TAMING- BIRDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2789, 4 January 1888, Page 2

TAMING- BIRDS.

A lady. who has great success hi taming birds was displaying some of, : 'l/ her. achievements before lialf-a-dozeriTi friends, says the New York Graphic, f She brought in a bii'd.froiii ing flat that she had never seen xmtil a week ago, and which is .as; wild with people generally as is the usual canary of commerce, and had it eat out of her hand, a light on her hair, and peck seeds from between her lips. All her own birds conduct themselves in a similar familiar ..maimer. The most affectionate is a. little English blue-

finch that rejoices in the name of Humpty' Duinpty He raises a great commotion, fluttering his wings' and! screaming with delight \yli|n she comes hi after an absence, anjl playfully pecks her baud and loving way .when she lets hinj'jly out of the room. He is jealous of the other birds, and flutters and squ,aks in a distressed manner when she pays too much attention to thorn. He is a humorous young creature, and will play .practical jokes in the way-of splattering visitors when he is in his bath with every appearance ottym of doing it .on purpose and finoW it funny. His mistress was- begged, to ,■ tell how she accomplisnedthis. subjec'-f lion and taming of every bird she in contact with, and whetliijr it was 3H done by honest meaus or through application of the black art. She hesi- . tatedaud then said," "Well, it is very J foolish of me to tell, when I cairj, just 1 '* as.well have the glory and advantage of'being considered a witch, but I must, because it is so funny, and I found it out all by myself. It only needs one thing to taine-.any bird, and, that is to get the notion through its head in some way-that'you- are afraid ' of it. I've made all these birds in the, beginning believe that I shook in my boots with terror at the sight of them. How? No; I'm. not going to give away, all my methods. I toll you the principle, ami the power to imply it depends upon your wit and ingenuity, only I'll say, you make a bird believe you are afraid of him by just thesame sort of pantomime that you'd employ to anyone you could not talk to; they have brains just like other iofoi\ you'ionly believe it. At first usually despise and try to. peck .mo for my trembling cowardice towards them, but when they find me still humbleaud amiable, they grow.sorry for imv and kind to me, and are finally fonqdfy of' me; with that strongest of alK' affections, you know, the love of the*' strong for the weak and helpless. You think I am just talking, but t am telling you" the truth exactly as it presents itself to those birds' minds'."

COFFEE AND -TYPHOID'FEVER

The: Jfetycastlo Daily Chronicle recently .said, both "To teetotallers aud tipplers," that" A botfer word for coffee aud tea was never spoken than that, now heard from the Physiologist Professor Heim. Following up tlie, researches of Oppler and Sucksdorflj he establishes, by many and-careful experiments, the powerful properties of roasted coffee, BoeSfl chat caffeine, the active principal of coflee, is death to micro-or«auismg, that, infusions of animal matter in- coffee may be . exposed to the air without gathering mould, that the bacilla of cholera cannot live in coffee, aad that under its influence the microbes gene, rated in pus perish forthwith.' Tho good results of coffee in cases of typhoid •i fever hUve been long known, but they have been attributed to tho. .todip effect of the caffeine on the nervous system. By.Heitu's showing, however . the said results are largely duo to antiseptic properties of coffee, . -This ;i same properties, if to a less degree, am attributed to theine, the active principle of tea, In this connection ' we; • may remind our readers of the mum we. lately gave ofGailter's experitnents showing that the disease'-givjng .micro- " bcs can live and th.riyo in alcofoj& • drinks." .

Wall's Ifyia Balsam, If gray, restores to original color. An clogaatdreßsingi softens and beautifies. No oil nor gteano. A Tonic Rontoratlve. Stops hair coming out; qlomiwj, Iwila acalj),