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...collection of his editorials, grouped by subject, covering the best of his output. The result is an interesting bit of Americana combining a Main Street diary, a graph of the devious political path of a Progressive of Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" Class of 1912, and an all-but-extinct type of "personal journalism...
Hunters still continued to take potshots, and as California grew more civilized, condor food grew scarcer. Condors that died were not easily replaced, for this filthy, majestic scavenger lays only one or two eggs at a time, every other year. Though virtually extinct in recent years, the California condor was expected soon to follow the great auk. dodo and passenger pigeon into history...
...town of Ambovombe might value it for their own curious reasons. That night the chief and a few companions carried the egg to Ambovombe. After hours of haggling a merchant gave them five head of cattle for it. This man recognized the egg as that of the extinct Aepyornis titan or elephant bird, a long-necked creature with massive legs on which it stood ten feet high. From his hands the egg passed to the French administrator of the district, to another merchant, to a missionary named Gunerius Torvic. Last month Missionary Torvic reached Minnesota on leave, got in touch...
...inches across, ivory-colored, pockmarked by sand and insects. Much bigger than the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, its shell is ⅛ in. thick, weighs 6 lb., must have weighed 24 lb. when the mother bird laid it. Aepyornis titan did not become extinct until after the Glacial Ages, which is almost yesterday as geological time goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably snakes and lizards too. In Madagascar during the past century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have been found. Scholars suspect that Aepyornis...
...engagement was ended by mutual consent. She after wards married Djemil Bey Dino, the present Envoy of Albania to Bulgaria, and is happily living with her husband at the Albanian Legation in Sofia. For those people who are willing to learn something, and the breed is not yet quite extinct, I will add that bigamy is in Albanian law a felony punishable by penal servitude...