Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — Swallowed a Rook. [ARTICLE]

Swallowed a Rook.

A cloud of sorrow hovers over the ostrich farm on the Atlanta exposiion Midway, One of the finest birds lingers between life and death and his existence may end any minute. Yesterday afternoon a great crc«wd gathered around the farm and a colored youth tossed a large rock at one of the birds. It hardly touched the ground before one of them swallowed it. The rock lodged in the bird's slender peck and to keep it from choaking to death it was necessary to perform a surgical operation. Dr. Cook was called and he cut the neck open and pulled the rock out. The wound was sewed up. The ostrich is in a precarious condition. The attendants do not believe that it can recover. The only bird that sings while flying is the