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SNAKES USED TO WALK.
At Least So Says a Smithsonian
Expert on Reptiles.
Tlie Python lias Feet An Illustration of
the Serpent's Tower of Locomotion
Tbe Snake Moves J.Ike a
Ms. Wslkini; In s Uag
The good housewives of New Eng
land, and, perhaps, in other purts of the
country, are wont to meet the ques
tions of inquisitive youngsters with
the exclamation: "Oh! snake's foot!"
an expression like "hen's teeth," and a
"side-hill badger," denoting the im
possibility of a thing. The sDake'f
foot, however, is fomething more than
a nonentity, and the story of the ser
pent in the Garden of Kden, that was
doomed forever to crawl upon its belly,
is only partly, if it is at all, true.
This was proved to a representative
of the Washington Post the other day
who called at the .Smithsonian institu
tion. The wise men there who are
skilled in anatomy of animals have re
cently received a big python that sick
ened and died in New York. His
mottled hide was drying in the sun at
the time in a sequestered spot between
the Smithsonian building and the wood
en shed where the taxidermists have
their workshops. It is an uncanny
place, and the man who chances to
glance in there may behold anything
from the carcass ol an ourang to that of
a buffalo. Prof. F. A. Lucas, who had
the remains of the twenty-foot snake
from the east in charge, was asked if
snakes had feet.
"Oh! yes," said he, and he took down
the skeleton of the python, which had
been stripped of all the flesh so that
the frame work of bones fastened
with cartilage remained as perfect
a life. It was coiled up like a
bunch of rope and at light as a kite. It
was surprising to know how frail a
structure of bone could make a very
supple snake, able to give an elephant
a hard tussle.
'V'es," said Prof. Lucas again,
"snakes have feet, and the best exam
pl among living- spades ) th
jfytlim." Ha rlnterl i.i tli Ui.wm
Hi
ot tlio python, which he held in his
hand, and showed two long ribs on
each side of the body well back to
ward the tail. Those are the remains
of the snake's feet and legs. Like the
vermiform appendix in man. the snalct
Ijas no earthly use for them now, and
can get along quite as well as he is.
All the big snakes have these remains
of former feet, especially the boa con
strictors and the anacondas. Prof.
Lucas says that the bones of the legs,
which have withered and shortened in
the ages during which big snakes have
enjoyed existence, are found in some
small species of snakes in this country,
although it is not common. The best
known species is the glass snake of
Florida, of which so much has been
said.
There wa9 a monster of old that fre
quented the waters of prehistoric seas
srt nwld was young that was
probably the ancestor of the present
snake. He was called the plesiosaurus,
and acquired monstrous dimensions.
Popular zoologists like to picture bat
tles in the seas where the water was
made red with the blood of these mon
sters and others of their tribe. Their
sole surviving descendants are the
half mythical sea serpents. They had
fins, and the rudiments now found
may be the remains of these. When
the reptiles came to the land to live,
and learned, for some reason unknown,
to burrow in the sand, they would un
doubtedly lose these. There are miss
ing links, however, in the line of de
scent of the snake, and all the scien
tists tell about reptilian genealogy is
partly a matter of conjecture.
Of the many snakes that live in the
water nowadays the major part are
rapid swimmers and are deadly tc
handle. Prof. Lucas mentioned one
called the platurus, on account of its
big flat tail, which swims in tropical
waters. He says it is accounted great
sport to catsh it with a hook and line,
but the danger comes when the catch
is hauled in, and the average man is
very shy of that kind of lishing, as one
bite means death right speedily, and
in the most agonizing form.
There is still another explanation of
the rudimentary foot of modern times
in the snake world, and that is that it
is the remains of a flying dragon.
There were undoubtedly dragons in the
times of old, and when the dragons
ceased to fly and came to the earth to
drag out an existence, It is not im
probable that some of them survived as
snakes, and that the remnants of their
feet and wings survive in the species
that tempted Eve in the Garden of
Eden.
The usual method of locomotion with
the snake tribe is rather peculiar, and
is more like walking in a bag than
anything else. In fact, a snake walk
ing, for a snake does not crawl, is
like a number of boys put in a bag at
a Fourth of July sack race. Prof. Lu
cas was showing the other day howthis
done. The snake walks on his ribs.
The old Germans, or Teutons, as they
were called in the early days, used to
have a warlike custom of proclaiming
their kings. The sturdy warriors
would lock together their brazen
shields, lifted high above their heads,
on which the future king was elevated.
A snake s belly is in all respects like
the inter-locked Teutonic shields. His
feet are his ribs, which he is capable
of working backward and forward,
and at the same time bending them.
Over each rib, or foot, there is a shield,
and as the foot moves the point of the
shield is lowered and digs into the
ground or takes hold of any projection
on the surface over w hich it is going.
Thus he moves his bulk along. He also
curls himself up, and thus he moves
along more swiftly. Grabbing hold
with his front ribs an ugly snake can
hold fast while he pulls up his other
half, which in turn takes a hold while
the front part is pushed along. The
scientists do not believe that snakes
can spring, but they do sometimes
jump.
LIKE A GIANT CORKSCREW.
Fourteen Times Around a Mountain II
tween Ka.e and Summit.
There is a mountain fifteen miles
from Tuniacacor. but so near the inter
national line that it is not known posi
tively whether it is in Arizona or Mex
ico, but it is believed that it is United
.Slates property. Miners, says New
Yorlt becorder. have ahvavs called it
ISabcl mountain, and it is a most ap
propriate nn mo. It is of a soft sand
stone and pumice formation, and the
work of making the road was not a
difficult task. The road commences in
a canyon of the foothills and.rises at an
easy grade, corkscrew fashion, going
around the mountain fourteen times
efore the summit is reached. The
road is about fifty yards square when
it starts at the base and gradually gets
smaller until it is only ten feet wide at
the top. In many places the road has
been washed out by the storms of
years, but it is still possible to take a
horse to the top. In many places,
where the siiles overnang a little, the
mark of the builder's pick can be plain
ly seen on the wall of rock. To ascend
the mountain a person must follow the
road, and this is a two days' task, as it
is about thirty mi!cs, as near as can be
calculated without actual measure
ment. The lowest road is a little over
three miles long when it gies around
the mountain once. However, this is
very irregular and goes around several
spurs of the mountain. The roughness
of the road is tindescribable. and a
horse is of no use for a week after the
trip. The tonnf the mountain is about
seven thousand f. .1 uii.nc I ; olnin.
There is nothing ul the top. and the
adventurer v. under-,, when he get.
there, what the road was built for.
THE CRADLE OF GREAT NEN.
A fJUtUif ulshed Public l.t K tns Waal
Is Their Itlrtli place.
The typical Americans have all been
western men, with the exception, let
ns say, of Washington. Washington
had not had much of Luropean culture.
The qualities that made him a great
commander and a great president were
qualities wr.icti wotiid have made him
an fqi;lv pri-al fr.ifiirpisn Voti 1
cannot imagine Hamilton, or Madison,
or Livingston, or John Adams, or the
Pinckneys living tolerably on the fron
tier. They are not Americans in the
sense in which Clay and Jackson and
Lincoln are Americans. We may wish
that the typical Americans of the past
had had more knowledge, a more culti
vated appreciation of the value of
what was old and established, a
juster view of foreign nations
and foreign politics; that they
had been more like Webster and less
like Jackson; and we may hope that
the typical American of the future
will be wiser and better poised. But
in the meantime the pust is to be un
derstood and estimated as the
facts stand, and only a thoroughly
sympathetic comprehension of these
men who have actually been the typ
ical Americans will enable us to effect
that purpose. The fact that Clay
rather than Webster, Jackson and not
John Quincy Adams, represented the
forces which were really predominant
and distinctively American in our de
velopment is commentary enough on
any theory that makes either of the
peculiar sections of the Atlantic sea
board the principal or only theater of
American history.
A UHLAT BEAR HUNTER.
Five Hundred of the Animals Slain or
Gen. Wade fliimpton.
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, in his "Wil
derness Hunter," speaks of Gen. Wade
Hampton, of South Carolina, as the
man who, "with horse, and hound, has
been the mightiest hunter America has
ever seen." His special game has been
bear and deer, but he has also had the
fortune to kill some sixteen cougars
the panther of the east, the mountain
lion of the west, and the lion and puma
of Mouth America. Of black best's, ac
cording to Mr. lioosevelt, he has prob
ably killed more than any other man
living in the United States. Thirty or
forty of these he has killed with the
knife.
His plan was, when he found that
the dogs had the bear at bay, to walk
up close and cheer them on. They
would instantly seize the bear in a
body, and he would then rush in and
stab it behind the shoulder, reaching
over so as to inflict the wound on the
opposite side from that where he stood.
He escaped scathless from all these
encounters save one. in which he was
rather severely torn in the forearm.
Many other hunters have used the
knife, but perhaps none so frequently.
Gen. Hampton always hunted with
large pucks of hounds, managed some
times by himself and sometimes by his
negro hunters. He occasionally took
out forty dogs at a time. He found
that all his dogs together could not
kill a big, fat bear, but Miey occasion
ally killed three-year-olds, or lean and
poor bears.
During the course of his life he has
himself killed, or been in at the death
of, five hundred bears, of which at
least two-thirds have fallen by his own
hands. In the years just before the
war he had on one occasion, in Missis
sippi, killed sixty-eight beat's in five
months. Once he killed four bears in
a day; at another time three, and fre
quent ly two.
The two largest bears he himself
killed weighed respectively four hun
dred and eight and four hundred and
ten pounds. Most of his hunting for
bears was done in northern Mississippi,
where he had a plantation.
GREAT ARoENIC tATERS.
Australian Womrn Bttri'ltlce Health and
Hair on the Alturof (iond f'otnplexlon.
The majority of the female beauties
of Sidney, according to an English ob
server, have peculiarly delicate com
plexions, languid expressions, fragile
physique and a die-away look in the
eyes, which are more suited to the en
ervated temperment of an old civiliza
tion than the active vitality of a new
woriu. It was easy even for a novice
to detect that these ladies owed a good
deal to their perruquier. The mystery
of this curious conit nation of nre
maturc baldness and unusual delicacy
of complexion was explained by the
fact that these women ate arsenic in
order to produce the aristocratic pal
lor and languor, and found to their
horror that another effect of the drug
was to make the hair drop out. Valu
ing their complexion above their hair,
however, they sacrificed the one to the
other. What a woman will endure for
her complexion may be estimated by
this and also by the fact that these
arsenic eaters rarely live past forty
five. There is no pleasure, moreover,
in the consumption of the poisonous
drug. Thi! arsenic is made up into
dainty looking caramels, which fash
ionable dames will produce from pre
cious little bonbonnieres and suck
quite openly, just as the American girl
chews gum or the English girl choco
late. 'The arsenic question, English
men say, was becoming quite a burn
ing one in the antipodes. When a man
married a young looking, lovely crea
ture, adorned with luxurious ringlets,
he was disgusted to find after the cere
mony that she was really a semibald,
prematurely enervated woman, who
was shortening her life to please her
own vanity and was Incapable of ful
filling the duties of n mother to debili
tated children which she brought into
the world. Movcover. Hie sufT'Ting
which she would go through in any at
tempt toovercome this pcrnieioushabit
was quite enough to make her break
down, if, indeed, she could be per
suaded to bear it at all.
HIS PET PHRASE.
It Was Good for .til atluus and Meed
.e nf.llli -l.v.
In the "Memoir of ib n.y I oinptoii,'
published ill I. oh Ion sieae ea rs ago.
there i'- iiu hiiiu -ihK si or,- '. ',,f I, ,4s an
obvious. I l.ll . .,tl,nvloM Uh a
.ljii.1 tco.i, Jos l.j.lo ! iiit e,-,;n temper
i.i un easy di-pu-auon. Jl went
Miioiijjli life with the fffeiite-,t !.id:trer-;-
as to ilseares arid its troubles,
(i -in pbras- be ned on occa.-.ions.
"It may be i,o. but t;,eii i.niu it may
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"it may rain, but then again it may
not."
Seeing him reading: "Daniels' Field
Sports." I inquired if he ever went on
a hunting excursion.
"Why, yes." said he. "1 did go once
on a bit of a jaunt of the sort, but I
made a sorry set out of it. 1 borrowed
a gig of a friend, and started for a
day's pleasure, as I thought: but the
horse was a stranger to me. and so,
not having received a regular intro
duction to him, as soon as the chase
begun, oif he set at full speed, with
me inside the gig.
"1 began to be alarmed. Thinks I,
'There's danger here: 1 may go a little
farther without being turned over, but
then again I may not.' Well, away he
tore, over furrow and Held, leaping
every ditch and bank that came in his
way. Presently 1 saw we were near
ing a horse-pond,- and 1 began to siiy
to myself: 'I may get past this pond
without being dropped in the middle
of it, but then again 1 may not.'
''However, after running a tremen-dous-isl;,
f escaped a broken neck that
time, and after getting pretty saf.d.v
through the remaining p;irt of the
chase, says I to myself, says 1: 'Well, I
may be tempted to go a-huntini; again,
but then again. I may not!'"
SAVING THE PENNIES.
The World's Thrifty Folks Ami
lions of Hollars.
The savings batiks of Russia hav
only 50 cents to the inkabitant on de
posit, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Denmark has the greatest amount tt
the inhabitant in the savings banks
being about ??:"() to each.
In lS'.l'J there were in thiscountry 1.05J
banks that received savings deposits
the depositors numbered 4.7H1.005, anc
ths deposits aggregated the enormoui
mini of 81,713,700,0211.
France comes next after the Unite(
States in the number of depositors it
the savings banks, having -1,150,000, anc
having on deposit the sum of $559,
000,000.
Germany has the greatest number ol
depositors in the savings batiks, ovei
8,000,000, but the aggregate of their do
posits is not given in the government
report.
In Switzerland 3(10 inhabitants in tht
1 ,000 have money on deposit in savingi
banks; in Germany, 1H0; in France
170, in Great llrituin, 1:15; in the United
States, 117.
The Austrian savings banks arc pat
ronized by l.H.IO.OOO depositors, whe
have on deposit W:i,(Mi,(i0il.
Of all the states New York has tin
greatest number of savings bank de
positors, l,M(,:is!i, and also the great
est amount of deposits, fiSH,t'!5,4'.)l
Massachusetts comes next with l.i:il,
301 depositors, having on deposit jWOO,
S'Jo.asti. ART AND ARTISTS.
Giotto's greatest odvanco in paint
ing was the rejection of the greenish
black color the Ilyzantine painters em
ployed for the human figure, and sub
stituting the color of nature for the
faces and hands.
The museum of antiquities at Dres
den has come into possession of an in
teresting marble relief from Home,
which represents an ancient butcher
shop, of oblong shape, and divided by
a pillar into two equal parts.
A I'ouiiuir, which is supposed to be
of Robert Auchmuty, one of George
III.'s judges, in lioston, is still hang
ing in the supreme courtroom in that
city. The picture iB the work of John
Singleton Copley and bears the date of
1707.
Mu. Hi'UNK-JoNKH, the English artist,
is engaged upon the interesting task
of painting a portrait of Mr. Glad
stone's youngest granddaughter, Doro
thy Drew. This little blue-eyed
maiden of three years is snid to re
semble the grandfather startlingly.
A fiiiKKK peasant llvingonthe island
of .Kgina recently discovered a mag
nificent statue buried in the ground,
upon which had been a small planta
tion, and which he had cleared. The
statue was sold to a bric-a-brac dealer,
who sent it to London, where it has
just been bougbt by the British gov
ernment for the sum of sixty-live hun
dred pounds.
BALKING THE UMBRELLA THIEF.
A HaNulngtou Man lias Invented an Auto
matically ICrluruable Italu Shield.
Another long-felt want is obout to
be filled. Drawings fortius Invention
were received at the patent office only
a few days ago, and the man, who, by
the way, Is a Wasliingtonian, is prepar
ing to build him a new house in the
most fashionable part of the city with
the prospective funds from this inven
tion. It is nothing less than an auto-
ITULtiellllv rillimil),l timlirall. 'l.nt
is, one that will make its own arrange- J
incuts for its return to its owner when
lost. The nomadic habit of umbrellas,
especially when left unchained in tbe
neighborhood of a crowd, has long
been a subject of comment, and it has
been a serious question whether the
trouble were altogether with the inor
ulsoftlie iimbl-elhi. that would go otf
and lo-.e itself, or an inuute depnn ity
of tii1 uuibieila-using public that, made
fludinrr keepings without much iu
"iniry as to the identity of the loser,
i'he new, non-lo-able umbrella does
tot differ essentially from the ordinary
rticle, says the Washington Post, ex
pt t lint it has a liUJe stouter handle,
lereiri is concealed the working part
of tliii (ioviec. it in a compactly ar
ranged nV"Wf".p!i, with multiply
ing reverberator, enabling it to be
heard for, say. the length of a street
car or in a good-sized hallway. In con
nection with the phonograph is a com
bination lock which sets the machine
for action. The owner of the umbrella
on settiug it down simply switches in
the combination and as soon as it is
picked up the phonograph gets in its
work. The remarks can be arranged
according to the taste in oratory of the
man who owns the umbrella and can
range from a politely couched request
not to disturb the rain protector to a
stentorian cry of "Stop, thief," or
"This fellow is stealing another man's
umbrella," or any other exclamation
of a more forcible nature, the strength
of the language being only limited by
the local municipal ordinances regard
ing profanity.
LEGENDS OF MONSTERS.
A Possible Cause of the Talea That Sur
vive In Unellsh Fulk Lore.
Every reader of north-country lore
and legend, says an English paper, is
familiar with the stories of monstrous
"worms," "dragons,"' "fiery flying ser
pents" and the like, which are said to
have located themselves in various dis
tricts. Sexhow, under the shadow of
the Cleveland Hills, Teesgirt, Stock
burn and Lanibton upon tho Wear are
instances. Men have laughed at the
stories, calling them "old wives' tales,"
but forgetting that even these may
nay, must have had, somewhere and
sometime, some foundation in fact.
The old stories of elves and fairies,
which amused nnd frightened children
in bygone days, may well, as KingsUy
points out, have had their origin in
memories of the feeble folk of the
itone age who chipped flints into rude
knives and arrowheads, and who lin
gered in out-of-the-way caves, it may
be, long after the bulk of them had
been slain or driven away into the far
north by stronger and better armed
tribes. So the stories of these terrible
monsters may not be so foolish as they
appear. Take, for instance, the legend
of the Stoekburn worm. The name of
the man who slew it is preserved, and
is that of a well-known north-country
family. His tomb is pointed out in the
ruined church of Stoekburn, where
also he lay in effigy with the "worm"
at his feet until, the sacred edifice fall
ing into decay, the monument was re
moved to Stoekburn hall adjacent.
There, too, is preserved the falchion or
sword with which the monster was
slain, and which was shown to every
fresh bishop of Durham as he entered
his diocese a custom which only
ceased in the days of Van Mildret, the
last of the prince bishops. In afield
close by the stone round which the
"worm" coiled itself is still to be seen.
This story, so circumstantial in its de
tails, can hardly be entirely fabulous.
How then did it rise? "The ichthyo
saurus and plesiosaurus," says S.
Lang, "gave Tennyson the 'dragons of
the prime."1 May not some descendant
of thes" creatures have lingered in re
mote places, one here and another
there, even in historic times?
UNCLE SAM'S BIG FLEET.
It Is Scattered All Over the Earth Pro
tecting American Interests.
At no time within recent years has
the United States government been so
well represented lu foreign waters by
an armed naval force, nor so poorly
provided for in ships at home, as at
present. Three tug cruisers are at Kio
Janeiro, two more are on their way
there, and this number will be in
creased to six by the monitor Mian
tonomoh. The gunboat Yorktown is
at ( allao, Peril, and the corvette Al
liance has sailed to join her, from La
Libertad. The old Yantic is stationed
permanently at the mouth of the illo
de la Plata, charged with the duty of
attending to American interests in
adjacent territory.
The Hunger, which sailed from La
Libertad recently for Corinto, Nicara
gua, is assigned to the west coast of
Central America, where revolutionary
outbreaks are so frequent, while the
corvette Kearsarge, now en route from
New York to San Domingo to afford
protection to American life nnd prop
erty in the threatened uprising there,
will cruise ubout the West indies, and,
until relieved by the cruiser San Fran
cisco, along the east coast of Central
America. The Philadelphia and the
Adams are at Honolulu. The Asiatic
or China station, which has become so
important through the hostile feeling
of the Chinese toward Americans over
the exclusion law, has six vessels at
tached to it, and it is expected that the
Machias, now at ilrooklyn, will sail
soon to join them.
The North Atluntic or home station
has nominally five, but actually only
one vessel in commission to its credit,
Mr the San Francisco is on her way to
Kio, the Kearsarge is bound for San
Domingo (which can hardly be called
s "home" port, although within the
lines of the station), and the Machias is
destined for China. The dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius is therefore likely to
be the sole war vessel left for service
on the eastern coast of the United
States, and the practicability of the
Vesuvius as an effective battleship is
in serious doubt. At the navyyord at
Marc Island. Cal., the old Mohican is
titling for sea service, presumably lu
tho South Pacific. The coast defease
vessel Monterey is also at Mare Island.
A non-venomous South African snake
(dusypeltis scabra) lives entirely on
bird s eggs. Each egg is swallowed
whole, and by a muscular contraction
of the gullet it (v,nt'.nts flow into the
u,inli, while. t,fl h Is rject4 jf
t It A Mimmi l In Ilia (oii-j,.f ft pellet-,