The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20

and Mr. Root would rather not have
anything said about it. She is very
cross while sitting, and Mr.. Boot is
short two hired men this summer on
that account. They are both buried in
the same grave. An unknown bird
fancier who came to see the ranch in
May approached too close to the aviary,
and Lily, who was at that time sitting
on tin sprinkler and endeavoring, by
putting her mind on it, to hatch out a
spring freshet, arose and kicked off the
gentleman's silk hat.
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Also his head.
Especially Oleson is heavy set bird,
weighing triae over 800 pounds. He
is very docile and eats out of ones hand,
sometimes returning the hand when he
gets through with it. He has very beau
tiful corn colored plumes and does not
sing while noulting. Especially Oleson
and Lily Dale win be driven by a small
colored lad. Mr.. Root says they will be
harnessed to q two wheeled vehicle
weighing thirty-seven and half pounds,
the darby weighing sixty pounds, and
viii make four miles straightway and
return in less than nineteen minutes.
The novelty of these races will easily
advertise them and the expense will be
small. Local entertainment bureaus
are requested to communicate with Mr..
Root, who viii give rates Of percentage
on which he viii play. A good mile
track, properly inclosed, will be all that
is necessary when he goes on the road
Different colored ribbons will mark the
favorites, and naturally much money
viii change hands.
The study of the ostrich is filed with
interest to the thinking mind. Minds
not used for thinking purposes, however,
will find little to interest them in the
ostrich. One odd feature about this
bird is the custom common to the female
of laying several extra eggs outside the
nest for the young to eat as soon as they
are Matched. This is only true, how
ever, of the birds who inhabit SYRIA.
Palestine and Egypt, as they are not
strictly tropical. In the tropical lati-
tudes, of course, the ostrich does not sit
on her eggs, but deposits them in sand
pile, and with degree of indolent faith
worthy of a mother who is corporal in
the Salvation Army she turns them over
to an all wise providence to hatch out,
while she goes forth seeking out other
peoples children in order that she NAV
reform them.
Little boys should never rob the nests
of these birds unless they are in readiness
to face an Infatuated God. Once there
was little boy living about eighteen
miles southwest of Timbuctoo whose
name was Gooloo Goolison. He did not
know what was right and what was
wrong. He had little documentary con-
science, but it did not annoy him at all.
A little gospel had entered the family
years ago, but Gooloo was too young to
get much of it, as he had to eat at the
second table, and there was very little
left after the old folks got through. So
Gooloo did not know that it was wrong
to rob an ostrich nest and substitute
scooped out watermelon.
But he does now.
Whittier he has went people know al
most everything. Especially they know
that to fool the mamma bird with
warm watermelon rind is nc way to live.
The ostrich is not a brainy bird. Even
In Arabia, where knowledge instead of
being power is generally regarded as
the natives, when they want
to say biting thing of some peculiarly
gifted ass. say he is s:as stupid as an
ostrich"