was devoted, says writer in the New York
Recorder.
Her whole interest and happiness CEN
tered in her stud farm.
She went nowhere and, although nos
sessed OF magnificent castle and estate
near Cracow, where she lived all the wear
round, never maintained any social reIa-
tons with her neighbors, who visited her
only for the purpose of inspecting or pur-
chasing her horses. Otherwise her only as
sociates were stablemen, farmhands and
ignorant peasants.
One morning she was found in her bed
room at her castle with her throat cut from
ear to ear, while her escritoire was broken
open and had manifestly been ransacked.
The room betrayed signs of terrible strug-
gle: But no one seemed to have heard her
calls for assistance, and in spite of all the
efforts of the police no clew was ever
found OF her murderer.
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SONG-BIRDs.
Something About the WarbIers of DIFF.
ferent Countries

Something About the WarbIers of Diff
ferent Countries.
India has the jocose bulbuls, often called
nightingales from their remarkably sweet
voices. The Hindoos train them to sit on
their hands and be carried about the ba-
zaars. The black-faced thrush is yery
fine songster, and can initiate almost eyery-
thing he hears.
The white-browed or specialized laugh
lng-thrush has loud, powerful song and
some melodious notes. He is sometimes
called the Greater Peking nightingale or
japanese mocking-bird.
The japanese robin is a pretty bird to
look at, and very lively in his motions, but
IS oyerrated as singer, his notes resem-
bling our Baltimore ORIOLES, only shriller,
with little variations.
Australia has the piping crow, which is
more OF a shrike than true crow. His
song is rich and varied, the notes resem-
blng flute. He can be taught to speak
and initiate many birds as we'll.
From Africa are shipped large numbers
OF little birds to this country called African
singing finches. The plumage is handsome
and often very odd. They lack voice, only
one. the strawberry finch. having a song of