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Snakes.

     George Jenkins, of Barbour county, Alabama, killed a rattlesnake which weighed forty-two pounds, and had fourteen rattles.

Poisonous Snake by Mail.

     An attempt to kill George E. Sterry, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Sterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address writen in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a women’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Sterry’s […]

The Largest Snake in America.

     We were yesterday informed by Mr. Smith, living on Quapaw Bayou, that while he and his son William, aged about thirteen years were out in the woods on Monday afternoon last, driving up their cattle, their attention was attracted by the bleating of a calf. Thinking the animal was probably bogged, they discovered a […]

A Rattlesnake Charmed and Mesmerized by a Man.

     Mr. Sam Gentry, living in the adjacent county of Stewart, has in his possession a purse made of the tanned skin of a rattlesnake, which he caught and killed under the following circumstances: In going along a wheat field he came across the snake lying at full length before him, manifesting no disposition to […]

A Wonderful Snake Hole.

     This seems to be the time of year when snakes are most abundant. We learn from Mr. A. J. Hoffman, who lives in the north part of the county, that on the last Friday, as one of the hired men was going down a small gulch, he came upon a perfect nest of squirming […]

Hogs As Snake Exterminaters.

From the Columbus {Ohio] News. A farmer was living on the west side of the river, in walking about his place, discovered a nest of rattlesnakes in an old log about which several large pieces of rock lay scattered. Our friend had heard that hogs were death on snakes of all sorts, and not caring […]

Snakes And Bugs.

The Secretary of the Treasury on Wednesday week received from San Francisco, California, a box of dead snakes, bugs, flies, and centipedes, a grim looking collection of Chinese reptiles which had been consigned to a firm in that city, by the firm of Yo Chy Tong & Co., of Canton, to be used by the […]

The Dispersal Of Animals.

How Chance Agencies Convey Stray Brutes From One Locality to Another. The manner in which animals may be conveyed from one area or region to another by what may be called chance agencies, has always formed a subject of much interest in the eyes of naturalists. The same opinions may be expressed of the dispersal […]

How A Constrictor Constricts.

Richmond [Va.] Dispatch. The late Isaac White; of Farmington, Albemarle County, told me the following, which he got from Mrs. Marks.  Meriwether Lewis, who first explored the Upper Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and Oregon had started one afternoon to cross the Blue Ridge, and when near the summit was arrested by the spectacle of two […]

Sparrow-Hawks Got Snake.

Reptile Seemed to Have Small Chance Against the Little though Fierce Birds.      We soon found that there were two sparrow-hawks about, and by the 7th of March it seemed evident that they were mated and were considering the locality as a summer residence.      We now saw them almost daily, and the perfect domestic […]