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Show TEACHING PARROTS TO TALK. Dealers Have Different Ways of Securing Secur-ing Desired Results. "Thero nro two ways," said a bird dealer, "of teaching n parrot to talk. Ono way is to put him In a darkened room, then sit In n corner nnd repeat over and over again tho word ou want him to ncqulro. A clever parrot will learn a word or a phraso after somo four hundred or flvo hundred repetitions, whllo for coma It takes a weok or moro. You must keep still In tho room. No sounds from within or without tho house savo your voice monoton&usly repeating tho phraso to bo acquired must reach tho parrot's ear. Some pcoplo toach their birds In a well-lighted room, spoaklng from n placo of concealment In n closet or behind a door. This method Is not so good, becauso In tho light tho parrot's par-rot's attention Is distracted." Care of Bunker Hill Monument. A proposition to turn over the custody cus-tody of Bunker Hill monument from the Monument association to tho stato of Massachusetts has been lately considered con-sidered by the Judiciary commltteo ot tho Houso of Representatives of that state, but It found few advocates In Its favor. Tho caro of tho monument monu-ment is now lnrgoly provided for by fees, which could not bo charged If It should bo stato property. Can Not See the Joke. Tho Tennessee legislature recently passed a bill to prohibit kissing among unmnrrlcd persons between tho ages of sixteen and forty-flve. Tho bill was Introduced by Representatlvo Barnes of I.auderdalo county. Be-foro Be-foro It passed It was so amended as to apply only to Mr. Barnes. Now tho author Is trying to got tho goverrr to veto it. New Orleans Women Try Reform. Tho Era club of Now Orleans, tho largost and most Influential woman's club in the state, and ono of the largest larg-est In tho South, has called upon tho mayor of tho city to removo ono of tho district streot-cloanlng superintendents superin-tendents and appoint a woman In his placo. A prominent civic club of meu hns agreed to assist tho women In so-curing so-curing tho womnu superintendent. Waterfalls of Japan. Tho waterfalls of Japan aro almost countless. Whero there was not one In tho beginning tho Japanese havo mado one. Every llltlo gardon has a fall or two, without which It would not bo considered a garden. Many beautiful ones In various parts of tho country nro visited by thousands of pilgrims ench year. Seven Generations of Owners. Charles M. Bldwell, who dlod In East Hartford, Conn., nt tho ago ot Eovonty-threo years and live months, owned tho old homestead which had been In tho possession of his family for seven generations, over slnco 1CCC. |
