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Show The jOstrlch's Appetite. J Everybody has noticed what un extraordinary ex-traordinary appetite tho ostrich has. It seems to out nnything stones, Jew-elcry, Jew-elcry, hardware, pennies; In fact, all mantlets of odds nud ends. So folk sny of peoplo able, apparently, to food on unythlng that they havo tho digestion diges-tion of an ostilch. But, as Mrs. Aunlo Mm tin points out, the queer mixture which the cieaturo swallows Is necessary neces-sary to prevent It fiom having a bad digestion. They nre, In short, the teeth, or millstones, which grind Us food, only, Instead of being In its mouth, thoy uro placed In its stomach. Every cago bird picks up grains if Band for tho saiuo purpose, thus doing on n tiny scale what tho "ostrich does on a very largo one. |