The South Western News, 1887-10-05

to extract one of the pythons from the mass,and sling it into a corner, Harrison then came to his assist ance to straighten out the convuls sions cf the anaconda and the re remaining - maining remaining python, who were twisted together like the stands of a rope. This was necessary to save the an anaconda, - aconda, anaconda, who, although he had 10 feet more of length and 50 pounds more of weight than his neighbor ! from India, was yet gradually los losing - ing losing his wind Besides all that the rpvtlmn had his fangs set firmly in bis head. While this engaged no attention was paid the third snake 'that had been thrown in the cor cornor. - nor. cornor. Tiring of his inactivity, when so much was goingon he moved in the direction of the head keeper. Thompson, who had been on guard at the door of the cage, stepped in to head him off. The pytliost drew his head back and with a lichtning dart struck him on the thizh, where he fastened hisi fangs, and in a twivkling threw{w three coils arouad the keeper's legs, The head keeper and Hnrrison: dropped their strugggle with the anaconda and his foe and came to the relicf of Thompson. Harri Harris - s Harris caught the pythoun by the tail, and the reptile looseued his fangs to resent the enterference, when Byrne caught him by the head, and between them they urtwisted | him and liberated Thompson, | It was necessary to quarantine the ' prthon while Byrne and Harrison went a second time the relief of the §%OO anaconda, and to successfully quarantine him Harrson, who is a powerful man, caught him by the tail and made him describe cir circ'esin - c'esin circ'esin the air while the relief party was at work. 'When the anaconda was liberated he was taken out of the cage. Harrison droped nis§ snake and the men emerged and closed the gate, l The two pythons had a picnic, but they were not setisfied, and darted vengefully against the bars, The anaconda was knocked out, and the head keeper and his assist assistants - ants assistants picked him up as eailors pick up a heavy rope cable and carried him to the hospital. He was givena warm bath and such stimulants as would revive him from his mori. buwd condition, but he would not revive,and at 10:30 o'clock he pass passed - ed passed tranquilly away,and the Smithe sonian Institute at Washington will get his skin. Keerer Thompson has a sharp, stinging wound on his thigh,but is safe, because the python is of the constrictor epecies and not poison poisonous. - ous. poisonous. At the same time he has ex» pressed his indisposition to meet another python when he has got 'his dander up. | i ' Like the policamen''s," the grave digger's lot is not a happy one. In the pursuit of his cailing he is sure to find himself in a hole. - Boston Courier,

ATFIGHT BETWEEN SNAKES Two Indian Pythons Do Up a Huge Sonth American Anaconda, ' From the Philadelphia Telegraph.] ' There was a scene of terrible ex excitement - citement excitement and danger in the snake house at the Zoo this morning, and the 25-foot-deer-swallowing anacon anaconda - da anaconda from the wilds of SouthAmeriea, who had just celebrated his semicen semicentennial, - tennial, semicentennial, has yielded up the ghost and is no more. The anaconda has Deen a fellow=occupant with two In Indian - dian Indian pythons of a 20-foot cage in the snake house. Being 10 teet longs er ond a little bizger in his waist mensure than his asseciates, who werve only fifteen feet long, 10 inches in diameter, 25 years old, and worth 500 apiece, while his age was 50, and his girth 48 inches; his weight 125 pounds,and his val valuc - uc valuc £BOO, he was sleepy. vicious," and ignorant. Besides that he Lad an iodividual Dbath-tub, for ' ke will only kill and eat bis food when he is water. The ana anaconda - conda anaconda did not eat the first year he was at the Zoo, and during the last tew months he has taken his meals with provoking irregulari= ty. But yesterday his appetite surged in upon him, and he got away with five ducks, anl last vight, before the keeper put the cover over his tub, he ahsorbed ! two more. The pythons were servs ed with a brace of rabbits and an entree of birds, and were left to tl.eir repose by Keeper Thompson. { It is the natuve of the sleek py python - thon python to abhor repose go long as he can worry anyhody, and, it being the time of festival and patriotic demonstration, he arose - this is metaphor - and went over to the bath-tub and shoved the board off the aconda, probably did it with a full consciousness of his re responsibility. - sponsibility. responsibility. Keeper Thompson was in a back room preparing breakiast for the other snakes who have a more delicate appetite than constrictors, when a peculiar swish and rumble reached his ears. The moment he looked in at the door he was startled by a huge, squirm squirming, - ing, squirming, hissing ball of snakes rolling around, for the anaconda,resenting the impudence of the python in looking into his private bath, had got out and gone tor him, with the logical result of involving the 1 second python. Then they were coiled tightly together into a ball and squirming over the floor,- He called to Head-Keeper Byrne, who summoned Keeper Harrison, the Hurcules. who manipulates the grizzles in the bear pit. Keeper Byrne understands the gnake nature. He knows that if you want to uncoil him you take him by the tail and not by the head, because the tail is the most sensitive part of bis being, He went into the cage and managed

ONE OF A.WARD'S LETTERS. 'A Contribution Characteristic of I the Greatest of American Hu. ' morists. New York Mail and Express.] The tollowing letter from Arte Artemus - mus Artemus Ward, to a little Elmira girl. and recently published for the first time, is in the possession of an El Elmira, - mira, Elmira, (N.Y.) gentleman : | SALEM, Mass., June 18, '64. | My Dear_Admelia: 1 cannot tell you how much I miss you, It seems as though I had lost all my relatives, including my grand grandmother - mother grandmother and the cooking stove. Why dido't I put you in a bot bottle - tle bottle and bring you down here with me? Butlam always forgetting | something. The other day I went off and forgot my aunt Sarah, and she's a good deal bigger than you are. Mr. Ramsey is alsoa very | forgetful man. He frequently goes I oft and forgets his washerwoman. Mr. Rameey is a very fine-looking l man. Fe reminds me of Mr. Green, the Malden murderer. When Mr. Ramsey goesto the penitentiary, which will le very soon, we must send him sore dou doughnuts, - ghnuts, doughnuts, magazines and other Jiters ary dccuments. Mr. Ramsey can read print very well. I like you very much. Ishould like you just as well if you were twelve years older. T am very sing singular - ular singular about some things. You spoke to me about a boy who is my rival. I should feel very sorry to kill that boy, but he may drive me to it. Tam in hopes that he will take himself into a prema premature - ture premature tomb - that he will choke himselt with a large slice of pud- | ding, but if he does neither, I shall feel forced to load him with chains and read all my lectures to him. - That will finish him. His boots may remain, but the rest will have perished miserably loug ere I get through ! You must be a good little girl, and always mind your meother. - Never let your excellent mother feel sorry that she is acquainted with you. If it hadn't been for her you might bave drowned in a soup plate long ago. And if you hadn't ever had any mother you might have been a turkey with the turkeys. In fact, my dear Amelia, so conduct yourself that even on dark and rainy days the bright sun may shine wherever you are, and that the stars (which are next to the sun in brightness) may never flash so brightly but that you can always look steadily and hopefully toward them. | Faithfully, your friend A. Warp. Being asked if he favored prohi prohibition, - bition, prohibition, Gen. Butler answered that he was willing to '"'swear oft" if everybody else would. The Gen General - eral General is nothing if not diplomatie,

Prices Paid to Doctors, The public often marvels at the prices paid by rich persons for art objects. Greater surprise might be caused by the sums to physici~ ans for the preservation ot health, It has been said that Viss Wolfe, the hopeless invalil owner of $10,000,000. pays Dr. Tod Hel Helmuth - muth Helmuth 85,000 a year to doctor her. 'She confirms those figures. Mrs, Alebander T Stewart retained thre: doctors at an aggregate cost of at least $40,000, and called in one of them vearly every day. She had what seems like a system by which she abided by the decision of two out of three in matters of diet and medicives. Mrs, William Astor pays to Dr. Fordyce Barker personally an average ol $20,000 always sending a check for double or treble the amount of each bill rendered. Her idea is that, by rewarding his skill and vigilance liberally, she will get the very best service of which he is capable. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's phy phygician - gician phygician is Dr. W 8 Belden, and although her health is excellent, he is consulted often- prevention being preferable to cure, doubtless; and the belief is that the preven prevention - tion prevention costs no less than $lO,OOO an annually. - - nually. - annually. - [Clara Belie's Letter, At a Maryland fair a marriage ceremony was performed on the grounds, and the gocd-looking and good natured groom permitted the minister and several gentlemen to' give his bride congratulatory kiss kisses.. - es.. kisses.. Imagine their sensations when they discovered that they had sa-- luced the office boy of one of their number. They wouald no deubt have rather kissed a horse, and ought to sue the responsible party tor damages. No jury would de« ny them. '

' A New Use for Fiint. | Detroit Free Press.] An eastern man has discovered a process by the additio» of other cheap ingredients of melting ordin ordinary - ary ordinary flint stone at a low tempera temperature. - ture. temperature. This discovery has beon covered by patents and is in the hands of an eastern syndicate The - process produces a beautiful mar- Ible like composition, and will be used tor making encoustic tiling, llaundry and bath tubs aud in the production of works of art. Its wonderful cheapness will enable (its introduction below the cost of | anything of the kind in the mark mark'et. - 'et. mark'et. It has been found to be supe= ! rior to either glass or rubber asan electrical non=conductor, and its use in this direction bids fair to be ilarge. . A Tiibuie to Journalists. It T wanted o get good square judgeinent on something I had done T would rather go to a newspaper office than to any other court of justice. I know that newspapers probe into men's characters, and the pure need not fear all the press es in America. The way to be sate from so called newspaper attacks is to be a Christian. The reporters are the best detective force in this country. They have brought more. criminals to justice and punctured more shams than all other agencies combined - Rev. Sam Jones. Died Ruther Sudden.

New York Sun.] ' They tell in Lewiston, Me., of an oyster-man whose ''saloon" used to be on Main street, and who was the slowest man in the state. Oune day he died, and soon after a citizen said to Erastus, the oyster oysterman's - man's oysterman's son : "Erastus, your father died rath rather - er rather sudden, didn't he ?" "Well, yes," said Erastus, 'rath 'rather - er 'rather sudden for A Double Toothed Saw. Detroit Free Press. ] 'The early bird catches the worm,' said Mrs. Wigwug to her lazy hnsband. 'Yeees;' drawled he, 'but then you know the early worm is caught by the bird. Guess I'll not he ina hurry - don't know whether I'm to figure as the bird or as the worm.' Emotion Made to Order. Burlington Free Press.] In all scenes requiring a blush, modern actresses put the emation ov with a brush before the curtain i rises, and produce it at the proper moment by rubbing off the com comlplexinn. - lplexinn. comlplexinn. powder. . ' Why are chickens' necks like ;dcur bells? They are often wrung for company,

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