Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-20
IN THE FOOT HILLS.
An Antediiuvian Captive Has His Cell
Broken Into.
rspcc nj corr,snonaence.

An Antediiuvian Captive Has His Cell
Broken Into.
fsEcc nj Correspondence. |
~PEscADERo, Cal, July ga recent find up
in the foothills of the Pacific coast range Of
mountains has added another to the catalogue
of those creatures that are able to maintain
/ an existence during periods which it makes
one giddy to contemplate, and, apparently,
under the most unfavorable circumstances
A few days ago a party of laborers engaged
III excayating for a road along the side Of q
mountain spur, with a precipitous declivity
upon one side and a yawning canyon on the
other, lighted upon a collection of powders,
water-worn and rounded by tide or current in
some long past elemental dispersation. One
of these, too heavy for the handling, was
broken up. Its interior disclosed q cavity
containing a member of that unpleasant fra
ternity of exaggerated spiders known as the
tarantula. When first discovered the animal
was of n bright green complexion and symp-
tomatically comatose, but after a brief expe-
rience in this enlarged environment it regained
the ;fiIuietadc characteristic OF its race, as well
ns n large share OF tiiusc iruScibfe and bellig-
erent tendencies by which the tarantulidm are
distinguished. The cavity in which this ante
diluvian was inclosed was about an inch
longer t't~ -dmal, and ct one extremity
of the SAM. "a were t,oc..s of +ax;la ,vorl-
as IL p time or other during Ito incar'
corp, had indr,,roa In y;sio,s ~ 5on.st;,
IL eo,ia, eriov,,on.s !. u. 81; ~
4dlcified posteriority.
is noteworthy that tba c,a,t,,re horo
Alen of was IN Mi onnearonces Of tbo soma
sns,ios With those that ara now coron,or IN
( The locality where IL was discove,nd Tbis
would instisv tbe suggestion tbot tho taran.
AGHi,. IN snite Of their nnnleosont mon.
,ers AVID ig,obla .n,.aor.noo nro a f,r,;Iv
no mean antiquity The rock in which tbo
Individual xyas imnr,rad heirc of tba coil.
mentorv s,ec;es tbo cor,,it,nant ,ors+ ~,
occurred yb;le Il Was in fbe nrocess Of fo,,n.-
ti,n Tbo .b,,aanoo oe ranooin. 80 ,saa;..
shells in tha locol;tw whore tho d;soo,,ar,r ~.
made would s.s,, ~ ;,d;cota tbat tho stuo
in which tho croo,,,.o w., oontaiand ~ ~
some t;n,e hean = mar. ~ Inn had - an aaa,a
From thssa incidents with sonoo ose;s+anoa -
.ha in,,air.tio, We Nov cons,,,,o+ : bn;ae
~o,,t,;no of tho bisto,,, ,nd oynar;a,,oas - A.
elderlv ~contivo
A. q d,ta n which i, al, ,roh.h;,;tr
Adon,,e foil woe co,ono,,+,voIv y, owo.t
vesterdav the Marty in n,.st;on +ai,;,n bic
conetit,,tion,I mon +bo hon1a - son,a 80
lass nr;noo,5ial ocaon was s,aaaniu 49,
,ybo,,,od Nv, y,,,,o and t,,riaa ~ a. 80,
Nv ,ybicl, Il ,vas oooonnnaniaa IT, ~
of cant,,r;es moro nv lass tba s.n5 ha,irm =.
Tho n,a,n+irna srl;1;6.d +i,a oonoro4. 60
ono of +hosa oh.nno. ~ III .,,t,;a,, ~ 20
foca of onr rloho is add;otad haoan,a = -
of tho COO hetto,n 10 ha irhahitad ~ - -
NJ var;o,,s spacios aud ~ serva as : oa,,, o :
for tha nanara+;ons ~ +Lo;. aas.a;s,. 800
mn ofta. oons how a1onsad Nv go, ;atati
tarrestriol colanlvsm ;ts n'aaA. 80.
w.
ifted by forees f,or, ranaotb s,nt;, tho+ n , !
was ONCE the botton. of an ocean hanar,os AZ
Ton Of n mountain tbere ,,e,hans ~ Laa;s
again n circ,it Of s,hsidanna .nd a1o,atoss
How yy.s tho ;,yoI,nt,r oont,ro So,
by the yicissitpdes Of the yeb;cIe in which ba
was n nassepopra Was his life ono lone Iath1
z,.T nr~.,;d III. s,,,5a shaoIss taIL;s,. -.
ao,;naca ,vae Now and +bor s,h;ao+a5 ro,sa
rim "a !. st.ta ~ COW; -oonso;o,snaa 80
n,.or,,,t H. ~ Az ,,ttora,ao - . I;.S~ go
hnlor nrof.nit,, a. tla ro,,ol,n.ss 90 ~. ..Ia
n,gbfora over which ba ,nas ha;nn tuaoa
nortedg Had be even tba bado, ~ -, -
That ba 1y,s dest;,ad ~ +bo d;o,,;+,, 20 . IT.
link hetyyea,, tba nnhreacbed ;nf.nor ~ ths
bI,rn,n world md tha Cbristion ;r;1;.,tsa.
the Nineteanth centn,.ys How nanr a,,,;nos
have heen erectod and s,byertad. horr rpann
ay,asties bava baan a,aua4ad .o .S
s,,;shaI. ha nasa 80 NJ .snussu anu eA1ih
Sr' y" ~ Nstoi nas oeeh inaae
and Iorgotten; how many millions OF millions
OF human beings have lived out their little
span and surrendered to an ~insatiate oblivion.
how many loves and hates, and faiths and fa.
naticjsms and ambitions and intolerances
have heen horn and diad. ba,, ,,,,as e. 10
n,an - IA aa 40 ho" = ! h.-
nnu uisliiey ana iieaitiess hase peeh mann
testea ana honofed OF desplsed, While this in
significant creature has been doing away the
centuries in his memorable. environment, and
though deprived Of mir and food clinping To
It's minnie snark If vitality ,s;f tlat F., "
ts 10 atha,. y 49,, = aan , = 1iaS nic
y ;, - oons eiesouies' . sentuiseo ueaun, were
20 IL an assurance OF an endless exlstences
The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES belongs to the
order of burrowing spiders. Itspreads no net
for the capture of its prey, but digs a nit in
the ground which it lines with a tiss,,e oe tic
nwn m.nnfactnre s,,r,no,,ntina +,a :, .u,.Is
49, 80 ~ eaAae WIN
uap eoi.iineu 'naplecioses OF user,
anu SO coioSea upon tne SURFACE as to be lndis-
anguishable from its surroundings. Hidden
there, environed by telephone lines of his own
construction, he obtains timely notice Of the
approach of any creature with which he ~
shines 10 hold an ,ptarv;s,1 ond oa,,d,a4s -.
ale aooo,,Si,,aII s1a.Nm al mn
would appear from the foregoing. n fast NJ =
few Thousand years, more or less, in continue
1 n,,ra ba ( q n a,.no -, so 80 = l.,,l H. - ,EE.