The San Francisco call., 1896-07-03

which 1t feeds. While thus hunting it keeps
up a continuous audible shifting, its nostrils
being located very near the end of the upper
mandible. The kiwi, for by this name it is
best known in New Zealand, is sluggish in the
day time and seems TO have great difficulty in
seeing. AT night it often catches the large
luminous fire worms, crushes them against
the ground and swallows them. During the
operation phospherescent particles adhere to
the beak, and the hermit-ike bird can be seen
in the darkness continuing its search for food.
remarkable thing about the kiwi in addi-
tion TO the absence of wings and regular
feathers is the great size of the egg it lays.
The kiwi egg weighs over l2 ounces, or
quarter of the bulk of the bird itself.
This kiwe Mr.. Harrow long ago accus toned
to meat diet, aud that is the reason he has
got it here alive. He hoped to dispose of it
for $25 10 the Park Com missioners, but was
told that they would willingly accept it for
nothing.
Mr.. Harrow lived in South Africa for sixteen
years before he went to New Zealand. He says
he was one of the first to go TO the South AZ
rlca diamond fields from England, to which
country he is now going on a visit to old
scenes.
Gold mining and the digging of kauri gum,
used in the manufacture of varnish, are the
principal industries about Auckland. The
kauri gum is found in the earth in resinous
Jumps, located by tapping with pointed iron
rods. 1t is one OF the principal exports to
America and elsewhere.
Four miles from Auckland, which is city of
about $4,000. is Lake Takapuna q fresh water
lake only 200 yards from the sea, a condition
that does not maintain anywhere else in the
world. The waters of the lake, now used for
North Shore, are soon to become the main sup
ply for the city OF Auckland.
"The class of '96 at the Annapolis Naval
Academy was noted for Its social functions"
said Ensign Wurtsbough yesterday as he sat on
the edge of the bureau in his room at the Oc-
cidental
1--WE were the deuce for the society part, but
not much for 'ssvoir,'" remarked Ensign
Tozer from his position on the foot OF the bed.
Everybody said" continued wurtsbough,
''that 90 was just such class for good times
as was the class of 80, and that was always
held up to us as model in its way.
There was one fellow" interposed Ensign
Lincoln, and then he paused and hurriedly
scanned the faces OF those grouped about him,
''who was the equal Of your Lucky Baldwin
for winning the fair sex. He's downstairs
now with one of the other fellows checking
our baggage. for we are of for Santa Cruz on
the next train to join the Philadelphia.
"Well, the major was the spooniest fellow in
the class He took the lead as q ladies' man
from the first, before the rest of US had got
over feeling mean because of the soap the
upper classmen made US eat and the ink they
compelled us TO drink when we entered the
academy in the summer OF '92.
"At Annapolis there is a place called the
mortar It's just big mortar surrounded by
number OF old cauIon, but it's a regular
lovers retreat. All the spooney couples make
that stamping ground.
Zone night there was a big party on, and
some of the lower classmen went 'rubber-neck-
ing round the mortar, and they heard
'Doubled-barrelledJ Jr.'s' voice saying tenderly,
'Oh, don't call me Mr.. Call me Arthur His
name is double-ended affair, and that's why
the major has another nickname.
"But that wasn't marker to the light Incl
dent" put IN another ensign who had only a
short time before been discussing Sharkey and
what work on the Philadelphia had done for
him in pugilistic way. "One night there
was cruiser in the harbor. Itwas deuce of
dark night but the major was on duty at
the mortar All of O sudden the cruiser
flashed her powerful search light right on sthe
mortar The officer knew from experience in
his own academy days what it might strike.
There were two heads on one pair of shoulders.
Some fellow spoiled what might after all have
been match by letting out hoarse laugh
and giving our presence dead away"