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AL,
YOUNG FOLKS,
-ma A DIAMOND COLLHOTOR.
iY St7$41.1t rowan.
When a child, in the deep quiet of a lienle
on the great brilliant green prairie, I used
to go out bummer morniugs when the aun
first shot ever ehe eaetern rim, to wench the
marvel of the dew.
The orb a the grassy world Sown with
pearls that !subdued its gorgeous color to
cool and perfect emerald, lay Against a sky
of rose and ivory, a bloom ot heavenly tint.
ing changed at the first direct ray of the
sun. All toe soon the blaze of gold was over
the slopes, the soft %dor glowed, and the
fields were twinkling as with seed of sters.
What were fairy tales, or Arabian Nights—
what was the Velley of Diamonda with its
heaps of glassy treaaure to this sight where
myriad brilliants were aown with nsatchleas
art en the deep green which best displayed
them! The secret of those mornings alone
in the Field of Jewels is no more to be bold
than the splendors of Elfland by the mortal
who has been spirited thither. The clear
dew, olearest thing in nature, trembled
alternately ailver and crystal on the clover,
Leat as one looked, vivid flames of blue fire,
red and gold, shot out of its depths, here
burned a spark of ruby, there one of emerald,
the golden glow of a tiny sun that changed
as it hung to a piercing dart of blue like
electric fire, and where the pure drop caught
the full rays of the sun it flashed them back
in a blaze of white light—the. gleam of the
screreign diamond, all colors IP OWN
1 eOuld epend hour§ noW, watching the
wonderful play of light on the limpid,
matchless jewels of the dew just as I used
when a child of twelve or girl in her teens.
the pure color, the fine, evanescence create
one of the most exquisite spectacles in no
-
tura. It is a delight of one of our keenest
instinots—the love of light which we share
with plants and animals. The love of color
and light hereditary in prindtive nations
lea& to the love of jewels which are impri-
soned lighb. Watching the fields strewn
with 'Vanishing diamonds, sapphires and
stars, I used to long to gather and possess
them. When I have seen the light fall in a
broad beam on a fine solitaire diamond,• I
have said to myself "Here is the embodied
dew." If I love superb stones, it is for their
likeness to the heaven -lighted drops of the
morning, and I own to a deep admiration
for jewels of all kinds—to look at, not to
wear. The dew saved ate from any perilous
liking for diamonds, for dazzle as they
would, they were neither so clear nor so full
of fire as the drops I had seen strewing the
crer s of the moon.
Yet I will go far out of my way any time
to sae a fine stone, which holds such secrets
of fire and flood and world -designing under
its seal of silence; and so it was one after-
noon when the light was best, the owner of
one of the finest collections in the United
States at least, opened the doors of a curious
Japan cabinet and showed in their velvet
trays, ruby, spinel, hyacinth, alraandine,
ellow garnet, iris'aquamarine and sunstone
with their kindred.
Some of the gems were too fine to be trust-
ed behind bevelled glass and triple, inlaid
locks,- and were taken out of a fireproof safe
built into the wall. The keeping of such
costly toys involves no little care and risk.
For one thing, the windows of the rooms
where the collection is kept are of that
polished plate glass which you cannot look
through from the outside, a precaution so
that no prying eye across the street can
overlook the scene when the owner is show-
ing the jewels to Ms friends.
I an only tell You at this time some of
the things learned about diamonds, told
with sparkle and spirit while the keen -eyed
collector %Med the smooth gems through his
fingers as if their touch was a pleasure.
The colored stones la,y in heaps over the
white velvet mat on which he showed them,
for few of them are mounted save a Citeek
engraved gem or two, some quaint heavy
old atone rings and Indian ornaments whose
fancy added richness to the jewels. The
stones have been gathered in strange quar-
ters of the world, from negro huts in Guiana,
from Te.nama venders, the little shops of
Mexican gold workers, from by -streets in
me. and Rio .,Jeneera
e, teem ilavaneise
inexchants, a,rom bailors an Australian gold
dtggere. As the owner said, the pasznon
fonsuch things is nothing to the fascination
of collecting them. He began with a few
inexpeneive specimens when a yoeng man,
and the collection has grown •for nearly
forty years'and is proof of what eau be ac•
complishedin gathering the choicest things
even without a large fortune.
"Let me show you the diamond with its
relative, which is often set with it and taken
for it, in showy ornaments. You will nob
know one from the other," as the glittering
stones lay flashing back the sunshine in
white inaufferable light. "These are dia-
monds and white topaz—tell them apart if
you can. If you wish to test them'topaz
will scratch glass, and other stones except
diamoucjat hes the egg', Weaglp P. raw,
featan0d; eldoeava a ltlstre like diamond
;
short they differ only In one pont—the
. am
topaz is not phosphorescent. Leave a dia-
mond two or three hours iu the sunlight,
then place it in a dark room, and it will
give light for half an hour or so. This
property of diamonds is very well known.
The topaz has no such property. If I had
known when you were coming, 1 would have
exposed a diamond for you in the forenoon.
Often you might find one roasting here on
the window sash wherenobody would notice
it. • The servants have taken my crystals so
often for diamonds and I have offered all
they wanted so freely that if they found the
Kohinoor under foot they would only take
it for 'one of the old gentleman's pebble
stones' as the parlor girl called a specimen
worth her year's wage% Look here one
moment."
A. handful of colorless brilliant stones,
looking alike, were laid before me.
could not say they were not all diamond%
"These are five different stones which
might any of them be taken for diamonds
even by persons used to handling them.
One is a white topaz, one a fine quartz
crystal, and there are white sapphire, white
spinel, and white chrysolite—very rare—
mad the true diamonds with them, Pick
theta out if you can."
One diamond of the finest water shone
eonspktous hi its keen light. Of none ot
the rest could I feel certain, though I have
been credited with " the 'Rinse for dia-
monds.°
"Very well, now see if you cat tell what
these are," producing a white velvet tray
which held red, blue, yellow and brown
transparent stone,
"Rubies, I suppoae' and pale emerald,
aquamarine er smokedtopaz."
" I must tax your faith in nte to believe
that they are all diamonds, Colored dia-
l -donde ate Datong the rarest stonee, and
though they are not the naost beautiful they
in this conntry, They {Ire diamonds; not
rubies or aapphirea or topaz any more than
(newt glazes le rock crystal. Diamonds you
know are ornstallized carbot ; the other
stones I earned are crystallized alumina, the
principal element of clay. Wben perfectly'
pure, these crystals are colorless, and you
tind no less than eight different Motes as
white as the diamond, but a trace of iron
oxide in the crystal, whether diamond or
alumina, gives a pink or red tinge, and you
hey° a ree diainond or a, ruby as the case
may be. A trace of borax gives red or blue
aapphire. Carburet of hydrogen gives the
emerald of deeper or lighter green word-
ing to its amount, Lime chrome gives the
green garnet of Siberia.
" Diamond orystalp are not by any means
pure, as they are found; they have black
specks of carbonate in them, often they are
milky, and one kind is like the opal. These
cloudy etoisea are of email value except as
curiosities!. . There yolt sese twenty of them,
looking like quartz crystals bedded in lime.
Only one diamond out of a thousand is a
clear brilliant of any .value whatever; en°
out of ten thousand is fine enough to rank
as a sovereign stone, and one out of twenty
thousand is colored, but it is worth five
times as much as a clear one because so
nitioli rarer. Governments value fine color-
ed diamonds among their chief treasures,
The Russian treasury prides itself on the
famous red diamond bought by the Empe-
ror Paul I. for one hundred thousand rou-
bles. The Green Vaults:at Dresden, full of
magnificence, show the green diamond. as the
of
hurioaesitity bteia
all. The with
ao
enGwrand fDuekte
fTs
whereas in a real siege the distance woul
all over; the sultan owns two; one 91 them be,5L,900 or 4,000 metres. There is, however
Very large, The er9Tfu of Portwl bears in thlitidk,"Pbr ilaer3nd
YeaRb4:9,:fiQs
found in Brazil. A superb blue diamond ita dank% a green diaanond of 134 davits, "'15 exrac'sweg .VVI5
Mace, so that the result is very rugmfloant
for the possibility of an effective ertintelent
belonging to the throne of France, and hand -
of frontiers, if what is said be correct, is
ed down from one prince to another was loot
placed in doubt.
The coating of concrete, indeed, ban re•
in the Revolution *and has never been :re.
covered. Jetvellers say a diamond never sided, but this is an illusory resistance, for
can be wholly lost unless some philosopher
a fort which rezdats without arma is really
burns it for an experiment—that is, so
it is
indestructible and so remarkahle that it g, no fort, and is no obstacle to an enemy's
sure finally of coming to light. march. The newspapers to -day areue that
"The finests diamonde in America belong the fortresses must be coated with concrete,
but this is a hazardous inference. If the
in the Astor oollection, selected abroad
ornoog the Arosterdan diamond merohants.
fort resists, while its guns are apeedly silenc-
They are exceptionally fine and of the high-
ed, it stands for little, whether of concrete
est lustre. You can tell when diamonds are
Or not. Some, way must be found of arming
worn by a lady, for she choosesthem by the forts for aggressive purposes; then only
,
their brillance and purity, not by their size can they supply a substitute for a etrong
alone. The finest diamond in the light is
frontier, and stop the march of the enemy.
invisible nothing beiug seen but a glow of It would be better to have cannon without
white light in its place. No other stone has walls than walls without cannon, and after
such power of throwing back the light it re-
the experiments of Chalons itis apparent
ceives
when it. that the struggle will continue between the
self of first quality. Some intense and white —that is large dia- engineers who construct and the artillery -
mends of a low order eyeless brilliant than men who destroy.
good imitations made from French pasteOne conclusion, however, which was not.
"1 know Mr. Raskin has derided' the looked for at Chalons resulted olearly from
the love of jewels and especially of diamonds the last experiments—namely,.that an iron
as unevorthyandloweringtothehumanheart. plate,. whatever its thickness, does not offer
The passion for display, for eclipsing others auffiaient resistance to the new explosives,
in any shape is a debasing and hardening and that ironclad ships are already practi-
oally useless, and are condemned without
one. I have seen a woman as covetous and
s
and selfish over her houseplants as she could ever having had a chance of howing what
be over a set of diamonds. they could do. How many milliards have
been spent in vain 1 What labor has been
"Bat there are reasons for valuing dia.
thrown away, without one experiment being
monds apart from pride in their ownership.
of nature, made which could be turned to account 1
They are the work of great crisis
fused by intolerable heat and pressure, crys.
tallized by electric currents of force suffi-
cient to rend the crust of the globe itaelf.
The areat mysterious, subtle changes which
transform the black carbon into this most
brilliant shape of nature are made by pro.
ceases before which the imagination of main
ter- ohemists,used to agents of Affreet power,
stands awestruck. There are precious
stones,' says a French savant, whose eXiS•
Tun= FORTE.
They Seem to be a Failure Against the Ntilv
Explosives.
The London Times published sonic time
ago, an account of the experimente in firing
with the steel cupola turrets manufactured
at the works in St. Chamond, Chatillon,
aud COmmentry. It was explained that the
discovery of the new exploetves bad induced
the military engineers to construct forts COM"
pOSOC1. of an euermous block of concrete,
within whioh the space was obtained necea
awry to receive a small garrison, store, and
the turret, or two turret, armed with can-
1101I1!sometimes eimply rotatory litte those of
St. Chamond, eometirnes rotatory, descend-
ing and ascending, like those of Chatillon
and Commentry. The firing with the turrets
had given excellent results.
The second portion of the experiments
not lea impertant and interesting, has just
been oonduoted in the presence of M. de
Freyoinet. The question was whether the
turrets, after their great success in firing on
the enemy, could themselves stand fire. Had
this been the ease France, by means of a
series of forts, could have supplied the gap
ha her frontiers and stopped the in fader long
enough to mobilize behind the protection of
these works.
Unfortunately, the experiment doe& not
seem to have been !satisfactory. The turrets
were shattered by the first shot, and became
terrible projectiles,for the fragmenta of steel
struck with the violence of a cannon
The firing, it is true, eves at 140 metres
THE GREAT' MACKENZIE BASIN.
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'Report on thennormens Field (Mite Future
That ales 111.Britisk America.
Senator Schultz's committee, appointed
to inquire into the resources of the Great
Mackenzie Basin, report that the extent of
the region is 1,260,000 square miles ; thatits
tenets was before the first rudimentary for- coast line on the Arctic Ocean and Hudson's
mations; they had their place in the world Bay measures 5,000 miles, over one half of
long before plants and animals began; and it being equally accessible to whaling and
they are an inheritance to man from the 1e age sealing craft; that the navigable. OODSt
when no foreshadowing of his existence had
fallen upon the globe.'
"We find them in old river beds filled
with the sand of igneous rooks which melted
and took shape in the fires of creation, and
have since been ground down by the furrows
of mighty floods, the crushing of mountains
of ice. In the ravines of the Ural Moun-
tains and. the Himalayas, in Borneo, Java,
Africa, Australia, and in the highest peaks
of the Itambe mountain of the Brazil dis.
trict, diamonds are found, embedded in con-
glomerate and granite sand. Where dia-
monds and sapphires are found, gold ap-
pears also, and I dou.bb not, where gold is
mined, gems may be found if sought for.
The gold beds of Arizona and the high min-
ing regions of film Rio Grande among the
Mounbalh tope will yet prove seeded with
precious stones. It is not singular that few
diamonds have been discovered in this coun-
try, for in the rough they are no more than
lime -covered pebbles, and only one in ten
thousand of true diamonds is as much as
five-eighths of an inch across. It is only the
petiene tribes of the tropics who oan live on
a farthing a day and spend their live a sorting
heaps of gravel who find the diamonds for
the rest of the World. If you could bring
yourself to pick over all the dust in the road,
or the pands on the beach by handfuls, and
keep at it month after month and year after
year, you might go into one of the deserted
California. mining gulches and undertake to
find sliaTeenele in ite kends,
"It le reasonable to bellene there are
diamond beds in this country,. They are
always found in the debris of the mod an-
cient rocks, and where do you think the
oldest part of the globe is? Not in Hindos-
tan, or in China, er the mountains of the
Moon, but, geologists tell us, in the high
table -lands of the Rooky Mountains through
which the deep canons of the Rio Grande
and the Colorado Rivers are cut. It is
believed by many that these slopes were the
first to lift. their heads above the original
ocean; they have grownhoary with waiting
centuries of centuries'and the riches ofilie
hemisphere are locked within their stern
walls. Turquoise and topaz are found in
Arizona with beryls, garnets and opals, and
it will not be a dozen years before somebody
strikes upon a bed of diamonds where that
rushing Colorado has ground away the
granite cement which holds them.
"Old frontiersmen who have watdered
among the mountains prospecting for gold
have strange stories of the lonesome canon%
among them a fabulous one of a wall of 'con-
glomerate studded with diamonds that
sparkle under sun and stars. I knena a
plainsman who had met a prospector iehd
said he had seen this wonder, and the story
was told with such seriousness it was evi-
dent that both believed it. The 'survey of
the Colorado towards its head waters
found a canon wall etudcled with rosettes
toed stars of quartz crystals which probably
gave rise to this legend, but I believe that
there is fabulous Wealth cif ,preeioue stones
locked in the rocky fastnesses of this Great
Red River. Fifty Varieties a precious and
Semi-precious stenee are numbered in the
geologist's report of the 'Pacific Railway
Surveys, and, as the miners say, all the in.
dicationts of diamonds are there,"
-----eosam-eamperee--nee.,---,
A German traveller, G. A, Krause, who
hes returned holt a tour from Altra, on the
Id coast of Africa to Timbnotoo, says he
welled 3,000 milers, nearly all on foot, and
at the total cosi; of the expedition Was
6.87. It is clear that there aro to hotel
ahem or perlor cars oix the route he took,
go
cost plenty of Money. One earn° from tr
Java, One from the Pinel mine in the Afri- th
Call diamond fielde, one trona Bragil, iri the $2
province ot IVIieas Cieraes, One from Georgia
lines of the larger lakes of the region extend
for 4,000 relies ; that river navigation is prac-
ticable for 2,750 miles ; that within the
region there is a possible area of 656,000
square miles fit for potato growing, 407,000
auitable for the cultivation ot barley, and
316,000 for that of wheat; that the pastoral
area is equal to 800,000 squal miles; that
150,000 square miles are auriferous, and
that the evidenoe submitted to the committee
points to the exhitenca in the Athabasca and
Mackenzie Valleys of the most extensive
petroleum field on the American coninent,
if not in the world.
The commibtee suggest theta bounded tract
40,000 equare miles in extent, be reserved
from sale, and its value more accurately
itacertained. They report that they have
reason to believe that a comparison of the
capabilities of this region shows that it
exceeds, in the extent of its navigable wa-
ters, in the area of arable and pastoral lands,
in valuable fresh water fisheries, in its
forests, and in its capacity to kapport popu.
lotion, the countries of Norway, Sweden,
Denmeria, Germany, Austrie, and partillf
France and Russia. The committee recom-
mend protection for the whale fisheries of
the Aratic Ocean. The furbearing animals
of the region are also reported on. --Lon-
don Telegraph.
Thole Joe's Monopoly.
• Uncle Joe is one of the most ingenious
darkies in Washington. The other day he
contrived to make a rude wheelbarrow for
himself. The naorningafterit was completed
he went out to try it, but was dismayed to
find it gone.
"1 'clah to gracious I" he exclaimed, "I
knowed:drst wah a mighty nice wheelbarrow,
but I didn't spec' it gwine to run off by its
own WE" '
Hepresently found,it in use injakeTurner's
garden.
"Jake, what you 'dein' Wid my new
wheelbarrow, I'd like to know ?"
" Uncle Joe, 'taint none uv yearn.
Hit belongs to de community.), Per you to
keep it would be a monopoly.
• " liain't,"I donengadeit triedUncle joe.
" 'An' hain'tt it miner
"No, it baan't," aaid jack. "'T wuz yo'ru
afo' the wheel was put on to it, but when you
put the wheel on it you done loe' et."
"What's the wheel got to do wid it 2°
" W'y, ydu see, I donelmar Oun'l Beek, the
kaiiitucky 'Senatcr, say dat when a man
writ a book it was his n, but ef he print it,
vvezan't his'n. An' printin' rneken 'a book
go; an' a wheel makes a wheelbarrow go.
(king. Beck said that it wtiz a Monopoly
to give a man the book he writ atter it was
printed. So 1 seg it's inonrlpoly for 'Uncle
Joe to have his wheelbarrow when the
wheel's on."
"You g'lung," egad Uncle 'Joe, going off
with the wheelbarrow; " I done made it
and it's mite. What good's a wheelbarrow
'thout a wheel ?"
"Well, what good's a book that,you can't
print ? An' Cun'l Beck he maid—
"Oh abet up, Jake. 'Stime niggalis gets
to smart it makes 'on fools. At' as fet
Cun'l Beak, I don't want to be dis'spectful,
but ef he ever said any seeh stuff I don't
reckon he meant it. Any Way, this ain't
Kaineuoity, an' et yeti go off 'With my wheel.
barrow agmI'llhave you tuk tip. You heah,
now 2"-'l ward Egglestone in 'Washington
Post.
Hebrews hold $150,000,000,000 in real ea -
;ate in New York city.
a
000fiiile Slavery.
It seems we have an enemy in our naidat
as bad or worse than strong drink in cz. new
drug, or at least a new property of an old
one. Cocaine ie an elitaloid extract from
cocoa leaves, Cocoa hag been in use from a
very remote period among the Indiana of
Smith America. Its culture and DSO have
extended into Brazil and the ciountries on
the banks of the Amazon, and it is supposed
that more then ten 'undone of the human
race aro now addicted to its use. When
indulged into curiae St weaken* the digest.
Son and finally ruins both mind arid body.
It is only within the last two years that co-
caine was discovered to possees curieus poten-
cy as a local anaesthetic. When *prayed
upon a part of the body it cause e a numb.
ness at that particular place, and adviaection
may be made without causing pain. At the
age of 37 years a Chicago doctor fell into a
condition of physical decrepitude, mental
imbecility and moral decay. Ile at first
used the drug to cure himself of debilitating
morphine habit, when he became interested
in its marvellous properties and soon began
to experiment upon his own body. Dr.13.'s
strange story is of the terrible results of
a mixed diet of opium, morphine, laudannin,
and cocaine. He was born in Quebec, Cam
ada, and educated as a physician at the med.
ioal depertment of Harvard Colloge, where
he graduated in 1872, when 22 years old.
He married and began to practise his pro -
foam in his native oity, but ;titer a period
of ten years removed te Chio4 o. He
anticipated' the verifieetion of romaine's
value in the memo of mediaine, but in-
curred the enmity of the medicsal fraternity of
Chicago thereby. By imperceptible degrees
he lapsed fr9411 thV eleVery of morphine
WO the setvittide of cocaine, and on roan.
What a Time
People formerly had, trying to swallow
the old-fashioned pill with its Alin of
magnesia vainly disguising its bitter-
ness ; aud what a contrast to Ayeras
Pills, that have been well called. " triads
icated sugar -plums" — the ouly fear be-
ing that patients niay be tempted bite
taking too many at a dose. But the
directions are plain and aliould be
strictly followed.
J. T. Teller, M. D., of ciattenango,
N. Y., expresses exantly what hundreds
have written at greater length. Ire
Rays: " Ayer's Cathartic Pills are highly
appreciated, Tbey are perfect in forzn
and coating, and their effects are all
that the most careful physiciau could
desire. They have supplanted all the
Pills formerly popular here, and I think
it must be long before ens% othe11
be made that will at all comple 1001
them, Those who buY 79,11.T. 0114 got
full value for their money," ' j
,,sate, pleasant, and certain M
their action," is the concise testimony
of Dr, George E. Walker, of Martina -
Ville, virginia, -
Ayerla PIITs oateell all similar prep.
Orations. The public having once used
them, will have no others." —Berry,
Venable 84 Collier, Atlanta, Cea.
ing hiperil late to
Prepared byline J. 0..Ayer Co.,Low el 1, Mass'.
a found that it was too
retort*. He was arrested at the inetigation Sold by all neater' in Medicine.
of his landlord on the ground that he was
insane from the use of narcotics. Having -
lost caste in his profession, he wen railroaded
through to an inebriate asylum. He escaped
after ten days' confinement aaad went again
to Quebec with his family. He struggled
ith his fate all through the winter of '85.
*86 and located again in Chicago, but his
old acquaintances would not credit his re-
formation. Crushed under his grief he emit
his wife to her father's home the children
Ayer's Pills,
to charitable institutions and fell literally
into the gutter. He pawned his clothes,
slept little and atm less and begged for co-
caine at every drug store. After some ex-
perience in a Chicago insane asylum he
managed to come to New York city where,
unable to procure the sixty grains of co-
caine he required daily, he forged the names
of prominent physicians on written orders
for the stuff, and fell into the hands of the
police. The New Yont papers reported his
sad history and Charles .A. Bunting, man-
ager of the New York Christian Home for
Intemperate Men'sought him out and has
brought him to the light of reason from
the edge Of a pauper's grave.
Chewing Gum and Whiskers.
It has been discovered by scientists that
the habit of chewing gum by ladies causes a
beard to grow on the chin. The constant
working of the under jaw is said to in some
manner stimulate the roots of the almost in-
visible hairs on the beautiful female chin,
and in timers profuse set of chin whiskers
make their appearance. A Boaton lady was
the first to discover that the whirs' ker which
had appeared on her chin was caused by
chewing gap, and she told a doctor" who be-
gan experimenting. He selectedseveral
young ladiea who were just beginning to
chew gum and watched them, and recorded
the progress of. the hair growing. Girls in
the same family who did not chew gum were
not troubled in the same manner, so it was
clear that chewing gum wars the cause. Since
the doctor published the result of his obser-
vations and, warned the ladies of what would
be the result if they acquired Vie gum habit
very few Boston ladies have looked upon the
gum when it was red, or any other color, for
that matter.
Altogether Too Communicative.
A very prettylittle girl, only three years
old, attracted the attention of passengers in
a Montreal train for Toronto the other day,
and finally one gentleman succeeded in
getting her upon his knee.
"Where are you going, shay ?" he in-
quired.
"I'm going to Toronto," said the child,
adding eagerly: "I've dot on a new pair of
flannel drawers I Did you ever have a pair
of flannel drawers ?" Farther inquiries were
smothered in the laughter of everybody
within hearing,
An Objection to Eleotricity.
Jones—" I don't believe in executing
criminals by electrioity."
Smith---" What's your objection ? "
"You aee, no matter how willing a man
may be to die, if he is executed by electric-
ity he can't be aaid any more to die of his
own free will and a cord."
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A convention of parrots willsoon be held in
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