The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1907-05-29
King Louis and the Forest.

Louis XIV. once remarked impa-
tiently in the hearing of the Duke
d'Antin. superintendent Of the royal
buildings. that he hoped that at some
time forest which he had always dis
liked because It INSTRUCTED one of his
favOrite views would be cut down. I'm
known to the king Duke d'Antin had
the trunks of all the trees I'm the OBJ
jectionable forest sawed through I'm
such a way that they still stood,
though n slight pull would bring them
down. He removed every evidence OF
the work and fastened ropes TO the
tops of the trees and concealed more
than 1000 men in the forest to man
age the ropes at a signal from him.
The duke knew on what day the king
would walk in the wood and planned
the work accordingly. The king took
his accustomed promenade. and. as
usual, expressed his sentiments about
the hated forest "Ycur ma jesty. the
forest shall be removed whenever you
like" said d'Antin. Indeed" said the
king. then | wish that it might he
done at once" At that moment dam
tin blew shrill blast from a whistle
and to the utter amazemeut of the
king and the royal party the forest fell
a. if by enchantment
South American Oil Birds.
In certain restricted parts of north
ern and western South America occurs
what is known as the guacharo or oil
ir1 Of L. hatr - Of
the guacharo is the island Of MonOs,
off Trinidad, and here the bird breeds
in the rocky caves. On the mainland
it also inhabits caves, on the lodges of
which 1t constructs curious circular
nest of mud and lays four white eggs.
Emerging from their recesses in the
twilight, the guacharos fly around the
nectandra trees and in full career
snatch the fruit from the boughs The
name OF oil bird is given because the
nestlings become prodigously fat. At
the season when the young are Matched
the natives take numbers of the young,
melt their fat in clay pots and call the
result "guacharo butter" The caves
which contain the oil birds nests are
in some places accessible only from the
sea, and to reach them is often a mat
ter of difficulty and danger. In some
of the caves in the Peruvian mountains
the nests are placed at a height Of fifty
or sixty feet and the procuring of the
young by the Indians is a matter of
much risk. 1t is usual to scare the
birds off the nests by firing a gum
Pearson's Weekly.
An Oriental Carpet.
Real storehOuses of delight for the
visitor are the bazaars of Tunis. One
merchant has a $4,000 carpet which he
likes to display. This huge filmy crea-
ton he will fling into the air for the
benefit of a possible customer and al
low it to settle gradually on the
ground. This it does unlike an ordinary
carpet. So exquisitely fine is the weav-
ing that it inlprisons air bubbles large
enough to hold a man.
orimy Genoa.
Genoa of today is not the city that
Evelyn found it long ago. Sailing to-
ward the harbor the diarist met while
at sea the odors of the orange bios
SONS in the old palace gardens of San
plerdarena. the westward suburb of
the city. 1t was a suburb of terraces
and southwark facing houses and trees
heavy with fragrance Above all, 1t
was clean. Today the place is black
and thronged with chimneys. 1t rears
with black factories, the paths are
filthy, the air is grimy. The factories