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CLIPPINGS; 



A brood of fine nestling sparrow hawks has 

 furnished Dr.R.W.Shufeldt some interesting results 



The birds were so graduated in size that it 

 appeared the female must have laid the eggs at 

 regular intervals, probably three or four days a- 

 part, and that incubation commenced immediately 

 after the first egg was deposited. 



Still more remarkable was the fact that the 

 sexes alternated, the oldest bird being a male, the 

 next a female, and so on. 



A Sunday School teacher gives the following; 



••One of my children was asked what was the 

 first bird that Noah sent out of the ark. The 



smallest child in the class answered^correctly, and 

 when the first boy was reproved for being beaten 

 by the little chap, he explained matters by remark 

 ing, 'Well, he ought to know; his father keeps 

 chickens". 



Uses of the Telegraph: 



When the telegraph was introduced into 

 Norway, the bears, on hearing the wires moaning 

 in the wind, thought that the posts were beehives, 

 and set to work to root them out of the ground; 

 the woodpeckers thought that the poles were filled 

 with insects, so they bored them full of holes. 

 Such illusions disappeared gradually; animals 



