THE DESTRUCTION OF SONG BIRDS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1850, 15 May 1884, Page 4

THE DESTRUCTION OF SONG BIRDS.

Cu.tiokm V h.,.s but few song buds, and Ice us ptesci'vo those few ftotn the guns and snares of tho [jot-liuiilci^. Tlic laik is one of oiu M\ jetcst sin^eu-iand piUtiest of birds, and yet )\\^t when the pool little things arc nesting, our maikots aie filled with then bodies. Hie California linnet, too, is a, swoot linger, .us also the red-head, yet lu'.udteds of the^o aie each day seen exposed toi sale and stumg on sticks like so nuny goiy beads. For this wholesale destruction of song buds, the French markethunteis aie chiefl} lespon sible. At home they have made "La Belle Fiance"' as ban on of .song a» one of our Stock Boiuls id of music, and unless someone invokes tho aid 01 the law our fair valleys and fir-topped lulls will soon be as silent as the "Mic. The French pot-hunter has no soul foy songs. Hi 3 only appreciation of a feathcied .songstei is what the jestauiant 01 inaiket man will give fvv " petits oiseauv." He would shoot a nightingale in the midst of its most musical trills \\ ith as little compunction as he would stumble a bain dooi foul and fiics into n /lock of linnets uttcily legaidl'.ss of the large propoition of pnoi mumed things th.vt ciawl away to die, 01 fall \ictims to the marauding Jcuniv or the waiy liawk. Larks aic almosfc entuely insectivoious, bo )io sa\ ing of yiiini tan bo put in as a set-o(l. T!ic linnet-., chippies and othci hmall bin!-, do an amount of damage that is merolv miciostopibal, and far ]nore tlian make up foi c\en that by then cherry .song. Wo lia\e stinigent laws piotectmg om game buds, and why fchould o«H' s-ong buds he left to the cold mercy of the pitiless pot huntei '' The consumeiaof these slaugliteicd " Patti's" arc as much to blame as the hunters, and would piobably 1 chain horn ealnnr; them had they enough leasoning power and .sentiment to compir-hcnd that each luxurious mouthiul they take lobs the land of so much music. In this aitihcal age, natuial ]oy& aio scaicc enough, so for goodness sake leave u-. some music m our fields and fome song to enlnen the gloam of oui woods ' — S. 1\ News Leltei.

"I'll come to the point at oucp," rcmaiked Blown, as he <^it down in a oh.iii in which linked .1 Ueacheious bent pin.

A Boston man ncl\ erfcises that ho lecoveis umbrellas. This in.in -liould ha\e a Rood run of custom. We. would yive him a job oui selves if wu thought lie could lecovcr the bilk one Mclost last spihif'. ( ._' T._ .!._ _.l It AT... U. ...] «f

Ax Indian named " M,ui-Afi<ud-of-Nothing ' warned a virtu woman in Montanyt ivce'i f ly i'nil one week aftei the wedding anplml to ln-3 tnlic to have lm name chui^t'd. Jii-.in.nU ft ibunc.

Tiilrl i. a cathedral in I\i-,o del Xcutc, Mexico, whidi is own ;>\K)') \<mis old, and has hid im lupin -, foi .it least '203 ycais. it has iumtju^. Thcic is only a pIUCO Of Cdipot aplUild 111 fl Ollt of tllC alter, and on this thu \\oiihippcis kneel one at a time.

A judgi. liav.ng fallen asleep (lining a tiial, Liwyoi X. >,u<l<lcnly ecaswl pleading, .iiul c\cl,U!nfcl, "I \villw,ut until ]iib Jlonoui w.ikei brfoiu fimslnni;. *' But", <vn-3\\ ciud thu opposing couh-jul, "perhaps his Honour will wait until you have iinishod before waking "

Tin, Am vtj i u Dlti t ti\ i,. -Last Monday tliuiu ctri n e<l in San J^ianoi^co horn Oiegon, in chaise of a conntiy ttheiiff, a young m.iv who was legistuied at tlio City Pusou and hooked foi Au/ou.i under the name of ( icuo (Mines, the Aii/ona .stage lobher .mil imudrcr, who, tlnougli gioss caicl'-sMie-.^, lately escaped f loin the Stockton Asylum. It now tui lib out Ili it a nnstiile haa been made, and tli.it the uiong ni.m has been captuml. The name ot the man now on hand is Robei t Alevander. The pm son who is the cause of all tins expense to the .State and loss of time and comfort to Alexander, is R M. Pieice, of Maish/ield, Oi<'gon, who miid.i dmg■stoie in that luby city, but his a mania for the det n etn c business which may make him disliked it he suspects each stiangev he sees for some noted (.Minimal at lai^e, and ha* them shangbaid oil to some distant city. The cjue&tion naturally aiises is there no law to piotect a peaceable and honest citi/en fiom the caprices of cveiy dime no\el leader ■who imagines he's a detective ? Are the people to run the lisk of disgiace, discomfort and e\'penso because an " amateur detective " imagines that lie finds s,ome likeness to an advertised ciimiiial? If theie is no such law, no one is safe fiom such annoyance biought about \>y ignoiance or malice,, and the .sooner our lawniakeis go to woik and see to the matter the better. .Such a case as that of Alexander is a disgiace to that pcisonal freedom upon which the Ain^iiean caglo has always plumed itself, and u liich has hitherto been supposed to be one of the chief attractions which the United States otters to aliens. The lcgulai detective lias, in hundieds of cases, tinned out to be a thief himself, though as a class they are uselul, tut the aiuatem is one of those pestilent cieatures who, without the pluck to be a thief, or thp astuteness to be a detective, contents himself with making mischief. Out upon them say ■we. — S.F. News Letter.

lUts and Mice. —lf jam -wish to de stroj- them get a packet ot bin i 's M \oic Vkrmis Kir I kk in packets, Od, Od, and Is, to be obt.nnerl of all storekeepers, or from '1. E. Hill by enclosinpr an e\tia stamp

Lifk in theßu^ii — Tin:x and Now. — It is generally supposed tb.it in the hush we ha\e to put up with many discomforts and privation-; in the shape of food. Former]}' it was so, but row, thanks to 1 I. Hm, who Ims himself dwelt in the bush, if food dors consist chiefly of tinned meats his Cor ovxalSauci <ji\es to them a most delectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most cr.jf)) able, and instead as bard biscuits and indigestible damper his Improved Colonial Hakiisg I'owdlr makes the ■very best, bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far 1 superior and more wholesome than yeast or 1 leaven. Sold by all storekeepers who can ob|aio it Jrom any merchant in Auckland,