How He Killed The Sparrows

A. M. Besimer, vcho on Monday took 237 sparrows to City Clerk Mills, for which he reoeived 4.74, had devised a great scberne for makiDg a wholesale slanghter among the little feathered Englishmen. He started out early in the morning and scattered wheat soaked in alcohol about the stieets. A little while later he went around the same territory with a small grip and picked np the slain. He says none of tbe other birds common in the city will touch the swollen wheat graiu. Robius and blackbirds, he charges, are worin-eating birds and do not eat grains, while chippies eat smaller grains, bnt avoid wheat. Chickens and pigeous will only experience a harmless jagThe alcohol soaked graiu, however, does not always kill, but Beems to afflict some of the birds with a beastly fit of intoxicatiou from which they in time recover. One morning' early a small boy brought to City Clerk Mills a few sparrows. They were couuted, rolled up in a paper and left under a tree in the yard for burial. A few hours later, when the paper was disturbed at the interment, fonr of the sparrows flew away.