Show OSTRICH WANTED A SMOKE he swallow the lighted cigar to th the consternation of ins his keeper there was a performance in the ostrich department of the syndicate shows the other day says gays the tucson A T star which had not been advertised it it took th tha place of the strongman strong man feature which was advertised but come off sammie hughes was standing in near the ostrich conservatory making Z a scientific study ot of the birds and smoking a freshly lighted ten cent cigar an ostrich suddenly lengthened his neck about a foot and removed the cigar from mr hughess mouth and ud swallowed it fire and all the length a of an ost richs neck furnishes a wonderful opportunity for a lighted cigar and it burned every evert inch of the way to the prompting of his indiscriminate appetite A gentleman connected with the show in the capacity of chambermaid for the ostriches saw the cigar disappear within the birds bill he accused mr hughes of having made a voluntary con contribution trib ution and uttered language which was neither moral nor polite showing that the spiritual training of this great educational menagerie is not what it is cracked up to be he threatened to eject mr hughes from the premises air hughes tried to explain that he was the chief loser by the transaction and that the whole thing was an affair between himself and the ostrich deputy united states marshal ezekiel also began to say that the ostrich had brought the trouble on himself the showman pushed mr ezek ezekiel del aside and the officer was compelled to exhibit his gun as h his IS badge of a authority in the me meantime entime the cigar had been extinguished in the birds gizzard and he seemed to have forgotten the episode of the cigar and was looking longingly at t an empty soda water bottle which lay on the ground just out of reach |