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Show I Ostriches in California. ' The successful importations of ostriches os-triches from southern Africa in 182 and 188J1 caused a great deal of alarm to the Cape Colony growers, and the provincial parliament imposed an export duty of 500 a head upon them. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing this well nigh prohibitory tax, enterprising en-terprising Americans have since brought over something like 100 birds, and those already hero have done so well that it is only a question of time when semi-tropical California will supply this continent with its ostrich plume. Cor. Chicago News. |