Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — A Remarkable Bird. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Bird.

The albatross, with its weight of twenty-eight pounds, its wings thirteen feet from tip to tip, has the ability to keep in motion for a whole day. 'We have in this bird a machine burning concentrated fuel in a large grate at a tremendous rate, and developing a very large power in a ygry small space There is no engine in existence which, weight for weight, gives out anything like the mechanical power exhibited by the albatross,-— J)r, Footed Health