Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1882, Page 7

] !’, | L e ——— —— 1LJE OMANA DAILY BEE: DIRECTORY OF LEADING WESTERN HOTELS. HOTELS, PROPRIETORS ARLINGTON, J. G. McINTIRE, SARATOGA HOTEL, J. 8. STELLINIUS, TOWN: Lineoln, Net Milford, Neb. MAREH HOUSE, BROWNSVILLE, Neb. COMMERCIAL HOTEL JOHN HANNAN, Stromeburg Ne HALL HOUSE, A. W. HALL, Loulsville OITY HOTEL, CHENEY & OLARK, Blalr, Neb, COMMERCIAL HOTE ., J. Q. MEAD, Neligh, Nab GRAND CENTRAL £.SEYMOUR, Nobraska City, Neb MISSOURI PACIFIC HGTEL, P, L. THORP, Weeping Water,Ne COMMERCIAL HOUSE GREENWOOD HOUSE, OCOMMERCIAL HOUSE, ENO'3 HOTEL, EXCHANCGE HOTEL, METROPOLITAN HOTEL, MORGAN HOUSE, SUMMIT HOUSE, A, C. CAARPER, ©. W. MAYFIELD, E. 8TOREY E. L. ENO, ©. B. HACKNEY, FRANK LOVELL, E. L. GRUBE, BWAN & BECYER Hardy, Neb. Qreenwood, Neb! OClarinda, lowa Eremont, Neb, Ashland, Neb Atkinson, Neb. Guide Rocd, Nab, Oreston, le. JUDKINS MOUSE, UDKINS & BRO, Red Oak, la. HCUSTON HOUSE, GEO. CALPH, Exira, la REYNOLDS HOUSE, O.M REYNUL.S Atlantic, la, WALKER HOUSE COMMERCIAL HOTEL, ITY HOTEL, PARK MOUSE, NEBRASKA HOTEL, U,IL. AVERY, MERCHANTS HO1EL, J. W. BOULWARE, COMMEROIAL HOTEL, — PARKS HOTEL, F. M. PARK, COMMERG AL HOTEL, HENRY WILLS, 8 GNELL HOUSE, CHAS, BAGNELL SOMMERCIAL HOUSE, WM. LUTTON, JUDKINS HOUSE, FRANK WILKINSON, D. H. WALKER, BURGESS, DI B. WILLIAMS, MRS. M. E. CUMMINGS, Audubon, la Neola, la. Harlan, la Corning, la Stanton, Burlington Junction, M Blanchard, la. Shenandoah, la, Dayid City, Nek. College Springs, Ia Villisca, la Malvern, la, BALL HOUSE, M. H, PERRY, IdafGrove, la COMMERCIAL HOUSE, B, F.STEARNS, Odebolt, la GRAND P4 CIFIC, J. NORTON, Columbus, Neb., WOODs HOUSE, DOURLAS HOUSE, EXCHANGE HOTEL, Osceola, Neb. Olarks, Neb, Ashland, Neb, JOMN ECKERT, J. 8. DUNHAM, C. B. HACKNEY, BUSINESS DIRECTORY. orF WEEPING WATHR, NERBRASEKA. MISSTIOURT PACIFIC RAILROAD. “General Merchandise and Postoflice ...Cashier Weeping Water Bank . NG rugs and Books ....General Merchandise Reed Bros. & Co..... R. 8. Wilkinson. .. P. 8. Barnes, . Fleming & Race Fitchie & Ashman Marshall & Son Potter & Webster. are and Agricultural Impliments Boots and Shoes Muegical Instruments and Sewing Machines vvvvvie... . Agricultural Tmplements Shoes and Clothing ... Flouring Mills Vee e, Drugs Attorney-at-Law . Missouri Pacific Hotel Editor Recorder Joo F. Parkins. . Hatoh & Mickle. . 8. Clinton. . .. Thomas & Orton J. B. Meikle. . P. L. Thorp. J. A. Matthews Boots, " W.B. MILLARD, B. JOHNSON, MILLARD & JOHNSON, Storage, Commission and Wholesals Fruits. 1111 FARNHAM STREET. CONSIGNMENTS COUNTRY PRODUCE SOLICITED. Agents for Peck & Bauvhers Lard, and Wilber Mills Flour. OMAHA, - - < NEB. REFERENCES OMAHA NATIONAL BANK, STEELE. JOHNSON & CO., TOOTLE MAUL & CO. 'HENRY LEHMANN, WINDOW SHADES, EASTERN PRIGES DUPLICATED. 1108 FAR-AM 5T. - - OMAHA. - STEELE, JUHNSUN & GO, WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS IN Flcur, Salt, Sugars, Canned Coods, and All Grocers' Supplies. A Full Line of the Best Brands of CIGARS MANUFACTURED TOBACCO. Agonts_for BRNWOOD NATLS AND LAFLIN & RAND POWDER 00 Special Attention Is Once More Called to the Fact tha: Rank foremost iu tne West 1n Assortment aud Prices ot CLOTHING K] AND CHILDREN'S WEAR, FOR MEN'S, BOY! ALSO A COMPLETE LINE OF Furnishing Goods Hats and Caps We are]prepared to meet the demands of the trade in regard to Latest Sty and Patterns, Fine Merchant Tailoring in Conuection RESPHEOTFULLY, M. HELLMAN & CO, 1301-1303 Farnham and 300 to 312 13th 8t WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN T.UINMIERIEIE. Lath, Shingles, ‘SAPH, DOORS, BLINDS AND MOULDINGS. OMAHA, NEB THE FASHION IN BIRDS. Demand i« Novelties in Feath- ered Songstera, The Aesthetic Revealed in the Bird Trade--How Ladies Make up Their Aviaries--Valuable Birds that Sing, Talk, and Keep Silent--How Birds are BEducated New York Times A half-dozen storks were the princi- pal occupants of the floor of a Canal street bird store the other day. Some of them were standing on one leg with their head bowed and their [long bills hidden in the masses of feathers on their breasts. Others were takiog their midday meal from a pail containing a mass of water-sosked bread and bits of meat. The ungain | Iy croatures put their long red legs in motion as the visitor entered, and moved slowly away., Those who had been, apparently, engaged in wise ru minations opened their eyes, brought to the floor, as though it was a swing- |ing gas bracket, a second leg, and fol [lowed their companions to a remote corner of the room, “Can you find a market for such birds in New York, or are those de- signed for some menageric (' was the question at once put to the proprie- wr. *‘Find a market for them!" exclaim- ed the proprietor in astonishment. “‘Well, T should eay I could. Those six birds are already sold toa gentle- wan up twwn, and he thought they were cheap at tho hundred doliars he paid for them. Next week those birds will be at home to any one who calls in one of the finest conservato ries in the City. Why, bless you, the stork and heron—and’ they are pretty much alike—are the fashionable birds nowadays, and I can sell all T can get of them, and only wish I conld get more. ‘‘There are fashions in birds as well asin bonnets and flowers, then, are there?” ““I should say fancies rather than fashivns,”” answered the bird fancier, who stopped his work of clipping the wings ot a handsome game cock, and assumed the air of onein a communi- tive mood. You remember that be- fore Oscar Wilde came here and brought out the symbols of the wsthetic, young ladies spent their lei- sure time in decorating old crockery and fans with the pictures of storks. Wall papers were adorned with pic tures of the stork, and his fac simile was everywhere present. That stork craze helped s birds tanciers T imag- ine, for then we began to have de- mands for storks from gentlemen who could aff rd to induige in any luxury they saw fit. They were quite fash- ionable last summer with such as could get them asa portion of the attrac- tions of their parks and lawns, and the stork and the heron market was blooming. Some people who hadn’t lawns to keep them in bought them, I presume because it was the fashion, aud the birds must have had a hard time of it cooped up in the cages in which they were confined. But storks are like swans and birds of that kind, in demand only with those who have parks in which they like to have a collection of birds or anima's to ren- der them addition lly attractive. The fancy just at present is divided between collections of small birds for aviaries, and euch trained birds as can sing or whistle some tune or tunes,” Conversations had subscquently with a number of dealers, wholesalo and retail, in various parts of the city, venified the Canal-strect fancier’s sta'cments. Birds without song, lit- tle fellows whose plumage 18 not spe cially brilliant or attructive are in great demand, and the smaller the bird the more highly it is prized seem ingly. African and Australian finches of various kiuds, cut throats, small birds with s narrow band of blood-red feathers half encircling their uecks; silver beaks, little birds with beaks of silver white; black headed nuns, birds with gray plamage whose heads and necks are masses of coal black feath- ers; nonpariels, with many colored plumage; weavers, modest looking birds that will, when given bits of twine, carefully weave them a nest, and indigo birds, with a plumage of deep dark blue, are most sought after by young ladies who while away their leisure hours in caring for and admir- ing aviaries. Formerly the Java spar- row was a favorite bird for the aviary, but their gray coats and thick red beaks have now become so common that they have gone out of fashion, The Java sparrow that boasts a plum- age of suowy whiteness and a beak of cherry color, is still much sought after aud ‘highly prizsd for aviarios, how- ever, uud_ principally becauso of its scarcity. The first clags aviary of the young lady of fashion nowadays con- taius 50 or more birds, usually & pair of each kind, and that the collection may be as attractive as possible,youne ladies haunt the bird stores in search of novelties, and to secure these will pay $10 a pair for the white Java sparrow, when they could buy their more modest cousing with the gray coat for $4 a pair. For the other lif tobirds without soug they pay from $2 50 to each, and the sum is often excocded, especially when they can obtain good specimens of the Japanese mghtingale, or *“‘sun bird,” as it sometimes called. The first name i« of & misnomer, for tue bird’s song i haraly more than a squeak, aud its principal beauty is the briliiant gold and red of the breast plumage, which gives the latter name, Such lover of birds as can afford it are purchascrs of birds with a well- defined song—‘‘irained birds" they are called and sums ranging all the way from $26 to $100 are are willing ly paid for bull-finches or other birds that can sing or whistle two or three tunes. The bull-finch is the best of all the imitative powers, which very rarely, however, extend to the sing- ing or whistling of more than one ey, tire tune. The canary is, of course, the standard bird in the market, and the supply seem never to exceed the demand. In fact, the dealers com plain hecause there ave so few of the tirst-class St Andreasberg birds which sell readily for $10 each —to be had. The commoner grades of these classes buying birds,” said Charjes Reiche, the father of the bird trad ein this country, ‘‘not specially because it benefits me, but because they have a rofining influence in a houschold, and where in the poorer districts you find a family that has a canary, or some other pet bird, and a fow greco, potted plants—and there are fow tha don't have them nowadays -you are suro to find considerable humanity though the extorior be brutal vr de graded.” When he began businces here 36 yoars ago, his importation of 2,500 canaries was suflicient to supply the demand, but this season, from August until May next, his importa tions will reach fully 76,000, and there are now several other importers in th City, whose imports for the seasot will ageregate 50,000 more, maki 125,000 canaries and other song bir [ brought t) tais § iy within a peciod of uine months, Parrots have been favorites since | historians began to write, and proba bly will continue to be 8o long a8 the world exists, They are not,as a rule, birds that any one but the o rtakes | very kindly to, for their cute speeches | are usually offset by the vigorous man. | uer in which they shake hands with their beak. Lake single-button kid | gloves, tney aro always in fashion, | however, aud it is no fietion the prices | which dealers assert that they receive or specially desirable birds,” **Lok | ont for i, ha's stealing your seed, shouted a yellow headed and grev plumaged Poll at a Tines reporter, he ventured into the bird store “Don't pay wny attention tw him, said the dealer, ‘‘he's trained to sy that.” The parrot chuckled as though responsible for a first-ciaas joke, callcd its owner by name, and then whistled a bit of a popular air. All etiurts to induce the owner to place & price upon his bied proved futile, and he “I'd as soon think of selling er there as 1 would of part And us another spoke ot a gray parrot he owned, heas sertod called all his family by their Christian names, imitatod the said; my boy ing with Poll.” voice 30 188, songsters. There street an A'satian than rathor |Tives on Roosevelt | who has accomplished a wonder in the traintig of a Toe Vi by ! the im in o dark out this cue M, My o made populat by Hair gau a n one of theirgtarces, A « v day or more the music-box mt this one tune, sommon un Hare u d The owner of the bird is a good whistler and & imething {a musician, At suel urs as he could get from his work Tie went to the room where the bird v ufined | wid whistled tha i 0 nally e woul “ ! 1 ! m and play My Mary Aun.” The robit ard no music but this, aud as & con juence in a conple of months began | ing this song. When he got so he uld whistle it from beginningfto end | 8 L prisonment coas And wow he | sings at intervals this plattive | i in | rivalry with the music box, and much | » the delight of his o The im: | itative faculty thus veloped has| ciung to the bird, who is now ¢ matant. | ly picking up new notes, and has por fected itself in a porion of oue of the | airs from “‘Fatinitza, It has also loarued to speak, three Freuch phrascs, and has learnod to the habit of calling wut o a shrill whis:le “Julca,” the name of 118 owner's son. Altogether 1tis famous bird,uud itsowner will nos part with it for any amount of meney | Vhe meothod pursiied by chis Aisatian 18 that pursued by all tiainers in Eo rupe who make the odacaiion ot song- wds a specialty. Tae buldachos tueir favorite swudent, because 1 luarns the most readily, can dequiry two or or three tunes, aud 18 a favoute in the warket, Taese traincrs, gonerally peasants, will fill a darkoued room with cages of bulitinches, and teach them by the use of what is kuown as a bird organ to whistle some particu- lar tune. The bird-orgau 18 a baby haud-organ, and plays only the one sonyg the teacher desires his scholars t learn, This is ground out to them a dozen times a duily, and in a month or two the pupils wie graduated, and ~ CARPET of each, and called the coach man «1d seolded the servants as nat apparently rovel in their education, abandoning their natural s0ng for the artiticial one. The violin or muso- urally «ud vigorously as he was in the hibit of doing. A Broadway dealer has a parrot that speaks both German 1 Kuglish, and 1n addition to the: omphshments whm'lm\"‘T‘ulllm), wako 100m for your uucle.” For this Pariot, an uncomumonly ugly one, he wanted 850, These birds have a more varying aud fictitious value than any other, and such as can talk or whistle aro worth anywhere from $20 to $100. Kven the former preceis paid fre- quently for an uneducated Mexican or gray-plumaged bird, both of which are easily trained to talk or whistle. The Cuban parrots, who do not learn easily, and whose vocabulary is always Iimited, can be purchased for from $3 to §5 each: Par quets, the miniature parrots with nothing but their plum- age to recommend them are great fa- vorites just at present, aud readily command from §6 to $10 a pair. In size between the parrot and the paro- quet and of the same family is the blue mountain lori, which has but recently come into market, and which is rap- idly becoming & favorite. They are rare, are found only in one district in Australia, have the usual parrot coac of green, a head ‘and neck covered with feathers of rich blue shade and scarlet or yellow breast, these poluu being kometimes intermingled in the plumige. They neither talk nor whistle, but will kreed in captivity, and a pair 18 worth from §30 upward. The cockadillo, too, has recently be- come a favorite because of its bril- liant plumage, more like that of the parrot thau of the cockatoo, which the cockadillo seems to be 1 miniature in other respects. Cuckatous are eutire- ly out of fushion except with the pro- prictors of menageries or extensive aviaries. A comparatively recent fa- v rite in this ciass of birds is the Quaker paraquet, « smail bird with a sombre suit of plumage, the head aud breast being of u lighter drab than the back, His name is due to this par- ticularly modest coat, and the retail price is from $6 to 8 a pair. Of these birds all but the parrot proper are useless as talkers or whistlers,and, 80 far as is known, can be beguiled in- to no other music than the cry pecu- lair to the entre parrot tribe. “Why is 1t,” a dealer was asked, Sthat bird stores are closed in the evening, or why, when they ure open, do you cover the cages?” i “*Ah, my boy, that's a little trick ot the trade to keep the birds in good voice. So long as it is in the light a bird wants to smg. We have no objection to & Bongsters warbling throughout the day as much as he wants to. But they are like human beings, and are apt to overwork themselves, 8o we keep in the dark in the evening aud night time, and when it is dark they don'v sing and strain their voices, It is hard work to get u bird with a good soug, and when we get one we want to keep his vocal organs in the best pos- sible condition, Europeans want bril- liant plumsged birds, and som: ship ucross the wa er our native cardinals, 8, nonpareils, and othor varie- aud they send us their larks and and turushes, magpies und starlings, for Americans want singers, and when we got the trained birds we have to cater to and care for them, as the operatic manager caters to and cares for his prima aon- na. And that's why we often keop our best singers separate from the comion birds We don't want their song brokeun by the picking up of talse notes.” *But the sung is natural isn'tit?" *By 6 weans Kow birds that are ests emed as pets in a household sing their natural song, 1f they did they wouldn't be 8o highly prized, The canary even is trained to his scng and young bird is kept, by the careful breeder, in the company of only the best singera. So is the bullfinch, the star g, the blackbird, and others whose song make tnem so valuable to dealers.” But the song birds are never taught to improve their songs in this country, Dealers say it is because we haven't rien on this side of the Atlantic who will enter into competition with the trainers in Germany. The American- ized foreigners find that this business doesn’t pay. So even those who have been in business in the Old World drop in when they cowo here, Yet, in small way, theso trainers pursue their vocation here to some extent birds, bringing from $2.50 to $6 each, find a ready market, and often find a home iu the close rooms of tenement house. *I like to see the poorer rather for recreation than remunera. tion. These efforts, however, are di- rected mninly to the training of speak- ing birds like the parrot and magpie box 18 o1ten subsutututed for the bird- organ, but one of the three is al ways accompaniment to the education to the education of u song-bird. The canary takes its schooling from its male pareut, and young birds while in training have no other education than being coutined in a 10om with a num- ber of the best siugers. The first requirement in teaching birds to talk 18 a young bird with a good ear and natural imitative facul ties. The trainer, who is generally a sailor with plenty of time on his hands, talk to the bird as he would toa child, and constantrepetition ot certain words finally results in the pets acquiring them, A little petting or feeding with some delicacy is the encourage- ment given to the bird. But par- rots are proverse birds, wd people who attempt « teach them to speak fiud their pupils lessons, while they pick up slang phrases or single words with startling suddenness, often when they have heard tho word used but once. I'he best parrots are self-taught. These not only catch up the common phrases of a family in which they live,but also acquire the very toues of voice and modes ot expression. There is a par- rot in one of our up-town families that amuses itself by calling out the name of the servant in euch clever imtation of the voices of members of the family that the servant almost invariably answers, When she leaves her work in the chamber to come down stairs in auswer to a supposed call from the misiress, the purrot will indulge in a succession of sheicks of delight, and seewingly enjoy its joke immcusely. This parrot seems posscssed of more than ordinary intenigence, aud iu some way has acquired the knowledge that the organ-grinders who infest the streets are not popular with members of the household. Let one of them appear and the parrot will at once call out * . You caun't get any money The singular thing about this expression 18, that so far as can be ascertained no member of the family has been kuown use that ex- toward one of these nuisauces. Par- rots sometimes have a vocabulary of several hundred words which they fre- quently string together with wonder- ful intelligence, handling the words as correctly as a child will. Such birds are, of course, of great value to their owners, and it is this cluss that carry the fictitious valuation of purrots up into the hundreds of dollars, They are self-taught, and acquire words, calls, and even portions of tuies much more readily of their own violition than when an attempt 1s made to teach them, There is hardly a bird store in the city but has on sale from two toa dozen quail, and a store on Fourth- avenue has its show-window filled with them. As they are neither a song bird nor a special pet, a natural in- quiry was, “What do you do with them !’ The query resulted 1 the iu- formation that the birds from the south and west are much sought after by sportsmen in the spring, when they place them on thewr preserves, allow them to breed during the summer,and shoot them an the fall bofore they have u chauce to migrate, Another use, and a novel one, is made of them as an advertisement by restaurant keep- ers, These gentlemen trcguently buy the birds and place them in an extem- porized cage in the show-window, where they are exbLibited i order to draw custom, And the scheme is us uaily a suceess. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE. The Most Successful fiemedy ever discoy ered, o 1t is cortain in its elfects and d os not Jlister. KEAD PROOF BELUW. Also excellent for human flosh FROM A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN, Washiogtonville, Ohto, June 17, 1851, D, . 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