Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — The “Curve” Pilcher Put to Shame. [ARTICLE]

The “Curve” Pilcher Put to Shame.

The boomerangs consisted of crescent shaped pieces of very hard and heavy Australian wood, and all of them hud sharply-rounded edges and ends, but were of different curves, some being nearly straight. The average length was about two feet, the width the same number of inches, and their greatest tliielfm ss not more than salt inch. Standing in the center of the long lot ithey would grasp it boomerang by the end', whirl it over their heads and let it .go, when it would fly with great speed iia a straight .line'for al >out feet, tan-e :nd sail away in a directly confi i.'. v direction, until it was perhaps 20<> s feet oeliiud the spot from which it had Originally .been cast, curve again to the right or left, and Anally strike the ground almost at the thrower’s feet, all rhe while spinning round so rapidly as to look like a wheel. The men seemed to take great delight in the sport, and for half an hour, held the wondering attention of the invited guests of their .manager and the horde of howling small boys who had sealed the fence and run the blockade of the gates. . \ In the marvelous flights of the boomerang the most effective triumphs of the surve-pitcher are outdone a thousand

fold, and the reason for the contrary curve which it takes has always been a puzzler to men of science.—Philadelphia Record.