Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-08
: EVENING Chat

State Zoologist II. a. Surface takes q
fall out of people who are just waking
up to what nuisance the English
starting can be. Some farmers have
been going after the bird and callin6
attention to what a bother it can be in
a few years. This is what DR.. Surface
has to say about it: There has re-
Gently been some discussion in the
newspapers concerning the English
starting in Pennsylvania. This bird
mas been known in this State for the
last ten years. At the meeting of the
state Board of Agriculture in January
lSOS, l exhibited specimens of 1t and
said: The starting resembles brown
lsh blackbird with white specks and
small spots on the back, but it's Ions.
arawn whistling note enables a person
10 distinguish it at once from anS
blackbird found in this State. Several
reports have reached us concerning
the increase of the English starting,
and the damage done by this bird.
which appears by habits and haunts or
place and method of living intermedi-
ate between the blackbird and the
Engllsh sparrow. We regret it's intro
duction into this country and recon-
mend its destruction. 1t appears to be
grain eater and fruit eater, without
much value as an insect eater Thus
tne recent discussions of the English
starting emphasize the importance of
the points to which the attention of
the public was called seven years ago."
People who have read the book on
the work of General Hwang Hsing, the
real leader of the Chinese revolution
of which DR.. ]. ]. MulIowney. asso-
ciate chief medical inspector, was the
editor. Will be interested to know that
ne has taken a home for the winter
near Media. His son and daughter
VIII attend educational institutions
near Philadelphia and he will study
the national and state governments.
1t is funny how a dog hates a re-
volving door. The other day a dog got
into the post office and declined to go
out: The dog started for the dool
each time it was moved and then
packed away when the compartments
began to flash past him. Finally some
one who had noticed the terror of the
dog Tor about five minutes coaXed him
into a place and then turned Mr.. Dog
around so that he was on the outside
before he knew it. The dog is prob
ably running yet.
Here is another dog story. The dog
was household pet, and is yet for
that matter. The owner missed him
ana, being man of resource, hunted
up picture of the pet. This he gave
10 the garbage plant so that the men
IN charge OF the collections, who get
everywhere, could recognize him. The
dos was soon returned, a garbage man
havlng spotted him in a yard and
called him by name.
There is man who sits among the
regulars at the Slough meetings who
had a funny experience when he first
entered the place; This man is a trifle
hard or hearing. but not so as to cause
him to be called deaf. When he went
to the meeting he heard about the
place for deaf men and went to it.
Ihey came around and asked him if
he was deaf. He shook his head and
put his hand to his ear and the louder
they asked the more pronounced the
snake of the head. Then they gave
him up In disgust. He has been sitting
up there undisturbed ever since,
Merchants throughout the city are
preparing for the annual Yuletide
decorations and within few DAYS the
shop windows will take on a Christmas
appearance in earnest. Electrical
eHects will be used more than ever
before in the adornment of stores and
windows and the local electric light
company is getting ready for the ex-
pected demand for tiny bulbs, floral
foliage and similar effects that will
hgure conspicuously in the window
displays. Many orders for electrical
decorations for Christmas trees have
already been given.
Congressman B. K. Focht, of Lewis
burg, is being complimented upon the
address he delivered at the memorial
exercises of the Chambersburg Lodge
of Elks on Sunday. The congressman
has been speaker at these memorials
in various places for years.