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A LONG-DISTANCE STORK

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 23.

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A LONG-DISTANCE STORK.

An interesting story is told in a foreign paper of a stork which traveled wisely and well. For years he and his mate regularly built their nest in the park at Schloss Ruhleben, near Berlin. The owner of the castle, desiring to ascertain whether the same stork always returned there, ordered that a steel ring, upon which was engraved the name of the place and the date, 1890, should be fastened around the bird's left leg. Last spring the stork came back as usual to the park, and upon his other leg was a ring of silver, bearing the inscription, "India sends Germany her greeting."—Our Animal Friends.