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Show Some Old Beliefs. The old beliefs persist In the southern lands, and n tragi comic instance in-stance reaches mo from Venice. A cockatoo, kept by a British resident as a pot, had been accustomed to promenade about the roof garden, when the family went up there. Hut ono dny recently It extended Its constitutional con-stitutional to n neighbor's roof, nnd wns promptly shot by him. He subsequently subse-quently offered ns n complete explanation explana-tion the plea that ho thought It was an owl and that there was a very young baby In his household. Now, Btvdents of ancient Greek and Roman nugury know that tho perching of nn owl on the roof foreboded death to ono of tho InmateB while, Ovid In among those who charge screech owls with sucking tho blood of Infants |