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Evening Star, Issue 19792, 16 February 1928, Page 1

What becomes of all the pins may still remain a problem, but what becomes of some of the discarded motor car number plates has been solved, Albert 11, Libby, | of Forestville (United States), recently purchased nine tons of them from two New York county license bureaus and used them to “shingle” his garage and farm buildings. . , ' , . , . But one specimen of venomous bird it known to the student of ornithological oddities_the Rpir N'Doob, or “Bird of Death,” a feathered creature indigenous *o New Guinea, Persons bitten by the creature are seized by maddening pains, which rapidly extend to every .part of the body. Loss of sight, convulsions, and lockjaw are symptoms which follow in rapid succession. At the club, Brown and Jones were lamenting the absence of their mutual friend, Robinson, who had got married. “We don’t sec much of Robinson, now,” said Brown. “ 1 fancy his movements are not as free as they used to he.” ‘‘That’s true,” replied Jones. ” Since he tied the knot k»’« aot had so much ropel”