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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2361, 27 August 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

The longest continuous railway run now made is said to be that of the new Saratoga limited train, from Hew York to Troy (I4S miles) without a stop. A correspondent writes as follows from Montrose :—I am happy to say lam the possessor of a canary that talks fluently, which certain persons of influence in this place Cain testify. I may state that about twelve years a go, when coming from India I broughta green paroquet, which is really a good speaker, and this canary learned to speak entirely from it. About three years ago I got the canary quite young, and both cages have hung close to each other almost ever since. I believe if all the bird’s little sentences were put together, they would amount to over thirty words. Ax officer of the —th was quartered, a few years ago, in the height of the Fenian disturbance, at Killarney, where the troops, were accommodated—as is by no means nnusal in Ireland—in the workhouse. Being in search of a new sensation, he bethought himself of paying a tailor’s bill, addressing, of course, from “ The Workhouse, Killarney." Back came the answer hy return of post. The tailor was pained to see so good a customer reduced so low ;he could not think of accepting the amount due to him, which he begged to return ; and, if a tenpound note would be of any service, he shouli bj most happy to send it.