New Britain herald., 1926-05-05
FLASHES OF LIFE: PET PARROT IN
 E MILE WALK TO GET BACK HOME
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 Chicago-Johnny, pet parrot with clipped wings. is a better walk or than talker. lie hiked 5 miles 10 Evanston after falling from the automobile of a constable who had replevined him in row over his board bill.
 Denver-A mountain lion has been killed with a bow and arrow by W. A. Mullins of the New Mex leo Biological survey. The arrow struck when the lion was leaping from tree,
 Cornish, N. H.-Thousands of hungry deer and elk are mingling freely with wild boars in the Blue Mountain Park eating corn provided for them because deep snow keeps them from finding their own suste- nance.
 Schenectady, N. T.--There's new electric machine that gives eggs an oil Bath. The process keeps them fresh and odorless, 1t is ayerred.
 Tarrytown, N. Y. - John D, Rockefeller, Jr.. who likes to be q boy with his boys, is building an athletic field and gymnasium on his estate for himself and his five sons at a cost of half a million. The project includes a baseball dia- mond, tennis, basketball and volley ball courts. swimming pool, bowling alleys. card room, billiard room and q dining room.
 New York-The girls must be smoking more and more. There were 2O,S2O,393,746 cigarettes pro- duced in the first quarter of this year, an increase of some two bil- lion over the first quarter Of last year and four billion over the same period in 1924.
 Peck. Mich.-Fashion's decree of dog collars for women met reverse here when calls of "Fido" by high school students caused two girls to discard their neck ornaments.
 Klamath Falls. Oregon-S H. Volitaire, plano tuner, celebrated his Sand birthday with ''mother's day greeting to his mother. Mrs. Martha Volitaire. 1o5 years old. who lives in Washington, D. c. Mrs. Volitaire was born in France in 1891.
 Louisville-"I love the yelling, it's so thrilling-waan't that a fine knock? Oh. great, he caught it." This was the reply of Lady Baden Powell to a query as to how she liked the great American game, while attending the Lousville-Kan- sas City game here yesterday, It was the English lady's first trip to a baseball game.
 Philadelphia-The latest style in masks for bank bandits is girls silk stockings.
 Havana-Members Of congress tote pistols. Two weapons were flourished when one congressman accused another of provincialism but instead of shots there was q handshake.
 Paris-CaroI of Rumania and Mime. Mazda Lupescu motor on the boulevards quite often and have a mansion in Neuilly, the same place where Zizi and her son live.
 New York-Scotland Yard thinks it has traced to q Fifth avenue jew eler an II carat diamond worth $20.- 900 removed from a S100,000 neck lace stolen from the Hon. Agnes Goldman of London. The jeweler who brought the gem in Antwerp innocently is going to London to return it If it is identified.
 Jerusalem-A cistern into which it is believed 1shmael threw the body of Gedaliah after murdering him is believed to have been un- earthed with the city wall of Mizpah, erected in the bronze age before the occupation of Palestine by the Israelites.
 Newark, N. J.-Rose Goldstein, whose parents are Orthodox Jews and whose girlhood playmates were