Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-09-17

what would DO tho loss OF the Giants
causoway TO Ireland or the loss of the
pyramids to Egypt, or the loss of the Nj
aqara falls to America. The exact phys
zeal causes OF this upsetting and down
tearing and mountain splitting leave to
biologists TO guess about. TRANSMITTING
their scientific accounts into easier Ian
guage, 1t seems that the mountains wero
stiff in their joints from long standing
and went into play. For great while
they had enjoyed no fireworks, and that
night they illumincd New Zealand with
rockets and wheels Of fire. Tho hills went
into games OF leapfrpg and boil playing
and dying kites and boxing and general
romp They were exhilarated with n mix
turc Of gases-sulphuric, phosphoric and
carbonic--and forgot all the proprieties
that mountains usually observe,
But it was not comedy 1t was q
tragedy of tho mountains, and all the
King Lears, and the Maohoths, and tho
Hamlets, and the Meg MorrIlies OF de-
rangement and horror were that night on
tho stage, Of which the bolching fires
wero tho fOotllghts, and flames hundreds
OF feet high were tho gorgeous upholstery.
Tornadues OF ashes. Furnaces, seven
times heated In which walked tho deity.
Grand march of God sounded by tho ava
lanohes. The earth bombardinR the hoav-
ems. Dante's "In.5rno' lifted into the
terrestrial Maniac elements tearing tho
clouds into tatters and grinding rocks
under their heels That night of June o,
that awful night In New Zealand, when
tho native settlements went down undor
the ashes OF bursting Tarawera rs com
pletely as Pompeil and HorculAneum UNI
der the burial OF Vcsuvius, seemed to play
accompaniment to the words OF the old
book, as much rovored in New Zealand as
in America, an accompaniment in full
diapason, an earthquake with its foot on
the pedal, 1.-THE perpetual hills did bow"
"the mountains skipped like rams, " "thc
hills melted like wax, " "tho foundations
of the earth were shuken." "IIe lookoth
on the earth, aud 10 tremblethl"
That downfall of the New Zealand ter
races was only u conspicuous circumstance
in the history OF the world. Mountains
arc mortal, and they write their autoblog
raphics ON leaves OF stone. All the noun
tains Of New Zealand were nursed in
cradle Of earthquake by parentAge Of
rock and glacier, and they Will have their
descendants. You cannot bury mountains
unobserved, There must DO black pail Of
smoke, and dead march sounded by orches-
lIit Vi blclitulht anu luulutfo loillDR hu
tho passing funeral Of hills, and spade Of
fire to dig their grave, and tho discharge
OF all heavens artillery at their burial,
aud the solemn and overwhelming Htany
sounded, 'Karth to earth, ashes to ashes,
dust TO dust"
You see it will DO we'll for BIOLOGISTS TO
como 10 Now Zealand Ornithologists
ought also to come. Last evening, al
though it Is here midwintor-New Yea
lands July corresponding with Americas
January, although far from being as cold
Il was standing near clump of trees
which still Kept all their foliage, and there
were bird voicea absolutely bewildering
for numbers and sweetness. If the notes
of the music there rendered by the winged
choir had been written on each leaf, tho
rendering could not have been more dulcot
and resonant II would take more room
and time than / possess to describe the or
astrological riches of New Zealand. First
Of all, its extinct Moa, whose skeleton
stands in tho museum at Christchurch-a
wingless bird, or only apologies for wings,
but 10 feet inches high, neck like gl-
rafIo and foot as wide rs q cancels, this
Moa the largest bird whose skeleton has
ever been reticulated, its eggs the size OF a
small bandboN, What tho mastodon WA
among quadrupods, and the ichthyosaurus
was among fishes, the moa WINS among
birds. But among tho living birds in New
Ioaland's avlnry are the whale bird, black
ON tho back and white on tho breast--
morning rising from the night. The huiz,
n sacred bird OF the aboriginus, but ali
birds ought to DO sacred. The parson
bird, so called because tho white feathers
round Its neck give It tho appearance OF a
white choker, The bell bird, with voice
like chime from the tower The New
Zealand pigeon, three times as large as the
American pigeon and more beautiful only
because it has more expanse Of wing and
feathers on which 20 be beautiful Tho
ken, that wars ON the sheep, fastening it
/ self on the back OF the live sheep and not
/ relaxing but peoking It's way through the
| wool and the flesh until the sheep is dead
| and the beak reaches tho fat around the
/ kidneys, for which this bird hns special
Appetite habit learned probably by peck
! ing at the butohered sheep around the
/ door OF the Shepherds hut. The storm
| petrol, like flake OF tho midnight. The
crested penguin. The paradise duck, its
name taken from the fact that its richness
OF color suggests the Edenic, and birds
| with all wealth Of feather and curiosity Of
beak and eecentrleity OF habit and defense
. VI NaeN hHu huuuulNy OF ulpnb ana bearing
all colors-the white running into Grim
son, like snow melting into the fire; the
blue, as II in some higher flight 10 had
brushed against the heavens, or yellow as
II 1t had nested among cowslips and but
teroups, or spotted and fringed and rib
boned and aname until there ore no moro
fountains Of radiance into which they con
! possibly dip their wings.
{ oh, for some scientific gunner to do for
/ New Zealand what Audubon did for Amer.
lea But, what never know before, the
native birds arc dying out before the for.
| eign birds that have been introduced, and
the native howeS are dying out before tho
foreign flowers Although now New Zca-
land Is SO abundant In all styles OF quad
ruped, it Ind not when discovered, a sin.
gle quadruped, except the rat, and for
olgn rat having been introduced tho
aboriginal rat has nearly disappeared
The English grass brought here has killed
the native grass. The birds OF America
Eunopo and Asia, imported here, have
Killed the birds Of New Zealand All the
earth has been ransAokod and all the bo-
tanioal and archaeological md ornitholog.
ical and geological worlds have boon called
] upon to mako nm ha ,,r.ra,s Al. a..