Popular science monthly . The grocery store as a fashionable dwelling-house. Aninconspicuous sign is all that denotes its character Testing the Pulling Powerof an Ostrich NOW and thunusualstuntsbeing per-formed inconnectionwith an auto-mobile, but itis probablethat nothingmore novel habeen reporteduring reccnmonths than isillustrated in theaccompa nyi n gphotograph—the. The ostrich sustained the weight of the driver andpulled the automobile uphill until told to stop pulling of an automobile by an ostrich. Thistest or performance came as a result of adiscussion between the proprietor of one oft
Popular science monthly . The grocery store as a fashionable dwelling-house. Aninconspicuous sign is all that denotes its character Testing the Pulling Powerof an Ostrich NOW and thunusualstuntsbeing per-formed inconnectionwith an auto-mobile, but itis probablethat nothingmore novel habeen reporteduring reccnmonths than isillustrated in theaccompa nyi n gphotograph—the. The ostrich sustained the weight of the driver andpulled the automobile uphill until told to stop pulling of an automobile by an ostrich. Thistest or performance came as a result of adiscussion between the proprietor of one ofthe largest ostrich farms near Los Angeles,Caiilornia, and a niunlxT of automobilemen of that city. The farm proprietorclaimed that the bird could jHill the automobile men doubled but theywere ready and waiting to be convinced. Several dayslater an Inter-State touring carwas secured andrun out to a boul-e\ard close to theostrich farm. Oneof the largestbirds, with a sackover its head, wasled through thefarm-gate andi ni m e d latelyhitched to thefront axle of theautomobile bymeans of an espe-cially prepared set of harness. The trainer took his position upon theback of the bird and urged it forward, butjust as soon as the traces became tightthe ostrich balked and danced repeated efforts had been unsuccess-ful in getting the bird to pull, the tr
Size: 2016px × 1239px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectscience, bookyear1872
