Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-19


will remember that Immediately is a
good roadster.
A good horse has no business with an
ostrich While horse is considering
where he will put his hind feet, so as not
to cork himself, the ostrich with whole
arm movement steps off at the rate of
eighteen feet per step with no danger to
her extra limbs. The ostrich also has
her limbs reasonably far apart, and
therefore does not interfere.
Abou Ben Pangborn, of Watermelon
township, Congo county, had young
FLY ostrich which wanted to sit in the
summer of 70, and he did not wish to
have her do so, as he had sold the setting
of eggs to Sabbath school for Easter
So he tied her by the hind leg at the
kraal of neighbor, 28f miles away. The
chain was attached to her limb Just be-
low the calf of the limb, the other end
being fastened to the root of BAN
burrowallispus tree which grew near the
kraal
When the desire to sit comes over the
female ostrich she cannot overcome it
any more than a walking delegate can.
She yields to it and becomes its willing
slave. You can play on her with a fire
department or tie red rag to her over
skirt, but you cannot quench her desire
to occupy a sedentary position.
That was the way with this young
thing. Her name was Patience. She
had already sat several weeks on pine
apple cheese, and, aside from giving it a
rich home flavor, she could not detect
any progress toward Matching out a
wholesale grocery store.
So one day great longing to get back
to her own nest 2Ss miles away came
over her. She lost control of herself.
Her mother nature asserted itself in a
brief ejaculation such as the female os-
trich makes when suddenly confronted
by a great mental problem. In her
minds eye she saw those Sabbath school
children blowing the interior out of her
large and juicy handiwork, and then dec
Grating the exterior with lilies, etc, etc.,
and tying ribbons to them, and Patience
arose and girded up her loins and gave a
great kick that busted the periphery of
the kraal and tore down the bamburro-
wallispus tree, and with the chain and a
prong of the tree root, together weighing
thirty-seven pounds, she trotted across
to her home, by actual computation, in
sixteen minutes and twenty-five seconds,
though Abou Ben Pangborn made it a
little short of that with his new stop
sand glass. Patience thus made rec
ord of at least mile in thirty-three sec
onds, carrying thirty-seven pounds at
tached to the calf of her limb.
Mr.. Root says that he can reduce this
record greatly, and has done so already
in several instances. He has five birds
now in hand, named and described as
follows:
Timbuctoo, a large ashes of roses bird,
over ten feet high, who PAGES without
urging at thirty-seven on an empty
stomach. Give him little hot lunch
out of the cellar of a recently burned
hardware store and he can make it in
twenty mine, so Mr.. Root says. Timbue-
too has a powerful digestion and tape
worm which coaxes ship chandlery and
railroad rolling stock 1t will pay to get
your tips from Timbuctoo.
Overgrown Williams is large, soiled
white gelding, with no record as yet,
though he has taken no dust from any
other bird in the United States, barring
those on Mr.. Roots ranch. He is young
yet and awkward. He also SHES some,
and when he does so is apt to step out
from under his rider, leaving him in a
comatose state. He weighs 2S7 pounds,
and hopes to do even better than that as
he fills out by another spring.
T. De Witt Talmage is a pearl gray
ostrich of rather slender build, who has
always led an upright life, or at least, if
not, he has never allowed anybody to
get on to it, rs Mr.. Root says. De Witt
makes good time and acts as his own
jockey. The Duke of Council Bluffs says
this bird is the shrewdest one he has ever
seen. He can throw race with won
derful ease, and in style that would
tickle Satan almost to death.
Lily Dale is a large black ostrich from
the Soudan. She is twenty-seven hands
high and easily eats out of second story
window. She is not particular whose
window it is, eyether. Lily is broad
shouldered brunette and has record
but it is not a very good one. It was
made in Africa, before she came here
and Mr.. Root would rather not have
anything said about it. She is very
cross while sitting, and Mr.. Root is
short two hired men this summer OF
that account. They are both buried il
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 9
spring freshet. arose and kicked off the