The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-01-04
RO1sONOUs sERFENTs.
Jtafisttce or the Numbers q Polka
= ~ They Kill.


HsSr,s Young People.
sVosomous snakes are thoesNs;.~
have .tHo hollow teeth inIthe upps. the
through which they eject hojsoa -ap'0 90
wound made by their bita: The greee .
majority Of snakes are nHenomous,
but nevertheless there ri. more ven
omous snakes ID the world thssh-asss
men really require. u /. =
There arc two classes of venomous
snakes-those whose bite is certain death,
those whose bite can be cured. Tho
only venomous snake inhkbitng Europe
Is tho viper, but it's bite ia asldom 'atal'
In the United States, Msh@ the
possit1eE execution of Now Mexico ana
arizona. there ne only three venomo>s
snakes-the ratt!egnake the coppeShead,
and the moccasin. ali our other snakes
are harm,ess3 In some places the cop
nerhead is known as the fat-6eaded 3D.
der. but the other species Of ssaakes, to
wi1:ch the name ladder" b often gwen
bi country people, are az harmless
the pretty little garter snake,
Central and South America have mar
venoinouy snakes whose BITE II
fatal. Among these the lest kno,
the coral snake, the tai oba' AMI
DANA blanca. "A Brisisl'A naval
on it's way up South Anne
few years ago, anchored
and number of the otti
they would go ashore anc
deserted shanty that stood
where they tancied tn.
would be cooler than it; Wa
the vessel When they -
shanty one Of them SAID he
would go back to the ship,
Others, with one exception
would follow him. The ott1c
termined to stay swung hie
from tho beams Of the roo
soon asleep. He woke ca
mofnihta and TO his ho1
that three stakes were slee
indv. aad that others wer-
from the rafters or gliding oy'
He recognized among tn
whose bite meant death wit
or two. and 80 did not dare
finger. He lay in his ham
the sun grew warm and the
ed back to their holeG his!
had noticed that the place
it was infested with snakss---
cruelty refrained from wal .,
The officer was one of the bra
that ever lived, but he coulf Neyer
speak OF his night among the: sns> es:
without shudder: ~ >. :,
In one of the West India Ielands-
Matinique-there is a snake called the
lance headed viper, which ls almost
as deadtyas ttseas snakes ihe EASY Is!
Fin British India .Hearly ~, 6U :pe1aons
are killed avery year by snake bites: eOi
the Fast Indian snakes whose bte II in
durable tl,s cobra is the most nut arous,
hut the diamond SNAKE: thstub1 >end
the ophiophagus are also the cause OF
GREAT many deaths. The British Govern
Hent k.s offered large reward 10r the
discoyerv of AN aptidote to the COBRA, but
no one has yet BEEN able. to- claim 1t.
Africa. like all tropical. countries, has
many sp.cies of'venomouS snaIes. The
horned cerastes is the snake from whose
bite CleopStraisSaIdfdsh 1Ve die, and
/ from it's small size and it's habit OF oury-
| inc itself all but its head in the SAID It ID
ncculiarly dreaded by the natives. The
uyllest of these makes is the great pun
adler. which often grows to the hnsth
| of five or six feet, and .whoee' Po!Dn 10
| used by the natives in mailing p soned
a it is very curissua,f fact lhattbsecieon
| of venomous snakes cannot be 69Ssf-
guished by the chemist from the -vhIs\
Of an egg. And vet OLE kind OF make
poison will produce an effect entkely
unlike that produced by another Kind.
The blood of animals bitten by q COT ira ]
decSmpoeed and turned into q thin RI
tier, straw -colored fluid, while the blood
of an animal bitten by a coral snaSe If
solidiffed, and looks Verysmuch like cur.
rant jelly. Nevertheless, The poisfn Of
the cobra and that of the coral e"-sse
seem to be precisely alike when
yzed by the chemist, and are appa '---~'
4 Composed of the eame 81 7eta1rcl
same proportion as is the VIII
egg. (