The Forrest City times., 1891-05-01
ANTEDILUVIAN RELICS.
REMAINS OF MONSTERS OF A
 PREHISTORIC TIME.
The Mammoth was an Inhabitant of the North-His Bones are on Sever al Continents--GIgantic
 Rhinosceri.

In Germany prehistoric man un- doubtedly hunted the mammoth. Near Cronstadt it's bones have been found in great quantities. packed as closely as if they had been placed so artificially.
 In the village of Thiede, near Bruns- wick eleven tusks were found in a heap.
 In the southern portion of this coun- try an allied form. probably as large but without hair. was found and called the American elephant. Recently one was discovered near San Juan. South ern California
 The writer as soon as he learned of the find attempted to reach the spot, but little was left to tell the story The railroad had cut directly through the skeleton, so that the tusSs were all that could be secured and some of the teeth The locality was examined afterward by the writer who found that the body must have lain in bed of fine sand that was undoubtedly a quicksand and in this trap the big animal had been caught thousands of years ago. to be held until to-day.
 Some fun loving hunters. after sea- son in Alaska. have reported that the mammoths still roam the unexplored area of that country and the state of Washington. but that is simply fabri- cation. The mammoth has lived it's time and belongs to past geological ages, the exact cause of its extermina- ton being a mystery. That it was
 known to man and hunted by him is very probable. The evidences of this are rare it is true. A piece of tusk has been found in France with fairly correct representation of the mammoth engraved upon it, presumably by some prehistoric artist. Again, arrow heads have been taken from beneath remains, while the much discussed elephant pipes of the interior Indian mounds of this country may be evidence in this di-
 rection, though this is not positive. The mammoth was formerly as com mon as are horses to-day, and the ivo- , " from it's tusks is still an important commercial item. Mammoth tusks frequently weigh 320 pounds apiece, and fine specimens bring large prices. One tusk was sold some years ago for $500. and fifteen years ago 10, 900 were received in London. They weighed about 40 pounds apiece, the price being Is 6d per pound.
 The mammoth Is not the only ice giant the ice cliffs of the North con- coal. Some years ago hunter in travelling across rough country, came to a deep crevasse, and upon looking in saw tho body of some monster that had been washed out.
 He lowered himself into the chasm and found it to be huge rhinoceros, an animal that was as well fitted to live in Siberia as the mammoth. having Q covering of thick hair and wool to pro- tect it from the rigors of the cold. The head of the monster was large and the | nose armed with two tusks, one of which was enormous, being nearly four feet long and large enough 10 be used as club by the natives.
 If you can picture an ordinary rhi- nocerous a third larger, or perhaps half as large again, covered with red dish hair and an undercoat of wool, NAhii d bttSh tOAAh lttt HI ttilS lils two feet some idea can be had of the strange creature that roamed the country with the elephant and per- haps fought with it, us those animals are known to do in Africa to-day. The big rhinoceros is also well known 10 the Chinese; its horn is sup posed to be the tooth of a big dragon or unicorn and when ground up forms a valuable item in medicine. In the Chinese Repository is the following from the pen of Dr. Lie She Chan, a distinguished authority on medicine in his time, on the subject of the dragon (rhinoeeros) bones: The bones are found on the banks Of rivers and in caves of the earth,
 places where the dragon died. and can be collected at any timen
 We need not go so far back to find animals preserved in ice, Whalers tell of gigantic whales which have been seen entombed in icebergs, and several authentic cases are on record where big whales have been observed thus imprisoned. held aloft and float ing around at the whim of the Arctic currents