Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-26


hired men this summer on that &C
count. They are both buried In thu
same grave. An unknown bird fan
cier who came to see the ranch In May
approached too close to the aviary, and
Lily, who was at that time sitting OIL
a tin sprinkler and endeavoring, by
putting her mind on II, 10 hatch out o
spring freshet, arose and kicked of the
gentleman's silk hat.
Also his head.
Especially Oleson is a heavy set
bird, weighing trifle over 800 pounds.
He is very docile aud eats out of ones
hand, sometimes returning the hand
when he gets through with it. He
has very beautiful corn colored plumes
and does not sing while moulting.
Especially Oleson and Lily Dale will
be driven by small colored lad. Mr..
Root SAYS they will be harnessed to a
two wheeled vehicle weighing thirty
seven and half pounds, the darby
weighing sixty pounds, and will 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 bu-
reaus are requested TO communicate
with Mr.. Root, who will give rates Of
percentage on which he will play. A
good mile track, properly Enclosed,
will be all that is necessary when he
goes on the road. Different colored
ribbons will mark the favorites, and
naturally much money will change
hands.
The study of the ostrich is filled
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
cat as soon as they are Matched. This
is only true, however, of the birds
who inhabit Syria, Palestine aud
Egypt, as they are not strictly tropi-
cal. In the tropical ATTITUDES, of
course, the ostrich does not sit on her
eggs, but deposits them in sand pile,
and with q degree of indolent faith
worthy of mother who is corporal
in the Salvation Army she turns them
over to an all wise providence to
hatch ont, while she goes forth seek
ing out other peoples children in Or
der that she may 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 a 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. lie had
a little rudimentary conscience, but II
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 Sec
ond 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 SUBJ
stitute a scoopcd out watermelon.
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But he does now.
Whittier he has went people know
almost everything. Especially they
know that 10 fool the mamma bird
with a warm watermelon rind is no
way to live.
The ostrich is not q brainy bird.
Even in Arabia, where knowledge in
stead of being power is generally re-
garded as q calamity, the natives,
when they want to say biting thing
of some peculiarly gifted ass, say he is
Gas stupid as all ostrich"
A bird dog is of little use in hunt
ting the ostrich for in many instances
instead of flushing the bird lie gets
little flushed himself.
Featherdusters are mostly the hand
iwork of the Nandu or -AmericanOs-
trick. At the Cape Colony many os-
triches are domesticated for their
plumes, eggs, oil and rarely their flesh
which is little gamey, but not half
bad.
Cases of Group in Africa have been
almost Instantly relieved by catching
all ostrich, frying the oil out OF il
while yet warm aud applying it to the
exterior and interior OF the child.
The ostrich is gregarious, Omniver-
GUS, polygamous ami endogenous. 1t
gives a great deal of time 10 the pleas
ing occupation of digestion. The par
ent bird does not hunt food for her
young at all, but leaves them to hus.
lie for themselves. as Aristotle has it.
The mother provides them ut their
birth with but one worm apiece, and
that is all.