The Ostrich In Captivity

The ostrich is naturally vcry timid. It is easily tamed and not hard to naturalizo in a sonii-tropical región, as the experiment on the Pacitie coast go to show. I hey ure usually good naturcd, but when enraged or frightened it is just as well to irive thom awide berth. At Ana cim one of the male birds beoame aogry with iiis mate ana dealt her so furious a blow with his foot that he killed her. A horso or dop; is an objeut of great terror to them. Kecently at Kenillworth. a dog rao into ojic of the inclosures. At sight of the animal the malo beoamt trrribly excited. It ran at tho dog and trampcd it to death, and even then it was beside itself with fear. It liroko down the strong fenoe and escapod into the open vallev BQd was o :t of sight very quickly. No horso could equal its speed. Each stridp meararea twenty feet. It has a long, swnging gait, and the motion is ver, rapid. The short wings aid the running. It was some hours beforu the runaway was captured - California ( orrespondeut ir Cleveland Jt'lain Dealer