Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-30

How a Glover French louave dipped an
UuHusrocting Satafaiist

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Low Clever french xoua,e dipped an
UnHusrocting Natafaiist
When the French zounvcs wcro first
Ia Africa new sort Of rat ini.de Is ap.
pcapucc them. It was called tho
trumpet mt, having long probes.
,is Tho aalc Of o specimen By one 81
'he soldieu to on cnlhusias.ic natural
..t gave rise TO an action at law. Said
the plaintiff in couu;
This zouevo has cheated mc out Of
100 francs lie knows THAT am much
Interested IN natural sclcucoq have
collections Of fossils, Of shells, Of rare
animals, Of curious plants. ono day
he called upon me aud mid. Sir,
hnyo a kind Of animal which has never
boon mentioned by qny naturalist II
Is a trumpet rat, aud has trunk like an
elephants. Il Is alive and well. II
you wish to SEQ Il you have only to
come TO my house.
"a was very anxious to behold this
strange animal. We arrived ut his
mouse and he showed me Ia a cage an
enormous rat, very lively aud in good
condition, which really had on ~ nose
slender cxcrtscence more than an
inch In length. The cxcrsccncc was
covered with hair like tho body OF the
animal, with vcrtebrn In Il, and "a
most extraordinary thing larger at the
summit than nt tho bssc.-thc contrary
to what it ought TO be IN the usual
conrse Of things. 10 convince myself
that It was not a dupo aud mystiilca.
ton | stuck pin into the trumpet
The animal cried out and drop u
blood came tom tho prick. Tha OK.
pertinent was conclusive. Il was really
a trumpet forming part OF the rat.
II was amazed. nslsod this man II
he would sell his rat. He sald yes, aud
paid him hity francs for Il. My
friends mud servants all admired Il, aud
wns enchanted. Ny rat was male,
Some one said TO me that ought TO
procuru a female asked the zouavo
II hc could procure for mo n 10.
male, and he said he had two.
I saw thom and bought one Of
them for fifty francs Some months
nftarward tho fomalc Ind young. /
looked at thom aud they had no tfum.
pots. l faid 10 myself, They will
sprout' waited one month, two
months, xix months; ovcry day |
looked ut the noses oi my rats, but tho
trunpcts never appeared,
IN q house where go frequently
mndo the acquaintance Of ma officer
who had served long time IN Africa.
told him about my trumpet rats and
he laughed NJ though hls Hidrs would
split. When ho was calm nsain ho
told me that tho trumpet rat was not a
irgnl. Of nature. but an invention duo
Ia the leisure moments 81 The younyCs.
This II how they mako tlcmi You take
two rats and fo-ten their paws firmly
10 n board, .lic nose OF one close 90 the
end OF the tail OF tho other. Then
with pcnsniic or q lancet you mako
ma inciion into the nose OF tho rat
which Is hindcrmost aud you graft tho
tail Of the ilrt Into the nose; you lie
firmly tho mufflo 10 tho tail and you
lenvo tho two rats In this position 70,
forty Eight hours.
AT tho end Of that timo tho union
hos taken place aud tho two parts arr
grown together, then yon cut on tho
tail of the rat whichls In frontto The ~
quirud length and lot him 60 but siil
Keep the other fastened 10 tho board
with his head loose, aud You give lin
something 10 ont 40 The end Of a fort
night the wound Is perfectly healed and
The eye Of tho most curious investigator
would not sec trace OF tho grating
This Is tho way tho zouaves mako rat'
with trunpUts.'
On the part Of the defendant q WA
urged that he had certainly made NJ
The rats a. stated, but ho affirmed that
hc lindnot sold them 20 She plaintiff al
holnc bora with tmmpctE Nordic
Tor tho touayc. Wellington STAR