A Daily Telegraph telegram from Paris says :—l' A curious and fatal accident hap>ened at Marseilles, Thirty ostriches which isd arrived from Algeria were being placed in the train for (Paris, where they are to be exhibited in the' Jardin d' Acclimatisation, when a man attempted to pluck some feathers out of one Of the 'birds of the desert.' He immediately received a kick from the ostrich which killed him on the spot,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 297, 11 May 1889, Page 3
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73Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 297, 11 May 1889, Page 3
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