Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-08
BoNES OF MASTODONS.
may COMPLETE SKELETONS ARE
RARELY FOUND NOWADAYS.

Thrn the Homes Generally becumposs. |
r,ldenee Thu, Men saw Them.
A ,eportcr has had an interesting tall; |
rilh Professor Ward ON the subject Of /
d. masiodon rcmains discovered at Oak.
an "a mau came TO me yesterday"
- be sand showed me n rib which he
ss.ibo had dag up. II was certainly
,s..,n1on rib. 10 suid he was going TO
H. for the r,st Of It, but doubt II no
All very much moro, You can eaeily
-, how this mi yht bc. Suppose an OK
,... siurk In the mud and dies, wolves
,esr the nosh and gaw the bones. per.
bspa n skunk will carry some Of the
smaller ones into his hole. Bones de.
,o,,p5.e. Il there 70 a Aood they become
scattered
"s,. von see. before iimo has dug
crave m which the remains OF our I'm.
s~.parv OK may rrst undiftusbol Tor
sg|s. chance has scattered them Ear nni
,giie SOFT iB with tho fossil rcmu.ni
dtlo mastoion aud mammoth, anil iLo
man who finds ono bono Of tho animal
and digs for tho rest b very apt 30 bc
disappointed. There IA hardly q county
In no United States west u New Eng.
land whore rcmaius Of mastoious have
moi boon found ut or0 tiino or nuuthor.
Tho country was full of them. believe
that % mastolon tooth was found Boz this
aty a0m1 twenty yeats ago, aud several
homo, wsf1 fOund near tho brighton
la.h. The mammoth boz, about tho
ame relation TO the m siOd1n that tho
q H.. o. Nlt.. A NVt.sft
"Aiastodons were moro numerous In
his country aud mnmmoths In Europe
and Asia.
rnK STUDY or noSrs.
81 have hcrr." continued Protector
Ward. "the skull aud upper jaw uf q
baby mastoion which, as you 500, i
ysry t4rfett. Tho teeth arc milk toa'h.
anil Won can se1 one oi The second teeth
hnb6dded IN tho upper jaw. Tho tesh
formed 40 tho rear and were pushed iIg-
varl Wy a baby ma,tod0u, and so Il
was. but ID was - largo o. tho lirscst
OK 10 bl sceu az u county fair Under
thu urrer layer % skull yuu sse this .ort
Of h1nfyccmb OF bone. You know
enough OF anatomy % remember TINT
us human skull Ia composed u an
uplar and under layer OF hHtd bone,
with softer bone botw,cn. The human
head does not require to DO large 70 bo
Ga proportion 10 the body, and a caput
tus. large enough 10 hold tho brain BE- oll
shat q required.
"An elephant. mastodon or mammoth
Do not require q largo brain, but the
all seed massive head. Hero you ha,o
d. uplvr md under layer Hs In the
linan skull. but the porous bono Dee
iusan j. mngniird enormously 10 81
l,lfly foot IN thickness Boa some N The
hfser specimens. ! remember whom !
was on the coast Of Africa seeing what |
opposed TO ba an enormous hornets
nest. The natives told mo 10 was the
head OF an elephant which they had
killed three or fonr years previous. 7 II
VIPER layer Of tho skull had been shellol
on. leaving tho middle honcycomb OF
bone exposed 20 Wow, II WIS some time
before / could bring myself TO bolioN'
that II was really an elephants skull"
Professor Ward showed his visitor hi
collection Of mammoth and mastodof
bones. ilo has nciyly enough Of different
sizes 10 reconstruct an entire animal
but, Of course, tho variation IN biz
would prevent this, II IS much mort
satisfactory ia the results obtained Il
take these specimens tor models aud 10
construct "a skeleton from wood. 81 mp
pose, "mid the reporter, aitcra pruluugo
inspection o. thrao curio,itics, II sUr
poso that human eyes never saw ihcs
wonderful animals that roomcd over do
country la such vast numbers 10 Ion
ago"
I'M ONLY rypEsCr.
"You arc mistakou," said Pgofcvo
Ward, Though Your mistake has bee
that Of the world Of science until recent
ly. Bones VI tho mastodon have bcr
iolud split onon IN such a way that III
object Of breaking them was evident,
was to obtain the marrow within. Bu
more, tho stone head Of % Ratchet Wit
which the worl, was done has been foun
near by. Now, thoro arc no animal
which uso stone hatohots to break u
bones. That hatchot head WAS once th
Implement o. some primeyll warrior.
shoulder blade Of the nastodon, bon
comparatively thin, has been f'un
pierced, as u by q spear, and tho sp'n
head has been found with Il. The spca
was evidently thrust Ia and withdraw
from the body OF tho animal. and who
twas withdrawn It's head was probabl
tom of. Monkeys don't carry spears.
"But, though these evidences arc COT
vnclng enough, they aro not tho be-
lfool wo hayo that man existed In n
/ days Of tho mammoth aud The mastodo
ami has survived them both An,
qlaraus who have spent 80 much tin
man enleayor TO Ill scoycr the mvuull
o. lht mounds erected By tho noun
builders have made one thing cortni
Many OF these mounds We're construct,
10 Tho shape 81 animals and birds. The
On The wall hang q number o. facsimil
uhoc mounds They were prepare
q member OF tho Milwaukee Nj
lnal society. There IA ono which tN
\ leaily represents o hawk or some slnil
1n Of prey with outslrotchel wing
n ana there is another which evident
n hTirays some squirrollike animal wi
nmmlnbly long tail, and hero "
n nave as perfect u representation OF
,lgphaniliko animal as could well DO co
iHycd.
n NOV, had tho mound builders bee
aalearned IN comparative anatomy as ,
N'e, aud had they reconstructed mi
todou M We have, thcy could never ha
understood the meaning OF the cavity
Tie skull which, indicates IA ma flint 1