The Mystery Of The Sparrow

The decrease of the English sparrow in iSTew York has beeu puzzling ornithologists. In certain seetions, where this noisy little bully- John Buil in feathers - used to congrégate and make day hideous, there is hardly a sign of him now. Tlie cause of this pheuomenon is, howeyer, no inystery, but amusíngly simple. The English sparrovv has no use for a reform administraron, and especially no admiiation for Colonel Varing. Wariug's white wings have tept the streets so clean that this miniaure Tammaniac has beeu literally tarved