Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-09
,eANss OF THe osrRc4.
Tall unsainiy Bird Does souss ou.er Things at rimes-

III.
 >t,rhty Queer Things at Times l e ostrich is not bird that can be brought up in the way that it
 3d 90. It has no powers of dis
 ination. Because God hath de- e ,d her of wisdom. neither had he
 rted to her underStanding"-as 4 inc description of the ostrich in
 6Aook of Job. It cannot discriIn- between a wire fence and the
 eamp. between friends and foes,
 Hetween what is helpful and what
 ,rttul to the digestion. 1t was ow-
 to ifs want of understanding in this
 respect, and to an equal want of
 Elimination on the part of the Bnt-
 public. that it has been found i'm
 eible to keep ostriches alive in the
 Illogical gardens in London,
 public accustomed to slip its pen
 into automatic machines could not
 rain from the temptation offered by
 omniverous throat of an ostrich,
 i filled them up with poisonous cop
 as if they were so many missionary hes In its African life, however,
 chief danger that besets it is not the
 klessness of its appetite, but its reck-
 disregard of its own limbs It will ke fright at shadow and hurl itself Endly into the nearest fence, from hich it will bo extricated with a foken leg, or fight savagely with a bother ostrich and break its leg. or knce, waltzing with swift and graceful fecision, afTording a most beautiful Erht to the spectator and the greatest Atisfaction to himself, until giddiness bmes upon it and brings it to the round-again with broken leg. It true that its dangerously powerful ecs are also very brittle, but it must be onfessed that it does not use them Tell.
 Of the danger that the owner some ines runs from those powerful limbs, writer tells some very amusing sto- les. A sturdy newcomer, some six get in height, laughed at the warnings hat were given him when he set out pr a walk and disdainfully refused the of a tacky-a thorny branch. he dexterous use of which will keep he ostrich at bay-averring that he was not afraid of a dicky birdln He vas missed and discovered some hours fterward by search party most un- omfortably perched on the top of m 'onstone powder and slowly grilling nder the African sun. while the ''dicky ird" did sentry up and down. watch lg him with an evil eye.
 Another gentleman had a theory that ny creature, however savage, could be nbdued-''quelled." as be said-by he human eye. One day he tried to uell one of his own oStriches. with the ssult that he was presently found In a cry pitiable predicament, lying flat on he ground, while the subject of bis apartment jumped up and down on i'm, occasionally varying the treat lent by sitting upon him. Doubtless was safer to lie down than to stand p to be kicked; but to be sat upon as one were an egg must have been in- eed hurniliating.
 Curious, too. is the account that the uthor gives of the camps or little ingdoms that the ostriches mark out ,r themselves. with invisible but neyer } be encroached upon boundaries. lside that camp it will bear no in- -usion. but outside of it. in the do Iain of its neighbor, it is profoundly in- ifferent to the strangers wanderings. Nor is it safe for the farmer 10 pre- me upon his former acquaintance ith any bird, for the ostrich has not its enough to distinguish an old friend on new intruder. nor sufficient re- ,ect for his owner to except him from Is suspicious hoStilities. though 1t ould appear that, as rule, be will lanifest a stronger aversion to the afr or Hotteutot than to a white Divide.