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Zoo Snake Swallows Mate.

Boa Gulps Down Companion as Both Are Endeavoring to Feast on the Same Live Pigeon.      A snake’s method of swallowing is almost automatic; the internal mechanism begins its work as soon as the reptile takes the food into its mouth. In his book, “Of Distinguished Animals,” Mr. H. Perry Robinson relates an extraordinary incident […]

Had the Snake Hypnotized.

South African Native Surely Exercised Some Kind of Influence Over Big Python.      Many powers are said to be possessed by the African native which those of the Occident find hard to credit. Here is a story of “Muti,” or hypnosis, as performed, according to a reliable inforant, upon a hude python. The narrator says: […]

To-Cure Rattlesnake Bites.

     Deacon Chas. W. Guilbert, furnishes the Galesburg Free Press the following cure for the bite of a rattlesnake.      About 37 years ago I arrived in Galesburg. At that time there was a great many rattlesnakes. I used to kill thirty or forty every year. A few years after my arrival two little boys […]

A Serpent Story.

Terrifying Experience With a Deadly Lancehead.      The Paris Eclair tells a blood curdling serpent story, the scene of which was the island of Martinque and the dramatis personne Sergent Legrand and Private Durand and the snake a deadly lancehead.      The soldier had been punished with a night in the cells for some trivial […]

Snakes Hatch In Fiddle.

Instrument Proves Incubator For Rattlers-Followers of a Superstitious Theory Almost Create Panic at Church Concert.      Residents of Sparrow Bush, four miles from Port Jervis, N. J., got the inside facts from Gene Tisdell why he dropped his fiddle at the church concert in Lifting Rocks just as he was about to play “Pop Goes […]

Snakes And Skunks.

     A man in Rockland, Me., lately dug out of one hole fifty-five snakes and six full-grown skunks-Boston Post.

Rats and Snakes.

       Snakes are being kept to catch rats in Sawtelle, Cal. Like keeping mosquitoes to catch flies.

Terrified by a Big Snake.

     The big snake which is said to exist in the neighborhood of Carter’s Lake, Barry County, Mich., and known as “Carter’s snake,” has been seen again, this time by Henry Marble. The snake is variously reported as fifteen to twenty feet long. Marble was terrified and went to Sexton McElwain’s with his horse on […]

Fight With Wildcat.

  Little Boy Has Exciting Encounter With Vicious Animal.        Perry Maxfield of Bloomfield, N. J., brother of Theodore Todd Maxfield, a well-known horseman, and nephew of Thomas Oakes, millionaire cloth manufacturer of Bloomfield, had an exciting encounter with a wild cat at Nashua, Fla. Maxfield was severely clawed by the animal, and his hunting […]

Swallowed Six Inch Snake.

     Thomas Jefferies, member of the Rough Rider club of Cincinnati, who had been camping on the Ohio river near Lawrenceburg, Ind., got up in the night and took a drink from a spring near by. This was at 1 o’clock, and in a few minutes after he retired he awoke his companions with his groans. […]