Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-16
side of the ocean

Long since have ceased to reproach
the weather. The weather is what 1t
was made to be. 1t means well, but very
little religious Advancement can be made
this spring In southern California. Pas
tors here tell me that they can see a
noted falling of in Santa Barbara In the
attendance at the Look Up legion here
and in the Lend q Hand society also
since the weather fetched loose.
There is home for Disabled Spiritual
Mediums also at Santa Barbara. and this
spring there has been a retrogression
there bordering on inconoclasm.
At the Do Good society's parlors men,
bers now hold their umbrellas In their
hands even through service instead OF
leaving them In the hall or in the pas
tors study where they can drain into
his last years sermons. Thus they are
ruined, for sermon should be kept per-
fectly dry.
have been given by Lieutenant
Chase of the army bag OF seeds from
the seouoia trees of the State. He says
they will grow easily In North Carolina.
l will plant them there, and friends are
invited to come there when they mature,
IN 5000 years from this spring, and we
will have a basket picnic, after which
will speak.
The sequoia is like number Of men /
have met here-chiehy remarkable for
having been here first. subscribed last
week S. for the relief OF man who
frankly admitted that, aside from that.
there was nothing whatever the matter
with him.
visited another ostrich farm the
other day. can hardly keep away from
this strange bird. Ostrich eggs are
worth Sl56 rs per dozen. They are good
to eat, and six OF them will make man
q meal.
The ostrich cannot be got by means
of the horse. He never runs. he just
walks; but, oh, how they do emerge
from where they were and arrive else
wherel
They also do not run away in a bunch,
but scatter at once in every direction,
so that the swlftest rider is bewiidered.
The bird seems to raise the head, shrug
its shoulders, and with scarcely feel
ing of interestin the chase ii just simply
swaps time for distance like q tele-
phone.
The only way to catch an ostrich is to
appeal TO its appetite, which Is its only
intellect, for its brain and body are as
unequal as those OF a pugilist- You take
sack of corn in bag and START out az
ter a bird that seems TO lag little, and
II YOU know how and also have a little
salt to put on the tail Of the bird youI
are as liable to secure him inside Of ST !
weeks as you would be on horseback.
The first importer Of ostriches
America told me that he had got III
of the boat at San Diego and put 4
in the corral, but Ia the gladness O
ing again on land an old gent q
kicked down aquarter Of mile q
wall and escaped. So did the
| they saw no reason why the
reHsin, so they went also, di
thew lid the business Of ialI
warm eggs at sI2. so each wi
dom. II tpk that year to
birds. This Is IS awkwa
APPLES on nv upright fa
Carolina Makirs stud
| pineapple only. ! KEW
a shrub and did not k1q
whether IL IL citrN
fruit. I have therefore
vantage OF by dealers, d
have In fact been trying
| Rhode Island Greening on
pine
The ostrich can eat objects n
than the neck, which seems impossf
Big beets or mangels are used for
as we'll as grain. These mangels 3
| 70 the size OF q persons thigh Il de-
10 give the persons nsme)- And
a hatchet--an ostrich hatchit7
owner chops Of the big end Of the