| Show t Ancients Found Many Uses for the Ostrich Several Se I ancient nations found the ostrich a u us as well ns as a weIrd bird a writer In the Detroit News relates re- re lates In Mesopotamia t years ago go artisans ons fashioned drinking cups from ostrich eggs The fhe top was sliced ofT off the edges were smoothed and a pottery Ud lid overlaid with bitumen was fitted The pious Spartans are said to have buve used an ostrich egg to perpetrate a 0 religious fraud they hay lag Ing placed on exhibition the actual egg laid by Leda after Zeus had hadIs visited vis- vis her ber In the form of u a swan and ond from which Castor and Pollux were hatched Eg Egyptians found ostrich feathers useful for ornament and the princesses had bad ostrich ten tIer tans fans Both the feathers end cad eggs were high highly ly Iy prized tributes from tribes to the south In China Chang ilen len on Iris hit return from Persia In n. n e. e Drought brought something us f strange os as Chinas China's first grapes It was c tale of a 11 bird he had seen whose eg egos I were as large as pottery jars The Chinese were skeptical of such a 8 astory story but fortunately for Chang the emperor ot of Parthia later sent some ostrich eggs ns as a tribute to the Chi court In n A D D. some live ostriches ostriches os- os reached China and they were at once dubbed sparrows cornel |
