The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12

the formerly quiet village had becor,o
Iashlonable watering place. But il hadn't
II was as quiet and as slow, antiquated
and out of date as ever. Later. as w.,
dered about the Tyrol and SwitzerlanS
found the same change everyWhere H. 4
very natural that it should be SO. too fo s
IN all that region there is power in slIner
abundance running waste on evervban5
From every rock leaps a cascade. ana ol,e-
every cliff rOars a waterfall: there 80
streams mat now evenly, with a steady,
down with tons of force. The VILLAGE -
Murren, perched on the edge of a clist
opposite the Jungfrau, at hight Of sod
feet above sea level, has a very complete
electric lighting system, and power en6ngb
within few hundred yards radius to ligbi
half New York. The villages get their
light almost free, This is, so far as coul5
learn. the very first use to which the vast
water power in the Alps has been NM
Hitherto it has all run idle. AIaterialfstic
travellers often wonder why Switzerland is
not big manufacturing country Alasi
1t soon may be, now the patient plodders
there are finding what q Wonderful cana.
bility for work is in the waterfalls"
The late Mr.. Bates, says the Spects.
tor. in his eleven years spent in the Bra
LILLIAN forests, saw and heard more of the
habits OF the anaconda than most frav-
elers, though, like other great serpents
the individuals Of this species are So lit
tie common that their appearance in anv
one district is too infrequent to make a
special study of their habits part of the
days work of a busy naturalist Rates
first personal experience of the creature
shows how impossible it is to avoid the
python by the ordinary means of isola-
ton sufficient to keep other dangerous
creatures at a distance. He was at an
Choir, in large boat, in deep water In the
port of Antonio Malagueita. An ana
cOnda swan out to the boat lifted its
head from the water, broke in the side of
a fowl house on deck, and carried off a
couple of fowls. 1t was found that this
snake had been stealing ducks and fowls
from this part Of the river for months SO
a hunt was organized, miles of river
bank were searched, and the serpent at
last found summing itself in a muddy creek
"only is feet inches long" But Mr.
Bates measured skins of anacondas
which were twenty-one feet in length
and two feet in girth, and he adds: There
serpent grows to an enormous bulk and
lives to a great age, for ! have heard OF
specimens having been killed which
measured forty-two feet in length, or
double the size of the largest which I
had the opportunity of examining" We
must add a correction here. They were
double the length; but the size of these
great reptiles, like that of fish, increases
gitudinal growth. A snake of twenty
feet in length would be probably four
times the weight of one ten feet long,
and the bulk of a fOrty-foot anaconda
would approach that of the largest croc-
odile. Since the publication of THE
Naturalists Voyage on the AmaZOns' an
anaconda of tWenty-nine feet has been
brought to the Natural History Museum
Bates, in Brazil, nearly lost his l0-year-
old son by the attack of an anaconda. He
mad left the boy in his boat while he
went TO gather fruit, and on his return
Jaws the father seized. and actually tore
them asunder.