Show Birds as Onions I When an epidemic oJ cholera threatens t a certain locality the birds leave the neighborhood a few days before the appearance a ap-pearance of the scourge This was 1 4 noticed in connection with therecentout break cf tho epidemic Hamburg In 1SS4 tho samo phenomen occurred at Marseilles and Toulon where all the birds as it actuated by a common impulse im-pulse abandoned the plague stricken cities and took up their abode at Hyeres which was fortunate in escaping the plague The great influx of birds at the time was much commented unon by the inhabitants In 1872 all of tlie sparrows left the town of Prezemsyl Galicia two days before the appearance of the pest and not a single bird returned before tend t-end of November when the cholera had entirely dlsappear Field |