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April 5, 1913 
Taming Pigeons. 
An amusing storj^ is told of the late Lord 
Leighton, the famous painter, says the Shooting 
Times of London. A friend found the artist 
trying to get some pigeons to keep still for the 
'purpose of a picture. All his efforts_were un¬ 
availing until someone said, “Soak a little bread 
in whiskey and give it them.” The experiment 
proved successful. 
The Humorous Crow. 
Crows certainly possess a sense of humor 
and manifest the utmost audacity in playing prac¬ 
tical jokes upon other birds. An English officer 
in India reports seeing a crow slip up three suc¬ 
cessive times behind a meditative adjutant bird 
and deliberately tweak his tail. The first 
times the adjutant was surprised merely; the 
third time it turned quickly enough to discover 
the joker, and also, with one indignant snap of 
its huge bill, to swallow him.—Shooting Times, 
London. 
Made of Matches. 
A French artist, M. Amiot, has lately ex¬ 
hibited a collection of articles made entirely 
from the ends of matches picked up in the 
streets of Paris. He weaves, says the Strand, 
his material in a design, spreads the backs of 
the matches with gum, and presses the whole 
firmly together. M. Amiot has made several 
vases in this way, and an excellent model of a 
violin. In the latter, which has movable pegs 
and strings, there are no fewer than 1,500 
Undoubtedly the author’s best book, surpassing in interest even 
“The Weavers” and “The Right of Way.” It is a story of 
international interest—its sympathies as wide as the Empire. The 
destinies of nations are interwoven with the lives of the two heroes 
— one a millionaire, a pioneer of the Cecil Rhodes type; the other 
a diplomat, with his finger on the pulse of the world. And the 
woman, like Cleopatra, influences the careers of empire-builders by 
her beauty and her cleverness. Numerous other characters—states¬ 
men, financiers, a famous prima donna, and a cockney newsboy— 
are drawn with the author’s accustomed skill. 
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