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Show JACK SPARROW IS DOOMED. The City Council have adopted the suggestion of the Democrat and repealed the ordinance passed in 1877 protecting English sparrows. This is well, for those useless birds have so increased in numbers as to become a positive nuisance. nuis-ance. They have also driven from the city those birds of song, whose value as insect-destroyers cannot be over-estimated, whose plumage was beautiful to look upon, and whose warblings charmed the ear of saint and sinner alike. Now that Jack Sparrow is no longer protected by ordinance, the small boy can put his flipper in trim and get in his work in good shape. But if the City Fathers would go one step better, and offer a very small bounty for each hundred hun-dred heads which the juveniles, might be able to exhibit as trophies of their skill with the flipper or other instrument of extermination, the nuisance would be abated in quicker time than by any other means it is possible to devise. Give the youngsters a chance, and a little incentive, in-centive, and they will make short work of the worthless sparrow. . |
