The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-07

"Hu Will NC AItNd WIN pumping SH-
slnes capable of discharging $4,000, 900
gallons a day. 1t is expected that the
system as planned will provide rapid
current in the sewers, and the effective
and speedy discharge of all sewage into
the river current at a point far enough
below the city to insure perfect santa
ton.
THE DoDO AND THE DEMOCRAT.
The dodo was an interesting as we'll
as struthious bird. 1t inhabited the
island of Bourbon. 1t was bird larger
than the swan; of a very heavy, clumsy
form and corresponding gait. with short,
thick, scale-covered legs; three rather
short toes before and one behind; large
head; very large bill, the upper mandi-
BILE longer than the under and much
hooked at the point; the wings so short
as to be of no use for flight and fur
nished only with few black feathers;
the general plumage a kind pf grayish
down; the tail merely tuft or bunch
of curiously curled feathers. 1t was cas-
lily killed, being wholly unable to fly
and running slowly.
The dodo is now completely extinct,
and its extinction came to pass in COM
paratively recent times. 1t is less than
two hundred years since the dodo moved
and had being, and yet so thoroughly
has it gone out of the world that all
the remains of it that have been pre-
served are foot in the British museum,
and head and foot in the Ashmolean
museum at Oxford. There is no stuffed
specimen or whole skeleton. OF course
everybody who is interested in the dodo
regrets that those who lived in its time
did not realize that 1t was becoming
extinct and did not save enough speci-
mems of it so that at least one might
have come down to our time to be the
subject of appreciative curiosity and
study.
1t is to be hoped that the lack of
forethought exhibited in the matter of
the dodo by those who have gone before
US will not be shown by those who are
now witnessing the extinction of that
interesting and also struthious bird the
Democrat. 1t is everlssrTngly too late
Po, ,yc,4 o box
but we can and should lay up for the
benefit Of future generations enough
specimens Of the Democrat to make sure
that those generations will have an OPP
portunity to know just what the bird
looked like. And as the Democrat is
somewhat like the dodo it may also
serve to keep that birds memory alive.
The dodo and the Democrat are both
inseparably connected with Bourbon.
The dodo was clumsy and the Democrat
is clumsy The dodo had scales on his
legs. The Democrat has scales, but
they are on his eyes. The dodos big
head is matched by the big head of the
Democrat. The dodo's very large bill
finds its counterpart in the large Wilson
bill of the Democrat. The Democrats
wings are as short as were the wings
of the dodo. And it is as easy to kill
the Democrat as it was to kill the dodo,
as the Democrat, like the dodo, is who'll |
ly unable to fly and runs slowly In
deed, the Democrat is often unable to
walk without staggering.
So much does the Democrat resemble
the dodo that it will be well for those
who prepare specimens OF it to label
them in such a way that there will be
no danger that in the course of time
they will come to be called specimens
to prepare enough specimens to make
certain that the memory of the Demo-
GRAFT will be kept as green as the
living Democrat is. The bird is rapidly
becoming extinct The slaughter of it |
is go great that it may not continue to
exist even through next year. Good
specimens should therefore be selected
while they can be had and made ready |
for their places in the museums Of this
and other countries. well stuffed and
well mounted Democrat is destined to |
soon become as interesting as a well |
stuffed and well mounted dodo would |
now be. We suggest that some Of the |
Yale scientists take part in this useful |
work, and that they select their speoi- |
mems from the Monticello variety of the |
bird.