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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 

Stems Huteresting and Amarsing. 

p@P> Carlisle has a hen that lays eggs with a perfectly 
black shell. The hen is of the Dark Brahma breed, and 
has laid nine of these black eggs. 
sa@y~ When your pocketbook gets empty, and everybody 
knows it, you can put all your friends in it and it won’t 
‘‘ bulge’? out worth a cent. 
ges> Henry Williams, a boy 16 years of age, was killed a 
few days ago at Wells, by the accidental discharge of a gun 
which he was dragging along by the muzzle. 
ges The Spring Exhibition of the Chester County Agri- 
cultural Society, will be held at West Chester, on the sixth 
of June—one day only. The premium list has been revised 
on a liberal scale, agricultural horse-racing being quite 
prominent, there being no less than five premiums under 
this head, ranging from $200, $150, and so on down. 
Res On Ayjip’s banks, contiguous to the Noile, 
King Pharoah’s daughter wint to walk a whoile; 
And peeling off her dhubs to take a schwim, 
Ran up and down the banks to dry her sckin ; 
And rushing thro’ the rushes thick and thin 
Discovered the basket that the choild lay in, 
And thin and there she croid in accent woild, 
‘¢ Which ay yees ladies owns this choild? 
It’s none 0’ your own gossoon’s you’re quick to say ; 
An’ that’s the thruth, I’ve known you many a day; 
But since we’ve found him in the bed of roses, 
By all means let us christen him Moses.” 
pe@s> Not long since a gentleman found in his hennery a 
simple-minded soul of the vicinity, who lived without any 
visible means of support. ‘‘ What are you doing here, you 
rascal—stealing my chickens?’’ ‘No sir; I thought of 
doing nothing of the sort.’’? It unfortunately happened that 
the simple-mined individual wore a high hat of the dimen- 
sions of a beehive, and the crown thereof was dilapidated to 
a serious extent. Just as he had put in his denial, the head 
of a half-grown pullet was seen to protrude from the aperture. 
‘See here,’’ said the gentleman, ‘‘ how did that chicken get 
into your hat?’’ <‘‘ Well, sure, your honor,” exclaimed the 
simple-mined individual, with an air of honest surprise 
and embarrassment, ‘‘that is the strangest thing that ever 
happened to me. I suppose the creature must have crawled 
up my trowsers’ legs.”’ 
gpas> Mr. Darwin’s ‘ Missina Linx.’’—On the Island 
of Borneo has been found a certain race of wild creatures, 
of which kindred varieties have been discovered in the 
Philippine Islands, in Terra del Fuego, and in South 
America. They walk unusually, almost erect, and, in that 
attitude, measure about four feet in height. They construct 
no habitations, form no families, and scarcely associate to- 
gether, sleep in caves and trees, feed on snakes and vermin, 
on ants’ eggs, and on each other. They cannot be tamed or 
forced to any labor, and are hunted and shot among the trees 
like the great gorilla, of which they are a stunted copy. 
When captured alive, one finds with surprise, that their un- 
couth, jabbering sounds are like articulate language. They 
turn up a human face to gaze at their captors, and the fe- 
males show instincts of modesty; in fine, these wretched 
beings are men and women.—Siam Weekly Advertiser. 

pas A QUESTION FOR THE PosTMASTER.—A lady of 
Hibernian extraction, rather tall and gaunt,,who supports 
a husband and several children on a barren ranch at the 
southern end of the county, afforded entertainment for a 
dozen or more people at the Post Office of one of our West- 
ern cities. Elbowing her way through the crowd to the 
window of the stamp clerk, she presented to his vision a 
live rooster, and demanded what the postage would be on 
the feathered gentleman to a neighboring station. The 
clerk, after considerable debate, succeeded in proving to the 
lady that such articles were not allowed to pass through the 
Post Office. 
pa A very peculiar specimen of the fox tribe, says the 
West Chester American Republican, made its appearance 
recently on the Brandywine and Doe Run hills. It was 
pursued from time to time by a pack of thirty trained fox 
hounds, but every time Reynard was equal to the emergency, 
and went under the Doe Run rocks, where he could not be 
dug out. At the hole where the fox usually went under, 
there were finally stationed ten dogs, and a party of men. 
The rest of the pack soon after found his trail, and when 
they began to run him pretty close, he made for the hole as 
usual, but seeing the unhealthy look of affairs about home, 
he turned, and after a long run, took the earth on the farm 
of Jos. L. Pratt, in Newline, where he was dug out. He 
proved to be one of the strangest foxes ever seen in that 
part of the country, having the appearance of a Maltese 
cat, and is of an entirely different color from the foxes of 
that section. He was taken to Mr. Clayton’s fox kennel, 
on his farm near Marshalton. 
pas> WILD GoosEe SHootine.—The season for wild goose 
shooting on Long Island has commenced. As the birds 
are very shy, it requires a good deal of skill on the part of 
the sportsman to come near enough for ashot. The method 
generally employed, is to obtain from fifteen to twenty wild 
geese, by ‘‘winging ”’ them on their passage north or south 
—the old-fashioned ‘‘stoolers’”’ being regarded as entirely 
behind the age. These are tamed so that they can be “lined” 
to stakes, when they are taken to the bars where the wild 
geese usually stop to feed, and fastened to stakes put down 
in the sand out of sight, while the gunner conceals himself 
in a box sunk in the sand, and partially covered by sea- 
weed or meadow grass. When flocks of wild geese are 
passing, these partially tamed. ones will call them, and 
usually they will fly near by, or alight, when the gunner 
rises and shoots. Hxperts have killed as many as twenty- 
five ata shot. The flocks of tame geese are regarded as 
very valuable. 
fes- TEACHING A BULLFINCH To Pipx.—A bird organ 
can be had at any musical-instrument shop. The bird must 
be taken in hand when very young, and before he has had 
an opportunity of learning any other song. Confine him in 
a dark closet, or prevent him from having his attention dis- 
tracted by outward objects, by covering his cage with a 
cloth. Then give him his lessons early in the morning on 
an empty stomach, and reward a chirp with a grain of 
hempseed. After morning lessons give him his breakfast, 
and eat your own in the exercise of great faith. Always 
play your tune from beginning to end without a stop, with 
an organ—any other plan, of course, is impossible, the diffi- 
culty sometimes being to get a refractory instrument to stop 
when you wish it; but if you vary your instrumental solo 
with whistling, you must not whistle snatches of any mel- 
