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To Teach a Parrot to Speak

The quickest way is to send the bird, if possible, where there is another parrot who can speak. They should be placed near enough to hear, but not see each other, and the one will soon imitate the other. A good way is to speak to the bird at night; just when his cage this way generally perish from want of oxy gen. Anything, therefore, which consumes it | ber, soap-bubbles may be prepared with this ought to be avoided, and this is a reason for fluid, that will vie in beauty of color with the not giving them any food. Green leaves of rainbow itself, and which may be kept for a living plants have an opposite effect, and they may be kept for this purpose in fish-bowls; they absorb the carbonic acid in the water exhaled by the fish, giving off oxygen, which is in turn taken up by the fish and reconverted into carbonic acid. long while by putting them carefully upon an iron ring which is slightly rusty and thoroughly wet with the soap solution. Bubbles of 1 foot and more in diameter will keep from 5 to 10 minutes; those of 2 or 3 inches in diameter will retain their form for 10 or 12 hours.